hello all,

what do you [COLOR="Red"]HyperShot (Bunkspeed)[/COLOR]?

for the work of rendering.

I am looking for the ideal compagnion SharkFX.

My concerns are primarily the rendering of gemstones, metals, glass.

SharkFX:
- Very bad interface and ergonomics
+ rendering integrated software SharkFX.

Maxwell Render:
- Expensive, complex interface, rendering time very very long
+ materials extraordinary action on the rendering => after rendering.

Artalantis render:
- Made-oriented architecture
+ real time, fantastic ergonomics, learning time is very short.


Cinema4D
- Expensive
+ Nice GUI, powerful

thank you in advance for your contribution.



Best regards

Antoine

I have also tried Hypershot, and liked most results... but it was too unstable on Snow Leopard. There were also a few rendering glitches that I was not happy with (on both platforms).

I was going to demo the new Hypershot '10 when it was released. I have now been waiting several months, with no word... then this just came to light a few days ago.

http://develop3d.com/blog/2010/01/bunkspeed-the-future

I am going to wait and see what happens with Bunkspeed and Luxion, before my purchase.

Cadsoft is mentioned in this forum post, regarding a similar situation that happened years ago. Luckily, I made the decision to go with Concepts Unlimited 1.0.

http://hypershot.hyperboards.co...view_topic&topic_id=3843

Okay, here's a couple pics from Hypershot...









Mike...

Is that a BED as soon as you step in? I ask because i cannot see lines for fold-out steps, but, maybe it's just me, ....

It's very special ! - and great renderings .. are you going to build it ?

hello

I just tested:

http://www.cheetah3d.com/

what do you compared to HyperShot? please :)

best regards

Antoine

In reading of the issues confronting the Hypershot developers, I came across a link to an unbiased renderer from:

http://www.refractivesoftware.com

The package is called Octane, and it looks to be similar usability to Maxwell Render, although less developed to date. It's claim to fame is modest cost, and a CUDA implementation that gives very scalable rendering performance via multiple graphics cards or even dedicated units such as the Nvidia Tesla.

Currently, only available for Window, but soon Linux and OSX, and OpenCL down the road so that other cards other than Nvidia might be use. I would argue that offloading rendering to GPU's has the potential to provide high performance vs cost, and probably better performance than multithreading CPU's.

I don't see any reason that developers might not take advantage of both multicore/multithreading CPU and multiple GPU's for rendering.

Octane is currently on special. 49 Euros till the end of the week. The package is now cross platform, but does require that you have an Nvidia GPU. The 49 Euro price will give you a free update to the 1.0 product when it ships.