Do textures appesr different on different machines?

[geldslaw]

only having the one machine but the same software, I am curious do textures and materials appear differently on different machines? Off hand I would say yes as would not each of our machines bee made of different key components that affect program clock cycles and time taken to produce textures or materials.

In that sense someone with a dual or quad core system and dual graphics card, woudl they not have equivalent qualitative textures with less rendering times and better with equivalent or more rendering times?

the reason I say this is because some materials were made for me and inmy scene they came up differently and in the end i chose to create the material I needed. At first I naturally assume because of my limited experience that it was my lack of knoledge about the application but on making my own material I realised that there may have been an error in my assumption.

Eg shaders that are used by 3ds max people at pixar on their boxes would respond differently to my humble little machine hahaha what do you think?

[CU441ES]

They would be exactly the same on every pc in the world,if youre talking about shaders they may look different by lighting and other things, but there exactly the same deep down

[geldslaw]

thats like saying if you and i follwo the same recipe for a cake it shoudl come out the oven looking the same and tasting the same, what are the chancews of that>

I know whats suppose to work in theory but its the practice in reality that concerns me

[DreamsIn3D]

Terrible thread..

.. yes its the same. My laptop renders look different than on my desktop because of the resolution but the materials are identical.

[Jelmer]

yeah.. it's absolute nonsense, textures / materials are the same if they have the same settings and the same image.
Although obviously they change as the environment and model changes.

The final render can look quite different depending on your monitor though, some display colours slightly different, it would be quite visible if you put 2 screens next to each other.