UPDATED BENCHMARK (ITS FASTER I PROMISE)

[vergefio]

Ok guys, i made the older test, here the result:

[DaForce]

Dude, render times like that are just WRONG



great stuff

[jacksc02]

bloody hell!

That gets a ziiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiing or maybe a zooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooom!!

[Gijs]

Better late than never...

I thought I'd post this, seeing Vergefios rendering which misses some reflections or refractions. I am using .12 which had some bug fixes in vray material (splotches with GI caustics)
dual xeon 2.8; 1GB ram, HT enabled

[vlado]

Mare, you're right!!

What's that!! I just hit render as it was... maybe it's a 1.47.15 issue??
Maybe Vlado can take a look

Nope. It's a 1.47.03 issue. The older build rendered incorrectly certain specific situations where refractive objects with the same material intersect each other, as is the case with this test scene. The version that vergefio has rendered correctly this case.

Best regards,
Vlado

[Candelero]

Yep, Vlado is right ! (as usual)

The same result of vergefio can be produced with 1.47.03 like this:

#1 Clone the Water material to a new empty slot ;
#2 Rename it... like Blue Water_2 ;
#3 Assign it on the pipe object ;

Now having 2 different objects (intersecting actually one another) but with 2 different materials (no matter they are absolutely 100% one and the same).

#4 Render

My result is:


Best Regards,
nikki Candelero

[CCS]

Finally ran it myself to test all my machines:
(All times thru backburner after cold boot)

Main machine (Custom machine):
Dual AMD MP 2400+ (2.00 GHz) w/ 2GB RAM
10m 29s

Secondary machine (Dell):
P4 3.00 GHz (HT) w/ 1GB RAM
10m 49s

Rackmount render slave (Custom):
Dual AMD MP 2000+ (1.67 GHz) w/ 1GB RAM
11m 36s

Laptop (Acer):
Pentium M (Centrino) (1.80 GHz) w/ 1GB RAM
12m 48s



So, like I asked weeks ago - who is gonna chart all this wonderful info?

[DanielBrew]

New rendernodes delivered this week.
Dual Opteron 270, 2 GB, Win XP Pro, Supermicro Motherboard + 1U case power etc. 2 Min 38.5 Sec

[roppin]

DanielBrew: its very dark refractions in some places. not like the other .15 renderings.

[DanielBrew]

You're right I'd not noticed that. I'll try and install a different build.

[Candelero]

See if Reflect on back side is on... looks like it is off

Best Regards,
nikki Candelero

[DanielBrew]

Right, I've installed 1.47.03, rendertimes have increased. Sorry about that, I just downloaded the scene and pressed render. Got a bit carried away.

See if Reflect on back side is on... looks like it is off

I haven't changed anything on the original file apart from the path where the image is saved. I will check again though...

Dan

[CCS]

Wow Daniel. How much did those monsters set you back?

[DanielBrew]

Wow Daniel. How much did those monsters set you back?

I've just checked with our IT dept. they're Supermicro AS 1020-T servers and they cost about £2800 each (5000 usd). Not really tried them on anything big yet.

Dan

[CCS]

Ouch! I'll keep stacking up my cheapos.