Virtual Photography Solutions

I received an email from this place and thought there might be some interest
here. There were also a lot of pictures in the email, but I figured if
you're interested, go totheir website. We don't do this kind of thing here,
but I know many of you do.

By the way, I have no connections whatsoever to this company or product,
just passing along information.

WT


Our web site - www.artvps.com has many examples of the image quality that
can be achieved using our technology, together with information about our
existing customers and the work they have produced.

You can also find information on one SolidWorks user who has recently moved
from PhotoWorks to RenderDrive to achieve a higher level of realism in their
visualization at: http://www.artvps.com/news.ihtml?page=article&pressid=50.
If you'd like to be emailed the full case study as a PDF document - then
please contact me.

Do please get back to me with any further queries or call me to arrange a
demo.

Best Regards,

Craig Wareham.

ART VPS Ltd.

Virtual Photography Solutions.
Helping design companies to improve
design communication, reduce costs
and accelerate time to market.

T: +44 1223 424 466
E:
www.artvps.com

 

See that aint right. I have known about the render drive for sometime now.
But I figured that if I didnt think about it or look at it then it wouldnt
happen. (yeah right, sure) all i have to say is OMG.....PW eat yoru friggin
heart out. Love PW2, but it is like trying to beat a Porche with a VW Bug
driving down I-95...Not gonna happen, less you got Nitro in the tank.

If only we could afford just one of those things

 

Gee, I was thinking that the images I saw were pretty mediocre.
Granted, if I put my grandma in the porsche and Al Unser (fill in whatever
generation of Unser you are partial to) in the Volkswagon, you have a
contest that doesn't fully represent the capabilties of the
machine-behind-the-scenes. So I have no idea of what the engines can really
do because it totally depends on who's driving.
But, darn it, if someone is going to put something out as a competitive
solution, it better be top notch and sell itself. Nothing I saw on that web
site was even particularly good, and certainly did not look
'indistinguishable from a photograph'.
Sure, the renderings told the story about the product, but they were quite
arrogant to take on PWx-2 on quality with those images- which could easily
be trumped by PWx-2 in the hands of a cable driver (in my experience). The
one thing I question is whether the renderer does the depth of field stuff
on its own, or if it requires a PhotoShop blur, which would be a rpetty
unique enhancement?

Please, no flames. The interface for PWx-2 is inexecusable, the stock
materials are embarassing (polished plastic without a mirror component???)
and the final release messed up things that were working pretty well in Beta
(shadows in indirect illumination, for one). But if you are using this sort
of website as your benchamrk, you will be very suprised that those
cabilities are already on your desktop.

 

This post bugged me after I pressed 'send'. I was a jerk. Mediocre is a
very, very harsh word, that does not do justice to the light renderings
which are, in fact, just fine. It was entierly unfair to make a grandma
metaphor. The renderings are good, just not jaw-dropping outstanding (and
very few renderings that I do require that extra 10% investment to be
outstanding, so the same crtiticsm could apply to my stuff)
I was just a little peeved because I saw nothing that, in my experience with
the product, is beyond the capabiltiies of PWx-2 (except for the depth of
field blur, which I acknowledged).
On the main web site, however, the airplane interior is quite nice. And I
have no idea if the set up for the renderings is much quicker than in PWx-2,
where we have to customize everything in order to meet our quality
expectations.

"Edward T Eaton"

 

paul

no the mental ray rendernode pricing has not changed its still around
3k per 4 processor license the good thing is a lot of companies are
including optimized code for their app ie softimage max6 and maya 5

from what i can gather lightworks (based just down the road in
sheffield)jumped ship and ptc licensed it to wildfire and we all know
what sw and ptc get on like and i believe thats why or part of the
reason mental ray was picked
marketing probably had big thing to play i believe catia uses mr as
its renderer

on the subject of third party renderers if you check in on the sw
subscription site and go into forums theres a guy in their working on
some plug in for renderman or bmrt cant say which buch he says he was
looking for alpha testers

on the subject of mr and third party renderers i have had a go with
final render stage 1 for 3dmax and must say i was quite blown away
,theyve moved off the funny apply the lighting to the material quirk
and it now sits more readily in the render options and traditional
material application pprocess and it renders real quick even at 1k