all renders that were for xsi-softimage (Was there ever a renderman for xsi- softimage?)

[xsisoft]

thank you very much for the answers

[xsisoft]

RenderMan and 3delight upgrade to PBR and GGX

https://www.3delight.com/documentation/ ... nd+Shaders

[FXDude]

FYI
- Reshift --> no future (No big improvement now --> no renderview, no denoiser ... )
- Maxwell --> stopped
- FryRender / ARION --> stopped
- Octane --> Stopped --> no news from developper (Face) since months
- Cycles --> --> Free (GPU/CPU) --> last is 1.7.4
- 3Dlight --> Stopped
- Arnold --> Still alive viewtopic.php?f=4&t=7001
- VRay --> Stopped

Phil

Hi, about Octane, altough 'Face' stopped working it, how in your opinion, how was the last iteration?

Because speaking for myself when putting out things (like for the hair thing)
I try to get it to a point where it does what it does well, so that I don't have to visit it again
(or at least not for a while, to avoid needing to refamiliarize myself with inner workings which is somewhat more time intensive)

And maybe similarly, I was very much under the impression that the latest additions covered some (if not most) of what it was previously lacking un terms of production value,
such as motion blur on deformed objects , and on ice instances.. compound creation.. and other things.
So would you consider it to be in a more than usable state?
and how about availability?


In regards to Redshift, if you're at-all ever using XSI, if you think you can find a way to muster the money, Redshift definitely is something you'll want to get a permanent license of.

And that's ***regardless of whatever future development,

Even with one GPU, you can render as fast as what a really heavy 2d comp tree would take in terms of time, without at-all overtaking your computer's responsiveness while it's going.
and as far as I can tell, it's otherwise still supported to at least some (perhaps superficial, but non-insignificant) extent.

Though I would hope they would eventually follow Arnold's example, so that it would similarly no longer be their responsability.

Anyhoo, cheers!

[xsisoft]

FACE Octan Plugin Developer
https://render.otoy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=276648

Stephan Woermann
OCTAN RENDERS
https://vimeo.com/user2509578

[wireframex]

FACE Octan Plugin Developer
https://render.otoy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=276648

Stephan Woermann
OCTAN RENDERS
https://vimeo.com/user2509578

More than 3 months without any news from him
since all developper have done 4.0, the Softimage release is still in beta 3 ...

[xsisoft]

Preview Octane4 !!!!Softimage https://vimeo.com/user2509578

Stephan Woermann
OCTAN RENDERS


Someone from the users of octane, wrote to him personally, what with octane 4?

[xsisoft]

Cycles
viewtopic.php?f=5&t=6734&hilit=Cycles

[rray]

Preview Octane4 !!!!Softimage https://vimeo.com/user2509578

Damn fell 4 it would be too good to be true

Unfortunatly never heard of face again either, not that I contacted him though.

I asked the otoy guys if I could continue work on the XSI plugin, but they have no more interest in Softimage

Hi, about Octane, altough 'Face' stopped working it, how in your opinion, how was the last iteration?

I was going along really well, so I'm surprised there's no more updates. It was still at V3.0 but he added a quite a lot of stuff since this https://www.si-community.com/community/ ... f=5&t=6739 .. (see https://render.otoy.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=29). Didn't release the latest updates though
Let's hope he's doing well.

[xsisoft]

it is necessary that the autodesk will release a new version (embedded in it all the add-ons) -and made an open source! then octane 4 will be released

but seriously - cycles (to improve it)
free and promising


viewtopic.php?f=5&t=6734&hilit=Cycles

[wireframex]

Preview Octane4 !!!!Softimage https://vimeo.com/user2509578
Stephan Woermann
OCTAN RENDERS
Someone from the users of octane, wrote to him personally, what with octane 4?

Like I said before there is no news since months. I wrote him personaly but nerver received any answer ...

[Maximus]

well if you wanna keep working with softimage with a very reliable render engine for the future years to come i suggest you to go right now and buy redshift.
with one license price you will get all kind of 3d packages in case you eventually switch to something else and it still works perfectly with softimage, personally i dont care neither feel lany lack of improvements (post fx only so far). 99% of the core is still the same and developers still pushing out core functionality to softimage too with each release.

The current version for softimage does everything and does it extremely well.

[xsisoft]

https://www.redshift3d.com/buy
500$

[xsisoft]

RED SHIFT -GPU only

CYCLES - CPU & GPU

CPU can be used -Computer cluster -
-unlimited RAM, for large frames, in commercial filmmaking & more common on rener farms

[xsisoft]

&

Open Shading Language (OSL) & Cycles render engine

is a shading language developed by Sony Pictures Imageworks for use in its Arnold Renderer.

It is also supported
by
Otoy's Octane Render,[citation needed]
V-Ray 3, and by the
Cycles render engine in Blender (starting with Blender 2.65). !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OSL's surface and volume shaders define how surfaces or volumes scatter light in a way that allows for importance sampling; thus,
it is well suited for physically-based renderers that support
ray tracing and global illumination.


https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/late ... s/osl.html

[xsisoft]

but red shift cool!