Re: XSI <--> LW Workflow

["El Espiritu VFX" <espirituvfx(at)gmail.com>]

What's amazing is its Progressive Rendering....

2007/4/27, Alan Jones <skyphyr(at)gmail.com>:

Fprime is a renderer written by Worley of Worley noise. It gives
identical results to the lightwave standard renderer apparently, but
it much much faster - also has other unqiue features like adjusting
many properties and seeing the render alternations instantly.

http://www.worley.com/E/Products/fprime/fprime.html

Cheers,

Alan.

On 4/27/07, Eric Lampi < ericlampi(at)yahoo.com> wrote:
> LW v1.0 was one of my first 3D apps, so it's been a
> while since I've used it. Of course there was a small
> hypervoxel dust cloud I did a few years ago, but
> that's been the extent of my use of it.
>
> So I am curious, what is Fprime?
>
> E
> --- El Espiritu VFX <espirituvfx(at)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Guys, I'm not competing anymore, especially because
> > our main lightning and
> > texturing guy comes from LW and because of Fprime,
> > with it you can start
> > rendering, and show the director a rough  version,
> > and while the same render
> > continues refining, we start compositing, by the
> > time the client comes, we
> > only have to reload footage and render compositing,
> > finally when the client
> > is gone, we are still able to reload again, with a
> > more redifined render and
> > output to tape. You can continue refining just until
> > absolutely last moment,
> > being calm you have all frames done from first
> > moment.
> >
> > Until now any of our XSI guys could do what he does
> > in LW in such a short
> > period of time,  but once again he has been using LW
> > for 15 years.
> > BTW I don't  want to start a Rendering war either, I
> > just wanted to know if
> > trying a XSI <--> LW Workflow was possible or just a
> > unpractical task.
> >
> > Thanks to all of you who have answered!
> > Nacho
> >
> >
> > 2007/4/27, Matt Lowery <mattl(at)glassworks.co.uk>:
> > >
> > > I think the big difference is the speed and
> > reliability of the renderer in
> > > LW. Oh and Fprime... Man I would kill to have that
> > renderer in xsi!
> > >
> > > The problem with MR is that to make use of all the
> > features you need a fat
> > > render farm to fall back on. Otherwise it's just
> > too slow. With LW all the
> > > fancy rendering techniques come with less of a
> > time hit. So you can use
> > > them
> > > all the time. Even if you are only rendering on
> > one or two machines.
> > >
> > > Good luck getting MR to match LW for render time
> > and quality Nacho. You're
> > > going to need it.
> > >
> > > m(at)
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Kris Rivel [mailto: krisrivel(at)gmail.com]
> > > Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 11:22 PM
> > > To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
> > > Subject: Re: XSI <--> LW Workflow
> > >
> > >
> > > Why's that?  Just curious what makes LW rendering
> > so great?  More 3rd
> > > party render support?  I really doubt there's much
> > that LW can do that
> > > MR on XSI can't.
> > >
> > > Kris
> > >
> > > Joe Laffey wrote:
> > > > On Thu, 26 Apr 2007, El Espiritu VFX wrote:
> > > >
> > > >> Hahaha! I'm still trying to show the LW guys a
> > render as good as
> > > >> theirs in
> > > >> the same render time coming from XSI without
> > any success... As soon
> > > >> as I do
> > > >> it LW is gonna be totally out of my place!
> > > >
> > > > Don't count oin it. We have been trying to do
> > that for over a year...
> > > > And with 9.x being so much faster (esp 9.2) I
> > really doubt it will
> > > > happen soon.
> > > >
> > > > We take a lot of stuff back into LW for
> > rendering. But it is not
> > > > character work. I have not tried any MDD, only
> > SRT animation and
> > > > camera moves. It works great using the built-in
> > PointOven exporters.
> > > >
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