[Q2]

THANK YOU NL, THAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANK YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU......

Can't wait. Great news! Keep up the great work!

Cheers from France

Q!

[JTB]

I really like the fact that my i7 will be more than enough!

As someone else asked, is it possible to use all cores from our network? Maybe not with plugins but from inside Studio?

[val_z]

thanks for rhino plugin.
it will really helps to tweak materials an speed it up.

[oz42]

Just seen the great videos and very happy to hear that it'll be weeks not months - looks like Christmas will be coming early this year!

we are *trying* to integrate it in all the plugins

Juan, with the Softimage plugin will it work within a Render Region or a separate window?

[Maximus3D]

I can imagine that Modo 401 will be a big problem to integrate the preview window in as it has a poor 'SDK' now, this will change with the upcoming 501 release which will have a much better SDK.

/ Magnus

[numerobis]

very cool!!!!! thanks for the videos!!! the integration is really great

[itsallgoode9]

any word on how this scales based on cpu cores? From what I've been reading about how this works, it sounds like it's just sort of an optimized render process, so I would assume it scales with extra cores the same way a normal maxwell render currently would? With these changes, would this realtime preview favor more cpu cores or higher cpu ghz? That information, if you're aloud to say, could be extremely beneficial for people looking at upgrades in the very near future. Actually, this could make a MAJOR difference in decision making in deciding whether it's more beneficial to throw more money at your main machine or add more render nodes. Are you able to comment on that?

[JTB]

And... for the third time, hoping not to be banned, it would be very interesting to know if it can work with a network... like common rendering process...
As you can see, everyone asks what happens with more cores so instead of upgrading a PC, it is cheaper to buy a node license, especially with the new prices... It is good for everyone if this is possible.

[philip99]

thank for rhino plugin, very nice

[brodie_geers]

any word on how this scales based on cpu cores? From what I've been reading about how this works, it sounds like it's just sort of an optimized render process, so I would assume it scales with extra cores the same way a normal maxwell render currently would? With these changes, would this realtime preview favor more cpu cores or higher cpu ghz? That information, if you're aloud to say, could be extremely beneficial for people looking at upgrades in the very near future. Actually, this could make a MAJOR difference in decision making in deciding whether it's more beneficial to throw more money at your main machine or add more render nodes. Are you able to comment on that?

If it's similar to the current rendering engine (which seems a reasonable assumption) then based on my tests number of cores and higher ghz matter pretty much equally. If you multiply the ghz by the number of cores and compare cpu to cpu the results tend to be quite linear. Only when other factors come in do the results seem to get thrown off (like hyper threading).

-Brodie

[juan]

If it's similar to the current rendering engine (which seems a reasonable assumption) then based on my tests number of cores and higher ghz matter pretty much equally. If you multiply the ghz by the number of cores and compare cpu to cpu the results tend to be quite linear. Only when other factors come in do the results seem to get thrown off (like hyper threading).

Exactly, it scales in a similar way to the main render engine so any conclusion you get using your current hardware can be extrapolated to this preview technology.

For the people who have been asking about other plugins, as I said we can't say yet which plugins will integrate it and which will not, it depends on specific barriers of each SDK. We are doing our best and hopefully soon we will update more videos showing the integration in more plugins. I am sure you understand I cannot talk about things that are not 100% guaranteed :)

This first implementation does not use the network for accelerating the interactive preview. Local networks introduce latencies that don't fit too good with interactivity, in some specific cases there could be some boost but not in general. (I am talking only about this first implementation only, we might research more on interactivity over a network in the future)

Juan

[Fernando Tella]

Cool Juan! Thanks.

By the way: How was that meeting with Brad Peebler yesterday? Maybe something related to this and the new SDK for Modo 501?

[JTB]

Thank you for the answer about the network... I hope you will try to make it work, 3*i7 for preview will make it really fast!

[juan]

By the way: How was that meeting with Brad Peebler yesterday? Maybe something related to this and the new SDK for Modo 501?

Oh, just a courtesy visit, Brad was in Madrid and we have a very good relation with him. Nothing serious :)

Juan

[Neeper]

I only thought this was going to be for MR studio, just saw you are bringing it to Rhino, THANKS!!!!