Cycles for Softimage

[I3D]

Yes, this is my limitation. I hardcode the limit to 8 devices, but it's possible to increase the limit in the next update. May be to 1024 devices. 1k devices ought to be enough for anybody.

1K is a lot mate, realistically on AWS I can spin an 8 Tesla A100 instance, so that would be 8 CUDA and 8 OptiX plus the CPU, so that would be 17. In Octane Bench the most I saw was 16x Tesla A100. The norm apparently (if your daddy is rich that is) these days is 10x or 12x 3080 or 3090!!!! How don't ask me. So on second though, yeah 1K seems about right

BTW, the new update from Blender 2.93 about "Persistent Data" to load frames quickly, is that a cycle update?

[I3D]

Ohh and huge thanks for updating FX Denoise to use OIDN 1.4

[sirdavid32]

Really?!! Can that be implemented into Softimage?!

[I3D]

Really?!! Can that be implemented into Softimage?!

Which part sirdavid32?

[Surface_VR]

FX Denoise and Sycles noise removal function "OpenImageDenoise" are both based on "Intel Open Image Denoise", so the effect is almost the same, right?

Comparing NLM, OptiX, and OpenImageDenoise, OpenImageDenoise is still the most stable and beautiful!

[I3D]

Correct, both are based on OIDN and that is more stable than Optix. Might hold better in animation as well, didn't do a lot of animation to test though

[livio3d]

hi, on the last release ( 1.10.2 ) when i instal the xsiaddon the cyclesrenderer.dll give me and error and cant be loaded, if i roolback to the 1.9.1 all work fine.
With this implemention of cycles on softimage how hard can be implementing eevee to? if i remember well on xsi viewport you can even run and test gameengine since the version 1 , even run and playing games.

[wireframex]

hi, on the last release ( 1.10.2 ) when i instal the xsiaddon the cyclesrenderer.dll give me and error and cant be loaded, if i roolback to the 1.9.1 all work fine.
With this implemention of cycles on softimage how hard can be implementing eevee to? if i remember well on xsi viewport you can even run and test gameengine since the version 1 , even run and playing games.

"Addon additionaly requires Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015, 2017 and 2019"
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[livio3d]

i have the redistributable cuz i code with unity e visualstudio, the problem persist

[opoppopopp]

i have the redistributable cuz i code with unity e visualstudio, the problem persist

Try tools like Dependency Walker to trace which library you miss.

[Shekn]

1. May be you have some other libraries, installed into the system, which requires by Sycles. And these libraries have wrong version. In this case the Softimage loads wrong library, ignore the right one and thus fails to load the Sycles.
2. There are no possibility to integrate eevee into Softimage. Because the eevee is very dense integrated into the blender and can not be extracted as separate module.

[Nolan]

Anyone keen to port/research this to Sycles if porting is required?

OpenCue : Apache License 2.0
An open source render management system.

Sony Pictures Imageworks in-house render manager used on hundreds of films.

https://www.opencue.io

Haven't looked into this. Not sure if can use available renderers ie Sycles, Arnold (yes), Katana (yes), RenderMan (yes), Redshift, etc Not sure if it runs on MS Windows. Maybe Windows Subsystem for Linux https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/about. Definitely NOT plug and play.

[Shekn]

Cycler render does not have standalone version. There is experimental minimal application in the official repo, but this version does not supports many features. And this is the main reason, why Cycles can not be used in render farm. All render management systems only controls tasks. They don't know anything about applications, which executes these tasks.

Of course, there are several render farms, that can render Blender scenes, but all of them use Blender as render application, and you should send blend-file into it.

LuxCore render, for example, have standalone render application and it allows export scene to special binary format and render it in another computer. Potentially this render can be installed inside a render farm.

[Shekn]

Next update. Version 1.11. Download here: https://github.com/ssoftadd/SSoftAdd.gi ... 1.xsiaddon

What's new:
1. There are some small features from the current version of the Cycles render:
- Spread parameter for the area lights
- More optimal settings for the shadow terminator. Now there are two different parameters for this process - for geometry compensation and for shading.
- Three additional modes in the VectorMath shader node.
2. The default count of render devices increased to 16. There is possibility to change this value. To do this - change the parameter "Render - devices" in the configuration file config.ini (which placed inside addon directory).
3. Basic implementation of the baking feature. This allows to bake lightmaps (and other channels like uv, normals, diffuse and so on) into textures. But the baking process is very limited. It allows to bake only one object in each render session. Also generated texture does not contains pixel paddings (as a result some artifacts may appears in uv-seams). How to use the baking - tutorial 30 in the manual (https://github.com/ssoftadd/SSoftAdd.gi ... 8_2021.pdf).
4. Include additional dll-files into addon. Now it should works without any additional installations on any system.

[I3D]

Then your shekn 🙏

[avalon_70]

Thank you Shekn!