Indigo Renderer 2.4.3 Released

[fused]

Could you elaborate on which kind of tests you've made?

Just rendered the same scene with both versions and calculated the increase in samples/second.

It's not some kind of perceptual convergence improvement, its a blunt speedup.

[forgeflow]

Waiting patiently for a Mac build. :)

[ritter]

Waiting patiently for a Mac build. :)

Me too!

[Jambert]

20% gpu desable :)!!!

waiting for a linux build too ;)

[StompinTom]

Indigo 2.4.3 is crashing just before it starts rendering, after it's loaded everything, done subdivisions. I have a suspicion that it may have to do with subdivision. Other scenes seemed to load and render fine, as did this one before I started using subdivision.

Testing...

[Zom-B]

Indigo 2.4.3 is crashing just before it starts rendering, after it's loaded everything, done subdivisions. I have a suspicion that it may have to do with subdivision. Other scenes seemed to load and render fine, as did this one before I started using subdivision.

Yes, I had such an issue too! I send a example crash file to fused for investigation...

[StompinTom]

Indigo 2.4.3 is crashing just before it starts rendering, after it's loaded everything, done subdivisions. I have a suspicion that it may have to do with subdivision. Other scenes seemed to load and render fine, as did this one before I started using subdivision.

Yes, I had such an issue too! I send a example crash file to fused for investigation...

Yep! The scene works perfectly fine without subdivision.

[ENSLAVER]

On that note I get a crash with a displacement that has high subdiv AND a diffuse map, take away diffuse it's fine. (x64)

[Zom-B]

On that note I get a crash with a displacement that has high subdiv AND a diffuse map, take away diffuse it's fine. (x64)

I also can confirm this issue...

[Zom-B]

Nick mentioned today that Indigo 2.4 should be quite a bit faster than 2.2 so i benchmarked it.
Turns out that on my Core 2 Duo it is 20% faster. 8)

Well I don't think so Glare... at least not if you use subdiv a lot :(

I found out that my testrenders for towel closeups with high subdiv and displacement where rendering very slow!
This "benchmark" is done with this scene, with a lot of subdiv around the scene...
This speed problem maybe also related to the crashes mentioned above.


btw: why does the news site tell something about a speedup of 20-30% ??? Any proofs for this???

[fused]

well depends on your hardware. nick said 30% on his i7 but on my core 2 duo it was only 20. i tested the pins sample scene.

[Godzilla]

So, is there any reason why Zom-B's scene is slower?

[lycium]

I think there are currently some issues with displacement and bump mapping, there was an example shown earlier with incorrect results.

[Zom-B]

I think there are currently some issues with displacement and bump mapping, there was an example shown earlier with incorrect results.

Just tested Bvh vs Kd-tree for a closeup of a subdiv displaced towel

kd-Tree: 138k s/s
BVH: 94k s/s

[suvakas]

kd-Tree: 138k s/s
BVH: 94k s/s

I belive this is normal. BVH loads faster, but renders slower than KD, I think.