is Omni render faster than Photometric light while making an animation

[pradipta]

I am working on an exterior animation, where i am currently building the night setup. I find Photometric light is giving better lighting effects but is Photometric light (with IES) takes longer to render than Omni while having at least 3000 of them in a scene?

 

I will appreciate any help, thank you

[kaz031]

I'm not too sure of all the technical tricks but maybe just use the photometric lights in particular areas where you really need them and then omni for the rest.

[pradipta]

Thanks Karyn,

 

I also thought the same thing. I will use photometric with IES for some closeups and omni for the rest, this will save a lot of time.

[Ricardo Eloy]

Why would you use omnis instead of spherical VRayLights?

[pradipta]

While experimenting I saw Omni are rendering faster than vray spherical light, so, I was asking if Omni's are really faster for larger scene? ad photometric with IES took longer also in most cases.

Ricardo, please share your ideas on this

thank you

[kippu]

i would have thought vray spherical lights would render faster , but then maybe you are not using shadows with the omnis in which case omnis would be faster

[Nic H]

Iv always found omnis quicker and more controllable than vray sphericals, espcially useful with falloff/attenuation controls - more flexible.