FStorm 1.5.5 Bitmap Optimization and why it's a big deal.

Note: If you wonder why the lighting sometimes changes without scrubbing the timeline it's because I'm rotating (offsetting) the environment bitmap.

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[a.p.]

Welcome back! I hope all is good with you! Hoping to see some new content in future on your Patreon page

[giovannicaloi]

welcome back on board jojo...cant wait for new premium stuff on patreon

[abderrahmenezzine]

Thanks for sharing, great update some back work needs to be done on the hdris them selfs and get them calibrated to roughly the same exposure value

[supertaurus]

Amazing that was really great information. I Just got back to Fstorm again

[SlavenStylingVisualization]

Hey JoJo, it's nice to see you back! Great video and a fantastic Fstorm update indeed. Are those HDRI-s from Hiperfocal?
Cheers,
Siluan

[leonardolaguardia]

In my opinion Fstorm it's one of the most (if is not the most) solid Gpu renderer engine. If you can grab a 3090(or 2) or a 4090 renders time concerns will be in the past. The only thing annoying is the lag with the speed of geometry update, I hope Andre fixed or add a pause every time a scene perceive a change so the interactive render move smoother.

[nicksushkevich]

I wish there's FStorm for Houdini Solaris...

[RomboutVersluijs]

Would nice if there was a blender exporter addon. I used to work with thea render and used the blender exporter for that. I've always worked on that addin a couple years adding features. It's huge work to make something, but these render engine was really great

[righteousrebel]

Make an Animation of the sequence of hdri's ?! It seems like it would produce some really cool results.

[sacifair]

It'll work in real time as long as you have lowres HDRIs, like he has in the video (about 1024x512) which isn't usual and you have to downscale all those x500 HDRIs before use it conveniently :D

[TynkaTopi]

Blender has built in (more than 10 years) environment texture & image texture node image sequence loader and switching frames changes images also, like in your video.

[YansRiegel]

I can't imagine rendering without FStorm anymore

[addamski]

Nice to see new content on here Jo Jo.
Is there a way to load HDRIs like this in VRay?
I tried using a switch node with HDRI's plugged in but it was prone to crashing and you couldn't load 500+ in to it.
Also doe's anyone know when FStorm will be updated to work with Max 2024?

[maxximus]

Is this quick gpu texture loading exclusively implemented in fstorm? or was this an issue that only affected fstorm?
I would like to know because I would love to introduce this technique into my office but be we use Corona. Do you have any idea if this bitmap loading is also quick in the corona bitmap?
And if this quick gpu bitmap loading is present in corona, what would be a good resolution you would recomend where it doesnt take up all my ram and loads quickly (im assuming it's caching all the bitmaps in gpu memory so loading all 8k exr files might not be a good idea?)

[pentiy]

Love the video i just have a question do you think it good to switch from blender renderer or do you think i should switch.

[umaxflow]

How long have you been, how are you jojo?

[CgfluxStudio]

It looks great. I have a question. Fstorm support Tyflow simulation? Can i render tyflow simulaion or i have to do something special to work?

[LORENZOCOLALONGO]

Hi, excuse my ignorance, but isn't it the same if you rotate an HDRI? and see its lighting in real time?

[pedrodoido]

I want to learn fstorm, what is the difference between the free download version and the monthly paid version?

[bgtubber]

Fstorm looks really nice. I've been using V-Ray 6 GPU, but in larger scenes it's slow with updating scene changes, even simple ones like changing textures or diffuse colors. I literally wait 5-10 seconds for the change to happen and my hardware should be good enough (Ryzen 7950x 16-core 5.7 Ghz, RTX 3090 24GB, 64GB DDR5-6400 RAM). How fast is Fstorm in such situations?