Twilight render...

Frederik

Hi All,

Some of you may have seen that there's a "new kid on the block"...

At the Twilight render forum I've posted some renders made with this new application and also some models, which will enable others to test Twilight...

Here's one of the renders I've made and I hope you will like it...
Please note that the only post pro made was adding the Twilight logo and the subtle bloom touch...

FoXar

Looking very nice, I've already been to the website earlier today and when I was at the downloads section I noticed there was no Mac version
Will this be coming soon or no..? As I'm looking forward to test this engine!

Cheers,
Roevens Johannes

tomsdesk

Kim, I've been looking for an inexpensive solution to a couple of rendering tasks (I really don't want to learn a PR renderer). I spent some time on your site this AM and a couple quick questions remain:

How long in general do you have to let them cook to get rid of the grainy? How long did these take? (Really nice BTW)

Can Twilight do quick and lovely clay renders (but with reflective windows) using some simple presets?

Thanks, Tom.

EDMON242004

These are really good renders, how about the rendering time?

Frederik

A Mac version will come, although I'm not sure exactly when...
Let me check and get back to you and others...

@tomsdesk said:

How long in general do you have to let them cook to get rid of the grainy? How long did these take?

That's a tough question to answer... It depends on so many things...
Output resolution, materials used, lights used in the scene, complexity of the scene etc., etc...

Please note that Twilight render comes with both biased (photon mapping) presets, which are quite fast, as well as the more advanced unbiased presets (MLT, BiPT), which will take longer to render, but where the lightning will make them look more real...

@tomsdesk said:

Can Twilight do quick and lovely clay renders (but with reflective windows) using some simple presets?

Yes...

Go to the Twilight website... Download the demo version, check out the tutorials to get the basics and then test away...

@edmon242004 said:

These are really good renders, how about the rendering time?

Thanks...

For this scene it was a couple of hours on a single core computer...

Please go see the Twilight Forum and check out the Gallery section, where we've posted several renders with information on time etc...

FoXar

@frederik said:

A Mac version will come, although I'm not sure exactly when...
Let me check and get back to you and others...

Okay great, I'll be waiting! ;D

Cheers,
Roevens Johannes

Edson

hi kim,

this is a very welcome newcomer. it looks very good. from what i have seen it is kerkythea turned into a sketchup plugin. or am i wrong?

as usual, the mac version lags behind. i do hope a mac version is released soon.

dylan

I am really excited about this, just a real shame there is no mac version.
I will download and try out on my work pc.

EarthMover

Been playing with the demo and I like it a lot. A good solution for a good price. Should win a lot of fans very quickly.

solo

I'm currently looking for an interior render solution (I have exteriors well covered), definitely gonna give this a go, hopefully it will solve my needs.

Fletch

@edson said:

... from what i have seen it is kerkythea turned into a sketchup plugin. or am i wrong?

well, our dream was to have the power of KT inside of SketchUp, but then to fix what we found difficult with KT. So, to keep all positives, lose any negatives (like having to re-export and re-merge model geometry any time we change our model.)

The main bottleneck for KT users, new or old, was the creation of good materials. Turning your SketchUp materials into physically accurate high quality materials is simple now with Twilight.

Check out the video tutorials. (Intermediate Tutorial #1 is specifically on materials, as well as the first Getting Started Tutorial.)

The other main problem for most new users of KT was the choice of the right rendering settings. There is an "easy" set of render settings to choose "out of the box" with Twilight, and should serve well in almost all architectural-type rendering situations.

The main annoyance was re-exporting models after changes, and there is no more exporting with Twilight.
Setting up lights used to be a bit more difficult, now lighting, even IES lights, is fun in Twilight.

Rob D

Fletch / Kim, this looks great. Fine idea. Nice price. Only one question.... does this mean you're parting ways from Giannis and Thea Render?

Frederik

@rob d said:

does this mean you're parting ways from Giannis and Thea Render?

Most definitely not...

Rob D

That's what I wanted to hear! Thanks Kim

Edson

kim and fletch,

your comments and descriptions left me with a watering mouth, not to mention a kind of murderous envy of all of you windows users.

regards,

olishea

very nice

david57

Nice work. Colors on the second render looks better and makes room look brighter.
Its been quiet here and i was wondering where everybody went. No body told me.