Hey Steven, Quick question for ya: for swapping resolutions, did you simply swap refmodel resolutions or did you have both low and high res in the same asset and toggle vis? We've found sometimes swapping hundreds of models can get pretty slow. Curious if you guys had any issues on that front.
Thanks for the insight so far. Cheers, -- Alan On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 1:34 PM, Steven Caron <[email protected]> wrote: > thanks for the kind words everyone! i will pass along the praises... > > some extra info for those interested... > > -we used arnold 3.x to render this > -because of how we partitioned the work out, and how sitoa exports ICE > instances we had to come up with a way to make sure there was no redundant > instance masters. we created a system to do that. we then collaborated with > solid angle to make this a first party feature. "auto instancing of > procedurals".. you're welcome! ;P > -memory consumption would be drastically lower in arnold 4.x > -this was the basis for the workflow we used on elysium, of course for > more shots and a lot more detail... remember we rendered over 5 trillion > triangles for elysium. > -not everything was hand placed, we had some more ICE tools for > automatically aligning and placing buildings. > > steven > > > On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 9:37 AM, Juhani Karlsson < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Tron legacy? Daft Punk? Maybe? >> On Nov 22, 2013 7:12 PM, "Peter Agg" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> What's that soundtrack from? Seems familiar but I can't quite place it... >>> >>> >>> On 22 November 2013 16:58, Sebastien Sterling < >>> [email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Hairy ballz of the Gods !!! >>>> >>>> >>>> On 22 November 2013 17:46, Sylvain Lebeau <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> holy mother of god.. >>>>> >>>>> you guys rock at WT! >>>>> >>>>> sly >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On 11/22/2013 09:04 AM, adrian wyer wrote: >>>>> >>>>> congrats to everyone at Whiskeytree for this epic demo! >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> https://vimeo.com/71148018 >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> your library toolset is a thing of beauty! >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> a >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >
