New competitor for Indigo ? P.U.R.E.

[delle]

P.U.R.E. stands for Physically-based Unbiased Rendering Engine.

See here

[dakiru]

"Substance" looks interesting

[Godzilla]

Looks like it doesn't have any exporters available (?)

Also, I saw this on Nvidia's website yesterday, GPU-powered Physically-correct renderer:

http://www.nvidia.com/object/realityserver.html

[Cheesestraws]

Interesting that it seems to be a descendant of Virtualight, which used to be quite popular some time ago.

The old Virtualight website seems to be down right now, but you can see it still here, he also wrote a MLT version here.

[gagar]

"Substance" looks interesting

"Simplant" looks interesting as well: http://www.neuro-systems.net/documents/simplant.html

[lycium]

substance sounds like something i'd like to compete with

in fact it sounds like a overloaded-marketing version of the software i've been writing for some years now...

[juan_irender]

Looks like it doesn't have any exporters available (?)

Also, I saw this on Nvidia's website yesterday, GPU-powered Physically-correct renderer:

http://www.nvidia.com/object/realityserver.html

In fact, iray and Reality Server are products of Mental Images, wich is owned by NVidia.

[Borgleader]

Looks like it doesn't have any exporters available (?)

Also, I saw this on Nvidia's website yesterday, GPU-powered Physically-correct renderer:

http://www.nvidia.com/object/realityserver.html

In fact, iray and Reality Server are products of Mental Images, wich is owned by NVidia.

so its simply mental ray with a "gpu flavour" ?

[neo0.]

"Substance" looks interesting

"Simplant" looks interesting as well: http://www.neuro-systems.net/documents/simplant.html

That looks like very interesting. I should go investigate.

[juan_irender]

Looks like it doesn't have any exporters available (?)

Also, I saw this on Nvidia's website yesterday, GPU-powered Physically-correct renderer:

http://www.nvidia.com/object/realityserver.html

In fact, iray and Reality Server are products of Mental Images, wich is owned by NVidia.

so its simply mental ray with a "gpu flavour" ?

No, iray is a new product, a GPU accelerated unbiased renderer:
http://www.mentalimages.com/products/iray.html

[neo0.]

I don't know if I would call it a competitor. The lighting on either doesn't look as realistic as indigo, especially iray. In fact, if you look at their office scenes, it almost looks biased..

[dakiru]

I don't know if I would call it a competitor. The lighting on either doesn't look as realistic as indigo, especially iray. In fact, if you look at their office scenes, it almost looks biased..

I guess, it's about the rendering time in case of iray. Check this.

[juan_irender]

Well, iray is (or may be) fast, but it isn´t a cheap rendering option. Reality Server is based on NVidia Tesla computers, a scalable computing solution.
Indigo is in another league, more flexible, more friendly, and... more unbiased .

Cheers!

[psor]

Not only that. Who knows how much horsepower they are using there. And when you see
Indigo, lux, maxwell, fry, ... blah ... on a lots of cores rendering over network you'll crap your
pants too for sure. How do I know? Stack-Studios had a software called RemoteMatador
which evolved into Felix and is using Maxwell as backend. David Rossmann aka daros,
always said something like "Manpower is much more expensive then hardware" and he is right.

I don't have the videos that show off rendering at the moment but take a look at Felix ...









Not to advertise his service but that's a quote ...

A test image (600x300 pixels) FELIX costs more 'or less 30 cents and usually takes 15 to 25 seconds.

image (1200 * 600) pixel cost about 2 euros and takes less than 1-4 minutes.

image (2000 * 1000) pixel cost about 7 euros and takes less than 2-6 minutes.

image (3000 * 2000) pixel costs roughly 14 euros and takes 4-15 minutes.

Here some more pictures and the thread at Treddi.com. And what I can say is, that a smart
person is doing something like that for luxrender now. Cause there is no license fee and much
more flexibility then all others can offer. So I keep smiling about iRay.


My two cents. Stay flexible!










take care
psor

[CTZn]

On-demand renderfarming is something Ono and Ben mentioned multiple times here already, it is certainly an option adding flexibility.