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the light sim stuff was a combo of the daylight system in max with a Lux calculation render element in vray. (using vray sun + sky)
vray rendering is based on real world values so I'm hoping it's accurate enough.
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Industry standards are a hard thing to break I guess. Lots of companies everywhere set up with Max, the plugins and their render-farms. I wonder if the ArchViz industry at least will move more towards a model of more one-man-bands as some studios go under which might help the Unreal boom.
For me I've yet to see anything else that could handle messy building models from architects so well, and with the convenience of Revit links / interoperability. Always happy to be proved wrong, and I think Unreal is giving max a good run for it's money in interior artworks when in skilled hands.
FWIW 2020 seems stable and there's been some quite nice developments recently. The UI is will a mess though.
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Completely agree. That is until the UI. Marmite but always got on with it.
I find Revit fascinating. SO much capability yet so infuriating.
It takes me about about 30mins to open average models.
How the hell you use it to Masterplan as a working model!?!?
Reminds me of a chap who convinced an old firm I used to work for to use Gehry Technologies.
The cost of a license and the time it took to just open the program (Digital Project) or do anything were astounding.
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Sketch Up is v useful.
We use both with VRay which has become the common medium.
I still use Warehouse to get quick mock ups. 😎
I find Unreal impressive using datasmith transfer.
Just don't like the UI / architecture as much.
(That goes for game engines in general.)
Not keen on substance painter yet. Just seems to turn everything into an asset from Halo.
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unreal and datasmith import is pretty good as long as the models coming in are decent. some of the revit models we get coming in have so much detail in some areas where it's not needed (bathroom fixtures), then really scrimp on the details where it matters (walls not joining floors, overlapping objects etc.)
i spend so much time cleaning up shitty revit imports some times that it's quicker to re-build from scratch in max.the realtime stuff looks to be improving quite rapidly at the moment though. i've been trialling the latest version of twinmotion but find that they've probably oversimplified things to some extent.
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Apologies for the dredge, but I'm writing about how the heatwave is affecting tech for New Scientist. I saw a tweet suggesting that some VFX agencies were shutting down high-power rendering machines because they were worried they'd be fried in 40C heat. Has anyone seen that happening, and would you be up for a chat?
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Across all the bigger/mid sized VFX houses (The Mill, DNEG, Framestore, ETC.. plus most of the rest i'd imagine) all the render farms are in climate controlled server rooms with air-con i'd bet a fair amount that they won't be shutting anything down unless their air-con wasn't working correctly or was already stretched to it's limits.
Our (Untold Studios) farm is in AWS, only Jeff Bezos has to worry about the $$ of running the air-con at full pelt - so at least that's not a worry for our team today!
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We have all of our spot fleets with a larger variance of instance types to try and minimise capacity issues, we do reserve some instance types but the majority of our fleet aren't so we do run into spot interruptions - though this can actually save money as you don't pay for the instance if you are interupted in the first hour (and data may already been written to storage - checkpointing helps there too)
I don't think we run into a total lack of capacity often (or ever really) with workstations we created multi-region and availability zone failovers
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There are levels of subscription/commitment yeah, if you go unreserved you get the best price but are liable to be interrupted (Spot Interruption) though how you deal with that best is where money can be saved
You pay more for reserved instances, it's definitely a balancing act but the benefit being that if your storage can handle it and you've got the render licences then you can spin up a massive farm easily
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Really shit to read about Axis Animation closing this week. Writing had been on the wall since news about them struggling to pay staff last month and people being let go. Always thought it a positive thing that a UK studio could be successful and highly regarded outside London.
Did a year there around 2005 when they were still relatively small. Fond memories (even of the occasional all-nighter) which according to LinkedIn seems a common sentiment amongst others who'd worked there.
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Well Hello.
Long time 3Ds Max user.
Used to be Arch Vis now Engineering.
Can't get out. Perfect Bubble?