Another one GPU render here https://www.facebook.com/groups/FStormGroup/
Its interesting, the development ist going fast, like those corona dailys 
corona bitmap texture conversion
:- D
But yes, we did. They had some nice, smart features from get-on, such as natural glare.
These guy(s), do the same mistake (Octane devs and users do it too) in defending their speed in comparison to Vray/Corona, by using the argument, that it would be comparable when Vray/Corona, disabled their secondary GI kernels.
Well butâŠtoo bad, thatâs exactly what makes them fast. These GPU-raytracers are almost never faster in actual GI-heavy (like interior) scenes from what Iâve seen (applies to all of them, except for Redshift).
Redshift devs got it. You can use GPUs as fast as you can, unbiased pathtracing alone is not fast. Unless we talk car renders, HDRi-lit close-ups of decoration or some other simplicity.
Not really on topic title but since accelerating is in question, Toshiya Hachisukaâ Lab works on rendering with SPPM (also on GPU) looks very tempting.
aahahahaha of course no ı am copying from fstorm facebook page this is really confidental
I donât know where this info is coming from, but I also heard about a lawsuit. Letâs hold on with the gossips and wait for some official message.
Ok. Great. Bu is this publicly available? Where did you find that link?
I half agree, Redshift I have tried to get clean results for internal renders using the GPU GI caching interpolated GI and without high settings I canât get rid of the splotches, its like going back to Mental ray. So I tried there Path tracer and its slow as any GPU path tracer.
However Fstorm, its sampling methods are pretty damn quick and its by far the fastest GPU render I have used even for internals.
Now if Ondra put what he learnt with his Herpy derpy GI cache and made that for GPU, if at all possible, that would be very interesting, Its the cleanest GI cache thing I have ever used.
Things I like about Fstorm:
Glare like you mentioned is beautifully done, the quality and believability is great.
I like the Sun Sky system.
Its material is pretty solid, has lots of maps/shaders that are normally missing from a GPU renderer at the start development.
The other thing I like about GPU renderers, is the GPU seems to have a faster development.
Being able to upgrade a GPU or just adding another one into my system for more speed is awesome.
However any real work I do, I do in Corona, but enjoy testing any renderer I can find Corona is so reliable and easy to use.
yes a friend told me about its speed but what a shame if it is true that Fstorm used otoy source code.
it seems many of user here has some experience in GPU rendering. the only GPUrenderer I ever tried is vrayRT.
a litle bit offtopic, have you guys tried firerender which is corona has some contribution in its development?
a lot of GPUrenderer mainly optimized for CUDA eventhough some has openCL compatibility but it still too weak against CUDA. and I think firerender will never do optimization for CUDA hardware however iâd like to hear your opinion about this firerender guys
This changes the problem. And yes, I thought it was odd the lower part of the screenshot encircled with the presets, view and render button. I mean thatâs default from 3ds max. And also the look of the screenshots, like what ? Did it meant to make it more ârealisticâ ? Like cut from a newspaper ?
âLook, this is serious, we present you these worn documents with 3ds max, recovered from a secret file, from the second world warâ
Lol! And taken with my secret âcamera that looks like a penâ too!
For all I know, there could still be fishy things with Octane guys or FStorm developer, but right now the case seems tilted in the Fstorm favor.
Looks like one of the sides is bound for an epic fail. Weâll see which one.
Well, itâs no news that Otoy likes to sue people that worked for them in the past, for basically the same lame reasonsâŠ
I tend to rather believe everyone else than otoy.
maybe in your mind, but I seriously hope Karba did not submit the document to court as it is (but rather to his lawyer as his materials), it would IMHO not convince a non-expert in the field as the arguments are not well written and thought out.
another story with otoyâŠ
Was also a member on Refractive Software forums back in the days when it started, after the âacquisitionâ i havenât looked back. Never will. OâToyâ does nothing but up the prices and fu+ks the little guy. Their development is similar to that of an assassin, hidden, slow, careful and if failed, blows up.
https://twitter.com/JustinYounger/status/760481513221689344
Stay good and well, legionaries.
is that true..? WTF?! I cant believe it did happened.. Iâm so speechless
Stay good and well, legionaries.