Sculpting with CUDA

[Modelworks]

Some might like to play with this just to see the potential for GPU processing.
The program below allows you to sculpt with voxels, a volumetric pixel. There are already applications that do this, like Zbrush and Mudbox but neither use CUDA directly.


http://3dbrush.kriska.hvosting...dex.php?showtopic=1412

You will need the application + CUDA driver + Toolkit

Once you run the application go down the menu at the left till you get to the volumetric option then you can start playing around with the tools and sculpt

Couple quick tips:
Hold down the ALT key and you can use LMB to rotate, MMB to pan, RMB to zoom

on the Volumetric sculpting menu, pick snake under object tools, Then chain.obj and drag in the viewport and you can see how very high poly counts are being handled by the video card.

 

[thilanliyan]

Cool. THanks.

 

[phillyman36]

hey i have a evga 9800 gt. ive been using the drivers from evga website which the latest is 180.48. do i need to download the driver you liked to as well

http://www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_get.html

or do all the graphics drivers, that support cuda, have it enabled?

 

[IlllI]

wow.. i thought voxels died out long ago.
i remember a couple games used them... like 5 years or so ago

 

[Modelworks]

Originally posted by: clandren
wow.. i thought voxels died out long ago.
i remember a couple games used them... like 5 years or so ago

Nope voxels are alive and well and are far superior to pixels.
Before the GPU/CPU were too slow to use them.
A couple products that use them and are being used in everything from games to movies.
http://www.pixologic.com/zbrush/
http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/s...eID=123112&id=10707763

Both are a bit more advanced than 3d coat but they are quite a bit more money.
Mudbox uses the GPU to accelerate everything while Zbrush use it for accelerating just the viewports.

They also have free trials.

 

[Modelworks]

Originally posted by: phillyman36
hey i have a evga 9800 gt. ive been using the drivers from evga website which the latest is 180.48. do i need to download the driver you liked to as well

http://www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_get.html

or do all the graphics drivers, that support cuda, have it enabled?

I'm not sure which drivers have CUDA and which don't, except for the ones that explicitly say so.

You can try running the program with CUDA and see if it works with your current driver.

I should have added that you need to be using a 64 bit OS to use CUDA and this program.

 

[VirtualLarry]

I installed 180.70s for XP without any additional CUDA drivers, and F@H GPU2 runs just fine, so I think those include CUDA support.