pictorhd

Hi! I'm in the market for a new renderer and my choices are between V-Ray and finalRender (I have a $800.00 budget so that's why I didn't consider Brazil!) I've read a lot of forums about the top 3 "GI" renderers (V-Ray, Brazil and finaRender), lots of debate but I'm still no closer in making a decision, in the end, people are saying that it's a personal choice, a gut feel and that "in the hands of a skilled artist, you can produce amazing stuff with any of these renderers"... I will try to ask different questions so I don't bore people too much: . Why is V-Ray so dominant (compare to the other 2 of course) in interior scenes / visualization (looked at more than 20 forum galleries and V-Ray is everywhere)? . Lots of people (from what I've read in the different forums) are negative about Cebas. So, what is essentially wrong with that company? . Is finalRender as capable renderer as V-Ray? I don't care if one takes 5 minutes more to render the same thing, basically, are they both at the same engineering level? . Are they stuff that I can't do in finalRender that I can do in V-Ray and vice-versa? . Do you think that finalRender (because of finalToon) is a better deal than V-Ray (money wise)? Thanks for your answers... PictorHD

Hi! Lets pretend for a moment that finalRender Stage-1 is not even conceived yet (I simply can't cough-up the $750.00 dollars right now); do you think that finalRender Stage-0 is worth its $95.00 (will it greatly enhance max scanline renderer, better then max radiosity?) and can someone tell me how much it was initially? Thank you! [ February 07, 2004, 04:20 PM: Message edited by: pictorhd ]