Mailing List AE-List@media-motion.tv ? Message #44116
From: mylenium@mylenium.de <mylenium@mylenium.de>
Subject: Re: [AE] Why a raytraced renderer?
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2012 07:39:25 +0200 (CEST)
To: After Effects Mail List <AE-List@media-motion.tv>

That's 100% bullshit.

 

Mylenium

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Todd Kopriva <kopriva@adobe.com> hat am 5. Juni 2012 um 23:20 geschrieben:

> > I'm trying to get my head around Adobe's decision to go with the ray
> > traced renderer they did in AE6.
>
> I just asked a couple of the software engineers involved about this decision, and they say that a ray-traced renderer is more efficient for getting good-looking results for reflections, refractions, and shadows than would be a scanline renderer. Our GPU-based ray-traced 3D renderer is actually quite fast compared with anything that gives comparable visual results for these light-related characteristics. That said, the CPU-based renderer is slow, and we acknowledge that.
>
> As far hardware dependencies: We officially support a couple dozen GPUs, and many of the high-performing ones (like the GTX 580) are not expensive.
>
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