Not a lot of cash, you might say, but these things soon stack up, and regular users may find their needs are better served with inhouse GPUs or CPUs – possibly even one of the new iRay capable Nvidia Maximus workstations, which we reported on earlier this month. In terms of cost though, the render shown in the YouTube clip above is priced at $4. Project Pandora looks to be quick and certainly more interactive than the cloud-based CPU renderers I’ve seen. It’s all about getting the job done in the shortest amount of time and for the right price. Of course, no one really cares whether it’s a GPU or CPU doing the work. Project Neon, which is now called Autodesk Cloud Rendering, enables Revit and AutoCAD models to be rendered remotely at the click of a button. This isn’t Autodesk’s first foray into cloud-based rendering. This would be a great way for clients or marketing to get hold of still renders without having to stand over the pony-tailed shoulder of a design viz specialist. Exposure and focal point settings can be played with and JPGs saved out at will.
Once rendered, scenes can be viewed through a web browser, with Pandora automatically re-rendering the model as it is manipulated on screen. We’ve not had hands on experience to comment on this properly though. While rendering looks fast, one has to consider the time taken to upload scenes to the cloud in the first place and bandwidth could be a bottleneck for some users. You simply select the iRay renderer, click remote render services, log into Project Pandora and away you go. This is all made possible with the help of mental images iRay, an Nvidia owned technology that is built into 3ds Max 2012. But instead of doing this on CPUs (Central Processing Units), Pandora’s cloud servers use Nvidia GPUs (Graphics Processing Units).
With the help of graphics specialist Nvidia, 3ds Max models can now be rendered in the cloud. Send the model up to the cloud and back comes a shiny new render for you to show off to your colleagues and clients.Īutodesk’s latest Labs project, Pandora, does just that.
Imagine being able to render models in a snap when all you own is a low powered PC, laptop or tablet. Project Pandora: cloud based rendering for 3ds Max using Nvidia GPUs
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