[philmartin]

Nice results Brian. Do you or anybody reading this thread understand the pricing?
I'm running an 8 core Mac, so my cost would be $4500. If I purchased the
4 CPU for $3400, would it take twice as long to render? Or, could you start
out with a 2 CPU and upgrade later?

[Bubbaloo]

Nice results Brian. Do you or anybody reading this thread understand the pricing?
I'm running an 8 core Mac, so my cost would be $4500. If I purchased the
4 CPU for $3400, would it take twice as long to render? Or, could you start
out with a 2 CPU and upgrade later?

You can start with 1 license (2 cpu), and upgrade as necessary. Really 2 cpu license is plenty unless you are doing incredibly large scenes, then more cpu's kick in. I highly recommend 64 bit and plenty of RAM too.

[Bubbaloo]

Simple box through a wall of water...


This one, believe it or not, rendered to S.L. 27 and is straight out of Maxwell, no postwork. It didn't turn out like I thought it would, but I thought it was still interesting.

[Josephus Holt]

very, ver nice....now to get those architects to design more water features

[Bubbaloo]

now to get those architects to design more water features

Yes!!

[philmartin]

Hey Brian, I see your causing trouble on CG Talk!

[Bubbaloo]

Hey Brian, I see your causing trouble on CG Talk!

Haha, did you see what that guy wrote? I just wanted to know what he meant. Last time I checked, it was supposed to be an English only forum.

[sampson]

These are all looking pretty good, but your water is a tad gloopy are you testing various of settings in RFRK & is your simulation at a decent enough resolution?

[Bubbaloo]

These are all looking pretty good, but your water is a tad gloopy are you testing various of settings in RFRK & is your simulation at a decent enough resolution?

Getting there... these were pretty low resolution sims so far.

[Bubbaloo]

[zdeno]

nice GRINGO ?? You must have something ...
don't go to brasil Brian !!

[Bubbaloo]

Haha, I'm famous in Brazil now all of a sudden. Or infamous. Whoopdeedoo...

[philmartin]

Hi Brian, this last render looks icy? thick? the liquid looks
like it has a lot of volume or density. Sorry it's hard to explain.

[Bubbaloo]

Hi Brian, this last render looks icy? thick? the liquid looks
like it has a lot of volume or density. Sorry it's hard to explain.

Thanks, you're right. It's not quite "there" is it? That's ok, enough fooling around. I think I have a great idea for a RF + Maxwell render!

[big K]

brian,
these are all nice tests.
one thing that is important if you use water in images though is motion blur. i think your "icy" example shows the problem.
if a photographer makes pictures of flowing water he normally uses a long exposure time which gives some blurriness and motion to the water.

cheers
michael