 | | | Gelato | Gelato 2004-04-21 - By Sascha
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It's strange mental images claims the need of the Quadro FX 4000. Why
should this not possible with a Quadro FX 1100 or even less?
It will be interesting to see how mental ray will render pre-compiled
OpenGL or Cg shaders.
sascha
Kris Rivel schrieb:
> This all sounds interesting but I want to know how the FX4000 will
> benefit us with the release of XSI v4. Will this card, right out of the
> box, dramatically increase render performance without the need for
> custom shader writing or software development? Also:
>
> * Subsurface scattering: Powerful, physically correct simulation of
> subsurface scattering effects, according to actual local geometric
> and optic properties
>
> I wonder if this is exposed in XSI v4.......would be nice.
>
> Kris
>
> At 05:34 AM 4/21/2004, you wrote:
>
>> From nVidia Product Overview:
>>
>> Gelato does not require a specific type of input or output format. It
>> ships with an API for creating plug-in interfaces to industry standard
>> scene formats. With the API, users and product manufacturers have the
>> ability to create plug-in interfaces for their digital content
>> creation (DCC) applications.
>>
>> sascha
>>
>> Guy Rabiller schrieb:
>>
>>> >From NVidia FAQ:
>>> Q: Can I use it with Maya? Is there a Maya plug-in available?
>>> A: Yes. To facilitate using it in a variety of ways, NVIDIA will soon
>>> be shipping a plug-in for Maya with Gelato. The Maya plug-in allows
>>> the user to select Gelato as the renderer for a particular scene. The
>>> plug-in uses the Maya GUI to select the attributes for Gelato shaders
>>> and then converts the Maya outputs to a Python (pyg) file that Gelato
>>> can read.
>>> -- guy rabiller | 3d technical director @ LaMaison
>>>
>>> Sascha wrote:
>>>
>>>> But mental images catched up:
>>>> http://www.cgnetworks.com/story.php?story_id=2065
>>>>
>>>> Sascha
>>>>
>>>> Sam Cuttriss schrieb:
>>>>
>>>>> wow!
>>>>> that is delicious...
>>>>> it is truly a day of gooooooood news.
>>>>>
>>>>> you'll be having a field day with the real time shaders sascha
>>>>> _sam
>>
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