Before and after

[DPGrafik]

When can we expect this build in an OSX nightly build? the are far and few between

[vlado]

That's some serious optimization right there, btw is there an ETA for the 2.4 release?

It was supposed to be released already But there remain two important bugs that we want to fix for that release, so hopefully very soon.

Best regards,
Vlado

[The_Distiller]

That's some serious optimization right there, btw is there an ETA for the 2.4 release?

Regards, Christian

[Dariusz Makowski (Dadal)]

K I'm in the dark. So what is it that the render drop by 80%?

Its pretty great result!

[vlado]

Vlado does this improvement affect shave and haircut hair rendering?

No, but I sent the shader changes to Joe; it is up to him to integrate them.

Best regards,
Vlado

[Morbid Angel]

Vlado does this improvement affect shave and haircut hair rendering?

[paulDryzen]

Phew and I thought that it was just a simple trick with some special settings in the DMC/BSP of VRay.

I will check out the new nightly builds soon.

Paul

[vlado]

Does this improvement go into 2.40 (maya&3dsMax)?

There's not much time to test it properly for the 2.4 version... but we'll see.

Best regards,
Vlado

[flat]

Does this improvement go into 2.40 (maya&3dsMax)? or 3.0?

Thanx

[joconnell]

Ah, I understand. There's a few very useful bits on the maya side which makes sense since it's got such a heavy VFX user base. Must switch over at some point!

[vlado]

Is the plan to eventually have one vray core

The V-Ray core *is* the same; both implementations share a lot of code. For example, the changes that I made for the Maya hair shader are automatically included in the 3ds Max one.

and then start linking each ui to it so that there'll only be one vray as such with the same features rolling out to every program at the same time?

This depends; changes to the V-Ray core itself go into all products at the same time (f.e. optimizations). However, sometimes implementing a new feature requires a lot of experimentation; it makes more sense to focus on one platform while developing the feature as the code and the UI are constantly changed. Once the code is more or less complete, we start looking into porting it for other applications.

Best regards,
Vlado

[joconnell]

Vlado,

I'm getting jealous looking over my neighbour's fence at some of the vray for maya features - I'd imagine the first thing you need to do is get the translation between each program and vray itself, and then gradually start supporting the features. Is the plan to eventually have one vray core and then start linking each ui to it so that there'll only be one vray as such with the same features rolling out to every program at the same time?

Cheers!

John (for 3dsmax)

[vlado]

Embree, maybe?

No, Embree does not support hair.

Best regards,
Vlado

[pechart]

Embree, maybe?

[vlado]

Hm. not really.

Perfect

Rendersettings

Render settings are as simple as you can get: dmc image sampler 1/4; brute force GI with 4 subdivs and 3 bounces.

More intelligent sampling strategy

Yes... a bit cleverer sampling of transparent hairs.

VRayHairMtl4

Nope; it's still hairmtl3

i know, u have a new cpu

Nope, both are rendered on my laptop

Anyways, it should be in the nightly builds already, you can play with that...

Best regards,
Vlado