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    • C Offline
      cuttingedge
      last edited by

      Those are decent renders Srx. I am vray for SU renderer but would be willing to shift (say to Thea) if that's what will satisfy my requirements in quality and much needed speed.

      To make myself clearer , I attached here a sample of what we normally do. at 3000 resolution. This takes 3 to 4 hours. I wonder if by some good hardware, I could make it say, 10 minutes...

      My boss would even want an instant 3 seconds full high res. What kind of machine could deliver this?


      Image originally rendered at 3000

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      • soloS Offline
        solo
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        Can you share that or another model so we can test using Thea?

        I will second the praise for Thea's speed using the Presto engine, however as mentioned above it will depend on the setup, what I see above in your meeting room render I will be comfortable to believe Thea could knock that out in minutes.

        http://www.solos-art.com

        If you see a toilet in your dreams do not use it.

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        • jiminy-billy-bobJ Offline
          jiminy-billy-bob
          last edited by

          Yes Presto is fast!
          But on Vray it shouldn't take 3-4h on decent hardware, you may have unoptimized settings.

          Sharing the file is a good idea.

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            valerostudio
            last edited by

            I would never wait 3-4 hours for any render. If you have multiple workstations, try setting up DR, that will cut your render times incredibly. I assume you are using 2.0?

            3 second full res render... uh have your boss buy a time machine and go to 2030. Although RT is getting there. Watch this http://youtu.be/k1V8h7fsYmE?list=PL

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              cuttingedge
              last edited by

              hi guys . This is my attempt to share a 100+ mb file of the model of the render i posted earlier. My files usually gets up to 180 MB.

              This renders in about 1 hour 15mins in my I7- 16gb ram using vray 1.49.

              I'd be glad to have somebody test out this model to see how renderers compare in terms of speed to deliver a decent 3000 render.

              This is with vray data but vray elements are in a layer which is turned off initially

              Check link below-- (hope the link works)

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              Thanks in advance.

              Edd

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              • C Offline
                cuttingedge
                last edited by

                @valerostudio said:

                I would never wait 3-4 hours for any render. If you have multiple workstations, try setting up DR, that will cut your render times incredibly. I assume you are using 2.0?

                Im using still 1.49 in the office but will upgrade soon. Unfortunately Im the only SU users for now. All my colleagues are hardcore Max- Vray...

                Yeah, Im sick of waiting that long..That sometimes mean staying overnight in the office. These is the era of RT, I know this shouldnt be happening...

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                • PixeroP Offline
                  Pixero
                  last edited by

                  Here is a test render with Thea Presto AO. GPU + CPU.
                  I must admit I didn't put a lot of work on the materials.
                  I let it render for 39 minutes on my modest Macbook Pro laptop with a i7 and a Geforce GT 750m.

                  Resized from 3000pixels to 1600 to be able to post it.
                  Partial 3000 pixels wide render. Click to see it at 100%.

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                  • andybotA Offline
                    andybot
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                    I had some time to check out your scene. I was able to render at 1600 pixels in 5 minutes. Then with saving the LC and IRR maps, I ran a full res render in just under 10 minutes: http://www.mediafire.com/view/qqdk52aq9ff998z/full-res-test.jpg
                    There wasn't really anything I needed to do with the scene. I dropped in my own IES files since it wasn't included in your download. I deleted some high-poly stuff just to keep the parsing times down and help with scene navigation. For those things, I would typically use proxies, that way there's no speed hit at all.
                    My suggestion: get vfs 2.0 and use DR on as many machines as you can. ☀

                    Andy


                    half-size-test.jpg

                    http://charlottesvillearchitecturalrendering.com/

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                    • andybotA Offline
                      andybot
                      last edited by

                      yeah, check your materials. You probably have things like semi-glossy reflection or refraction. Are those blinds 2-sided translucent or is it refractive material? Optimized, that should be a quick scene to do in vray. (prob 5 minutes on my hardware.. [[OK 15mins, conservative]] . I have 46 cores with DR...)

                      http://charlottesvillearchitecturalrendering.com/

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                        cuttingedge
                        last edited by

                        Thank you guys so much for your time and effort to try my model. Those are fine renders.

                        From my side ,I happen to work with guys who do 3ds max and whose benchmark is Evermotion,

                        Honestly, I have to put in a lot to even try to match their results. VFSU 2.0 somehow is getting there. I have yet to see how Thea will perform.

                        @Pixero, 39 minutes may still be a little quite long for my boss, If we are to use GPU,
                        Then He would expect something like 3 - 5 minutes.

                        @Andybot, Yes Im immediately requesting an upgrade to 2.0 and as you say proxy the other hi poly stuff. your render is impressive for a 5 minute run, Is it done on one machine? Would I be able to cut that to say 2 minutes If I use DR on say 3 machines?

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                        • andybotA Offline
                          andybot
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                          @cuttingedge said:

                          @Andybot, Yes Im immediately requesting an upgrade to 2.0 and as you say proxy the other hi poly stuff. your render is impressive for a 5 minute run, Is it done on one machine? Would I be able to cut that to say 2 minutes If I use DR on say 3 machines?

                          5 mins. is with DR, (46 cores, around 3.5Ghz average). If it were on one machine only, probably 20-30 minutes for the 1600 pixel render.

                          to get down to 2 minutes - you'd probably need over 100 cores available (or else render smaller!)

                          http://charlottesvillearchitecturalrendering.com/

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                          • PixeroP Offline
                            Pixero
                            last edited by

                            Thea Presto is much faster with a faster GPU than mine.
                            I know Solo has a Titan card.
                            Let's hope he gets time to do a test render to show what times are possible with it.

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                            • soloS Offline
                              solo
                              last edited by

                              @pixero said:

                              Thea Presto is much faster with a faster GPU than mine.
                              I know Solo has a Titan card.
                              Let's hope he gets time to do a test render to show what times are possible with it.

                              Will you send me the model as you have it set up already and i will test just GPU.

                              http://www.solos-art.com

                              If you see a toilet in your dreams do not use it.

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                                cuttingedge
                                last edited by

                                @solo said:

                                Will you send me the model as you have it set up already and i will test just GPU.

                                i would really be thankful to see. titan is one solution im considering. 😄 even for my personal use. Might as well be convinced to learn Thea

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                                • soloS Offline
                                  solo
                                  last edited by

                                  I tweaked a few materials, ran Presto for 18 minutes only GPU (did not use CPU and GPU as I wanted to test Titan on it's own at low priority)

                                  3000x1875

                                  Device #0; GeForce GTX TITAN
                                  Building Environment... done. (0.648 seconds)
                                  - Polys; 564124, Objects; 1098, Parametric; 0
                                  - Moving; 0, Displaced; 0, Clipped; 0
                                  - Instances; 0, Portals; 0
                                  - Nodes; 165922, Leaves; 165908, Cache Level; Normal
                                  Device #0; memory ?/4095 Mb
                                  Device #0; 372x4 s/p
                                  Finished in 1115 seconds
                                  Finished in 18 minutes and 37 seconds!
                                  
                                  

                                  meeting_room_model_for-test-render_Thea-Scene 5.png

                                  Funny how in Thea4SU my card shows 4GB ram and not 6GB, is that a Sketchup limitation?

                                  http://www.solos-art.com

                                  If you see a toilet in your dreams do not use it.

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                                  • PixeroP Offline
                                    Pixero
                                    last edited by

                                    It would be interesting to see how well CPU+GPU does.

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                                      cuttingedge
                                      last edited by

                                      @solo said:

                                      I tweaked a few materials, ran Presto for 18 minutes only GPU (did not use CPU and GPU as I wanted to test Titan on it's own at low priority)

                                      3000x1875

                                      Hi- res , clear, crispy image. At 18m 37 secs. That is impressive. Thanks for trying out.
                                      Now I'd like to consider Titan.. and probably Thea too.

                                      And I wish there's somebody who could tryout vray GPU . At least with these few infos, I can come up with a recommendation to my boss in terms of GPU hardwares

                                      Thanks a lot

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