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    Octane Render

    I wonder if this is worth looking into. Looks like it would need some other software to get from Revit into Collada format or something but hmmm...

    "With current GPU technology, Octane Render can produce final images 10 to 50 times faster than CPU unbiased render engine..."

    "FILE FORMATS
    Import of wavefront OBJ format with parameters and material import
    Import supplied vertex normals or calculate them via supplied smooth groups
    Import of Collada .dae format**
    Full support for RenderMan RIB format for animation environments**"

    Their Gallery is amazing.

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    Default Re: GPU Renderer - 99 Euro

    GPU is the future. However it is still early.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIMn1fsVmXI

    Vray has also been doing some cool stuff. The nice thing with Vray is that it is 100% compatible withn all Vray materials and objects.
    http://www.cgarchitect.com/news/newsfeed.asp?nid=4899

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    Default Re: GPU Renderer - 99 Euro

    truevis,

    you should see some of the Max and Cinema 4D oriented galleries in Russia and other eastern block countries...some of them make Octane look fairly tame.
    Also, you will notice that Octane gallery does not have that much that isn't glitz, (which is disappointing).
    I like this stuff quite a bit:
    http://www.luxology.com/gallery/image/index.aspx?page=2
    old abandoned hospital

    or: http://www.luxology.com/gallery/imag...x.aspx?page=57
    the JO Rust time lapse rendered building with Georgian wired glass windows and plaster.

    The glitz is good and what the punters want to see I suppose but its boring after a time CUDA or no.
    cheers
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    Default Re: GPU Renderer - 99 Euro

    Quote Originally Posted by trombe View Post
    you should see some of the Max and Cinema 4D oriented galleries in Russia and other eastern block countries...some of them make Octane look fairly tame....
    Of course, I have seen many renderings so good they make me want to cry I guess my point is that it seems that proper renderings can be made with GPU, claiming to be 50x faster.

    Who will be the first here to take something from Revit and render it on GPU? (Realistic Mode doesn't count!)

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    truevis,
    fair point - of course, you are right.
    Everything is going to be hugely better of with gpu acceleration at the finger tips I imagine....but assume also Revit will have to wait for next year ? or the year after I assume ...they must have a lot to deal with....
    yip, well it won't be me having access to gpu rendering until the next version of modo arrives and then I have to go and buy the CUDA hardware too !
    I am happy to wait to catch up later (err, well I think...)
    trombe

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    Default Re: GPU Renderer - 99 Euro

    Quote Originally Posted by truevis View Post
    Of course, I have seen many renderings so good they make me want to cry I guess my point is that it seems that proper renderings can be made with GPU, claiming to be 50x faster.
    Speaking of renderings that make you weep, check this guy out! www.aldr.us

    Gordon

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    I think someone might have posted about this or some like it some months ago, but it is really worth looking at .......seems like specialist cg people and lots of computing grunt.

    check out the range of the various sub forum threads - well worth the time..as you said, make ya weep .
    http://www.render.ru/gallery/?gal_rub=2&gal_add=award
    trombe

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    Default Re: GPU Renderer - 99 Euro

    that's definitily a great soft, the workflow and the results are outstanding.
    we need such thing in revit. (instead of the ribbon)
    mental images has a similar tool, called iRay. too bad mental images belongs to nvidia...

    -rpict

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    Default Re: GPU Renderer - 99 Euro

    I went out and bought a $60 CUDA video card. Installed Octane Render demo version. RVT>FBX>OBJ. Imported the OBJ's mesh to Octane. Edited two materials. Added HDRI environment. Here are some screen shots after 3 minutes rendering.

    The scene's adjustments happen in real time because the rendering is almost instantaneous. The grain starts out a little rough then gets finer.
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    Default Re: GPU Renderer - 99 Euro

    After 1 hour & 47 minutes, the result is just that any graininess goes away. (Its default is 16000 samples.)

    Next step: make a way to be able to map materials easily. I'm working on an application for that.

    I think that the rendering workflow would be that one can just keeps deleting and replacing the OBJ as the geometry changes. The developers are also promising to have material libraries in the future.
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