In the few moments I’ve been able to grab between work and family, I’ve been chipping away at an XSI exporter for the opensource unbiased renderer luxrender.
Most of these renders took hours to converge. The render times takes me right back to the old days of raytracing before maths coprocessers. It’s nice to know that my box is spending all its spare cycles computing deluxe, multiple-bounce radiosity for hours on end while I’m at work.
Unused cycles are a travesty.
Here are some results of the exporter at various stages of development. (Most recent renders first)
the first pixels rendered from my exporter:
the exporter
I started with a hack-job of a script to write luxrender scene files just to see what luxrender was like. I’ve since re-written the exporter twice because the results have been so promising.
I am unlikely to release the plugin any time soon. I have many more lux features to support before I release it, but one day, I’d love for other people to have a go with it. Even then, people would have to understand that it’s written in python. And that it’s slow. And that it slowly eats spare cycles for breakfast.
OMNOMNOM.
luXSI
For those that wish to play with XSI and luxrender right now, Michael Gangolf wrote the original XSI-to-luxrender exporter, luXSI, available here. His exporter is written in C and is a billion times faster than mine.
Tags: 3d, luxrender, rendering, softimage, xsi
Noice one!
Clovers, cones, chrome, casts, crafty clutter and cool colours.
Me likey.
Beautiful Images. A feast for the eyes!
Tasty business, BoPeeps™. Digging the look to the renders, especially the different choice of render items, -some mechanical, some organic in form.
Keep rocking the craftiness!!!
brilliant! i think they look even better as a postage-stamp montage. did somebody say montage …???
This is awesome master
pure pizaschke at its best… these are all going on my PSP as wallpapers
That is some crazy shizzle.
So is lux FOSS?
sam
Looks like it.
btw: lux is a fork of http://www.pbrt.org/
pretty cool looking setups! lux looks very natural. wow! keep up the good work!!
ro!
hey,
thanks for the comments guys!
i certainly had fun making these pictures and writing the code.
hey thought you might get a kick out of this…
http://www.vswarm.com/
cloud computing, luxrender is already supported!
Nice one Steven!
Hadn’t heard about this. I must check it out as soon as i possibly can!
Nice work! Great to see luxrender-Softimage images in such a good quality! Well done!
Cheers miga! You opened the door for me :D
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Sweet clover goodness. Love it.