Rhino WIP now has an updated version of the Rhino Renderer (CyclesX).
The most recent WIP releases of Rhino on Windows and Mac have an updated rendering core based on Cycles 3.5.0.
The key difference between Rhino Render V7 and the version in Rhino WIP is speed. The core renderer has undergone a significant update, and show ships with GPU accelerated rendering cores for AMD cards (HIP) and Metal on the Mac.
What this means is that on Windows you should see speed improvements of about 2x…while on Mac, we are expecting 10x the speed at a minimum.
Please feel free to test your models on Rhino 7 and Rhino 8 on both platforms and post the results here - including render times. For like-for-like comparisons, it’s typically easier to use the “Render” command rather than Raytraced viewport mode - but both are accelerated in the same way.
I have not done any proper rendering n Rhino in the past [it was too slow. Plus I had a very old computer] So I was using Keyshot and Blender [both on a rendering beginner level]
After some tests I think I can narrow down the problem to the following: as long as I take a new file and don’t set any new environment, the raytraced displkay mode seem to work as expected.
If I change the environment, it goes completely black (only showing the viewport for a brief moment when for example rotating the view. As soon as raytracing begins, the viewport turns black.
