BN11 Posted April 20, 2006 Share Posted April 20, 2006 I've finally decided to look around for an alternative to my good old Lightscape 3.2, ideally looking at v-ray. All my 3d models are done in ArchiCAD and can be exported to 3ds successfully, therefore would seem sensible to go for Viz 2007 with the V-Ray plug-in or is it worth spending more cash and going for Max 8 ? I've also looked at C4D....works well with ArchiCAD but not sure about the end quality & obviously Maxwell Render is excellent but way to sloooow for the way I work. Any advice please ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manta Posted April 20, 2006 Share Posted April 20, 2006 Well I don't think you can go wrong with Vray, I think its only going to get better, and I think (my opinion) that it will always be one step ahead of Maxwell in terms of speed, and equal in quality... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trick Posted April 20, 2006 Share Posted April 20, 2006 Putting all Autodesk products side by side - AutoCAD 2007, Viz 2006, Max 8 , Maya - I really wonder how long they ALL will exist. As someone who would have Autodesk stocks I would really like to see two solid products that would sit on top of the market, which would probably mean Viz and Max to integrate in AutoCAD and Maya. But this surely won't happen within two point-releases. As an alternative for Lightscape, Viz is more then enough...even without VRay. VRay is just the icing on the cake if you need more render options. If you also need animations at object level and more special effects like particles, hard- and soft body dynamics, etc. go for Max... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devin Johnston Posted April 20, 2006 Share Posted April 20, 2006 I used Max and Viz radiosity for a while, and it gave very good results but I found that the calculation time was to slow and because you can't use any distributed process to split up the calculations I decided to go with Final Render. If I could do it over again I would probably choose Vray, but as it is I'm now waiting for Maxwell V1 to be released, so my advice is to research them all, define what you need and see which one meets your needs the best. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricardo Eloy Posted April 20, 2006 Share Posted April 20, 2006 5 years ago we were having the same doubts. At that time, Max was release 3 and Viz 4 was just released. We used Viz (for its new radiosity) for a while, and also started to research other options (RayMax, Brazil, finalRender and VRay 0.1 beta). At that time, after several tests, we decided to bet on VRay. That said, my advice is: test them all, see which one fills your needs and go for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJLynn Posted April 20, 2006 Share Posted April 20, 2006 I'm a huge Vray fan myself, I find it fast and very versatile. But since Maxwell 1.0 is being released next week (we hope), I'd wait for the verdict on that before jumping on $4-5k worth of software, when it sounds like what you really need is just a renderer. The other thing I'd suggest you could look at would be Cinema4D, maybe with finalRender2. You can get demos of all these except Maxwell and finalRender2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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