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Wow, that's impressive if it's indeed true. My renderfarm is going
to become obsolete :-) Seriously though....I wonder what
implications this could have on renderfarms. Getting a 30-40 minute
render down to 1 minute is great but I'm sure you can throw in a few more
juicy effects and get that hardware accelerated render up to its
original, non-hardware assisted time. Does this mean that you would
need a farm of machines with these kinds of GPUs......could be
interesting.<br><br>
Kris<br><br>
At 10:04 AM 4/21/2004, you wrote:<br>
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was chatting with someone who'd been messing with hardware assisted
rendering a few months ago. He was claiming - and I'm inclined to
believe him, that he was getting 30-40 minute a frame renders down to sub
1 minutes. Apparently ther results can be quite impressive.<br>
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<dd><font face="tahoma" size=2>From:</b> owner-xsi@(protected)
[<a href="mailto:owner-xsi@(protected)" eudora="autourl">mailto:owner-xsi
@(protected)</a>]
On Behalf Of </b>Kris Rivel<br>
<dd>Sent:</b> 21 April 2004 14:19<br>
<dd>To:</b> XSI@(protected)<br>
<dd>Subject:</b> Re: Gelato<br>
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<dd>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:
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<li>Subsurface scattering: Powerful, physically correct simulation of
subsurface scattering effects, according to actual local geometric and
optic properties
</ul>I wonder if this is exposed in XSI v4.......would be nice.<br><br>
Kris<br><br>
At 05:34 AM 4/21/2004, you wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>From nVidia Product
Overview:<br><br>
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.<br><br>
sascha<br><br>
Guy Rabiller schrieb:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite> >From NVidia FAQ:<br>
Q: Can I use it with Maya? Is there a Maya plug-in available?<br>
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.<br>
-- guy rabiller | 3d technical director @ LaMaison<br><br>
Sascha wrote:<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>But mental images catched up:
<a href="http://www.cgnetworks.com/story.php?story_id=2065" eudora="autourl"
>http://www.cgnetworks.com/story.php?story_id=2065</a><br><br>
Sascha<br><br>
Sam Cuttriss schrieb:<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>wow!<br>
that is delicious...<br>
it is truly a day of gooooooood news.<br><br>
you'll be having a field day with the real time shaders
sascha<br>
_sam</blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><br>
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