Which Renderers am I missing?

[Jeff Mottle]

Going to be launching a quick survey shortly to reassess rendering engine market share, intent to switch and why. Take a look at this spreadsheet and let me know if any are missing:

 

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1UClCdFEzSUVvz-57N714Y1_S7tkxpyFI99in3fJ-ODc/edit?usp=sharing

 

Thanks!

[dariusmart]

Brazil, I think

[Jeff Mottle]

Brazil was acquired by Imagination technologies and then promptly killed in a failed attempt to use it to feature new rendering hardware.

[Justin Hunt]

scanline has Light tracer and radiocity, although I doubt anyone uses them

[Francisco Penaloza]

Well since you have Unity and Unreal there, I think is fair to add Stingray, it has actually two rendering (baking) engine, Beast and Stingray GPU rendering.

There is also Fuzor, Enscape, Lumen RT, even tho this are not a render engine per say, they produce sill and interactive real-time visualization just like Lumion or Twinmotion.

Also there are some cloud solution such Lagoa, that I am not sure if you want to consider.

[harryhirsch]

The Autodesk stuff?...Showcase and Vred (but its more for product- an automotive design)

[Justin Hunt]

Kray for Lightwave http://www.kraytracing.com/

 

and of course how can we forget the grandfather of raytracers POVRay http://www.povray.org/

Edited October 19, 2016 by Justin Hunt

[Nils Norgren]

I see your POV-RAY and raise you https://radiance-online.org/

[John Dollus]

I see your POV-RAY and raise you https://radiance-online.org/

 

[RyderSK]

I would suggest (roughly) something along offline/real-time distinction only. And then force users to use a tag [Corona]/[unreal4] if it's software specific question.

Imho it's good idea if general forum like this remained rather agnostic and if someone has too many software specific questions, to send him to particular renderer's home turf.

[Jeff Mottle]

I would suggest (roughly) something along offline/real-time distinction only. And then force users to use a tag [Corona]/[unreal4] if it's software specific question.

Imho it's good idea if general forum like this remained rather agnostic and if someone has too many software specific questions, to send him to particular renderer's home turf.

 

If the field uses dozens of different rendering software's equally, that might make sense, but given the vast majority still use V-Ray and 3ds Max, it still makes sense to break out the most popular ones being used. I do like your idea to tag posts from the more general forums though. Will look into that once I get back from the next 10 days of travel

[philippelamoureux]

Yea don't split the community too much. All game engines should go in the same sub-forum imo.

 

I think the current forum subdivs are pretty good right now!

[Mariano]

Render[in] by abvent.com?

[Janwalli]

PBRT

http://pbrt.org/

[Jeff Mottle]

The survey has already gone out, so the list is closed. http://www.cgarchitect.com/2016/10/2016-architectural-visualization-rendering-engine-survey