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Hi :
Thanks , and Congrads on V8 & it's new Photon Mapping solution . Looks very
interesting . Anims look superb andvery enticing of course . I know many are
dying (no pun intended) to get their hands on this and test it's actualprowess
. Always been a huge fan of Photon Mapping ever since experimenting with RS Gi
& comparing it to theWinosi version of the Cornell Box , which was probably the
best 'Box' rendering seen to that point . RS a clear , (but maybe not such a
user-friendly solution) , second place . Link to that 2004 experiment on
Realsoft.org
Anyway , I'm sure the Beta-Boys have been running V8 through many such
gauntlets , hopefully with a raft ofpositive results to share amongst the team
and eventually , the RS user list too .
Nothing against the older RS Gi solution . It was fast , and animation
friendly in later noise-free versions . Itmay have been a little tough to get
going on though , and tweaking it was not a slam-dunk unless one was alittle
devoted to getting good at RS Gi . I was , and had good results , but always
wished for photon mapping .
Most aren't all that willing to tweak and test and tweak some more, it seems .
That is the price some are willingto pay to create this art though , I think .
I'm guessing this newest illumination option will provide an easier to
useoption with perhaps even better results .
The option of 'Baking' the Gi/PM into the base scene is brilliant , and then
just Gi any additional animation components ! Awesome ! Still shooters may just
leave it all to a Pho-Map render and any actual 3D animators (are there any
left?)will obviously take advantage of the Finland method (is it Finland or
Iceland [sorry , it's been a while] ?) .
Well , in case I get kicked off before my next post , I should also mention
that multi-core CPU's have helped to makethis kind of technology possible for
both the RS user and that famous Norwegian programing team (Satu & company) .
Unbelievable How Fast These Horses Can Run Now .
Also should mention that of course many-many of us are huge fans of unbiased
methods such as Luxrender . I'mguessing that even Vuha & Jeseus are also big
fans of true solutions . I mean if computers of 2019 were availablefor sale
today in Greenland we would all just simply hit that True-Big-Button for our 3D
realism (and having itcharged to our Chinese Bank accounts at the nominal
Cloud-usage-fee [life-in-the-clouds {kill-me-now}]) .
I'm guessing that this latest V8 rendering solution offering is once again , a
very viable compromise betweenthe never ending quest for - reasonable speed ,
and most importantly ... very convincing accuracy .
Also , big Congrads to Carlo for his free-release of DynAtomic for V6/7 ,
32/64 . The Animations look great andapparently there are even more cool tools
that can be added also (such as Hair/Fur/Fluid) !!!
cheers
Studio
