Realism in Blender

[sboerner]

I think we're all right 

Agreed.

[PabloMack]

I may have to take another look at Blender. Eevee in combination with the 5950x /w RTX 3070 system I just ordered may make it worth my while.

[WAS]

i want to order a new system but that would be all my money for a 3070 equipped one. Lol Think I'll stick with the RX 580 and Ryzen 5 2600 for now. Oof. Hopefully things change and I'm not back to hand-me-down computers and used stuff cause of costs.

First computer I really started using TG on was a netbook. I cooked that thing until the screen burned out (literally bottom of screen image was melted looking. And instead of retiring it, I just hooked it up to a TV via S-Video and removed the screen to give the main board more juice, and removed the keyboard for betting cooling. Lol

P.S. Eevee is nice, but Cycles is getting nuts. Have you seen the "realism" renders from it?

[PabloMack]

P.S. Eevee is nice, but Cycles is getting nuts. Have you seen the "realism" renders from it?

I just looked at a YouTube video about Cycles. Looks impressive. I guess its "free" since it is part of the Blender project?
I'd really like to animate liquids. Here's one done in Cycles. Looks like ray tracing GPU rendering is finally coming to mainstream animation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ii2c4SIiq_s

Thanks for the info

[WAS]

Yep it's free to use, no restrictions that I'm aware of. Here is a collection of some crazy good renders. Only a few pop-out immediately as renders.

https://www.blenderguru.com/articles/24-photorealistic-blender-renders

PS really love those fluid sim videos. Especially those weird fluid of physics ones they make loop