baba147 Posted July 7, 2008 Share Posted July 7, 2008 Hi everyone, I have been looking at crysis game screenshots and wondering why someone needs a software renderer and wait for hours when you can get everything in realtime?? what are your opinions??? lets say crysis still does not look as awesome as images created by software renderers. But it still provides all the lighting, Ambient occlusion, soft shadows etc in realtime. My question is that, Is there any GPU based renderer available (for non-realtime rendering)?? or is there any company working on GPU based rendering engine for use in 3d Applications?? what do you say??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJLynn Posted July 7, 2008 Share Posted July 7, 2008 You can actually use the Crysis engine and import your models into their editor if you won Crysis. There some GPU renderers out there, like Gelato and the OpenGL system used in Alias Studio. What these all have in common that limits their usefulness in arch vis is that they still can't get near the level of quality Vray, mental ray, et al can produce for stills and animations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vince Paske Posted July 7, 2008 Share Posted July 7, 2008 From what I've read, Nvidia is discontinuing Gelato, and is making the pro version a free download. Nvidia is also supporting the mental ray development team, which should make things interesting. I just hope Vray keeps up and stays a notch ahead of whatever mental ray is doing... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJLynn Posted July 7, 2008 Share Posted July 7, 2008 I think part of the problem is compatibility - software that runs on nVidia GPUs doesn't run on ATI and vice versa, and the SDKs aren't that great anyway. mental ray using nVidia GPU seems likely, in the medium term, what with nVidia owning mental. Apple is making an effort at having a platform as well, adding a GPU API to OSX 10.6 that is supposed to run on both the ATI and nVidia boards, so maybe we'll see renderers that use it, though that would also be a few years away. There are some photo editing apps using GPU - Pixelmator on OSX, for example, and Adobe CS4 is supposed to use it as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vizfx Posted July 7, 2008 Share Posted July 7, 2008 Hi The interest is huge especially from Nvidia http://www.nvision2008.com/Professionals/index.cfm http://www.nvidia.com/page/gz_home.html and definitely they are committed to bring the GPU power to the masses. They even started some buzz on the net about the importance of the GPU compared to CPU which offended Intel. About the 2D software the move is on the way …take a look at the new version of Realviz Stitcher (photo stitching software for panoramas) which was acquired by Autodesk. At the moment the only industry capable of moving fast enough to take full advantage of the GPU power is the gaming one but the world is moving ahead…. Best regards Mihai Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJLynn Posted July 7, 2008 Share Posted July 7, 2008 I can't believe they borrowed the term "Genius Bar". It's cheesy enough when Apple uses it, but if the nVidia version doesn't serve alcohol... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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