Difference between RT and Quicksilver

[rogerteddy]

Will Vray users or RT owners have two GPU based render engines in the next release of 3ds max? Will there be a renderquality difference between RT and quicksilver?

http://area.autodesk.com/3dsmax2011/features

Best regards!

rog!

[vlado]

QuickSilver has some limitations, which V-Ray RT does not have, and which we hope to avoid for the GPU version as well:

= QuickSilver is a rasterizer in its heart; it does support limited raytracing for reflections, but this tends to get slow;
= It cannot do glossy reflections;
= It cannot do refractions at all, only transparency (which is also somewhat limited);
= DOF is fake (post-effect); you can use multipass camera DOF, but of course this slows the rendering;
= Only one GI bounce is supported;
= It is not a progressive nor interactive renderer - it does not refine render quality and you have to push the render button each time to see your changes;
= It does not support distributed rendering;
= It does not support multiple GPUs at this point;

Of course, it can be very useful in certain cases, but it is not a replacement for V-Ray RT.

Best regards,
Vlado

[Dariusz Makowski (Dadal)]

QuickSilver has some limitations, which V-Ray RT does not have, and which we hope to avoid for the GPU version as well:

= QuickSilver is a rasterizer in its heart; it does support limited raytracing for reflections, but this tends to get slow;
= It cannot do glossy reflections;
= It cannot do refractions at all, only transparency (which is also somewhat limited);
= DOF is fake (post-effect); you can use multipass camera DOF, but of course this slows the rendering;
= Only one GI bounce is supported;
= It is not a progressive nor interactive renderer - it does not refine render quality and you have to push the render button each time to see your changes;
= It does not support distributed rendering;
= It does not support multiple GPUs at this point;

Of course, it can be very useful in certain cases, but it is not a replacement for V-Ray RT.

Best regards,
Vlado

Wow you know a lot of unofficial info O_O Coooolll ^^

[Morbid Angel]

vlado does his homework, and he does it well...

[mike_kennedy]

Vlado would be on the beta program.....

[Janosik]

so vlado, when i can buy vray rt running on gpu (not only nvidia ones) ??

[vlado]

For now the plan is to have the GPU version implemented into V-Ray RT 2.0 later this year. There will be a beta starting soon.

Best regards,
Vlado