Free nVidia Gelato Renderer

Jim

Ran across this today:

NVIDIA Gelato rendering software allows anyone with an NVIDIA GPU to create stunning images fast. A hardware-accelerated, non-real-time renderer, Gelato was originally designed for the creation of 3D visual effects and animation in feature films. But Gelato is a powerful tool for any number of industries, including film & broadcast, CAD, architecture, and print.

http://www.nvidia.com/page/gz_learn.html

cloverleaf

Jim, how do you use that?

lewiswadsworth

Nothing like writing code to get a quick a rendering!

lewiswadsworth

Our fellow SCF member (and occasionally my boss) Diego Matho likes this better:

http://developer.nvidia.com/object/fx_composer_home.html

A little more user-friendly, but it is essentially a shader designer. With a that node-based graphical scripting that I think, along with Diego, might be the real future of coding, although you could I guess resort to Python scripting.

Between Gelato and Fx Composer, you can finally come up with that dream renderer for SU you've always wanted. Assuming you have A LOT of time on your hands.

Jim

@cloverleaf said:

Jim, how do you use that?

It's specifically made to take advantage of nvidia hardware. I guess it's geared towards Maya and Max, as plugins are provided for these applications. But that also means a SketchUp plugin is a possibility.

As Lewis says, it's probably not practical to use with SketchUp at this time.