Office building
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Nice detail and renders, they're very simple but interesting at the same time IMO.
And well.. just take your time, that you would be "slower" doesn't mean you're badder..
But can I ask your specs? As you have so many details in your office building..
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Thanks. I use an 8-core Mac with 16 gb of ram.
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Wow, stinkie, aka Tom. I just stumbled onto this thread. I've always been partial to these gray (grey) clay-like images. You've done a great job here. These look wonderful; it;s hard to pick a favorite.
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Thanks, Ron. Yeah, monochrome renders work well. The last set (the interior) will be fully textured in the end though. Want those to look as realistic as I can possibly make 'em. Should be an interesting challenge.
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@unknownuser said:
Thanks. I use an 8-core Mac with 16 gb of ram.
Is V-ray using all 8-cores when rendering?
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I actually think it does as I have rendered on a vanilla Pentium 4 and a hyperthreading pentium 4 (pseudo-dual core) and there was only 1 render bucket shown in the VFB on the former PC and 2 in the latter. I have also seen on quad core machines 4 buckets so I can only assume it does make use of all cores.
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Great stinkie! Can wait to see the final version of those interior images! I think it's a smart thing that you played first with the clay materials, creating the lightning as you wish, and then apply the final materials! I think that's the way professionals do they work too!
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Great work stinkie! Really nice! the model on the table is a fantastic idea and I may have to borrow that concept at some time.
As far as Vray....I have a dual proc quad core and I still only have 2 buckets. So I would have to say it is 1 bucket per processor. I think you see 2 buckets on a Hyperthreaded P4 because vray see those as a proc but I could be completely wrong. I only know that I only see 2 buckets when rendering. Now if I use the DRSpawner and use the rest of the computers in the office then things really move. You can install DRSpawner on 10 other machines legally and it is extremely easy to set up and get running. It took me, at most 10 minutes, and that was walking from machine to machine. My renders times were cut by 60-70%!. Well worth the 10 minutes of set up time.
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I have core2 quad, and I have 4 buckets. As far as I know, v-ray assign 1 bucket per processor(core). I have home one hyper-threaded P4, and I have 2 buckets! Maybe someone more experienced could bring some light in this problem.
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I dont think so, if i remember correctly vray runs within the SU process so it can only run on one core.
edit: people more knowledgeable then myself say otherwise though, so probably better to listen to them
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There is no problem Stefan, its behaving exactly as it should. A processor with Hyper-Threading enabled is treated by the operating system as two processors instead of one (even though its not actually a dual core chip!)
ScottPara: I'd check out your task manager (or however you manage the multiple cores and see if the process has been limited to 2 instead of 4 for some reason.
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I am wondering if it has to do with running Vray on a virtual machine using VMware fusion. I know VM's are usually seen as a very basic build and do not always take into account the native machine build. Do you think that could be it?
Scott
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Scott, i think thats it. I remember doing a bit of research in to VMware virtual machines for rendering, and being a bit put off by them only being able to use 2 cores. A bit disheartening when theres another 6 cores sitting in the background just waiting to be used
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Remus,
That is the conclusion we have come to here as well. We are going to look at VMware ESX and see if that might free up the remaining resources. If we find anything out I will let you know.
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Cheers, itd be cool to unleash the beast (as it were) on indigo.
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Vray should be able to scale to as many CPU as you can throw at it.
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yup... vray uses all available processors, i think it goes up to 10
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@chango70 said:
Vray should be able to scale to as many CPU as you can throw at it.
Thats the problem with running it in a VMware virtual machine, the VM is limited to 2 cores, so vray/any app can only use 2 cores.
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Whats that?
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@chango70 said:
Whats that?
That's somekind of "pc simulator".
While you're working in windows you can start up the
simulator and work in any other OS (for example Linux or Mac OS X).
So you can work in different OS's simultaneously.;]
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