New Quicksilver hardware renderer

[kenpimentel]

Here are some details around Quicksilver.

http://area.autodesk.com/blogs/ken/quicksilver_details_revealed

[Peter M. Gruhn]

Hey, thank, Ken. Just last night I was wondering about it.

[wasteland giant]

As a mental ray user myself, the render times are impressive. I wonder what the final quality vs MR will be in the end. ta,

[kenpimentel]

mr will be generally better and more predictable. Qs will be very fast in certain cases. My guess is that if you're doing stills, you might stick with mr. If you're doing animations, you might want to see if you can accelerate using Qs for cases where your requirements are not that high. Generally, I doubt you'll use it for final production, but will use it for fast drafts to work out various issues.

[Onzki]

Is Quicksilver useful for quick preview rendering and MR for final? That's the approach I plan to take should I have this