And thanks for charging nothing again - RS still offers most bang
for your buck ;)
-Mark Heuymans
Normally a ServicePack or an update is only to solve bugs.
It's really nice to them to add new features for free.
Thankyou very much.
Realsoft has alway been the most powerful software.
The price is high, but for what you get... it's worth it.
Jean-Sebastien Perron
www.neuroworld.ws
Absolutely, especially because with a single license you can set up
an unlimited render farm. No $$$ per CPU :)
I mailed to this list a few times, but it seems that they don't
arrive if I mail from my new computer through a shared internet connection...
About the raytracing discussion: yes, as always there are pros and
cons but I've always liked it and will to continue to like it! With
today's fast dual-core computers, raytracing is as useful as ever. If
I look back at my Amiga 32MHz days, I'm in heaven now. That doesn't
mean I wouldn't welcome some GPU help of course.
I just finished a huge architectural project, rendered 8000 frames at
PAL resolution (on 4 computers), with pretty high AA settings. It's
just a matter of getting a little help in CPU power... as long as
render times stay below 10 minutes per frame it's manageable for production.
It's even possible to throw in some slow VSL shaders, or the
occasional area lightsource. Know how to optimize your scenes! Just
don't combine notorious CPU-hungry features like GI, volumetric
shadows, special lights.
The one thing I really fear is GI animation; the tutorial in the
manual (with temporal sampling) is really intimidating... I usually
bake an illumination map into the ceilings, this works very well.
Happy rendering,
Mark H
