Scanline, anyone?

[carlotristan3d]

Our company just outsourced some external renderings, 3 perspectives in 2 days-impressive result. And I was so surprised to find out they were still using scanline. Just out of curiosity, is there anybody else in CGA still using scanline?

[neil poppleton]

scanline, havent used that for many, many, many years.....

[3dterior]

Scanline is suitable for short-time projects.I still use it for rough rendering but in final production rendering, VRAY is the best choice (for me).

[Matt McDonald]

We use it. Our renderings are high res (4800x2400), have little entourage (plants, cars, people) and its not uncommon to need to make a revision and re-render 8 shots in an hour. For that, scanline is great.

[mahorela]

I would be interested to see the images Tristan. Or a link to the companies website that you outsourced the images to.

[JonRashid]

I use scanline with light tracer for all my external visual impacts. Most of my jobs have very short turn around so it helps on rendering time. I have had no complaints so far. Maybe we should run a scanline comp. Would be interesting to see how good an external some of the really good guys here could achieve. I'm sure we'd be surprised.

[Devin Johnston]

There's nothing "wrong" with using scanline, in the right hands it can produce photo real results. The question I'd ask is can a scanline engine produce the same quality image as a GI engine in the same amount of time? If you’re intimately familiar with both engines then it might be possible but 9 times out of 10 you'll get better and faster results with a GI solution.

[neil poppleton]

There's nothing "wrong" with using scanline, in the right hands it can produce photo real results. The question I'd ask is can a scanline engine produce the same quality image as a GI engine in the same amount of time? If you’re intimately familiar with both engines then it might be possible but 9 times out of 10 you'll get better and faster results with a GI solution.

 

I agree nothing wrong with scanline, it probably takes more time and certainly more lights to get the right feel with scanline. gi render engines make life easier.

[Crazy Homeless Guy]

It has been quite awhile since I used scanline for beauty passes, though it is common for me to use is for element passes.

 

I would also be highly curious to see some of the work being produced with it. Anyone want to share?

[BVI]

We sometimes use Scanline for insane high angles.

[BVI]

We sometimes use Scanline for insane high angles.

 

Those are frames from a 2000 frame animation, at HD that took 3 hours to render with Scan Line.

[Devin Johnston]

Can you post the animation?

[BVI]

Sorry - Can't do. Maybe in a few months.

[Crazy Homeless Guy]

If you can post it in the future I would be interested too.

 

I might have to break back out scanline, and try it on a few lighting passes. I think the industry gets so caught up in GI and Physically accurate rendering that we tend to push scanline aside as being a inferior solution, even though it may provide a greater degree of control in many situations.

[1d2d3d4d]

i still use it all the time for a variety of things...

 

 

light tracer with any bounces or color bleed can sometimes take a ridiculous amount of time to render....

 

that is why one office i worked at switched to vray if i recall..

Edited April 5, 2010 by 1d2d3d4d