Articles tagged in "Rendering R&D"

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What does the new NVIDIA RTX hardware mean for ray tracing, GPU rendering & V-Ray?

With the big announcement of new GPU ray-tracing hardware, Vlado explains what this breakthrough means for the future of rendering.

Boris Simandoff — V-Ray Cloud

The man behind V-Ray’s super simple cloud rendering tells Chris how it was done

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V-Ray Next: The science behind the new hair shader

A deeper look at the new hair shader in V-Ray next. It describes how to understand the shader in a more physiological way, then takes you through the steps of setting one up for Look development including using V-Ray GPU in IPR rendering.

V-Ray Next: Switching the camera from manual to automatic

The new automatic exposure and white balance settings in V-Ray next not only make the rendering process simpler and faster, but they also balance your renderings for both speed and quality.

V-Ray Next: Experiments with the NVIDIA Optix Denoiser

Noise is a common issue with rendering, usually solved by longer rendering. Another solution is denoising. Using NVIDIA's OptiX denoising algorithm, V-Ray experiments with real time denoising based on deep learning.

V-Ray Next: Smarter rendering with the New Adaptive Dome Light

A new smarter use of Image Based Lighting (IBL) through the V-Ray Dome Light, which is smarter and faster especially for interior scenes.

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Understanding V-Ray Hybrid rendering

Now that V-Ray CUDA was rendering on both CPUs and GPUs, and producing the exact same results, V-Ray Hybrid rendering was officially born.

Understanding V-Ray Benchmark

V-Ray Benchmark is a free utility to benchmark your hardware against other hardware when it comes to rendering with V-Ray.

How to move V-Ray scenes between applications

We developed V-Ray scene files to help you move a scene from one application to render in another.

V-Ray GPU Benchmarks on Top-of the-Line NVIDIA GPUs

V-Ray GPU Benchmarks on Top-of the-Line NVIDIA GPUs

Understanding V-Ray Swarm

New to V-Ray for Revit, Rhino, and SketchUp, we are introducing V-Ray Swarm, which is an evolution of Distributed Rendering.

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V-Ray GPU improvements in V-Ray 3.5 for 3ds Max

V-Ray GPU improvements in V-Ray 3.5 for 3ds Max

Understanding Resumable Rendering

In short, resumable rendering is the ability to have incomplete renders resume where they left off.

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Understanding Adaptive Lights

Understanding Adaptive Lights

Understanding Glossy Fresnel

We take a closer look at the Glossy Fresnel effect that will be added to to upcoming V-Ray service packs

Wikihuman project explores the use of the alSurface shader

Wikihuman project looks at using the alSurface shader on the new Digital Mike data.

Two tools to view your stereo cubemaps in VR

Two tools to view your stereo cubemaps in VR

FX Guide article on V-Ray's stochastic flakes

FX Guide article on V-Ray's stochastic flakes

The truth about unbiased rendering

Over the years, there have been many debates about whether biased or unbiased rendering is better.

Blagovest Taskov looks at the new Polaris based AMD cards

Blagovest Taskov benchmarks the latest Polaris based AMD RX 480

R&D at Chaos Group with V-Ray RT rendering directly to Oculus viewer

R&D shows using V-Ray RT to render directly into an Oculus viewer.

Guide to GPU Rendering

Welcome to the Chaos Group Labs’ Guide to GPU Rendering.

Uncube feature on DFL member Ben West

Uncube featured an article about Digital Film League member Ben West on how his architecture background have help him evolve his creative skill set.

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Viewing VR stereo cubemaps in a browser and Google Cardboard

Stanley Brusse takes the stereo cubemap images done for the Guide to VR aand allows us to view them directly into a browser