[simmsimaging]

Been working with 2.6 for a bit now and aside from a few fairly minor bugs, this is a great update. Thanks NL, great work!

It seems I picked a good time to start incorporating Maxwell into the pipeline again!

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[Bubbaloo]

A minor gripe. I'm noticing that SL 1 seems to pretty much just be a dark gray mass now and it isn't until SL 2 that you get some light and color. I kindof miss how SL 1 used to already give you a pretty good idea of what you were going to get in case you messed up a setting somewhere. It seems now that I have to wait a bit longer.


-Brodie

I never notice. It's here and gone in the blink of an eye.

Good to have you back, Brett.

[brodie_geers]

A minor gripe. I'm noticing that SL 1 seems to pretty much just be a dark gray mass now and it isn't until SL 2 that you get some light and color. I kindof miss how SL 1 used to already give you a pretty good idea of what you were going to get in case you messed up a setting somewhere. It seems now that I have to wait a bit longer.


-Brodie

I never notice. It's here and gone in the blink of an eye.

Good to have you back, Brett.

Bah, I've got a 980x but that can't compete with your nice lil' render farm I suppose

-Brodie

[Bubbaloo]

No no, I'm talking about my 980X too! My renderfarm at the office laughs at SL1. It punches SL1 in the face and insults its mother.

[nachob]

it could be that 2.6 produces better results "per sl" so that direct comparison is not possible.

I know that there was some confusion when we changed from V1 to V2 that SLs no longer correlated, so some NL confirmation of this would be great. In the meantime I'll continue testing.

Yes, basically image quality is better "per sl" and direct comparison of SL and time is not the best comparison. Benchwell scene was really great for comparing machines, but it has never been a good tool to compare between different Maxwell releases. Why? because its a quite simple scene with simple materials. It really just evaluates number of ray per seconds the engine provides, and as such can be a great comparison between different setups or different machines. It doesn't compare performance of many areas of the engine that you can usually find in most of the scenes, and that's why you can see improvements in other scenes while it's not faster in some others. Also the following point also adds some explanation of why it could be a bit slower there.

A minor gripe. I'm noticing that SL 1 seems to pretty much just be a dark gray mass now and it isn't until SL 2 that you get some light and color. I kindof miss how SL 1 used to already give you a pretty good idea of what you were going to get in case you messed up a setting somewhere. It seems now that I have to wait a bit longer.

Yes, that's one of the limitations of the new Sharpness parameter (or dynamic antialiasing). The way the samples are filtered makes the first SL to be quite dark and not very useful, but at SL 2 the visual quality is again as it should. But we really think the improvements in AA quality, added to the possibility to adjust it after render for the best results, really pay for this limitation, it brings and unmatched quality to Maxwell in any lighting or texture situation. This in-house developed technology is one of the hottest features of 2.6, at least in our opinion, and keep us ahead of any competitor also in this area.

nachob

[JamesColeman]

Yes, basically image quality is better "per sl" and direct comparison of SL and time is not the best comparison. Benchwell scene was really great for comparing machines, but it has never been a good tool to compare between different Maxwell releases. Why? because its a quite simple scene with simple materials. It really just evaluates number of ray per seconds the engine provides, and as such can be a great comparison between different setups or different machines. It doesn't compare performance of many areas of the engine that you can usually find in most of the scenes, and that's why you can see improvements in other scenes while it's not faster in some others. Also the following point also adds some explanation of why it could be a bit slower there.

OK, that's all the confirmation I was waiting for, thanks Nachob.

[numerobis]

Benchwell scene was really great for comparing machines...

btw. a new benchmark page would be nice - after almost 2 years without benchwell now...

[Asmithey]

Thanks for the SL 1 being dark explanation.

Aaron

[Fernando Tella]

Benchwell scene was really great for comparing machines...

btw. a new benchmark page would be nice - after almost 2 years without benchwell now...

+1

It was a great reference for buying CPUs