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  • JonstarkJonstark Posts: 2,738
    edited December 1969

    joeping said:
    Thanks for letting us know about the update.

    This is another quick experiment with Carrara 8.5 Pro and LUXUS for Carrara. This time I was playing with the LUX materials, the surface replicator and the new LuxRender 1.4 RC1 luxrender engine. It seems much faster, this was just a 1 hour render.

    Click here to view the stereoscopic 3D version at 3dLive

    Wow!

    I'm also impressed by the speed of the render, unless you just have a monstrously powerful computer behind it, that's very quick for a scene of that complexity and size to render to such clarity.

    Awesome work.

  • MiloMilo Posts: 511
    edited December 1969

    so is it safe to move to 1.4 of lux?

  • JoepingletonJoepingleton Posts: 746
    edited October 2014

    My pc is a few years old. I only used one light and that might be the reason for the speed. I spent some time converting all the shaders to lux materials. Most of them are LUX metal 2 with texture maps. I only had to do that on one starhawk, then it was replicated using the surface replicator.

    I cut the render off after an hour, and that was rendering both stereoscopic images at the same time.
    Since this was my first test of 1.4, more experiments are needed.

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  • JoepingletonJoepingleton Posts: 746
    edited October 2014

    A quick experiment with Carrara 8.5 Pro, LUXUS for Carraraa and LuxRender 1.4 RC1.

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  • evilproducerevilproducer Posts: 9,050
    edited December 1969

    joeping said:
    A quick experiment with Carrara 8.5 Pro, LUXUS for Carraraa and LuxRender 1.4 RC1.

    Very beautiful!

    Is the light bloom from LUXUS or postwork?

  • JoepingletonJoepingleton Posts: 746
    edited October 2014

    Thanks,
    I used a slightly blurred layer to soften the image in Photoshop during color correction

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  • chickenmanchickenman Posts: 1,202
    edited December 1969

    tbwoq said:
    Very nice render(s) all.

    It's great to see Carrara support listed right on the home pages of both LuxRender and Octane. Now if we can get the DAZ developers back on track for C9,...perhaps with more awesome content renders. :)

    Q: Is Luxus and/or LuxRender now compatible with GPU rendering? I wanted to know if one or both supports my GPU(AMD R250 2Gb). I might try LuxRender over the weekend anyway, but just wanted to know about any issues I might run into.

    If you utilize the Open CL version it will use the CPU and GPU.
    It was using my R7 240 4 GB in Daz Studio quite well, now to try it in Carrara.

  • Design AcrobatDesign Acrobat Posts: 459
    edited December 1969

    Chickenman said:
    tbwoq said:
    Very nice render(s) all.

    It's great to see Carrara support listed right on the home pages of both LuxRender and Octane. Now if we can get the DAZ developers back on track for C9,...perhaps with more awesome content renders. :)

    Q: Is Luxus and/or LuxRender now compatible with GPU rendering? I wanted to know if one or both supports my GPU(AMD R250 2Gb). I might try LuxRender over the weekend anyway, but just wanted to know about any issues I might run into.

    If you utilize the Open CL version it will use the CPU and GPU.
    It was using my R7 240 4 GB in Daz Studio quite well, now to try it in Carrara.


    Ah, that's why it's faster - I'm using the Open CL version.

  • tbwoqtbwoq Posts: 238
    edited December 1969

    Chickenman said:
    tbwoq said:
    Very nice render(s) all.

    It's great to see Carrara support listed right on the home pages of both LuxRender and Octane. Now if we can get the DAZ developers back on track for C9,...perhaps with more awesome content renders. :)

    Q: Is Luxus and/or LuxRender now compatible with GPU rendering? I wanted to know if one or both supports my GPU(AMD R250 2Gb). I might try LuxRender over the weekend anyway, but just wanted to know about any issues I might run into.

    If you utilize the Open CL version it will use the CPU and GPU.
    It was using my R7 240 4 GB in Daz Studio quite well, now to try it in Carrara.

    Thanks for the info.

    I browsed the web for anyone using LuxRender specifically with AMD GPU's and very little was showing up in searches. I wanted to see how it compared to Nvidia GPU rendering speeds.

  • Rashad CarterRashad Carter Posts: 1,799
    edited December 1969

    joeping said:
    Thanks for letting us know about the update.

    This is another quick experiment with Carrara 8.5 Pro and LUXUS for Carrara. This time I was playing with the LUX materials, the surface replicator and the new LuxRender 1.4 RC1 luxrender engine. It seems much faster, this was just a 1 hour render.

    Click here to view the stereoscopic 3D version at 3dLive

    This looks really awesome. A few questions.

    1. How much faster was this render compared to other Lux render scenes?
    2. Do you think the quality is the same as before?
    3. Do you think the LuxCore is going to be a good thing for LuxRender?

    I ask all of this because if I understood the page correctly , it is stating that LuxRender has recently taken on some of the faster rendering code from LuxCore. But LuxCore is biased currently, and does not have spectral abilities as well as some other features. I am wondering because I do not see it addressed, is to ask if this newest version of LuxRender is still unbiased, or has a slight bias been adopted to speed up the rendering?

    I'm extremely new to LuxRender. I only recently became interested in it after playing with Octane. Not that I don't love Octane, but LUxRender is free and I really like that such a tool is available free of charge and I want to be a part of that.

    Best case scenario is that LuxCore will be made unbaised before it becomes the new base renderer in LuxRender, leading to a fast producing LuxRender with all the unbiased quality we have come to love. Worst case scenario would be that LuxCore is biased but super fast, and much of its speed is due to time saved by the biases they've introduced. Not sure. I'd love to hear your opinion on it. Thnx.

  • JoepingletonJoepingleton Posts: 746
    edited October 2014

    Another quick experiment with Carrara 8.5 Pro, LUXUS for Carrara and LuxRender 1.4 RC1.

    Click here to view the stereoscopic 3D version at 3dLive

    Thanks for the kind words and feedback.

    My experiments with the new version were using the Open CL version. I haven't tried it with old renders to compare, but the new renders seem quicker. The quality seems better too.

    I don't know much about LuxCore. Has anyone had any experience with it?

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  • JonstarkJonstark Posts: 2,738
    edited October 2014

    joeping, don't know if it was just me or whether there's something up with your latest post, but it didn't show right in the forums (I was still able to view it by clicking over to your site of course, but I thought I should mention).

    Also, you truly are a wizard at making Luxus renders that are fantastic. I worry that some of the other carrara members miss out on this because they might see a thread titled 'Luxus for Carrara question' and think 'well I don't have Luxus, so...' and then never peek inside, thus missing out on all these fantastic renders. I wanted to encourage you to double post here and also into the 'post your Carrara renders' thread too, so others don't miss out. :) Also I really think you could be cleaning up on prizes if you entered into some of the challenge contests too.

    Edit: Actually I reloaded the forum and now the render above is visible. So it was probably just my computer being fussy for a second there...

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  • JoepingletonJoepingleton Posts: 746
    edited October 2014

    Another quick experiment with Carrara 8.5 Pro, LUXUS for Carrara and LuxRender 1.4 RC1. This time I was playing with volumetric lights and LUX materials. I wanted to try some of the techniques from my other post [ http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/45259/ ] with the new version of LUX.

    Jon - Thanks for the encouragement. Since these are just experiments, maybe I need to post more information about my process to help other avoid my problems and explain my work around those problems. :)

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  • chickenmanchickenman Posts: 1,202
    edited December 1969

    JoePing that would be good then I may be able to do some with out the issues you have hit and learn from them.

  • JoepingletonJoepingleton Posts: 746
    edited November 2014

    An experiment with Carrara 8.5 Pro, LUXUS for Carrara and LuxRender 1.4 RC1.

    Click here to view the stereoscopic 3D version at 3dLive

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  • DUDUDUDU Posts: 1,945
    edited December 1969

    Excellent Joe!
    I would be curious to see same rendered scene without Luxus in Carrara, to compare…

  • JoepingletonJoepingleton Posts: 746
    edited December 1969

    Thanks,
    I would have to recreate the scene to compare them, because I used my version of opus magnum where I converted all the textures to lux materials. :)

  • DiomedeDiomede Posts: 15,158
    edited December 1969

    Beautiful renders, Joe. Really inspiring.

  • rk66rk66 Posts: 438
    edited December 1969

    Hi,

    Luxrender 1.4RC2 is out:
    http://www.luxrender.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=11369

    rk.

  • JoepingletonJoepingleton Posts: 746
    edited December 1969

    Thanks for the info and kind comments,
    This is a quick experiment with Carrara 8.5 Pro, Luxus for Carrara and new LuxRender 1.4 RC2. I was playing with the skin and light settings.

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  • JoepingletonJoepingleton Posts: 746
    edited December 1969

    This is a quick experiment with Carrara 8.5 Pro, Luxus for Carrara and new LuxRender 1.4 RC2. This time I was playing with the metal shaders on the armor.

    Click here to view the stereoscopic 3D version at 3dLive

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  • JoepingletonJoepingleton Posts: 746
    edited December 1969

    This is a quick experiment with Carrara 8.5 Pro, Luxus for Carrara and new LuxRender 1.4 RC2. This time I was playing with the ocean primitive and the surface replicator to create a bunch of skeletons.

    Click here to view the stereoscopic 3D version at 3dLive

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  • evilproducerevilproducer Posts: 9,050
    edited December 1969

    joeping said:
    This is a quick experiment with Carrara 8.5 Pro, Luxus for Carrara and new LuxRender 1.4 RC2. This time I was playing with the ocean primitive and the surface replicator to create a bunch of skeletons.

    Click here to view the stereoscopic 3D version at 3dLive

    This one is very cool.

  • JoepingletonJoepingleton Posts: 746
    edited December 1969

    Thank evil,
    This is a quick experiment with Carrara 8.5 Pro, Luxus for Carrara and new LuxRender 1.4 RC2. This time I was playing with creating an outdoor LUX scene using the terrain object, a sky dome, a tree and the surface replicator.

    Click here to view the stereoscopic 3D version at 3dLive

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  • JoepingletonJoepingleton Posts: 746
    edited December 2014

    Today's experiment with Carrara 8.5 pro and Luxus for Carrara is with volumetric light and stained glass.

    Click here to view the stereoscopic 3D version at 3dLive

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  • JonstarkJonstark Posts: 2,738
    edited December 1969

    Exquisite and stunning. Fantastic work, Joe!

  • JoepingletonJoepingleton Posts: 746
    edited December 2014

    Thanks Jon :)
    Today's experiment with Carrara 8.5 pro and Luxus for Carrara. This time playing with the surface replicator, a sky dome and LUX materials.

    Click here to view the stereoscopic 3D version at 3dLive

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  • SphericLabsSphericLabs Posts: 598
    edited December 2014

    You guys might be interested in this
    -> http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/50130/

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  • JoepingletonJoepingleton Posts: 746
    edited December 1969

    See the animated version on YouTube at http://youtu.be/ehnHjI0iIgk

    This is a quick test of LuxusCore Carrara's animation rendering capabilities on a genesis figure. It is rendered at 90 sec per frame at 1280 X 720, using NLA clips from my previous Mimic Plug in for Carrara Pro 8.5 Pro experiment. [ http://youtu.be/l_tvPCbcjKg ]

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  • JoepingletonJoepingleton Posts: 746
    edited January 2015

    Another quick experiment with Luxcore Carrara. This time playing with the skin textures and the eyes.

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