Interesting stuff...

[vlado]

This page contains some images with the stuff we've playing with lately; maybe you'll find it interesting

http://www.vrayrender.com/stuff/raycaster/

Best regards,
Vlado

[vince_1972]

oouah amazing !!

Great job Vlado

good week-end

Vince

[Ramsay]

Ha ha cool... that hairy thing looks like my mates girlfriend

[yog]

This goes beyond cool.
Uber Cool ?

"not rendered in 3DS MAX", does this mean that version 1.1 is totally stand alone ??????
I know of a lot of new users if it was

[peter]

No its not standalone. Its just that we use the VRAY engine outside MAX to develop and test and then introduce move the code to MAX...

[vlado]

"not rendered in 3DS MAX", does this mean that version 1.1 is totally stand alone ??????

Nope. But the dynamic raycaster (like most things in VRay) was developed outside of Max; this will make it easier to add it to the standalone version too.

Best regards,
Vlado

[natty]

Interesting

[GoncaloP]

Amazing stuff

Gonçalo

[RErender]

Ok obviously there is a lot of geometry being rendered here, but is V-Ray generating it all on the fly?

[peter]

in this situation - yes. I can be pre-generated and stored somewhere as well.

[vlado]

Ok obviously there is a lot of geometry being rendered here, but is V-Ray generating it all on the fly?

Some things remain permanently in memory, while some things are (re)generated on the fly. The hair description, for example, stays in memory, while the actual geometry produced by that description is generated on the fly.

Best regards,
Vlado

[Syclone1]

UBER WOW

-dave

[RErender]

Very cool!

[suurland]

But what is all this good for? fur engine? advanced displacement? what is the idea?

/Thomas

[vlado]

But what is all this good for? fur engine? advanced displacement? what is the idea?

The original idea was to render large scenes with many millions of polygons, cached to disk or generated on the fly. A second goal was to use that to render hair (for example, defined by Shag:Hair), displacement (for example, RGB displacement) and other procedurally defined geometry (maybe render-time mesh smooth and things like that...).

Best regards,
Vlado