PassPort (pass rendering for LightWave)

#5

pricing:-
PassPort will go on sale soon.

             Introductory price is $175 per license for 3 days.  After that, the normal price of $299 per license will be in effect.  Site-wide licenses grant unlimited usage for a single physical network.
#6

300 $ ? woa that’s too much imho

#7

299$

If you ever need to set up 160 passes in two days (that’s 160 different scenes in queue on farm) than 300$ it’s not too much.

However I find unlimited price too high.
Jeremy, you might want to consider making some in between variations like 5, 10, 15 seats. 1000$ is ok for a large studio, but not for a small one!

#8

You really think so?

Take the amount of time that you’ll save on a single project by not setting up specific scenes/objects for various passes & then multiply that by your hourly rate…I bet it would be much cheaper to spend $300 on this.

#9

Hm, for the price of 3.33333 licenses you can get a site license. Doesn’t sound too bad.
The only variations left would be 2 and 3 licenses then :wink:

Cheers,
Mike

#10

Still think it’s to much for a small studio. We were disscussing this. Maybe only a halfway one, like 10-15 seats for 500$ or something. just to cover small houses with smaller amount of people. just a thought :slight_smile:

#11

Well… of course it is up to Jeremy to decide. But honestly… 10-15 isn’t a small house. 2-3 is.
Heck, 10-15 drink more coffee in a month :wink:

Cheers,
Mike

#12

Sounds good Howard; let’s plan a lunch this week or next.

About PassPort, I just wanted to note that this works with buffer savers and such like. There’s an option to intercept the native LW buffer exporters and put them in PassPort’s output folder, so you can have per-pass buffer data in addition to your beauty renders, and without setting up custom surfaces.

You can also use exrTrader’s buffer exports with PassPort. By using exrTrader’s “Use Render Path” checkbox, you can have your custom buffers output per-pass to PassPort’s output folder.

#13

when i look back in my 10 year of freelancing experience… i have never set up 160 passes in 2 days… maybe cause i am not working for pixar?

#14

Even if you’re not. You finished animating, say, 16 shots, and they all include some crazy elements you’d rather composite… Easy. Even for small studios and small projects.

Cheers,
Mike

#15

New video showing ways to use buffers with PassPort (particularly a depth matte).

#16

I had that “pleasure” of seting up all those passes and it wasn’t nice at all :slight_smile:

for example have 10 shots with 3-4 elements each with 4 main passes (col, spec, refl, edge) plus mattes and tight deadline and there you are doing heaps of boring stuff :slight_smile:
not to mention rendering and controling all those scene with added missing frames nightmare…

#17

where is it???

#18

Sorry, on the http://www.lwpassport.com frontpage. The “PassPort Movie 3 - Depth Buffers” link.

#19

Oh, of course :slight_smile:
Thanks!
Looks good. Preety easy and straight forward for depth :slight_smile:

Are you done yet? C’mon hurry up!
I’m setting heaps of passes right now and I keep looking at passport and sighing.

Cheers!

#20

Hey let us know when it goes on sale so we don’t miss the introductory price?

#21

Also, I’m considering adding the ability to script several aspects of PassPort’s interface. With Lscript, PassPort owners would be able to…
[ul]
[li]Save the passes/overrides to an external file
[/li][li]Load the passes/overrides from an external file
[/li][li]Switch the current pass
[/li][li]Export the current pass as a standalone scene
[/li][li]Make a new pass
[/li][li]Select a pass in the interface
[/li][li]Edit the selected pass
[/li][li]Delete the selected pass
[/li][li]Add an item to a pass
[/li][li]Remove an item from a pass
[/li][li]Add an item to an override in a pass
[/li][li]Remove an item from an override in a pass
[/li][li]Refresh the PassPort interface
[/li]
[/ul]

Just a thought.

#22

ooh yes please!

#23

PassPort for LightWave 3D is on sale today for $175 USD per license until Saturday 24 November, 2007 at 12:00 noon GMT.

After that, the normal price of $299 USD per license will be in effect. Site-wide licenses grant unlimited usage for a single physical network, and are available for $999 USD.

Those wishing to try PassPort before buying should see http://www.lwpassport.com for a fully functional 5-day demo.

#24

man…can you do a five day demo then put the program on sale starting Monday or just do everything from Monday.
Its Thanksgiving here in the states so a lot of us will not be around our computers.