[REQ] SU scatter

jiminy-billy-bob

You been reading my mind

Well, for my rendering activity, I have similar needs as you

Pixero

Yes it looks very good.
I would also like to test this if possible.
One thing, I see you are using Vray proxys.
Please make it so it will work with other renderers too.

jiminy-billy-bob

You can feed in any component you want.
The one I use in the video is actually both a Vray proxy and a Thea Proxy. It will be part of a library shipped with the plugin, and it'll be a proxy for all render engines possible.

andybot

that looks very nice! I've used Compo-spray for a long time, this looks to be a huge workflow changer!

jiminy-billy-bob

@pixero said:

Please make it so it will work with other renderers too.

Here is how it performs with Thea 1.4. The render starts in a couple of seconds and the render itself took a few minutes with Presto.

Click for higher res.

This is a square surface roughly 130m*130m covered with dense grass.
475'000 instances of this grass patch:

Btw, this is what the model looks like:

Very lightweight, as all this vegetation is generated at render-time.

massimo

JQL

@jiminy-billy-bob said:

@pixero said:

Please make it so it will work with other renderers too.

Here is how it performs with Thea 1.4. The render starts in a couple of seconds and the render itself took a few minutes with Presto.

This is a square surface roughly 130m*130m covered with dense grass.

Very lightweight, as all this vegetation is generated at render-time.

Bah, too good to be true, you joker

leminilab

@jql said:

@jiminy-billy-bob said:

@pixero said:

Please make it so it will work with other renderers too.

Here is how it performs with Thea 1.4. The render starts in a couple of seconds and the render itself took a few minutes with Presto.

This is a square surface roughly 130m*130m covered with dense grass.

Very lightweight, as all this vegetation is generated at render-time.

Bah, too good to be true, you joker

Yea, I think it's bluff too...
Isn't it?
This looks too awesome to be true... Not in 2014...

jiminy-billy-bob

@leminilab said:

Not in 2014...

You're right, it'll be available in 2015

bsfranza

so.. whats it with su skatter - alive dead or what

jiminy-billy-bob

Very much alive, but not yet ready for public release.
It'll come!

Bob James

bsfranza

thanks for the info though...

will your skatter plugin work with any renderer availeable or is it somewhat bound to vray?

jiminy-billy-bob

For now it works with Vray and Thea. I will work with other render engines developpers to make it work with their product. But for now I can't guaranty anything behond Vray and Thea.
What engine would you like to use with Skatter?

duanekemp

Pete, just gave me the heads up on this post. Thank you Pete. This is exactly what I've been looking for. I've been manually building a proxy replace me model to solve this issue. But, JBB, if it's possible, I would love to test this as well. This looks so promising!

jiminy-billy-bob

Here is an updated video preview :

solo

@jiminy-billy-bob said:

Here is an updated video preview :

So smooth on your system, I have to click, wait, click or it splats on my side

solo

Awesome video, this will sell many copies.

That grass proxy is also great, hope you share it at end

jiminy-billy-bob

The video is a bit edited to cut waiting times when generating 500'000 instances (otherwise it would be boring to watch), and it fast-forward 2x.
You can disable "Live Preview" when dealing with big numbers of items.

jiminy-billy-bob

As a side note, there will also be more speed optimisations.
And I aim for multi-threading one day.