Announcing Redshift - Biased GPU Renderer

[Lutze]

+1

I mainly used Octane for the last year or so with softimage. Still waiting for a proper plugin. This baby here is a real eye-opener. Very fast and almost production ready at this stage. I am very impressed. As stated before, the integration is very good also.

[angus_davidson]

+1

I mainly used Octane for the last year or so with softimage. Still waiting for a proper plugin. This baby here is a real eye-opener. Very fast and almost production ready at this stage. I am very impressed. As stated before, the integration is very good also.

They seem to be full up with testers atm ;( just got my reply back

[Cacoman]

This guys are rock solid! During weekend they released about 4 builds. They listen, they have support and like everyone else said it's amazing how well it is integrated into Softimage.

This was only 4 min render.

[curly]

Are you guys planning to make an affordable ( between 25 to 100 USD per month) subscription for a cloud rendering farm? The guys from Octane Render did that. I don't like the pricing. A bit to expensive for me. I'd like to see some hair and fur and ice or realflow simulations with it in Softimage.

[FXDude]

Maximus & Cacoman Nice!

Maximus, remember that scene from another thread, & wasn't it taking several hours ?

And how about flikering in animation? Haven't had time installing/testing it yet. Can't wait

Looks like it makes Soft (more) fun again

And both together seems to make like a powerhorse combo.

[forton]

+1 for hair and fur and ice.
It seems that plain 3D geometry, shaders and instances is something "anyone" can do these days, I made my switch to softimage a few years ago not to be stuck with a renderer that doesn't do hair, strands and particles.
To me it seems like the art of creating a renderer is good integration, that's where development slows down to a crawl with most new renderers.

Cheers, Wim

[Kzin]

+1 for hair and fur and ice.
It seems that plain 3D geometry, shaders and instances is something "anyone" can do these days...

if you have a fixed feature set, it will always be easier to create a renderer. the problems start then you add more and more features. because it means you have to add flexibility to it and this will create the problems and performance issues because you have to start optimize for certain situations to keep it fast. you will also loose simplicity or easy to use, except you keep the user away from it, but this also means you sacrifice flexibility again. saw this for another renderer which first start with impressive speed and ended up with avarage performance, or lets say, more realistic expectations about the performance.

redshift looks great sofar, speed is really good so i cant wait to see new features in action and how fast they turn out.

[ActionArt]

+1 for hair and fur and ice.

Hair and fur are coming, it's early alpha so give the guys a chance

So far I can say, integration is excellent. If you get your settings right (not difficult) there is no flicker in GI animation, smooth as silk, even on very challenging scenes!

Of course there are a lot of features to add yet but I can say the pace of development is shockingly fast. What is there, is stable and well thought out. Image quality is incredible and it's fast. Keep an eye on this one!

[forton]

I certainly will, I was too late to become a beta, so I'll have to wait

[Draise]

Yes, they are solid. The activity in their forums and the documentation is solid. I'm enjoying how they are very open with what they are trying to do (in the documentation) and how they are trying to deliver the best experience to the user. I am currently testing it out now, and hopefully I can be of any help! It's a shame I'm traveling half the duration of the license and won't have access to my computers....

[angus_davidson]

Did a quick test borrowing one of our students scenes from last year. Simple AO , using mental ray , 2 mins 47 secs, using redshift, 26 seconds.

Wow

[adrencg]

I'm also on the test program. As someone who has been underwhelmed by a lot of renderers, this one is pretty amazing speed-wise.

[Nizar]

Any news? Release date? Can use two GPU like cycles and octane or deserve one to viewport and the others for rendering computation?

About CUDA, cycles and octane have issue with gtx 6xx, how about redshift?

Look very promising.

[ActionArt]

It's way too early to expect a release date but it's progressing very nicely. It will have multi-gpu capability in the near future. No problems with 6xx that I know of.

Redshift is the one to watch ;)

[adrencg]

When using it, it'll be very apparent they were inspired by Vray. It's very Vray-ish, except faster.

[yashugan]

In fact, the first thing that i noted, is that REDSHIFT is the slowest GPU render that i have seen until now. We are talking about a BIASED render, so it should be ultraspeed, near to few second, and i see that some render take miuntes...
Hum, something that i don't understand.
In octane i render scene more complex that the sample seen until now in seconds, and adding more seconds the grain effect is clean.
Why RED SHIFT is (apparently) so slow?
I'm very excited about this render, but if is so slow... what the GPU do?

the best wish any way for RED SHIFT, and i really hope i will became faster than ever!