an idea after hours looking my screen !

[e-YELLOWCABS.COM]

Yes, I know only one idea in few hours, I could try to improve, but...

You know all this german site which proposes us to share vray materials?

http://www.vray-materials.de

Could CGarchitecte.com propose sort same idea but with the purpose of testing our own computers? I mean, a generic scene ( or more ) that we could render each of us as to create a sort of survey for configurations. Like that, we would know what to buy, we could even learn not to launch a too long rendering process which will explode our deadlines ! A sort of chart linking together a type of scene with a type of configuration, hours of computing, etc...

A slow idea which could accelerate things, no?

pierre

[Ray]

http://www.chaosgroup.com/forum/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=12220

[ShaunDon]

They do this sort of thing (though not in any organized fashion like you're suggesting) over on the VRay forums. They've got a pretty hefty test scene that utilizes a variety of effects (reflections, refractions, caustics, etc.) and folks post their render times along with their hardware specs in a massive "benchmark" thread. But I agree, some tabulation of all that information would really be awesome.

 

Shaun