[ajlynn]

Not as interesting as most of the stuff here, but I wanted to show a couple of things that are making me happier with RC1 than I was at first-

It's about a 1 hour render, from the Preview window in RC1. Lighting is physical sky, direc sun doesn't seem to be working. But the metals and dielectrics are a heck of a lot better than the beta - it's doing some amazing reflection and refraction (chek out the lens effects in the glass, and the bloom effect they're causing in the rough/anisotropic metal reflection), and the sky and glass are making caustics on the floor.

This is all in 1 hour of render, and remember that I have no idea what I'm doing, and I'm not an advocate - I've done nothing but complain since Nov 22 passed. MXT, including the rendering, is taking about 70 megs of RAM, even though I have 430 megs still availale.

This is really an improvement to the render core over the beta. The interface still stinks, and the workflow I had to use was C4D to 3DS file to Max, using the new plugin version to go to MXS file, to MXST, and I can't find any way way to go to MXCL, so all of that is still really too much work to be considered History In The Making (tm), but they've done a really good job on some parts.

[tom]

[faraz]

wow

maybe i'll install the RC now (was scared before)

[leoA4D]

A little C&C:
Is it still cooking, ajlynn? There is no final rendered pic. Let's see the final. "Wow" should be reserved for those things that are "the greatest since sliced bread". The pic is more complex than cubes or spheres or a glass, but, it's not anything like the Maxwell Gallery images and it's not done.

[ajlynn]

It's not a true arch viz work. Heck, it's just 3 materials and a really complicated geometry. I'm going to use it in a pinup, because it's interesing as part of a concept study, but I put it here because it shows something about the new release - that it's possible to use it (most of the users here don't believe that, if you read the posts) and some things that were horrible in the beta - dielectric and metal speeds and illumination by the sky system through glass - have been fixed.

But yeah, that's the final for this. Or rather, whatever SL MXST has hit when I get home, that will be the final.

[ajlynn]

Final render, I let it go for 9 hours:



I started the next view at higher res. How to get higher res in preview: resize the MXST layout windows so the preview window is full screen, then screencap it because the saved file is the size of the original preview window. Weird.

[faraz]

not a great image, but 'wow' that complex geometry with loadsa reflections rendered in --->1 hour<---

Theres more than one kind of wow

[Micha]

Impressiv.

But don't try it with the renderer instead the preview. It seems, the preview mode is the real engine mode.

[Micha]

... could you add a signature with your computer and software dates please.

One hour! He says one hour!

[ajlynn]

... could you add a signature with your computer and software dates please.

One hour! He says one hour!

I could but that would just be showing off

The one that did these is an Athlon64 3000 with 1gig RAM, so there are people here who can probably render twice as fast, or more if cooperative works...

[Mihai]

it's doing some amazing reflection and refraction (chek out the lens effects in the glass, and the bloom effect they're causing in the rough/anisotropic metal reflection), and the sky and glass are making caustics on the floor.

Could you explain more how the geometry is? Do you have a model of a lens in there?

Very nice test, and thanks for being constructive. No energy left to read these forums lately.....

[ajlynn]

Second shot of this:



Left this one overnight and it ended up being 9.5 hours.

The one rendering now is an exterior that shows the geometry of the whole thing better. The lens effect actually comes from having spherical mapping in C4D and bringing it into Max, it's something I found by accident a while back and liked it so I use it sometimes

Not going to post it here but I'll link it: screencap of the exterior after 20 min render

[ajlynn]

And the final of that exterior shot. It's a 1 hour render and I'm stopping it now because I need to do other things.

[ajlynn]

Another exterior view, 50 minute render and I'm cutting it off. I think I'll leave it doing one more interior while I go do work on campus, then I'm moving on to another project because I've already seen enough to go back to being a Maxwell believer, and this is starting to get ridiculous.

Next up will be a museum addition - the class doesn't actually call for a design (the project is about proposal writing) but there will be a Powerpoint presentation so I might as well wow them. I think I'll do renders in a basswood model style and check out the coating feature to put a finish on the wood for the existing building.

[Eric Lagman]

This looks nothing like the realisim that the alpha had. I have not seen anything posted yet that does. I thought at first it was only the stanalone that needed work, but I am quickly seeing that the core was not even close to completion..........at least I hope. The images I have seen do not have that maxwell feeling. Sings to self You lost that maxwell feeling ohhh that maxwell feeling, bring back that maxwell feeling cause its gone gone gone wooooa.