About the next step for ZBrush

[testure]

Yeah, I was wondering about that one billion poly thing. I mean, even the average PC is having problem breaking 6 million poly on Z2. Do we need, like, a gazillion of RAM to come anywhere near to one billion poly? How high a number of poly can an average PC handle on Z3?

I think maybe it's just marketing talk.. you know, "tastes great, and less filling!".. less filling for sure, but not so great tasting!

They also said Z3 supports up to 256 processors, which as far as im aware, don't even exist.

[keleb78]

I think maybe it's just marketing talk.. you know, "tastes great, and less filling!".. less filling for sure, but not so great tasting!

They also said Z3 supports up to 256 processors, which as far as im aware, don't even exist.

Not now, but remember: in 2004 few even dreamt of dual cores. With advent of new AMD chips, we'll welcome 32 and 64 CPU workstations. And in one, two years... who knows...

[Mahlikus The Black]

They also said Z3 supports up to 256 processors, which as far as im aware, don't even exist.

I think they mean network rendering. So 128 dual core computers...

[Crusoe the Painter]

Not so fast. Intel has a 30 core uber processor in the works. AMD is releasing a Quad core soon.

[InkySpot]

Free for all registered users: and I thought you developers were all thye same. Thank you Zbrush. Will post work soon.
No program does it like you guys, believe the hype that is Zbrush.

[feureau]

But, ... isn't how high a poly you can go depends on how big the memory is and not as much on the processor itself?

[dreamtwister]

Never mind the bollocks! the feast is on in may. Good reason to upgrade the old machine

[Crusoe the Painter]

To a certain extent yes. With proper paging to disk of hidden geometry, it's a limit of your ram + HD space. Of course, the speed of your CPU and Disk will determine how quickly you can manipulate it.

[Jhotun]

Hail to the king baby!

Congrats to all the crew of Pixologic! I cant wait to put my sticky fingers on that billionthing :P

All the best

[lsddigital]

hey... it can not be true!!!!
I didn´t see anything.... I didn´t see anything... you didn´t see anything
It can not be happend... it is just another nightmare... zbrush 3 is not here...

please... I need Help

[requiem2d]

Can't wait for this release, looks incredible...

[n-drew]

there is usa billion and european billion. they meant usa billion, thats one thousand million: 1.000.000.000.

someone said to me (a programmer) u will need at least 5 gig of ram for just the polygon stuff (not uv info), but of course it depends on the "operating system" and other stuff u have to load.

[Mahlikus The Black]

That is assuming it is real geometry and not some type of new interpolation of hyper Pixo Magic Candy Geometry.

[Jason Belec]

Hahaha, don't take this the wrong way, but what exactly do any of you intend to do with that many polys?

As for Crusoe the Painter's post about Intel Uber processor, you really missed that one. Intel have the first light/optic processor and progress to putting it in a system is going along very well. Still 5 years out at a minimum though.

You are just going to have to wait, but I can assure you Zbrush 2.0 is the current limitation and Zbrush2.5-3 removes that. Just start working out your projects, get your sketches ready, be prepared to work hard and be thankful a group of people really want to always offer the best tool in the industry. It's a very rare thing to see this kind of motivation after major success.

[Mahlikus The Black]

Hahaha, don't take this the wrong way, but what exactly do any of you intend to do with that many polys?

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