Re: Announcing Redshift - Biased GPU Renderer

[Christopher]

I'd keep the keyboard, try something new with it on the new site :) Christopher Octavian Ureche Friday, April 05, 2013 3:08 AM Haha, thanx Christopher. That's an old keyboard i dismantled a long time ago. By the way, that site and reel are more than 3 years old now. Have just finished the new reel and while working on the new site was actually thinking whether or not to dump the keyboard thing. -- visual | stuff www.okto.ro Christopher Thursday, April 04, 2013 8:13 PM I like your keyboard graphic on your web site, very appealing :) Christopher Octavian Ureche Thursday, April 04, 2013 11:58 AM Can't say anything about Octane because i just toyed with it. But i really enjoyed Keyshot.  Even if you can't really do animation rendering with it other than it's built in srt sytem, it's a very fast CPU based raytracer. Very HDRI oriented. Can't remember if it has lights at all. For all i know i always rendered using ibl. But apart from its obvious drawbacks, it's a very simple and effective choice for product designers and the like. Of course, Reshift blows all of that to dust given it's tight app integration and gpu rendering speed. -- visual | stuff www.okto.ro Tim Crowson Thursday, April 04, 2013 9:39 AM Well, if I understand correctly, RS does Distributed Monte Carlo, which is a bit different from Octane's Pathtracing. So you're not going to get an apples-to-apples comparison between the two. Now, I have Octane as well, and in my opinion, RS beats it soundly on modest hardware, both in performance and workflow. As others have said, the mere fact that RS is so well-integrated into Softimage is a BIG DEAL. I can't wait for multi-GPU support. -Tim On 4/4/2013 4:12 AM, Doeke Wartena wrote: Doeke Wartena Thursday, April 04, 2013 5:12 AM How is redshift compared to octane?