I know most will be using the native renderer, for those wishing to try Gelato the Gelato Zone site has released some Gelato Maya tutorial videos, quicktime I think.

I myself do not have Maya, I have Silo, which renders to Gelato via .rib format. Im in Very early stages of experimenting.

The vids although are for Maya, can, in Nvidias words be applied to various other 3d apps that can export to gelato via plugins.

cheers

http://www.nvidia.com/object/gz_tutorials.html

been reading up on that - it is interesting, never ever heard of it.

I read in “rendered with” thread that “oglu” suggests using Blender, there is a very good Blender/Gelato plugin by “XYZ” at Gelato Zone.

Also an obj generator by “billr”

heres a couple pics, usiing billr,s plugin.1st is pixologics sword mesh,2nd with Gelato,s displacement shader applied.

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Hi,
Thanks for this link! It’s very helpful to hear an opinion on something before exploring. There’s so much news out there that sometimes it’s difficult to keep up with it all.

The Gelato hardware accelerated rendering looks very promising; and the basic version is a free download!

Best,
Jacques

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Does it works with any Nvidia graphic card?

I have a GT 7800GT. It will work?

Cheers,
Diego

diegooriani,

I think it was Origonally intended for Nvidia “Quadro” cards. But it seems to work for many Nvidia cards.

if you go to “Gelato Zone” site I think there is a listing of known cards that it works with.

http://www.nvidia.com/object/gz_sys_req.html

I have the free version Gelato working with 7900GS, and other users have non Quadro cards.

hope this helps,

cheers.

GeForce 7800 / 7800 GS / 7800 GT / 7800 GTX / GTX 512

My is just on the list! Good!

Have anyone tested with Maya? Is it worth to try?

Cheers,
Diego

Gelato is definately worth it if you’ve got an Nvidia card.

Using Mental Ray for complex displacements consumes your memory like it’s nothing and usually ends up crashing Maya.

Renderman for Maya in Maya 7 is awesome for displacement but the promised, since last siggraph, update for Maya 8.5 (Renderman Studio/Renderman for Maya 2.0) is nowhere to be found.

Gelato’s displacement in my experimentations matched the speed and quality of Renderman’s. It can run even on older Nvidia cards and it’s for free, so I’d definately recommend you guys give it a go.

Shit man. There ins’t a version for Windows Vista.

I am on X64.
As far as I know, there isn’t even proper nvidia drivers for the gfx cards, let alone Gelato for vista.

I think waiting for at least the first service pack is currently the sensible thing to do before going the vista path, there are still many glitches/software that doesn’t work well under vista.

Already on vista here. Too late.