Just having a mess about creating some kind of Architecture/Game level type thing.
This really is just a mess about, no planning just toying with the tools to see what's feasible/possible with ease.
More detail and images under: Misc / Level
Below is a QTVR made using Vray's box camera:
Just messing about
12 minutes to Render
I've been real busy the past month or so with a Flash based Kiosk.
The design was done by someone else, provided as layered psd's. My job was to put them into Flash and make them.. well make them do stuff. To populate the design with data from XML files and make it interactive and work. All the usual stuff was involved, Parsing XML, Printing, Shopping Carts, Loading and playing Video and lots of dynamic loading of images and data.
Not much point in me showing it you as all my work was the interactive side of it...
well I guess I can link you to a fully working copy. As of writing It's not designed for use on the web so may be slow and or die if you go to fast for it (before It's finished loading)
www.helios.mine.nu/Kiosk/Local/
It's all copyright someone or other, and is the work of many separate people. And yes It's all in French!
Also I did not design how it works, some bits I had a bit of input on, but it has many faults/weird things about it, strange assumptions and general stupidity which I can't be held responsible for!
It normally has a woman speak on every page, via a alpha masked video overlay, I have removed this as it annoys the crap out of me.
Also of note, I had nothing to do with the code that applies paint/wallpapers to the Room Scene. That was someone else, I just had to communicate with that.
And if you click the Logo in the top left on the decorating/room scene page:
And type in 12345
You get to a admin type mode where you can freely and more conveniently decorate things.
My First Vray Net Render!
Vray Render 2hr on 3 machines (Total of 8.6ghz) 2 minutes per frame
This render has no GI, It's just 2 Area lights, one of which is a dome giving it a GI like feel.
Couldn't get it to work at first, just rendered lots of black frames very quick, I fixed in in the end, I think it was a license issue as I hadn't entered in all the serial numbers under personalize cinema.
The diffusion on the metal is very course due to the anti-alias settings I used and cus I don't know what I\'m doing. Trying to smooth it more seemed to make the render take far too long for my taste, and It's only a test after all.
My first Vray render with Depth of Field + Lens Distortion
I rather screwed up the glass ball, looks more like a bubble
:-)
Adding DOF slowed it down a ton, fortunately you can bake out the GI and play with the DOF separately.
+ Caustics... looks messed up.. hmm what have I done wrong
Uhm... I got no idea
Vray seems to have some weird bug where it gets stuck sometimes on the initial light cache and never finishes, just eats up all the ram. Very annoying.
I've swapped the ball for uhm.. a glass turd (A cone with a twirl deformer)
These renders all on the medium preset, so a bit course but they are rendering in like 10 minutes so can't complain.
And from another angle:
I have no idea how optimized or un-optimiszed Vray is for Mac right now as It's not feature complete in Cinema yet.
Heres my 3rd vray attempt took 3 minutes!
Don't ask me what happened to the colors, pilot error is highly possible.
Reason it took 3 minutes was I swapped out the White Sphere for an area light. Which makes it substantially faster.
Ok heres my second vray render attempt, took an Hour just the same oddly
Vray 1hr
Vray 2hr It's a bit smoother, more noticeable in the full size image than this small version
I get the feeling if I rendered for the same 4 hours of the maxwell render it would be very close to the same accuracy and would have 0 noise
(you can't see the noise in the maxwell one as It's zoomed out) But at the same time id take noise over glitchy dented looking GI any day.
Maxwell 4hr
Now to compare this to another renderer, Cinemas:
Cinema 4hr 25min, I think I had it setup a bit wrong, but even so... what a load of shit.
Someone elses comparison of Vray to Maxwell:
5 hours versus 16 hours
Link: www.treddi.com
And the yellow light in the Vray render is due to the color mapping type, Maxwell employs a burnout effect in post which I'm sure you could do with vray/photoshop on a 32bit image.
So to summarize, Vray is awesome
Vray will let you render all the GI and save it as a file, then reuse it, meaning you can re-render with different Depth of Field, different exposure and there's even an option so you could render an animation if only the camera moves from 1 GI calculation. This means you can re-render using the same GI at any resolution so render small, then re-render at print size and it will only take 2 minutes. Maxwell gets exponentially slower the bigger you render.
-- update -- ok turns out I misunderstood the vray GI, you can't just render the GI once and use it in whole animation. It will only calculate the GI it knows you are going to see by looking ahead at places the camera goes to. And you can't use this method with Irradiance you can only use it with light cache mode which is very very slow and hard to use in my opinion. Making it somewhat useless really. But if your camera doesn't move you'll be fine.
It says light cache mode is better, which I guess it produces nice more maxwell like results but it seems so much slower and harder to setup/tell what the final will look like till the last moment.
Maxwell is better in that you can change individual light strengths after rendering and you can render for as long as you like, if your vray render looks shit after 4hours you have to start again. Maxwell can always resume and refine.
so vray = best for animation and large stills
maxwell = best for small stills
cinemas default renderer = uhm... useless, maybe best for basic motiongraphics where no GI is used.
