[NicoR44]

[macray]

That looks really cool to me.
Could you say something about the render times and what machine you used to render it so we can roughly compare it to 1.7?

[NicoR44]

Thanks, I think it was about 2.5 hours on my:

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[rusteberg]

Thanks, I think it was about 2.5 hours on my....

HA!

[RichG]

Edited: Great again. What sampling level? Are you noticing a big improvement?

[NicoR44]

I'm not sure about sl, but using 1.7 it took many hours to get here and get it noise free in those dark areas, btw I used hdr lighting

[macray]

so you've been one of the lucky beta testers? Or are you distributing to the server network and thereby had luck with the download?

edit: thought it was 2.0 pics you show to entertain us..

[Tea_Bag]

Nice one Nico!!

[NicoR44]

Cheers guys

Here is it with all instruments and display rendered using ML

[tom]

This is turning into a monster.

[RichG]

Amazing. Looking at your sig, is this Solidworks / Rhino?

[NicoR44]

Thanks guys!

Indeed Rich!

[JorisMX]

This looks amazing!

Great work Nico... one tiny little technical thing I noticed:

You have banding on the background.
Did you save the render as 16 or 32 bit Image file?

If not I would try that and then manually convert back to 8 bit in PS

Still great scene!

[NicoR44]

Thanks Joris!!

That's strange, I can't see any banding here? it looks like a perfect gradient, but I will convert it to 8bit see how it looks than.

[RichG]

Aren't you always going to get that when you export a jpeg for web viewing?