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A small mention but a juicy one.

Also, we were planning to support Softimage first for obvious reasons (ICE), not Maya, but that could change in the future.

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Jesse wrote:A small mention but a juicy one.

Also, we were planning to support Softimage first for obvious reasons (ICE), not Maya, but that could change in the future.

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Wow!!!! Just wow!!

Krakatoa is nice.

Although I'd point out that Softimage now has Fury. Fury is a GPU-accelerated point renderer. It is currently available as part of SlipstreamVX, which you can try out here:

http://www.exocortex.com/simulation/slipstreamvx

Fury will be available as a standalone plugin in the near future so keep your eyes open.

Here are some Fury videos, many of which feature real-time results:

Fury is awesome! Specially it's realtime features, DOF etc.

But I'm sorry, it's not even close to THIS!

satyajit wrote:Fury is awesome! Specially it's realtime features, DOF etc.
But I'm sorry, it's not even close to THIS!

I actually was the original author of Krakatoa and I also was the one that proposed its creation, so I am glad you like Krakatoa.

Fury right now is equivalent in terms of features (but way faster in terms of speed) to the first internal version of Krakatoa, which was used successfully on Cursed (2005), and Stay (2006). The only thing that Fury is currently missing with regards to render effects that is demonstrated in that video you linked to is self-shadowing/volumetric lighting, which are two sides of the same coin.

Although Matthias Müller of course did some awesome PFlow work that makes the animations spectacular, and he also imported some really nice FumeFX simulations.

I'll put some more resources towards Fury in the next little while because I think there is an opportunity for a fully GPU-accelerated self-shadowing/volumetric lighting framework.

bhouston wrote:

satyajit wrote:Fury is awesome! Specially it's realtime features, DOF etc.
But I'm sorry, it's not even close to THIS!

I actually was the original author of Krakatoa and I also was the one that proposed its creation, so I am glad you like Krakatoa.

Fury right now is equivalent in terms of features (but way faster in terms of speed) to the first internal version of Krakatoa, which was used successfully on Cursed (2005), and Stay (2006). The only thing that Fury is currently missing with regards to render effects that is demonstrated in that video you linked to is self-shadowing/volumetric lighting, which are two sides of the same coin.

Although Matthias Müller of course did some awesome PFlow work that makes the animations spectacular, and he also imported some really nice FumeFX simulations.

I'll put some more resources towards Fury in the next little while because I think there is an opportunity for a fully GPU-accelerated self-shadowing/volumetric lighting framework.

Wow! You guys did the Karakatoa?

I think Self shadowing and shadows on objects are absolutely vital. Also, handling the volume texture of the particles. AfterBurn is quite nice on this. XSI Particle volume shader is not that good. In AB you can create a nebula tweaking textures of 5 big particles.

I've said this many times in the forums. As a particle system, ICE is way ahead than Pflow or FumeFx. Lots of options. But hey, it's the final render that matters. Until and unless we get a particle shader/renderer that is competent to Krakatoa or Fume or AB, we have to port to Max and render.

Fury has the promise! Looking forward for the updates.

Any news on this front ... seems to have stalled out. The only renderer I see doing self shadowing is Mootzoids emRenderPointCloud and I do not think it can obtain the quality of krakatoa or fume.

mdonovan wrote:Any news on this front ... seems to have stalled out.

Check the Exocortex channel on Vimeo. Fury 2 is in beta, and it's shaping up nicely.

Schmexy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHfTkfLe ... embedded#!

i wonder what happened to the Softimage support. I guess they dropped the ball and went with Maya

That's really too bad. Whatever happened to Fury? Has it fallen off the rails too? It's been in beta for what seems like forever...

i think they are showing stuff at siggraph...

Fury is VERY close to release - when you have a look at the beta list you can find the second release candidate and the info that they plan to release within a month or so (don't quote me on that ;) )

https://vimeo.com/30562500

hmm.. odd... google shows a different date. This one seems a tad old now...
sorry if that confuses someone..