[seghier]

DAZ 3D First Company to Make NVIDIA Iray 2015 Available to Public

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2015/03/prweb12570220.htm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5FZ5gS9v50

the last release : DAZ Studio 4.8 Beta with iray

[Mihai]

18 minutes video about rendering, showing extremely little actual rendering going on and what it looks like. After 18 minutes we get a small glimpse of something, that looks...not so good.

[seghier]

it's beta version and for free
we can't judge rendering engine from what a person did
we can do bad render with maxwell or vray

[rusteberg]

[seghier]

[Half Life]

There will be an adjustment period because almost all of the content producers for DAZ are used to making textures for 3Delight. This includes mandatory baked-in Ambient Occlusion, which I think looks terrible in a unbiased render (I know iray is more "unbiased-ish").

The few PAs who were designing textures and materials for Octane and Lux will be at an advantage -- however there are not many of them. The other group who will have an advantage will be the users who already have experience with texturing packages like Substance Designer and Substance Painter which are PBR-centric. This is part of what I was alluding to when I made the PBR thread...

As I said, the results won't start to improve until a larger group of content providers and users get familiar with a completely different rendering mindset -- the textures needed for best results are completely different. The upside is it is free, and it supports both CPU and GPU -- so the adoption rate should be high. I can see NVidia hopes to sell more top-end graphics cards to non-gamers by giving this away, and early indications are they absolutely will.