That sounds interesting to me. Can't promise anything, but I will push it.Nasok wrote:I think he is referring to ability to crop the region in FIRE. So while FIRE does it's IPR progressive rendering (draft) you can define the are which you want it to refine while the rest is paused at the moment when you started defying the region.
Pretty much like it works with another render engines (say, Arnold).
Basically it just for speeding up the pre-vis process. Could be a handy little thing - altho not sure if it is something that could be added easily
Same of those things are on Production engine (like reflexion or refraction passes), but it's agains the philosophy of Draft engine (the engine used on FIRE), that engine is simplier to be faster, does less things and some of them with less quality, bus it's faster for previews. Adding a lot of things would make it slower.Nasok wrote:Yay!
Oh oh , other cool feature that might improve FIRE (which is already All-Star here) is the debug mode. Say in Fire you'll have a drop down menu, where you could choose to see only the first layer, or only the additive layers, or only the reflections, or only the direct diffuse, only the refractions, only the opacity and so on. That way it would be really easy to create the custom look you're up to and re-use old materials with just a few tweaks. As right now, you have to disable / enable different layers to see only the spec or only the bump, and so on.
Not all, we have GPU working on mac now, and some customer actually using it.Nasok wrote:Well, then it means Nope for all Mac users
) not an option for a big studio more like a home-made solution which is fine - but probably not for the ones who is working in agencies.I'll just leave it here.but neither we or the maker of the computer are supporting it; following this procedure could make you lose the warranty of your machine or make it unusable.
I think that complain should be to Apple itself. They decided to stop using nvidia cards, they don't have graphic drivers up to date, Mac computers have OpenGL 3.3 or 4.1, both of them 7 years old. And openCL 1.2 (6 years old). It's impossible to develop a decent engine on that environment. We have done a lot of effort to support Mac computers. But we cannot do the impossible. Even if we have choosen to do the gpu engine on openCL (very bad option in my opinion), it wouldn't work on so old version of OpenCL that macs have.Nasok wrote: Look, you guys do what you feel like doing, but I think it is naive to assume that majority are using Windows machines. Used to, but not anymore.
Personally, of course I prefer nvidia over Radeon - no brainier. But if this is the price for the stable operating system without random blue screens and other bugs - well, I'm down for it.
I know, you guys, probably, shouldn't think about who would use your product .. or how would it be used. But I think it is essential that until it get's into an "agencies" and "major studios" environment it will always be a Render Engine that everyone refers to, mentions it in a discussion but barely uses.
But again, don't get me wrong, I'm not criticising you guys, in fact I'm on your side, all I want is for Maxwell Render to get what it deserves. And Maxwell has a truly massive potential. And it's just sad to see how people treat it.
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