Arnold to go rental-only

[Bullit]

"The future of Softimage is bright"

[Rork]

Try Redshift and let them with Arnold.
you won't regret

Installed the latest version of Redshift, and converted all shading from an old archviz scene.
This one has gone through MR, VRay, Arnold and now Redshift, and is a pretty nice testscene for interior lighting.

Despite me not knowing yet what to set correctly for all the sample values, it renders (GI/Irradiance) pretty quickly.
Appr. 14 min. for a 1500x1000px, 10 portal lights and a HDR.

I'm reading up on sampling and such, so I'm sure I can shave off some amount of rendertime when I got the sampling better set up for the scene.
It probably take some time to get used to all the shader and sampling settings, compared to Arnold. It feels like I'm back at MR for some things LOL!
But for a first run it's not bad ;)



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And it's always good to have another renderer (or two) in your arsenal, not just because AD is messing it up for users once again.... ;)

[MauricioPC]

Nice test Rork!

As for Redshift tutorials, I've been watching these:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P ... MNUeLPJ3z2

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P ... q73COwLx1s

[Rork]

Hi,

Thanks for the links, I found these as well while browsing YT. The Maya series is quite useful.

Another quick test, appr. 15 minutes rendertime:



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[BenR]

Another great feature of Redshift is that you can cut your render times by adding more/better gpu's. I've found a linear acceleration up to 3 cards.

[julius]

Nice !

I'm working with redshift for nearly two years now. It's a game changer : impossible to go back to any renderer now. The speed is crazy, and if you are used to MR or Vray, transition is very easy.

[MauricioPC]

[Rork]

Nice !
I'm working with redshift for nearly two years now. It's a game changer : impossible to go back to any renderer now. The speed is crazy, and if you are used to MR or Vray, transition is very easy.

I've been fiddling with RS a bit more, and switched for these interior scenes back to Irr. Cache/Irr. Point Cache. This brought the quality/look in the same range as Brute Force/Irr. Point Cache, but brought the rendertime back below 10 minutes.And this included the caches creation which took almost 5 min. to build.
If I use the cache for a re-render, the frame takes appr. 4:30 min. to render.
It almost makes no sense to use Brute Force GI for interior scenes with RS..... ;)

Still find the sampling methods a bit tedious after years of Arnold, but I can adapt

rob

p.s. The interview video above: bla bla bla bla bla.......

[MauricioPC]

p.s. The interview video above: bla bla bla bla bla.......

Yeah, but at the least he tried and he was able to bring someone from Autodesk to talk. I like Greg, looks like a good guy.

At least it's more obvious what to expect from Autodesk now.

[Rork]

True, he tried.

But AD does what AD does, only keep it's stockholders happy :\

[MauricioPC]

Yeah, true to that.

It's a shame that the market is still heavily Autodesk depended. Hopefully that will change in the future. Blender is starting to pose as an alternative more and more.

[Rork]

Nice!

I have seen something on this ?over a year? ago, good to see this is still going. Looks terrific!
And on a side note: I grew up with this comic, so it's all very familiar to me

rob

[MauricioPC]

Now they are looking for funding to turn it into a feature film. I hope they pull it off ... Blender would improve massive after a feature film production.

[luceric]

p.s. The interview video above: bla bla bla bla bla.......

Yeah, but at the least he tried and he was able to bring someone from Autodesk to talk. I like Greg, looks like a good guy.

At least it's more obvious what to expect from Autodesk now.

"Senior Director of Subscription Success".

I'm thinking of having my own title changed to Elder Superintendent of Qt 5 Integration Defects.

[MauricioPC]

Well, if anyone deserves a cool title is you.