Re: ridiculous...black artifacts again

["Steven Caron" <carons(at)gmail.com>]

once you have done all the hair sytling and shading, you cache it and there is no conversion and then it is faster than mental ray.

On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 9:58 AM, Alan Jones <skyphyr(at)gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Joe and Guillaume,

I've not had a chance to go too in-depth. Main drawbacks from MR is it
does need to spend a bit
of preprocessing time to get shaders ready, though this generally
isn't too bad. If you have a huuuge
 amount of hair you might not have fun with XSI pushing it all out
through the conversion, though this
issue is on XSI's end - so every 3rd party renderer will hit the same
issue with the API as it stands.

AO isn't as fast as ideal yet, but that will change in future version
when they expose their PTC AO.
 (i.e. ambient occlusion without raytracing). You can also look
forward to very fast glossy reflections
 etc when these features are exposed. To speed AO up for now be sure
to remove it from the shadow
slot. It's performance also compares favorably against MR on complex scenes.

Cheers,

Alan

On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 5:21 PM, Guillaume Laforge
<guillaume(at)alamaison.fr> wrote:
>
>  I don't know 3Delight but it just looks as an alternative to Pixar's Renderman, not Mental Ray. Is it fast with Final Gathering and glossy reflexions ?
>
>  Cheers
>
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>  Guillaume Laforge | La Maison
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>  On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 02:04:02 +0900, Nick <nick.petit(at)gmail.com> wrote:
>  > The main issue is that you won't have nearly as much time for coffee as you
>  > used to...
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>  > On 29/02/2008, Joe Laffey <joe(at)laffey.tv> wrote:
>  >
>  >> Wow. That is pretty cool. Will have to give it a shot.
>  >>
>  >> What are the limitations/issues?
>  >>
>  >> Thanks,
>  >>
>  >>
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