Hello, so by accident i came across "new" (then i found it its here at least from 2014) GPU renderer Fluid Ray: https://www.fluidray.com/features/technical-specs/ Its markets itself almost like the new best GPU renderer out there... I didnt know such software even exists... I think one of their main selling points is that:…
If i find time im goin to test it. But i dont have high hopes. It does use system ram it cant be that fast. Edit: It isnt a GPU renderer. It does render on CPU. Im more impressed with project Lavina. https://www.chaosgroup.com/lavina
I am using Octane ( Octane Blender version) extensively as a texture baker when I need to bake a whole landscape into low poly shells. it's absolute king imo when you need to render a grass field , gazillion of instanced geometry etc. And it simple like 2x2 . I also use Clarisse for same purpose and love it for its instant…
Thanks Oglu. I upgraded to 12 core 3900 Amd chip last year . Should have been to 32 core one probably . Almost instant interactive preview is still way better with Clarisse CPU render making it much more comfortable to work with. Octane sometimes takes half a minute at least to update scene after geometry re-scattering .…
As Redshift is bound to nvdias Optix like Arnold and Vray it does have troubles if the Vram does ran out. On Redshift 3 the out of core tech does not work anymore with geometry. But if you instace your geo and use two big cards in a cluster you can render really huge scenes. But if you grab one of those new AMD…
I meant basically that you can build hires hills/mountains/ cityscape, scatter gazillion objects and then make an extremely low poly envelope with a few fins here and there plus UDIM unique unwrap to bake your hi res landscape in. Since your landscape is static and not going to move anywhere it even could be world space…
At least from what I can see on the website Fluidray is not impressive, imho there are many better choices. They even point out jewelry rendering so I thought caustics might by the sales point, but no. Lavina looks more interesting indeed.