Hey guys, Thanks for the great responses. I think I've responded to everyone who sent an alpha request, but if you think I missed you, please shoot me an email to remind me :)
Also, I wanted to share some render times as we ran some more tests this afternoon comparing the GTX 470, GTX 670 and GTX Titan (which we actually received after the announcement went out) for the scenes we posted. Some of this info is also on our announcement thread on CGTalk ( http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=59&t=1098062). *Gargoyle 1280x720 (jp_studio_icp_1280.png)* GTX 470: 35 seconds GTX 670: 27 seconds GTX Titan: 17 seconds *Car 1024x683 (mazda_1024.png)* GTX 470: 75 seconds GTX 670: 65 seconds GTX Titan: 39 seconds *Evermotion Living Room 1200x1000 (AI_V8_S10_1200.png)* GTX 470: 155 seconds GTX 670: 123 seconds GTX Titan: 77 seconds *Classroom 1024x512 (classroom.png)* GTX 470: 129 seconds - ok I exaggerated a bit when I said 2 minutes :) GTX 670: 96 seconds GTX Titan: 49 seconds Please also bear in mind that we're still just in alpha and constantly improving performance. We're kind of obsessed with speed :) On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 12:17 PM, Len Krenzler <[email protected]>wrote: > Exactly! This is VERY interesting. Hope I can test (sent request > already) :) > > > > On 3/13/2013 12:33 PM, Nicolas Burtnyk wrote: > > Yes - I'll try to make a video of that if I can get set up correctly for > it. > > Note that this is 2 mins on a GTX 470 which is nothing special in terms > of GPUs. You can expect significantly better times with a GTX 580 for > example. I don't have official times for that card, but I'd guess under > 1.5 minutes. > > These kinds of times really underscore the power of biased rendering. > When you need to reduce noise, you have a lot more options than "let's > just throw a ton more samples at the whole thing". > > > > > On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 11:28 AM, olivier jeannel <[email protected] > > wrote: > >> The classroom is *really* 2min render ? >> >> Congrats to you, sending a request :) >> >> Le 13/03/2013 19:18, Steven Caron a écrit : >> >> congrats to you and your team! i was wondering when we would see/hear >> about your work. >> >> it would be great to see a video demonstration of redshift in softimage. >> >> >> On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 11:12 AM, Nicolas Burtnyk <[email protected] >> > wrote: >> >>> Hello folks, >>> >>> In March of last year, 2 colleagues and I left our jobs as software >>> developers in the games industry to form our own company - Redshift. >>> Our goal was to apply our experience with graphics hardware to the >>> problem of "offline" rendering. >>> Artists friends had been asking us for years why Mental Ray and other >>> renderers were not taking advantage of the GPU. >>> As the ideas bounced around in our heads, we figured we'd take a crack >>> at it. As it turns out, it's really freakin' hard, but not impossible! >>> >>> Today, we're very excited to announce the official launch of Redshift >>> v0.1 alpha, to our knowledge, the world's first fully GPU-accelerated >>> biased renderer. >>> Redshift supports multiple GI solutions: Brute-Force GI, Irradiance >>> Caching (aka Final Gather), Irradiance Point Cloud (aka Light Cache) and >>> Photon Mapping (GI and Caustics). >>> All are fully GPU-accelerated and perform many times faster than similar >>> CPU-based offerings. >>> >>> A problem that plagues many GPU renderers on the market is that they >>> are limited by the available VRAM on the graphics card (and most systems >>> have significantly less VRAM than main memory). Redshift addresses this by >>> using an out-of-core architecture for geometry and textures allowing you to >>> render scenes with tens of millions of polygons and gigabytes of textures >>> with off-the-shelf, inexpensive hardware. >>> >>> Redshift currently integrates directly with Softimage 2011 through >>> 2013 and Maya 2011 through 2013 on Windows XP or higher. 3ds Max support >>> is in development. To run Redshift, you'll need an NVidia graphics card >>> supporting compute 1.2 or higher with 1GB VRAM or more. >>> >>> You can check out our website http://www.redshift3d.com for more info. >>> >>> We're currently in closed alpha, and looking to find some interested >>> alpha testers on this list. >>> Our goals for alpha are to shake out bugs and gather feedback from users >>> to help focus our development efforts. >>> >>> If you're interested in taking Redshift for a spin, drop me an email >>> at [email protected]. >>> >>> Some sample renders: >>> http://s3.redshift3d.com/jp_studio_icp_1280.png >>> http://s3.redshift3d.com/mazda_1024.png >>> http://s3.redshift3d.com/AI_V8_S10_1200.png >>> >>> And the classroom scene from the "Octane Render" thread from a couple >>> weeks ago. 2 minutes on a single GeForce GTX 470. >>> http://s3.redshift3d.com/classroom.png >>> >>> I'd also like to thank all of those on this list who've answered my >>> various questions about the XSI SDK. Your help has made our integration of >>> Redshift with Softimage very strong. >>> >>> Cheers! >>> >>> Nicolas >>> >>> >> >> > > > -- > _________________________________________________ > > Len Krenzler - Creative Control Media Productions > > Phone: 780.463.3126 > www.creativecontrol.ca - [email protected] > >
