Bumping that thread, to share enthousiasm.
I've just switched from RS Alpha 0.2.1 to the Beta 0.3.46. Spent a huge
100$ bill....
Today is my testing day, doodeling, trying things that were not
implemented. You know, just re-descovering.
Well, the speed is there. I'm doing an interior (ok semi interior, walls
are opened), in rather dark color and it's noise free.
But what amaze me is the integration. I'm mixing several bumps, some are
repeating some are not, with several different set of UVs, and it's
doing exactly what it is supposed to do.
... And dof is activated on preview, because it's free.
Le 18/02/2014 16:17, Ed Manning a écrit :
Yes, I AM ignoring the RAM requirements of Elysium-style scenes. So
none of those in my scenario.
On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 10:15 AM, Ed Manning <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 6:04 PM, Steven Caron <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
doesn't work like that... i have to convince someone to buy it
for the studio, then the graphics cards you guys talk about...
3 titans!? we don't have those types of investments. we have
an existing farm with cpus and lots of ram. if i want to
render a sequence with redshift... i have to render it on
workstations only. also, i am not going to convert elysium to
work for redshift on my free time ;)
You might be able to write a script to convert the materials,
since the parameters are pretty close to Arnold's (they're VERY
similar to MR's so going from there would be relatively easy).
One possible selling point to management -- since your
workstations are probably pretty well-equipped in GPU, and those
GPUs are idle all night, you'd be leveraging capacity that's
already paid-for. You wouldn't even need to take the workstations
off the CPU farm, just earmark a couple of cores on each for scene
loading and conversion for Redshift. Network and server might get
stressed a bit, but that's kind of normal...
Also see my other post on the costs to transition to GPU from CPU.
Speaking as a small business owner, I gotta say the GPU path
looks MORE attractive financially.
