look at www.realsoft.com / newsNews2011-09-29Realsoft 3D development newsRealsoft 3D version 8 will include an advanced photon mapping toolkit. Thanks to some ground breaking innovations in noise reduction, photon map can be rendered directly without so called Final Gathering stage. This means
Thank for the tip Frank, great news and impressive GI animations!
By coincidence I've been toying with this Sponza scene lately with other
renderers like Luxrender and Cycles for Blender.
The image in these unbiased renderers starts very noisy and
progressively improves until the noise is
Mark,
Re Blender you have to admit the advances and progress and feature set
far out strip that of RS now. The day RS updates ... everything, that
will be the day I jump back on board. In my opinion it is too far
behind in development now, almost needs a complete rewrite?
Blender ease or not
Hi Aidan,
Yes, Blender's feature set is impressive and people have made large
animations with it: Sintel, Elephant's Dream etc.. My main problem is
its interface, I can never find stuff... I want to expand my toolkit and
use it next to RS in the pipeline, it's not this-is-better-than-that.
Hi Mark..
Count me in among those in the RS rare breed category ! =)
I have had my chances to several times start to use other than RS, no
matter if expensive or free, tons of amazing features and so on...
I just havent been able to stand any other than RS =) (if not counting
the lovely
Congrats, Vesa and co!
Those are some of the smoothest GI animations I have seen, and it sounds
like you only pay for the time once!
Count me in for this round.
If FBX can bring in simple texture maps that would sure sweeten the pot.
Chris M
On 10/10/2011 8:17 AM, Frank Brübach wrote:
