[KurtS]

that 81 megapixel rendering rocks!

great work Tora!

[jo]

Isn't this a camera effect in a way it clips the geometry. Then i doubt you'll be able to map the clipped surface. Although it'd be great if it were possible to map it with a hatch type pattern.

Maybe.. just maybe if you can do it by using a type of materialchannel for this and then remap it in post or something. I don't know..

/ Max

It would be enough to have a separate channel (like an alpha) where the section is saved. Then you can edit later.

Ciao, Gio

[jo]

No texture filtering again!?

What does it mean? Where?

Thank you, Giovanni

[Kabe]

Isn't this a camera effect in a way it clips the geometry. Then i doubt you'll be able to map the clipped surface. Although it'd be great if it were possible to map it with a hatch type pattern.

Maybe.. just maybe if you can do it by using a type of materialchannel for this and then remap it in post or something. I don't know..

/ Max

It would be enough to have a separate channel (like an alpha) where the section is saved. Then you can edit later.

Actually you won't need a separate shader: If you save out the result as HDR,
then it should be quite easy to create the mask in Photohop, because the
cut parts are completely black.

Kabe

[Mihai]

As an architect, Z-clip looks very nice. Does it poche the cut automatically as it appears in the, um, egg thingy? Also, does the clipped / hidden geometry still contribute to the lighting solution?

Chris

The geometry is simply cut, since there is no light falling inside of the two faces of that model, they will be completely black, there was no postwork done. Yes, the clipped geometry still contributes to the lighting solution.

[Maximus3D]

jo: Yes something like an alphachannel or colorchannel so you could separate that and do the rest in post i guess. Honestly i have no idea how it works in real life so we'll see.. maybe this type of manual workaround isn't necessary.

Kabe: Yes you're correct ..i think that should work but it's still gonna look flat, maybe it doesn't really matter. We better wait and see some more..

Mihai: Is the geometry actually cut ? i can't imagine that it would be..

/ Max

[Mihai]

Well cut in the sense that it's cut from the render, your scene geometry stays the same.

[Maximus3D]

As i suspected, but i just wanted it confirmed thanks Mihai for your quick reply.

Nicole: And thanks to you too for those impressive pics and news that's one HUGE rendering and so little noise in it. Can you find out what the rendertime was for that piece ?

/ Max

[JCAddy]

Is the zclip feature available only in Studio or will it be available in the plugin as well?

[Maximus3D]

It sounds like we will get Z-clip and much more in all the plugins now, check Nicole's statement in the link below a good one i'd say.

http://www.maxwellrender.com/forum/view ... 05&start=0

/ Max

[Tora_2097]

Can you find out what the rendertime was for that piece ?

/ Max

The rendertime was around 18 hours on a Dual dualcore Xeon (Xeon 5050).
It reached SP level 12 and was lit with 5 plane emitters. around 800K polys.

[lllab]

man all this is extreme good news.-)

this z clip feature alone is worth gold! if this really works as it looks now it saves me hours of work i do normally! well done NL!

just hope the plugis like c4d get love too, not only lw...

the rendertime is excellent for this highrez image, was it done in 32 or 64 bit os?

cheers
stefan

[Tora_2097]

It has been done on windows XP 64 bit.

[Maximus3D]

Thanks Tora, i appreciate the reply.

So on a more normal computer like mine it'll be atleast 4 times slower to render that at that extreme resolution. Interesting..

/ Max

[Tora_2097]

@maximus: that could be true, of course depending on your hardware.
This render has just been done to reach the boundaries of the new maxwell.
You seldom need to render @10k.
What is much more usefull instead is that you can now render at more common printsize renderings- 4k for example- and still keep your multilight sliders, or render 4k images on a (memorywise) weak machine.
I can render 6000* 3500 on a 2GB ram machine. And no I am not talking about "teapot on a plane" scenes.

Regards,

Tora