what renderer

[zamalkawy]

Sirs ,

I have a large scale interior animation project, i'm not sure of what renderer should i use. I'm very concerned about frame rendering time .I may use final render ,vray or the 3d max radiosity solution. If anybody have suggestions about those alternatives i will be pleased.

 

thank you

[Noise]

VRay is excellent for interiors but, render times may be problem. Although, if you utilise the animation technique for rendering every 10th frame @ half the size and saving the irrad map for use with the final render, this can save a huge amount of time.

 

As I use VRay, I cannot go into the finer attritubes of the other options but, any software is only as good as the operator.

[ecastillor]

In this cases I use LS to calculate radiosity and render in viz or max....that makes the rendering a lot faster but you will spend more time modelling for sure.

[Devin Johnston]

My first question is are you familiar with Vray and Final Render? If you’re not then I would suggest going with Max scan line, and in either case Max scan line is probably going to the faster option. I'm not familiar with Vray but Final Render is going to require you to pre-render your animation before you render out your final. What kind of quality are you looking for?

[manta]

Hello,

I have a question that maybe someone could answer, and might help zamalkawy

make his decision, I read so much about so many renderers that it gets kinda confusing,

 

I think I read somewhere that lightscape can bake the radiosity into your meshes, therefore allowing you to render an animation very quickly, because you only have to calculate the lighting solution once, my question is which other renderers do this, MR, Brazil , Vray, Finalrender, also which renderers allow you to distribute the radiosity calculation across your network, if thats even possible.

 

Does anyone know of a chart that compares these renderers.

[manta]

Well I did find a chart that everyone might like to look at, but it didn't really answer my questions:

 

 

http://www.maxarea.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=359&mode=thread&order=1&thold=0

[Devin Johnston]

Lightscape does bake the illumination into the mesh and Final Render can do the same. With Lightscape this process is just apart of the program, and when the file is imported into Max all the data is there. With Final Render the process is more involved but still possable. I assume that Vray is the same way so out of the 3 programs I would say that Lightscape probably has the easiest setup in that area.

[vertexART]

As for MR,

it can store photon maps and final-gather maps as files, which can be built in first frame only, and re-used throughout the anim. Unless light source is animated too..

[manta]

Well I was all excited about reusing the FG maps with MR, so I went in to test it,

rendered the first frame, took 5 min. to calculate and render, it saved the map file, I rendered the same frame again it took 1 min. I was really excited now, I don't use MR, but I would start using it for animations just for this reason, so I moved the camera, and hit render, and it went through the FG calculation again Am I doing something wrong or was that too good to be true !!!

[zamalkawy]

Friends ,

thank you all for your contribution ,after reading your replies i see that i'm more confused than before i post the thread )). i'm going to try some ways and send you the conclusion and the winner renderer to do the animation.

thanx again