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A compiled version of RenderAnts is available at h...

2010-01-16T18:39:03.827Z

A compiled version of RenderAnts is available at http://www.filefactory.com/file/a2a530a/n/RenderAnts.rar
Expand it into the samples directory of BSGP. Add the RenderAnts/bin directory to the path.
BSGP depends on the Nvidia Cuda driver and Toolkit. RenderAnts also needs a working C compiler to compile the shaders. It uses Mingw. The only test scene I have been successful in rendering from the author's website is the Ants scene which has been since removed. It is available here http://www.filefactory.com/file/a2c05g0/n/ants.zip
The other scenes need more memory than I have with my Geforce 9800GT. The author used multiple graphic cards. When used with Mosaic and Blender, I get these error messages: Bad attribute "user" and "can't open archive ...". I'm sure this can be easily overcome with correctly setting the compile options with Mosaic, as I have sucessfully gotten RenderAnts to sucessfully render from the Liquid plugin in Maya using the renderants.lg preset in the misc folder.

The current version of BSGP from Microsoft Researc...

2010-01-07T16:02:31.276Z

The current version of BSGP from Microsoft Research is version 2.0.0.2. Microsoft dropped the source for RenderAnts in this version. That's the bad news. The good news is that the old version 2.0.0.1, with RenderAnts, is mirrored and archived here. http://www.filefactory.com/file/a1728d1/n/bsgp.msi
According to Microsoft's own licencing agreement , "You may use, copy, reproduce, and distribute this Software for any non-commercial purpose ..." It is with that intent that the previous version is being provided.

The sourcecode for RenderAnts in included in the f...

2010-01-01T04:55:10.832Z

The sourcecode for RenderAnts in included in the file bsgp.msi from Microsoft Research. http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/downloads/283bb827-8669-4a9f-9b8c-e5777f48f77b/default.aspx

Ted, I have heard and read that Weta has licensed...

2009-12-14T07:54:13.940Z

Ted,

I have heard and read that Weta has licensed the source of this project already.

I dont think they will ever release it though...

Congratulations!! Mosaic do a good job there, the ...

2009-12-09T05:40:35.489Z

Congratulations!!
Mosaic do a good job there, the renders looks realy fine! (models, textures, etc.. I mean)

Unfortunately nobody has this software, except of ...

2009-12-05T04:50:16.657Z

Unfortunately nobody has this software, except of course the person who developed it. Since it is a research project I am sure eventually somewhere down the line that someone will take the idea and make it open source, though I am also sure that before this happens that this technology will be used by animation and visual effects studios during future productions.

The main reason for the post was simply because both Blender and Mosaic were used to export the data.

Wow this looks very promising. Where I can downloa...

2009-11-23T12:43:20.172Z

Wow this looks very promising. Where I can download the files? Also a small tutorial of how to install it will be awesome.

I didn't knew Mosaic was used in this research...

2009-11-18T12:33:02.280Z

I didn't knew Mosaic was used in this research. Congratulations!

About this paper, will Blender and Mosaic benefit from this one day?

BTW, I'm really looking forward to use Blender 2.5 with Pixie and Mosaic. I hope you keep in touch with Blender developers when it comes to render API for it to have everything is needed to a perfect translation.

Regards,
Jr.