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[Hawkwind]

I was wondering if there are any (non real-time) renderers based on CUDA for use with Max or Maya - an artist friend of mine is using MentalRay and was interested if there was anything out there yet which really used the massive
parallelism exposed with CUDA... I googled but failed to find anything other than versions of renderers which use GPU in a conventional non-CUDA way.

[nomad421]

To my knowledge, there is nothing which uses CUDA explicitly. However, since your friend has a Nvidia graphics card, he may want to explore Gelato. Though it doesn't make explicit use of CUDA, I'm pretty sure the engineers at Nvidia did a pretty good job of exploiting the massively parallel potential of the GPUs anyway.

[Hawkwind]

Thanks... I guess we'll just have to wait for a CUDA renderer....

[TimothyFarrar]

BTW, NVidia now owns Mental Images (creators of Mental Ray) so you might as well expect that the GPU is going to be heavily used in the future of Mental Ray.

http://www.nvidia.co...tal_images.html