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Wrote on the subject of Blender Irix Development at May 12, 2007, 11:58 a.m...

When using Blender to render a scene with the newly compiled yafray it does seem to work.
The only thing I noticed was that when the scene uses an HDMI environment map it doesn't show up in the render.
In the Blender scene however the map is clearly present and shows in the world material preview pane.

This could also be due to new setting variables in blender of which I'm not aware of .... yet...

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Wrote on the subject of Blender Irix Development at May 17, 2007, 6:51 a.m...

There's something wrong with Yafray ideed....
When I try to render the example cornell.blend I get the following error:
(This is not the complete output just the last few lines... )

Code:

Using a world resolution of 0.000892857 per unit

Rendering with 5 raydepth

4 anti-alias passes and 4 minimum samples per pass, 16 samples total.

Building bounding tree ... Object count= 4

OK

Light setup ...

Setting up lights ...

Yafray crashed

Could not execute yafray. Is it in path?

Is this because of the new compile of Yafray?

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Wrote on the subject of Blender Irix Development at May 17, 2007, 11:29 a.m...

I found out today that when you disable xml output in the Yafray renderoption tab in blender, it does work!
That is, it will render the cornell.blend testfile and makes it look very good ( as usual)

I also discovered that when rendering the same scene on a Macbook ( intell inside... ) it looks very different from the one I've rendered using an Octane2.
In my scene there's a moving object made of glass, and on the SGI it looks really realistic, but on
my Macbook it looks like the glass has a foggy texture.

Can anyone do a test with a Yafray render using blender on SGI and another platform and confirm this?

So although my SGI takes a whole lot longer to render then my OS-X machine I still prefer it cause the final result looks so much better !

Thank you Charles for keeping Blender alive for us geeks :wink:

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Wrote on the subject of Blender Irix Development at May 25, 2007, 4:57 a.m...

With version 2.44 I get more info in the command-line from yafray, why it's not using a background image.
Here's some of the output:

Code:

Rendering with 8 raydepth

4 anti-alias passes and 4 minimum samples per pass, 16 samples total.

[Warning]: Background world_background does not exist

Building bounding tree ... Object count= 15

OK

Somehow it no longer seems to support HDRI images as a background .... !
The same scene worked just fine with version 2.42 ...... :shock:

Can someone confirm this ?

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Wrote on the subject of Blender Irix Development at June 3, 2007, 7:55 a.m...

nekonoko wrote:

The library problem is solved but I'm getting a crash when trying a test render of the 'big.xml' file dexter1 posted a while back:

Code:

neko@Mai ~ % yafray big.xml

Starting YafRay ...

Loading grammar ...

Starting parser ...

Parsing OK

Loading plugins from '/usr/nekoware/lib/yafray'...

Registered arealight

Registered basicblocks

Registered basicshaders

Registered blendershaders

Registered globalphotonlight

Registered HDRI background

Registered hemilight

Registered mix block

Registered pathlight

Registered photonlight

Registered pointlight

Registered Shader Background

Registered softlight

Registered spherelight

Registered spotlight

Registered sss

Registered sunlight

Registered sunsky

found 18 plugins!

[Loader]: Added shader MAMaterial

[Loader]: Added shader MAcristal

[Loader]: Added shader MArojo

starting build of kd-tree

=== kd-tree stats (0.22s) ===

primitives in tree: 3328

interior nodes: 9111 / leaf nodes: 9112 (empty: 4397 = 48.255%)

[Loader]: Added object OBCube.001

starting build of kd-tree

=== kd-tree stats (0s) ===

primitives in tree: 12

interior nodes: 22 / leaf nodes: 23 (empty: 9 = 39.1304%)

[Loader]: Added object OBCube.002

starting build of kd-tree

=== kd-tree stats (0s) ===

primitives in tree: 12

interior nodes: 25 / leaf nodes: 26 (empty: 10 = 38.4615%)

[Loader]: Added object OBCube.003

starting build of kd-tree

=== kd-tree stats (0s) ===

primitives in tree: 2

interior nodes: 1 / leaf nodes: 2 (empty: 1 = 50%)

[Loader]: Added object OBPlane

starting build of kd-tree

=== kd-tree stats (0s) ===

primitives in tree: 12

interior nodes: 1 / leaf nodes: 2 (empty: 1 = 50%)

[Loader]: Added object OBCube

[Loader]: Added photonlight light LAMP1

[Loader]: Added sunlight light LAMP2

[Loader]: Added pathlight light path_LT

[Loader]: Added constant background world_background

[Loader]: Added camera MAINCAM

Using a world resolution of 0.00142857 per unit

Rendering with 5 raydepth

2 anti-alias passes and 4 minimum samples per pass, 8 samples total.

Building bounding tree ... Object count= 5

OK

Light setup ...

Setting up lights ...

Shooting photons ... OK

Emitted 250000 Stored 170253 search 100

Pre-Gathering (49915) ... Assertion failed in file "../../libC/lang_support/unwind.cxx", line 579

zsh: IOT instruction (core dumped)  yafray big.xml

The binary is stripped so I wasn't able to get a dbx dump.

I tried this on my Octane2 with Irix 6.5.22 and I didn't have any problems rendering this.
Here's the final render :

Attachment:

big.jpg [ 61.93 KiB | Viewed 526 times ]

And in order to try to keep this software alive for the Irix platform can anyon else give this render a try?

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Wrote on the subject of An other great forum link at June 30, 2007, 1:38 a.m...

Looks promising !
But so far not a single message in the forums ......

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Wrote on the subject of DJV Imaging 0.7.0 Beta at Aug. 3, 2007, 6:23 a.m...

I've downloaded the latest version of the fabulous djv player and when I
tried it on a bunch of targa's I get the folowing Error:

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ERROR OpenGL Maximum Texture Size: 512


ERROR OpenGL Maximum Texture Size: 512

Does this mean my Octane 2 V10 Isn't qualified anymore ?

Also after I start the program on the commandline I get the following message on the same line :

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bob@Octane2: /usr2/images %  djv_view


[codecinfo] Error: 5

What could this mean ?

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Wrote on the subject of DJV Imaging 0.7.0 Beta at Aug. 6, 2007, 5:52 a.m...

That would be great I was anciously awaiting the OpenGL SPeedboost...... :cry:

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Wrote on the subject of DJV Imaging 0.7.0 Beta at Aug. 19, 2007, 12:42 a.m...

Thanks for the update Darby.

Here's some feedback on version 0.71.
It now works on my Octane2 with V10 Graphics.
Although when executing on the timeline I still get this error :

Code:

[codecinfo] Error:

The downside of this update is that it cannot display a tga sequence ( 1024x576 ) in realtime.
of the 25 fps it can only handle 12 -14 fps. The 720x576 tga sequence plays almost 18-22 fps.
Now I know that this is not a hardware problem since I can play this in realtime with
Blender. ( the software I made the tga animation with )

The resizing of anamorph material ( 720x576 ) to 16x9 ( 1024x576 ) is much better.
There's no decrease in speed anymore ( means that this resizing is done in realtime ) !

I tried to use the cache option and increased it to 512 MB but this didn't seem to make any
difference, still can't play 25 fps.
( this was tested on 720x576 and 1024x576 tga sequences. NON SCALED )

I really hope you succeed in optimizing this code for the SGI cause I really like it

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Wrote on the subject of Blender Irix Development at Sept. 13, 2007, 10:56 a.m...

Thanks Charles,

Looking forward to the new 2.45 release.
And many thanks for your effort in keeping this juwel available for us IRIX geeks

Cheers,
Bob

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Wrote on the subject of DJV Imaging 0.7.0 Beta at Sept. 16, 2007, 3:53 a.m...

dj wrote:

ka0s wrote:

Although when executing on the timeline I still get this error :

Code:

[codecinfo] Error:

That's the QuickTime library I'm using; I still need to see if there's an option to turn that off.

O.K. that must be easy compared to the optimizing stuff ...

dj wrote:

ka0s wrote:

Are the tga files compressed? Also, do you know if blender caches them in memory or plays them directly from disk?

As far as I can tell does Blender play the compressed tga's realtime from disk.
When pressing play it play's the files realtime in one go, usually when playing from RAM the first run will be dropping frames.

dj wrote:

ka0s wrote:

I tried to use the cache option and increased it to 512 MB but this didn't seem to make any difference, still can't play 25 fps.

That's my bad; the cache feature is completely broken in 0.7.1. I have a 0.7.2 prerelease package that fixes this; I'll try and put a tardist together.

I see, looking forward to the tardist update !

dj wrote:

ka0s wrote:

I really hope you succeed in optimizing this code for the SGI cause I really like it

Thanks! As long as you can help me with feedback I'll be motivated to keep the IRIX port going.

No thank you, for your effort in keeping the SGI platform alive !!!

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Wrote on the subject of DJV Imaging 0.7.0 Beta at Oct. 16, 2007, 1:12 p.m...

Hi Darby,

Have been extremely busy but I finally found the time to try your latest release.

I tried the 0.7.2 version and its great !!!!
It plays back compressed targa sequences in real time ( 720 x 576 - 25 fps ) even when scaled up to 16x9 .... !)

This is better then the performance I get with Blender or even shake ........

Your the Man !

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Wrote on the subject of DJV Imaging 0.7.0 Beta at Oct. 18, 2007, 12:26 p.m...

Hi Darby,

I played the targa sequences from the optiondrive in my Octane2 / 6.5.22 here's a hinv:

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1 400 MHZ IP30 Processor


CPU: MIPS R12000 Processor Chip Revision: 3.5


FPU: MIPS R12010 Floating Point Chip Revision: 0.0


Main memory size: 1536 Mbytes


Xbow ASIC: Revision 1.4


Instruction cache size: 32 Kbytes


Data cache size: 32 Kbytes


Secondary unified instruction/data cache size: 2 Mbytes


Integral SCSI controller 0: Version QL1040B (rev. 2), single ended


Disk drive: unit 1 on SCSI controller 0


Disk drive: unit 2 on SCSI controller 0


Disk drive: unit 3 on SCSI controller 0


Integral SCSI controller 1: Version QL1040B (rev. 2), single ended


IOC3/IOC4 serial port: tty1


IOC3/IOC4 serial port: tty2


IOC3 parallel port: plp1


Graphics board: V10


Integral Fast Ethernet: ef0, version 1, pci 2


Iris Audio Processor: version RAD revision 12.0, number 1

There's some dropping frames when loading the targa's into RAM,
but after that it's a breez !)

I've rendered the targa's with Blender in 720x576 4x3 and Anamorph 16x9.
And I did some renders in 1024X576.

I only use targa's because in my experience they cause the least problems when
importing into other software on other platforms or systems.

At work we also use OS-X more and more because of it's stability compared with WinBlows.
So an OS-X version would be very Nice !

Cheers,
Bob

If you need more info on performance issues let me know.

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Wrote on the subject of DJV Imaging 0.7.0 Beta at Dec. 8, 2007, 8:34 a.m...

markwend wrote: Hey - let me chime in and say that I think that the djv suite is really a really useful tool. I've worked for a long time in professional film graphics, and this is by far the most useful and professional playback tool I've found in the public domain.

Here here !!!!

markwend wrote: One request: I write a lot of imaging code and rerender to the same output file. I display an image in djv_view, and then hit 'reload' whenever I rewrite the image. It would be GREAT if you kept the previous image in a temporary buffer, and have a 'toggle previous/current' key so that you can see what the change was. Right now, 'reload image' just reloads, but you can't see what the previous image was any more. With the toggle, you can go back and forth to really study any subtle changes that happen to the image.

This would be nice to check two renders for anomalies ..... !)

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Wrote on the subject of DJV Imaging 0.7.0 Beta at Dec. 8, 2007, 8:36 a.m...

Hi Darby,

Still think this piece of code is awesome in terms of usability,
could you post a link for the latest version ?

Cheers,
Bob

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Wrote on the subject of Piranha vs. Shake Irix at Feb. 20, 2008, 3:53 a.m...

Maya and Shake definitely rule this side of the Universe.
I use Shake and Maya on a SGI quite often and althuogh these machines are concidered
to be slow compared to todays standards I still love the responsiveness of my SGI !
Where Pyrana is concerned its just like shake but with a somewhat simpeler UI.

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Wrote on the subject of Piranha vs. Shake Irix at Feb. 20, 2008, 4:39 a.m...

There are a whole lot of different ways to export image file sequences with ffmpeg using memcoder.
The only downside is that it is a commandline app and the commands tend to become astronimical.

But in short Yes it can be done on a SGI with a healthy dose of persiverence 8-)

Look at the man for memcoder or ffmpeg.

Cheers,
Bob

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Wrote on the subject of Any studios still using SoftImage? at April 6, 2008, 12:41 a.m...

A mac these days is serious UNIX !
I rest my case ...... :!:

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Wrote on the subject of Sick and Tired of Maya, want to move to Blender at April 6, 2008, 12:51 a.m...

As a postproduction house we decided to use blender for most of our 3D work.
Since it can be installed on every machine we have ( 30+ ) without having to worry
about licences.
And through the effort of the opensource community the features and quality increases by the day....

In my humble opinion I believe the day will come that it will outrun Maya economically speaking :!:

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Wrote on the subject of AutoCad (13) Irix any experiences ? at April 6, 2008, 1:17 a.m...

But do I understand correctly that the ( supposedly workable ) version 14 of AC was never released for Irix :?:

And was AutoCad the only Architectural drawing software available for Irix :?:

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Wrote on the subject of An other great forum link at May 8, 2008, 1:12 p.m...

I hate to break up your party but this great forum link is dead .......

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Wrote on the subject of Blender 2.44 faster then the newer 2.45 version..... ?!? at May 8, 2008, 1:18 p.m...

Can anyone confirm that the 2.44 version runs 11% faster on a SGI then the 2.45 version.
And does anyone have a clue why this is?

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Wrote on the subject of DVD ROM Drive issue what am I doing wrong ...... ? at May 8, 2008, 1:43 p.m...

I have just got my hands on a DVD ROM drive and have hooked it up to my Octane2.
But when I try to mount or acces a CD or DVD nothing happens.

I did try to use XCDRoast to see if it would detect a drive and yes it does!
Here's what it reports :

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scsidev: '1,4,0'


scsibus: 1 target: 4 lun: 0


Write Performance:


START LBA:         0


End LBA:     1153595


Start Perf:     2822 == 16x CD


END Perf:       7056 == 40x CD




Read Performance:


START LBA:         0


End LBA:           0


Start Perf:        0 == 0x CD


END Perf:          0 == 0x CD




End LBA:        2822


Read Speed:  1153595 == 6554x CD


Write Speed:    7056 == 40x CD




Cdrecord-ProDVD-ProBD-Clone 2.01.01a35 (mips-sgi-irix6.5) Copyright (C) 1995-2007 Jörg Schilling


Using libscg version 'schily-0.9'.


Device type    : Removable CD-ROM


Version        : 2


Response Format: 2


Capabilities   : SYNC LINKED


Vendor_info    : 'TOSHIBA '


Identifikation : 'DVD-ROM SD-M1401'


Revision       : '1007'


Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-ROM.




Drive capabilities, per MMC-2 page 2A:




Does read CD-R media


Does not write CD-R media


Does read CD-RW media


Does not write CD-RW media


Does read DVD-ROM media


Does read DVD-R media


Does not write DVD-R media


Does not read DVD-RAM media


Does not write DVD-RAM media


Does not support test writing




Does read Mode 2 Form 1 blocks


Does read Mode 2 Form 2 blocks


Does read digital audio blocks


Does restart non-streamed digital audio reads accurately


Does not support Buffer-Underrun-Free recording


Does read multi-session CDs


Does read fixed-packet CD media using Method 2


Does not read CD bar code


Does read R-W subcode information


Does not return R-W subcode de-interleaved and error-corrected


Does read raw P-W subcode data from lead in


Does return CD media catalog number


Does return CD ISRC information


Does support C2 error pointers


Does not deliver composite A/V data




Does play audio CDs


Number of volume control levels: 16


Does support individual volume control setting for each channel


Does support independent mute setting for each channel


Does not support digital output on port 1


Does not support digital output on port 2




Loading mechanism type: tray


Does support ejection of CD via START/STOP command


Does not lock media on power up via prevent jumper


Does allow media to be locked in the drive via PREVENT/ALLOW command


Is not currently in a media-locked state


Does not support changing side of disk


Does not have load-empty-slot-in-changer feature


Does not support Individual Disk Present feature




Maximum read  speed:  7056 kB/s (CD  40x, DVD  5x, BD  1x)


Current read  speed:  7056 kB/s (CD  40x, DVD  5x, BD  1x)


Maximum write speed:     0 kB/s (CD   0x, DVD  0x, BD  0x)


Current write speed:     0 kB/s (CD   0x, DVD  0x, BD  0x)


Buffer size in KB: 128


Copy management revision supported: 1




Current performance according to MMC get performance:




Maximum performance according to MMC get performance:




Supported profiles according to MMC-4 feature list:


Current: CD-ROM


Profile: DVD-ROM


Profile: CD-ROM (current)




Supported features according to MMC-4 feature list:


Feature: 'Profile List' (current) (persistent)


Feature: 'Core' (current) (persistent)


Feature: 'Morphing' (current) (persistent)


Feature: 'Removable Medium' (current) (persistent)


Feature: 'Random Readable' (current)


Feature: 'Multi Read' (current) (persistent)


Feature: 'CD Read' (current)


Feature: 'DVD Read'


Feature: 'Power Management' (current) (persistent)


Feature: 'CD Audio analog play'


Feature: 'Time-out' (current) (persistent)


Feature: 'DVD-CSS'


Feature: 'Real Time Streaming' (current)

So there must be something I'm not getting into my thick head....

I do not need to install something from my Irix software, or do I ?

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Wrote on the subject of Any advice on the Revolution 7.1 sound cards? at May 11, 2008, 3:34 a.m...

Hakimoto wrote: Beautiful cards. I can wholeheartedly recommend them. Never had any issues with mine.

Hi Hakimoto,

What kind of speakersystem did you hook up to the Revolution 7.1?
And didn't you live in Brussels not to long ago ?

Cheers,
Bob

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Wrote on the subject of Blender 2.44 faster then the newer 2.45 version..... ?!? at May 12, 2008, 2:04 p.m...

I'm very sure that both versions where compiled using MIPSPRO.
And yes 11% faster when rendering .

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Wrote on the subject of Any chance for a MIPS build of blender 4.6 ? at July 7, 2008, 3:22 a.m...

I would very much like to contribute in any way possible...

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Wrote on the subject of FOR SALE !!!! at Jan. 4, 2009, 6:03 a.m...

Hi There,

I don't know if you might be interested, but I'm selling almost everything concerning my SGI collection
due to the lack of space and time.
Except for 1 octane2/V10/400R12k. ( This one I keep around and will try to max-out )

This would mean the following items are for sale :
PI 4D35 ELAN Graphics 128MB RAM 9GB-HD / Internal TAR and CD Drive.
Indigo ELAN MAX-CPU / MAX RAM
Indy MAX
Indigo2 Extreme 256MB RAM
Indigo2 Maximum Impact also MAX-CPU MAX-RAM + Mpegcompression optionboard
Octane2V10 400R12k 1.5GB-RAM fastSCSI-PCICard/AutodeskFlame installed - 4x34GB RAID
FuelV10 600R14k 1.5GB-RAM firewirePCI + Illiama flatpanel
All the systems come with keyboard mouse and monitor and a whole lot of installer CD's and Book's.

The whole lot for 1500 EURO's and if Holland is to far for such a load of stuff to be shipped
we'll work something out.
Let me know if you are interested by e-mail [email protected]

Cheers,
Bob

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Wrote on the subject of Blender 2.48 - Alpha rev c - "Yafray, FFmpeg, 64 threads" at Jan. 19, 2009, 11:34 a.m...

Hi there,

It's been a while but then I've been very busy trying to run a postproduction company in Hilversum and Amsterdam (The Netherlands)

But in this case I've put the default Blender startup in .sgidefaults as blender -w -d &

Try this and who knows the -d will give you more info in the shell.

Cheers,
Bob

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Wrote on the subject of Blender 2.48 - Alpha rev c - "Yafray, FFmpeg, 64 threads" at March 3, 2009, 3:12 p.m...

Funny thing is that when trying to play-back a render of 300 frames the play-back stops at 65 frames and loops right back to frame 1 .....

Can anyone confirm this ?

Is there a playback limit introduced in this version ( previous version 2.44 plays just fine ... )

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Wrote on the subject of Blender 2.48 - Alpha rev c - "Yafray, FFmpeg, 64 threads" at June 14, 2009, 5:14 a.m...

Am I doing something wrong or is there no way I can get my hands on Blender-2.48 for IRIX ....... ?????
Seems like the author and the website are gone .......

Can anyone help me to get to the binary ?

Cheers,
Bob

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Wrote on the subject of Blender 2.49a at Aug. 30, 2009, 2:33 a.m...

Tried it and it crashes with segmentation fault on blend file using yafray. Does this have something to do with Python cause I still have 2.4.1 or
is it the B.blend file?

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