GPU based renderer are doomed unless there is a open and documented
standard.
Like any hardware-dependent renderer they will fade over time.
It's sad that the the Cell processor was ignored by the industry.
The Cell in the hand of good old programmers (Assembler and c++) not
(scripters) could do so much.
I hate AMD and Intel and Arm and Motorolla,
The secret to faster computing is parallel work.
Like the hundreds of "Blitters" in the old arcade motherboard of the 80's.
Programming in parallel require thinking, and the industry is playing
it safe.
We don't need 4 core we need 32 or 64 and more.
Simple core that only do floating point math vectoring.
Not all purpose crap like intel(int tel) like in integer.
GPU are useless in generating images, no 2 videocard produce the same
result.
What is important is math math math .... Vector and matrix nothing else
And still to this day, only one processor in the world deliver that :
The Cell
If I had the money of Bill Gate, In a year I would completely change the
computer world.
Company are behaving like the petrol industry : holding technology, and
improving slowly to make more money.
I would have thought that buy now we would not need to think about
computing speed.
The solution is so simple : (a really really simple RISC processor *
64) + a lot of memory inside the processor) in a single chip.
A computer in a chip, everything in a chip. No dedicated hardware or
instructions.
Actually not all of the above is true, but mostly true
Jean-Sebastien Perron
www.CombadZ.com
On 10-07-19 04:00 PM, aidan o driscoll wrote:
OR http://www.refractivesoftware.com/
Octane Render is the world's first GPU based, un-biased, physically
based renderer. €99
Bought this recently on offer - €49. Very nice renderer too. Use it with Modo!
Plugs for other apps being developed for this also ....
Aidan
On 19 July 2010 20:42, Neil Cooke<ne...@xtra.co.nz> wrote:
Nice Archviz there Arfo!!!
Thanks
Neil Cooke
PS: I dont know enough about renderers to comment and RS does it Ok for me
... in my ignorance perhaps.
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From: Arjo Rozendaal<arjo.rozend...@xs4all.nl>
To: user-list@light.realsoft3d.com
Sent: Tue, 20 July, 2010 6:36:03 AM
Subject: RE: Fryrender plugin support
Hi Jason,
I think Realsoft really needs a better render engine. But rendering with
third party plugins would mean some serious changes. Solid objects won't be
possible, everything will have to be turned into SDS/polygonal objects. VSL
will be of no use anymore. All the materials will have to be created to work
with the render engine. I doubt if this is what most Realsoft users like. I
always liked the special things of Realsoft like the VSL and solid objects.
I'm afraid the mainstream production market is quite covered by the other
apps. So I guess Realsoft is more for the users that like the special
options.
However I must admit that these specialties have some severe limitations. In
terms of production, VSL is far too technical and time consuming to create
nice materials. Solids have limitations if you want to add bevels, deform
them or things like that.
But if Vesa and Juha find some solution that could bring the high quality
rendering to Realsoft without losing VSL and solids it would be very
impressive.
Anyway, I'm even not sure if Fryrender is the best choise. I chose Vray,
which is not an unbiased renderer lik Fry or Maxwell. But it's a lot faster.
And IMHO it renders very nice images too. But as always there are a lot of
different opinions when it comes to choosing a render app. And all the
software galeries show the nicest results of their users. Here are some
results of myself:
Two different interior projects I did this year (rendered with Vray):
http://www.xs4all.nl/~joly/show/kantoor.html and
http://www..xs4all.nl/~joly/show/wrobel.html
Both completely different atmosphere in terms of style. Modern/clean office;
the other an private flat in Paris.
Arjo.
Van: owner-l...@light.realsoft3d.com
[mailto:owner-l...@light.realsoft3d.com] Namens Jason Saunders
Verzonden: maandag 19 juli 2010 17:03
Aan: user-list@light.realsoft3d.com
Onderwerp: Fryrender plugin support
Hi,
Any votes for development starting on a plug-in for using this render engine
in Realsoft ?
Seeing as all the other major and not so major 3D apps have it supported,
makes sense to try and catch up me thinks.
www.randomcontrol.com/fryrender-gallery
Regards
Jason
