Redshift now has RenderMap baking

[Manticor]

Redshift has added rendermap baking to their xsi plugin


[XSI] Added initial support for RenderMap baking

Check the redshift forums for more info

I'm interested to see how this compares with xnormal in terms of speed

[Bullit]

Good news. Any ETA for volume stuff?

[mc_axe]

Gr8 news hopefully an ultimapper killer

*not that Ultimapper is alive these days, but you know,, it unlocks potentials
For example : Use only SI and Substance and produce a pbr real time asset, based on a subdivision HR model for example

[gaboraa]

Gr8 news hopefully an ultimapper killer

*not that Ultimapper is alive these days, but you know,, it unlocks potentials
For example : Use only SI and Substance and produce a pbr real time asset, based on a subdivision HR model for example

Substance's integrated baker is one of the fastest out there IMHO, I am not depending on Ultimapper anymore.

[mc_axe]

Gr8 news hopefully an ultimapper killer

*not that Ultimapper is alive these days, but you know,, it unlocks potentials
For example : Use only SI and Substance and produce a pbr real time asset, based on a subdivision HR model for example

Substance's integrated baker is one of the fastest out there IMHO, I am not depending on Ultimapper anymore.

I have a question: Did you manage to get gr8 quality AO with substance bake? I was kinda disapointed, in comparisson with the quality of the incredibly slow ultimapper.
Maybe i followed the wrong tutorial low res + NM ---bake-->AO).

[gaboraa]

Actually Substance does not give you quality AO result as Xnormal or Ultimapper does because Substance requires AO for masking the mesh only. If quality AO is required, I recommend Xnormal which is extremely reliable and fast. But as a workaround, I usually blur the Substance AO which gives almost the same effect as Xnormal gives me.

[mattmos]

Good news. Any ETA for volume stuff?

No dates yet but it seems to be weeks rather than months away.

[mc_axe]

New experimental version today:

* [XSI] Fixed bug that would prevent blending of RS Skin materials (bug introduced in 2.0.11)
* [XSI] Fixed bug that would produce crashes during baking with multiple GPUs

And this reply is from y/day (volumetrics):

It’s getting there. We spent the better part of the last 3-4 weeks working on sampling optimizations. They are crucial for good performance. Pretty soon (next week) we’ll be adding GI and some shading capabilities.

As with all rendering features in Redshift, this will be a continuously improved one. But we think (hope!) people will like what they see even in the initial release! wink

Thanks for your patience.

[Bullit]

Many thanks for feedback mc_axe

[FXDude]

Redshift now has RenderMap baking

And very soon a "store_color_in_channel" equivalent (which is *awesome* )

Hey guys,

This feature (“Custom AOVs”) will be arriving in one of the RS 2.0 releases.

Thanks

-Panos

[FXDude]

Great News!!

(SI) Redshift now has volume VDBs ;;)

https://www.redshift3d.com/forums/viewthread/7252/P15

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Nicolas Burtnyk

Version 2.0.42 is now available.

Download installer
Download zero-install zip package
Download Linux installer

Release Notes
* [XSI] Added OpenVDB support
* [All] Adding preliminary support for Pascal-based GPUs (GTX1070/GTX1080)
* [All] Added workaround for random crashes caused by CUDA 8.0 compiler bug on Maxwell (5.x) compute GPUs


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vlanger

HAPPY HAPPY JOY JOY



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Anatoly B

YEAH BABY !!!


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ionart

XSI VDB is supporting sequences?


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Adrian

yes


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kazuyuki kamada

Great! Softimage OpenVDB How to use?


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Adrian

Get > Primitive > Redshift Volume Grid, connect a rsVolumeMaterial to the shader and set the density and emission channels to the appropriate name from the VDB. The names of the existing VDB channels are printed in the log.html file so if you don’t know what you have inside the VDB check the log.

It would be nice to have an option to print the VBD channels in the script editor along with the rest of the info.

One more thing: lights need volume contribution > 0 in order to affect the volume.

Cheers

A


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ionart

Thanks Adrian,
is there “any” syntax for the sequence?
file names:
smoke00000.vdb - smoke00100.vdb

thanks
Charlie

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Adrian

Fly I don’t know. It does not work on my side even if the controls are there. In Maya for instance you have a <f> token instead of the digits but in XSI it does not work.

Will figure it out and let you know.

A

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vlanger

I have no softimage around at the moment but try: ####
or [frame]


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ionart

efx_cache\SCN004_VDB\smoke#####.vdb
with this syntay.. its looking for the sequence better… sometimes i get this message:
’ WARNING : [Redshift] Failed to find volume file efx_cache\SCN004_VDB\smoke00022.vdb. Volume will be empty


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Adrian

#### works.
[frame] works if the digits in your vds correspond to the frame value which is just a number with no leading zeroes

Thank you

Cheers

A

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ionart

okay… in cases i have to build a new container…
framenumbers are replaced with: #####
working fine!
cheers

mattmos

Testing out openvdb in SI smile




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fsgfx

looking great…
how long did one frame take..?


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mattmos

first few frames were around 5 seconds, last few were around 35 secs, at 1080p, with 1 titan X, and 2 titans.

Just physical sun/sky, 16/64 main samples and brute force primary and secondary at 1024.

[FXDude]

(other) not bad news!


Possible to Implement Weta’s Hair Model?
https://www.redshift3d.com/forums/viewthread/7245

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Michael Rochefort

Found this a while ago while looking into Renderman. I was wondering if there is a way to implement this, similar to how it was done in PRMan.

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Melanin2Color v1.1 for Softimage:

gumSax

Melanin2Color v1.1 for Softimage:

(Big thanks to Adrian Cruceru)

//CHANGELIST
. Changed naming to match Adrian’s script
. Added melanin mix support.

//INSTALL: Just extract the archive to the \Data\RTCompounds folder in your workgroup or user folder.

//USAGE:

Add the melanin2color node to your rendertree and connect the 3 color outs to the similarly named slots in the Redshift Hair Shader.

Melanin == 0 results in white hair, 1 in black, 0,2 in blond hair color
Melanin Mix == 1 uses pheomelanin pigments, 0 uses eumelanin pigments
Dye Color == controls overall color of hair (multiplied)

Melanin2Color_v1.1.zip

[Hirazi Blue]

Do you have a link for Melanin2Color?

edit: found it on the "closed" Redshift forum...