[voxelpictures]

I need information apart from what is offially release in businesswire.com for siggraph. Lots of people contacting VOXELPICTURES for training!..Thats good for NL.

Good job and well done!!!

Roshan Martin

[tom]

Siggraph 2010 // Next Limit Booth

[David Solito]

tom, i don't see you on that picture... or perhaps.

[David Solito]

. Of course, piling stuff on will slow it down a bit but it's still very quick.

Even If large scenes cut the RT preview scene to a 1/3 of its speed its got to be quicker than an actual render (to preview)

Hmmm....I wonder about the possibilities when it comes to animations (once RT Preview is integrated into plugins!)

Tea_Bag I like your avatar

[Tea_Bag]

Cheers David! - Thought its about time I added an Avatar! - Your avatar is looking sleek!

[tom]

tom, i don't see you on that picture... or perhaps.

I have layer opacity 0

[glassbathroom]

For those who may not have spotted it yet. Here is the official press release. Very cool!!! Well done NL.

http://www.maxwellrender.com/pdf/Maxwel ... w_Info.pdf

[sandykoufax]

Thanks for the link. I saw this too at maxwell main page.

We have to wait more than 2 months to see this in our computer.

[mism]

Exciting stuff. I was able to buy Maxwell because of the recent offer, since then there's been an update and now the realtime preview is announced, fantastic.

What I don't completely understand is the trade off that allows the preview to work so quickly, what is being sacrificed? That makes me wonder, could the preview engine be used for final images or animations where speed was more important than such a high level of accuracy?

[brodie_geers]

Very good question. I'm currently having to learn Vray for my animations...blech. That means material conversions, lots of self teaching, etc. It would save me a world of hassle to have the ability to do Maxwell animations in a reasonable amount of time with a reasonable amount of hardware.

Also, are there any other announcements out there at Sig from Maxwell that this real time preview is drowning out, or is this pretty much all they're talking about? Just curious.

-Brodie

[Fernando Tella]

tom, i don't see you on that picture... or perhaps.

I have layer opacity 0

Maxwell geek

[tom]

What I don't completely understand is the trade off that allows the preview to work so quickly, what is being sacrificed? That makes me wonder, could the preview engine be used for final images or animations where speed was more important than such a high level of accuracy?

Nothing is sacrificed. Imagine the render process as a road having a start point A, an end point B and mid points C1 and C2 between A and B. The master render process has a consistent algorithm trying to process everything in a visual balance. It means, point C2 won't be reached before C1. Preview algorithm pushes points C1 and C2 closer to A and it can reach C2 before C1 and vice versa depending on algorithm/scene setup. Therefore, you can imagine something like a mid point controlled gradient where you hold and drag midpoint closer to starting point making them appear earlier than they would.

[brodie_geers]

Tom, so what sorts of things get pushed forward and what sort of things get pushed back? For example, are the calcs for displacement pushed forward and the calcs for caustics pushed back...?

-Brodie

[Tea_Bag]

ah man in a couple of months! I want to play!!!

[Fernando Tella]

Exciting stuff. I was able to buy Maxwell because of the recent offer, since then there's been an update and now the realtime preview is announced, fantastic.

What I don't completely understand is the trade off that allows the preview to work so quickly, what is being sacrificed? That makes me wonder, could the preview engine be used for final images or animations where speed was more important than such a high level of accuracy?

What I extract from the published pdf is that it's more optimized to show fast the lower sample levels while the normal core will perform better for complex lighting, caustic and so.