Fryrender demo is up!

[CoolColJ]

yeah strange how it looks different up close, I guess I over did the MPD, well 10cm is alot, but I wanted to be dramatic

1cm would have been better

[CoolColJ]

well here is the 1cm MPD, it looks more like it now, and it renders much faster to boot!

The more MPD the slower it gets. So that's a good thing, keep it realistic and things fall into place

autofocus doesn't seem to be working.....

[suvakas]

Your displacement map seems to be a bit low resolution.
Details are a little blurry.

[CoolColJ]

600x600

plus it's been modified with the Fry image map sliders to be more pure black and white. I clamped the dynamic range

[suvakas]

Gotcha. 600x600 is way too low for close up shot like this.

[IanT]

That's what the "S" button is for! Fryrender has one. Maxwell does not.


Just to clarify something ... Maxwell supersamples by default. It's not a published fact, but it's a fact nonetheless

Ian.

[IanT]

Looks like fry is missing some paths...
Note the lack of orange highlight in the sphere.

Exactly what I was about to say ...

Ian.

[crc]

Just messed around with the demo a little, with Sketchup and Skindigo is a heck of a lot easier to use. Also, I can't find any sort of Tut for Fryrender, is there one? Is it possible to use sketchup materials with Fryrender? as it is, it replaces my skp material with a fryrender material.

[Frances]

The manual for fryrender+Sketchup is in the fryrender plugins manual.pdf that is included with the setup. See pages 54-60.

Fryrender does not auto-convert Sketchup materials in the scene itself unless you tell it to. It does auto-convert them on export.

[CoolColJ]

well it does change you object's material colours after you edit a FRY material....

does it in C4D

if my object is white I don't want it black after I change something in the fry Material editor...

I have to undo everytime to fix this

[IanT]

I just had a quick play with Fryrender myself just to confirm a suspicion from the previous "missing path" post.

I took the standard cornell box scene, made the left and right walls perfect mirrors and the two boxes green-reflecting mirrors. Here's the result after 10 mins on a Core Duo laptop...



Can anyone else see what's conspicuous by its absence?

I can understand if specularly-viewed sun caustics are deliberately switched off but conventional emitters with relatively high surface area?

Ian.

[IanT]

A quick "spot the difference" contest...





The fryrender GUI clearly shows the "Full render" option being paths of the form E[S|D]*L but, looking at the above, I'd say that it's definitely lacking ES+DS+L. How bizarre... it can't exactly claim to be "unbiased" then can it?

Ian.

[zsouthboy]

IanT:

Interesting.

Note that it took me entirely _too_ long to figure out the difference you were reporting (then I finally noticed the big, missing caustic - you know, the obvious one? yeah. that one.)

I agree that ESDSL is missing.EDIT: for that caustic only - which is what confuses me.EDIT2: nevermind - take a look at the mirrored ball - the caustic is missing there too.

[IanT]

Hehe, I also spent __too__ long trying to fix the material on the mirrored wall (thinking I'd got some of the fresnel settings wrong) until I realised that it was dark purely because it wasn't reflecting a significant portion of the scene illumination.

I think this might explain Fryrender's perceived speed ... because it's cheating.

I'm guessing Frances won't be leaping in to reply to this one...

Ian.

[Frances]

Did it ever occur to you that it might be a bug? WTF is with this "cheating" bullshit?