Forest Pack Pro 5 beta

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I don’t normally post about other products here, but I’m excited! Itoo released Forest Pack Pro 5 beta, which goes nicely with the V-Ray 3.30 beta - according to their tests it brings between 40% and 100% speed improvement with V-Ray 3.30 beta (and V-Ray 3.20.03, to be fair).

Best regards,
Vlado

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only one word WOW
:slight_smile:

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Omfg!!!

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Its right, its fast as hell!!! Fantastic!

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Ok when I read about that on itoosoft website I thought it was a typo mistake cause I wondered how the hell can they release a plugin working with vray 3.3 when it was just out 2 days ago!

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does forest work properly with RT gpu yet? i didnt test with 3.3 but all my tests with 3.2 and lower have had memory usage issues that “render” it unusable.

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You’ll have to try. We did some improvements in that area, hopefully they help.

Best regards,
Vlado

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I installed FPP 5 beta yesterday, worked well with new scene but haven’t seen anything new in my daily workflow
Today I tried to work on a old project,max crashed at rendertime, and afterward, every-time I tried to open the scene once it has been saved with FPP 5 installed.
Merge everything to a new scene made the trick to recover my work few times, but crashed at rendertime again, to a point that even merge wouldn’t work as max crashed straight away.
So I reverted back to 4.4.1 and everything works well again.

Just wanted to let you guys know, as obviously it’s still a beta, but not as reliable as CG betas :stuck_out_tongue:

Cheers
Stan

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i wonder how it manages such a huge speedup.. isnt it just presenting vray with a load of instances to render? does it do something to the geometry or materials?

will whatever speedup also apply to rt gpu (assuming it works) ?

edit: sorry just realised i did an unbroken line of questions. new version looks way cool.

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if it was only available in maya :frowning: I used it in max and it was really great!

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I realize this may be a hassle when busy with daily work, but please if you find a problem with the beta report it to us. This is the only way we have to fix bugs for the stable release.
When possible please send us also the minidump, or better a test scene.

Many thanks. :slight_smile:

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Carlos - How far away is the next Railclone beta?

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We want to release a beta this week.

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I had a similar crash at rendertime problem. Send the scene yesterday, and Carlos fixed the bug today and uploaded a 5.0.1 update. Didn’t test it yet but I’m confident Itoo fixed the problem; it could be that that was the same problem you were having.

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I install Forest 5 beta and no problem in two scenes I started with Forest 4.4. Working great in both versions and much faster with FP 5.

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mmm seems like I’d need to try again with the new version then :slight_smile:

Thanks for the updates!

Stan

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The forestpack beta file is much larger than the previous 4x version. Are there more models included or is the extra size all to make it work with newer render engine versions?

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Hi Morné,

This is due to the addition of new presets. In the future we will be separating the library files and the main plugin to keep file sizes more manageable.

Thanks!

Paul

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Thanks Paul, sounds good. Any chance of including the FREE xfrog libraries as part of the forestpack pro download?
Or perhaps as part of the xfrog catalog with vray materials?

I can never understand how the xfrog site works. I’ve seen this “100 free models” time and time again over the years, but their site suck big time in my opinion, not very organised.

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Hi Morné,

We’re currently evaluating our free samples and we have plans to include more samples from multiple vendors in a revamped library. As we’re still discussing this I don’t have any more specifics at the moment but you should see some changes in the future.

Many thanks,

Paul.