drifterlee opened this issue on Sep 01, 2007 ยท 86 posts
Dale B posted Fri, 07 September 2007 at 5:48 AM
I never said the Poser renderer didn't produce excellent quality (with the needed work); just that the single render engine scheme was too slow for use as an actual end stage. The network rendering, if it performs as I hope, could change that. The real question will be how much of a system hog the remote nodes will be; if they can run in tandem with Vue's Rendercows, then those of us with any kind of renderfarm would have the ability to dual render scene elements for later compositing, or two separate scenes at the same time (and yes, I do know that the master workstation would have to be a MASTER to handle that kind of memory load. It's also about upgrade time again.... >:D ). The only problem with the Poser/Vue integration idea is that one shader scheme would pretty much have to be scrapped. A lot of the compatibility issues there are due to the translations that have to occur, as the app's shader schemes are fundamentally incompatible. Aside from the fact that one would just about have to buy the other out for it to ever happen....