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Re: How much is Mari used?
In VFX Mari has almost completely replaced Photoshop in many artists workflows. Not to say that you can do everything in Mari, but that whereas before artists would spend 90% of their time in PS, they now spend 90% of their time in Mari. This obviously holds true to varying amounts but is a story we hear often. -
Re: How much is Mari used?
Mari uses a virtual texturing system (like ID tech 5) and has a fixed Memory footprint for normal textures. 1gb of Ram should be able to cope with many 10s of Gbs of textures. Mari does use extra GPU ram for live tiling and projection textures, you can however cache these to manage memory effectively. -
Re: How much is Mari used?
If I'm not mistaken, Mari needs a good chunk of GPU memory when dealing with large/many textures. -
Re: How much is Mari used?
Photoshop will not be replaced by Mari, but it is definitely augmented by it. Much in the same way that Zbrush and Maya/Max augment each other. While I agree anyone learning about the industry should be learning about Mari right now, I disagree with the notion that you can learn Mari and skip Photoshop, which the OP is… -
Re: How much is Mari used?
Even with my short experience with Mari, I can see how powerful it is as a texturing tool - especially if you're doing photo-real. It is, however, REALLY expensive both in dollars (pounds, yen, what have you), as well as RAM usage. Every time I work in Mari, the only other thing I dare risk running is Windows Media Player.… -
How much is Mari used?
I am starting to feel like I'm being taught and learning to use a texturing program that is not used much at all. How much is The Foundry Mari used out there? Is texturing with Mari a lot different than texturing in Photoshop? Because with Mari, I don't have to think about seams much, a mindset that could be a problem when… -
Re: How much is Mari used?
We're getting there but not quite 2-3 day turn arounds yet. But I do think we're getting pretty close to that point. The latest Zbrush Z-remesher lets you create your lowpoly in a matter of minutes after you have your high rez done. It's amazing! For texturing in next gen I think it's going to be a lot of material library… -
Re: How much is Mari used?
Well, that answers my question :) There's also this, for anyone else wondering... http://vimeo.com/61793424#at=150 Desperad0, to answer your question, yes, texturing in Photoshop alone is very different from something like Mari. However, modern workflows often use either both, or would stick to a 3D paint program like… -
Re: How much is Mari used?
You still can't animate, composite, track and render in these programs. Like I said Max/Maya have a much broader toolset. Mari and SD are focused on a set area of the pipeline. If Max and Maya are more situational than Mari and SD, then try getting a fully animated character or environment in a game engine just using Mari… -
Re: How much is Mari used?
We actually use Mari even for low-poly stuff (mobile platform). You can't use all it's advantages while doing so, but it's a nice tool to work with. It doesn't really support non-square textures to my knowledge, which is a pity, but you still can get around that by using squares - higher resolution and then squashing down…
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