Did no one post this? http://www.fxguide.com/featured/bifrost-exclusive-first-in-depth-look/
From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of adrian wyer Sent: 19 March 2014 13:20 To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: RE: trying to looking on the bright side...... adding fuel to fire, but hearing that multi machine rendering doesn't work... anyone care to confirm? if so, better off using naiad/RF a ________________________________ From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com<mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com> [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Raffaele Fragapane Sent: 19 March 2014 12:28 To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com<mailto:softimage@listproc.autodesk.com> Subject: Re: trying to looking on the bright side...... The caching thing is a bit of a resentful point to be honest. Soft doesn't have a flip solver at all, if it had one, you would be caching a fair bit :) The transfer looks a bit klunky, but not knowing the data beneath I can't really tell if it's groan worthy or not. Bifrost's first version is simply not ICE and shouldn't be compared, in this first version it's a crippled but renewed naiad, look at it like that. On 19 Mar 2014 19:40, "Arvid Björn" <arvidbj...@gmail.com<mailto:arvidbj...@gmail.com>> wrote: Like someone else said, I can spend days in an ICE tree before caching anything, it seems to me that the instantness of ICE would be lost in a round-trip to an external process. But I'm sure it has a lot of advantages. A big one for AD being that they don't have to venture too deep into the Maya code base to be able to integrate it. On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 2:49 AM, Raffaele Fragapane <raffsxsil...@googlemail.com<mailto:raffsxsil...@googlemail.com>> wrote: In my book that it's an external module is good for a very extensive number of reasons, and it has a good team behind it. The approach to the dev and release cycle though I find both questionable and insufficient to place it anywhere significant on the map any some than two to three years, and that leaves a massive gap for those coming from soft and incapable or unwilling to adopt or develop competing solutions. Given autodesk propensity to rushed and whimsical decisions it also makes me unwilling to roll the dice on it at all since it might be a great thing that might still get canned if it doesn't instantaneously produce results, results I question it can produce at all any time soon. On 19 Mar 2014 04:48, "Arvid Björn" <arvidbj...@gmail.com<mailto:arvidbj...@gmail.com>> wrote: I was really surprised that Bifrost was some external process, and then even more surprised that they tried to tout this as a good thing. Here's the mental image I got during that demo: http://i.imgur.com/OUhV4wj.jpg On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 5:08 PM, Morten Bartholdy <x...@colorshopvfx.dk<mailto:x...@colorshopvfx.dk>> wrote: Its probably like this..
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