March of the clones

[vlado]

Here is an (ugly - sorry ) image for a feature that has been requested a lot and is coming the next build... 1000 animated characters with unique geometry and motion blur, done with animated VRayProxy objects (more than 27,000,000 triangles):



Best regards,
Vlado

[Fekta.studio]

WOW

i have pushed Vray proxy to the "limit" but this is WOW

here is a render with 2600 onyx trees, each have ~ 250000 poly, and dont mention the others proxys bushes, chairs, umbrellas, boats, yachts, flowers and many more..

and this animated proxy... hmm sounds delicious

[jacksc02]

nice one vlado.
I have a script to do animated proxies so it will be good to see how your version works.

[vlado]

Well, the advantage over a script version is that the entire animation is stored in one file; also a velocity channel is stored if you want to do motion blur on the animated proxy later on (either 3d motion blur, or through a velocity channel).

Best regards,
Vlado

[jacksc02]

sounds like a much more "elegant" solution.
Cant wait to try it out.

[sv]

looks great - how can you off-set the time, so they start animating at different points?

[jacksc02]

Vlado,
are we going to be able to use the animated proxies with PFLOW?

[Paul Oblomov]

Animated proxies - nice!!! Vray is da best
Zillions of animated trees - kewl.

[stilgarna]

yeaaa....

Great news...

One big step forward...


Best regards...

[Morbid Angel]

finally vlado, good work!

[RErender]

Well, the advantage over a script version is that the entire animation is stored in one file; also a velocity channel is stored if you want to do motion blur on the animated proxy later on (either 3d motion blur, or through a velocity channel).

Best regards,
Vlado

Does that mean that a copy of the mesh is saved per step like the script? Or are just the transforms saved? Is world space position saved or just topology changes?

Sounds great been waiting for this option.

[vlado]

Does that mean that a copy of the mesh is saved per step like the script? Or are just the transforms saved? Is world space position saved or just topology changes?

The .vrmesh file contains snapshots of the mesh for the different frames, so it can handle both deformation and topology changes. Whether the transformation is saved also, depends on the selected export method (as single mesh which includes the transformation, or as separate meshes which does not include the transformation).

Best regards,
Vlado

[ShaunDon]

Vlado --

What kind of increases can we expect in the vrmesh file sizes for animated geometry? The way you describe it sounds very expensive.

Thanks!
Shaun

[Aldaryn]

Was waiting for this a long time ago. With all the fixes to the proxy concept, it's beginning to be bulletproof. Nice work I must say. Vray kicks ass.

Finally our poor point cached 3d people can advance to a whole new level.

Best regards,

A.

[vlado]

What kind of increases can we expect in the vrmesh file sizes for animated geometry? The way you describe it sounds very expensive.

Mostly, as large as making a new file for each frame, and then adding them together. This may be quite a lot of data, but there is really no other way around it (storing one file for each frame would be same, diskspace-wise). Of course, the file is never loaded fully into memory, only the chunks that are currently needed for rendering.

Depending on how much time I have before the next official build, I may be adding some compression to the files to reduce the disk space requirements, which should help somewhat.

Best regards,
Vlado