More and more renderers are getting better at driving this live and interactive, but it’s still doing the work twice. Most renderers need a step to convert a scene be it a Maya scene or studio max or Katana etc and then covert those to a scene designed for the renderer. Because the viewports are raytracing, they need a scene description. The Eason it is so much faster is because it’s viewports don’t use open gl or direct x rasterizer approaches but full raytracing all the time. It is a scene assembler as well as a renderer as you guessed. (Also - its used mainly in Film industry or Cinematics in game, theres the main use case…?)

Is this all true? Did i understand Isotropix Clarisse iFX correctly? Can it do all these things? Can it do even more? For example can you texture your models there or do you have to import the models already textured from different applications? It also acts like a “final” renderer so you can QUICKLY do final render in it and get your various passes (diffuse, lighting, reflection etc.) from it, to your favourite compositing software (like Nuke for example)…

You can also do your full lighting of the scene (or rather BIG outdoor enviroment) in it. It also acts like a FAST GPU renderer, better then redshift, octane or VRay GPU…? Bette or on par with those. It beats them to ground, its better, faster, with instant FULL preview (no bounding boxes). What exactly is Isotropix Clarisse iFX…? What can it do, and what is it used for…? I heard the name for years but just recently look into it and it seems almost impossible :-)… My stupid and limited understanding is that Isotropix Clarisse iFX is a standalone application, you import your various “elements” (not just polygon geometry at all) and than it acts like a “scene assembler”, with instant FAST viewport performance, that lets you preview EVERYTHING in full “shape” - no more bounding boxes or sparse point cloud likee you would get with “traditional solutions” like using 3ds max with scattering plugins like multiscatter or Forest Pack Pro.

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