Maxwell update with new atmosphere system announced!

Phoenix · Post by **Phoenix** » Wed May 28, 2008 9:55 pm

Wow,the new atmosphere system of the coming soon Maxwell Update looks really impressive!

You should have a look at this:
http://www.nextlimit.com/newsletters/ma ... dates.html

vux · Post by **vux** » Thu May 29, 2008 5:49 pm

whereis clouds...

and

version 1.7 - and no Exit Portals - very funny...

BbB · Post by **BbB** » Thu May 29, 2008 9:00 pm

Mind you, Fry just dropped the portals in their latest release.
They say the new RC is so fast that it renders interiors without portals now faster than with portals before.
They also dropped aeronoise, which will piss off a few people.

Olis · Post by **Olis** » Fri May 30, 2008 2:03 am

I looked up what aeronoise is, and I thought it looked very useful. I wonder why they removed it.

vux · Post by **vux** » Fri May 30, 2008 6:16 pm

I tryed last RC-beta and I think that Indigo is more speedy

What do you think guys???

BbB · Post by **BbB** » Fri May 30, 2008 6:49 pm

Haven't tried it, but judging from what the fryers have been posting in the past couple of days, it looks pretty damn fast!
(They said aeronoise was eating memory and would be replaced by a render region feature in the next release).

vux · Post by **vux** » Fri May 30, 2008 8:38 pm

Little test with fry and Indigo. When Indigo was render I work with Photoshop, Opera and print some images so...
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fry - 1h-10m

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Indigo - 1h-10m

What do you think???

BbB · Post by **BbB** » Fri May 30, 2008 8:49 pm

Pretty convincing. You seem to have different light sources in both scenes, though. Are they really comparable?

vux · Post by **vux** » Fri May 30, 2008 8:52 pm

Phisical Sky - Sun Position Different (not so much) - in fry ther is no interactive control of sun from viewport and of course white balanse different)

BUT I think it realy comparable

Ussualy I choose I...)

vux · Post by **vux** » Fri May 30, 2008 9:01 pm

version of Indigo 1.0.9 - so thereare some fireflyes

and I forget Indigo was in Priority (Lower than Standart)

OT

I dont try last version - BbB what you think about fireflyes in last version???

/OT

BbB · Post by **BbB** » Fri May 30, 2008 9:50 pm

I haven't played with it enough. Waiting for Blendigo.
I did notice some fireflies in some of the displacement tests I did so maybe this needs a bit more work.
I'll run some of my problematic scenes through it when Blendigo is updated and post a bug report if I still get fireflies.

vux · Post by **vux** » Sat May 31, 2008 1:56 am

Near 5 hourse & near 2560 samples

Q6600

vux · Post by **vux** » Sat May 31, 2008 2:08 am

I dont want to render 5h in fry becourse i know that it is more-noise...

CTZn · Post by **CTZn** » Sat May 31, 2008 3:14 am

judging by your test, vux, Indigo returned less noise.

Sun Position Different (not so much)

I think it does matter a lot. If the sun hits the floor over a smaller area then the lighting conditions are really different, and distance between directly lit surfaces (floor here) and say, walls is critical as well.

If possible redo a (maybe shorter) test within the very same conditions.

BbB · Post by **BbB** » Sat May 31, 2008 3:20 am

Maybe with meshlights, that way it would be strictly comparable.