Embree raycaster for V-Ray

[vlado]

Also any news on maya embree?

We are getting there; I want to include also the new Embree update, which works for motion blur too.

Best regards,
Vlado

[Dariusz Makowski (Dadal)]

Awesome - thanks ! U guys know how to lead and do great stuff.

[Guest]

64 bit SP1

[cmjohncheng]

hv try it, vray 2.3, x64_avx, 3dsmax 2013, look like cant support motion blur, displacement, vrayfur.

[Zdravko]

Those are not supported by Embree yet. Hopefully the new Embree version will be more precise and will support more features.
We are working on it.

[duke2]

It'll be interesting to see how much of an improvement we get with AVX2 coming in the new (Haswell) Xeons next year.

[nikand]

will this work for vray rt cpu too?

[tashko.zashev]

We are planning to add it in RT too, but unfortunately can't give a time range for this.

[Dariusz Makowski (Dadal)]

Any ETA for maya by any chance?

[tashko.zashev]

Hi Dedal,

Yes, it's in our "to do" list.
I hope it will be available for Maya soon.

[Dariusz Makowski (Dadal)]

Thats great thanks! So happy u guys work on maya too !

[gandhics]

Finally I had a chance to test this...

A problem is that when I have a big opacity-mapped-surface Embree was slower(51min vs 1h5min).

Any ideas?

[vlado]

A problem is that when I have a big opacity-mapped-surface Embree was slower(51min vs 1h5min).

This is interesting; can you get me a scene for this to vlado@chaosgroup.com?

Best regards,
Vlado

[vlado]

So this is now in the latest nightly builds for V-Ray for Maya; unfortunately, only for Maya 2013 on Windows (due to compiler issues). Go to Create > V-Ray > Create/select Embree raycaster.

Best regards,
Vlado

[ricorio]

Hi,

sounds like a nice thing ... but when I render a head with FastSSS2 the render time with the vrayNodeEmbree (BVH4 and default) is: Total sequence time 0h 10m 1.4s (601.4 s).
Without the vrayNodeEmbree: Total sequence time 0h 6m 46.5s (406.5 s).
I set the raycaster to default geo: static.
The CPU is a i7 2600k @ 4.2 Ghz.