Beta Tomorrow?

[mitchino]

The interactivity looks pretty good, but the first pass or initial picture when changing shaders, geometry etc is really rough compared to Octane for example, then it jumps up a lot in quality on the next pass - is that setting adjustable or does it depend on hardware?

I hope the material stack support isn't too far away - that feature and interactive rendering are what I'm most excited about.

[Eddoron]

The jump in quality is called undersampling. You'll find that in most renderers with an IPR, also octane has that feature too.
Makes refreshes quicker by using a lower resolution while moving camera, objects or material changes. Then builds up and depends on the scene and hardware used. But you can't expect a CÜU renderer to have the same performance as a GPU renderer. Corona is very fast for it's type.

[mitchino]

But does hardware affect the initial under sampling? If you have serious multicore processor can you get closer to a GPU based IPR?

[houska]

There will be a setting that sets the initial subsampling level. But if you have a serious CPU, you will not have to change it anyway, because you won't be looking at the initial resolution for too long. Look at this video for example (from when the 3DS Max IR was a prototype):

[mitchino]

what are the cpu specs on that rig?

btw: would be a better clip if they didn't keep moving the camera, let it settle once or twice maybe?

[houska]

I don't know what CPU the guy used. About settling the rendering, I think the idea is to show the interactivity, not how it settles :-) But you can watch some other videos on Youtube, they stop moving the camera there. Rule of thumb is, each successive increase of detail will take 3x as much time as the previous one...

[Ondra]

But you can't expect a CÜU renderer to have the same performance as a GPU renderer.

Corona: "hold my beer..."

[houska]

But you can't expect a CÜU renderer to have the same performance as a GPU renderer.

Corona: "hold my beer..."

You mean like this?

[Nikola]

Hi all,

We were quite successful with bug fixing this week, but some bugs remain so we decided to postpone the release of the first testing version with interactive for next week. We created second preview video with a difficult-to-render scene. You can see that change detection is quite fast but the rendering is slower but the same as in non-interactive rendering, as you can see at the end of the video.

Thank you for the patience
Nikola

Preview: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7xyYS3daSJ7SlNmeW5qemlPemM/view?usp=sharing

[shane_w]

Hi Nikola, thanks for the update and sneak-peek video.  Looks fantastic.  I really appreciate the communication and the short videos, it makes the waiting much easier.

Are those zooming controls I see at the top right of the frame buffer?  I hope so, that will be a very welcome addition.

-Shane

[mrittman]

Thanks for sharing Nikola! Yeah I agree, it's really helpful to see the videos showing progress on this. Can't wait to be able to use it!

[Ealexander]

Thank you for keeping us updated!

[HenrikH]

Hi Nicola! I agree as well, I very much appreciate how you show where you are in the progress. Not only with this but with everything, with the road map and all your post in this forum. Thank you! The preview looks very good btw :)

[Nejc Kilar]

Hi Nicola! I agree as well, I very much appreciate how you show where you are in the progress. Not only with this but with everything, with the road map and all your post in this forum. Thank you! The preview looks very good btw :)

Well put! I totally agree :)

[archimen]

Hello,
Do you see anything on the horizon?