Status of RedShift Render into Archicad

[strangeday]

Hello Graphisoft Teams,

I would like to know if there are any development plans regarding the Redshift rendering engine, because it seems to me, unfortunately a practice that is becoming customary in the development of Archicad, that it is a feature added at a certain point in the life of the program(If I'm not wrong with AC 25 Update 2, and only available for SSA users) and never updated again.

In the specific case of Redshift, as with all GPU-based rendering engines, I believe it is essential that the software follows the evolution of the hardware, in fact the version present in Archicad (which I believe is 22.008) is not compatible, on Windows platform, with NVIDIA cards of the 5000 series (and I believe not even with AMD cards from the RDNA2 series, but I have no way to test).

So my question is, are there any plans to update and support Redshift (which is a great rendering engine), or will it become the usual half-developed ArchiCAD feature(as Param-O, Ecodesigner Star...........an so on)?

Operating system used: Windows 11 24H2

[Mansia]

Thanks a lot for update !

Sure impacted people who want a fully integrated chain (including GPU rendering with recent cards) will follow this with interrest.

@Botonis : thanks also for sharing your thoughts. Having integrated chain without relying on third party tools seems important if integration with Maxon is still on the go, and probably not to only a small portion of users. But I don't have the key figures to assess this - and you probably don't either. I hope the folks at Graphisoft have the right metrics to make the necessary decisions. And sharing the roadmap and these king of announcement publicly seems to me to be a step in that direction.

Regards