Another new integrated renderer

fluid

Yep, I totally agree.

sepo

Interesting language being used in your GUI. I always wonder why people are trying to reinvent wheel all the time. Anyway .... I have tried file which perfectly renders unbiased in Thea, Twilight and also in biased like Vray etc. With Fluid , after 20min of (non responsive) mat export, had run out of memory message. I did not change anything ...really only clicked render button. So there were no reflection at all ...just matt materials, exterior render with sun and sky. I wonder if this is beta limitation or known problem with medium sized files. The file size is around 30MB.
And yes, before you ask me to send you the file... sorry, but can't do that. The renderer looks interesting although I am not convinced that some elements could not be automated and/or simplified.
Cheers

fluid

Yes, FluidRay is still in beta. May I ask how many polygons does your scene have?

EarthMover

Nicola, welcome and good luck with your product. It is a big task I'm sure and takes a lot of time and effort to write such a program. I admire you for your resolve and determination. It's also tough being the new kid on the playground with the other kids being bigger and very territorial. Keep at it though and include the users in your layout decisions and I'm sure it will yield a great piece of software. Best Wishes!

fluid

Hi EarthMover,

Thanks for the kind words!

sepo

4.3 million faces. The file size 31.8 mb.

fluid

We just released a new demo version, featuring:

-Improved UI readability
-IES light profiles
-Layered materials

You can grab it here: http://www.fluidray.com/downloads/

troyhome

It looks like you have to go through hoops before you can render; I find Thea far simpler.

Radeon56k

I downloaded and installed the FluidRay demo. The first thing I noticed was my Irender Nxt toolbar was missing. I reopened my Irender toolbar and placed it back on the sidebar, then set it to open automatically when SK starts. When I restart SK, it crashes once. When I restart SK again, FluidRays toolbar is in place of my Irender toolbar, even though I set it to start when SK starts up. Needless to say, I uninstalled Fluidray demo. I can understand one application not working if another one is installed, but isn't booting off another apps toolbar an act of war or something.

fluid

Hi Radeon56k,

We are investigating the issue. We hope you'll reconsider evaluating FluidRay.

Nicola

fluid

We just released FluidRay Demo version 1.0.7 featuring:

substantial improvements in speed and memory consumption
better UI
a bunch of bug fixes

Nicola