GPU power for accelerating ray-tracing? Speed isn't everything

#1

Harnessing GPU power might speed up the rendering processes but speed isn’t everything. What if you don’t want to have to rerender your image after each change you make? The real challenge lies in freeing the artist from the render-change-repeat workflow and giving them more time to be creative.

Shaderlight enables users to change key attributes of a full resolution image at any stage of the rendering process without ever having to re-render. When changes are made to materials, environments, lights or textures, the information embedded in each pixel is used to update the image without the need to re-render.

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#2

Indeed, but the uptake of shaderlight will be at best, poor, unless ArtVPS change across to a production renderer like MR or VRay. I never got why they didn’t just make it a MR or VRay plugin in the first place. Who the hell wants to implement a new renderer/pipeline now?

#3

meh, faster renders actually solve that same problem of having to re-render.
Because it renders fast enough so you can have a semi realtime update and thus can make adjustments and tweaks on the fly
Look at vray rt for example.

#4

VRay RT is far from realtime, and the GPU based one isn’t a product yet.

#5

thats why i said semi-realtime and it updates fast enough to preview tweaks and changes.

#6

ok, i’ve checked out the video on youtube (was on a smallband connection), appearently i got the wrong impression from that article. and I must say it does indeed look cool.

#7

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