Re: Softimage 2013/2014 Irradiance Particles - IP Optimize still single threaded?

[Christopher]

What about Maxwell, which render has lots it's potential ? Christopher Sent from my Desktop ;-) Steven Caron Friday, March 29, 2013 2:19 PM you state that like its common knowledge... i just wanted to know if you have compared arnold's displacement to vray's? i haven't and would like to know. Octavian Ureche Friday, March 29, 2013 2:06 PM Displacement is fast, but obviously not as fast as a reyes renderer or arnold. Hair rendering has also improved lately, and motionblur and dof are okay. Nowhere near arnold but way faster than mental ray. The thing to note about vray is that it requires a bit more knowledge about its inner workings to be able to get the most of it. But it's an extremely stable and reliable renderer. Also on the plus side it handles interiors extremely well, and its ibl tools are stellar. Don't get me wrong, i am not afilliated with chaos group in any way even though i was on the beta. It's just my personal view on the engine. I'm sure arnold's  algorithms will improve with time, and when it starts being less prohibitive , vray will have quite some heavy competition on the freelance/small studio front. For that matter Redshift looks extremely promising as well. But for the past couple of years, vray gave me the piece of mind i never had with mentalray, and i'm thankful to the peeps at chaos group for that. Cheers Christopher Friday, March 29, 2013 11:03 AM Vray seems to be getting so much attention, how does it render displacement mapping, fast ? Christopher Kamen Lilov Friday, March 29, 2013 10:59 AM To be precise, this is the price of one interactive license, which also comes with 5 render nodes (you get 10 nodes with VRay for Maya). If you render static scenes with DR, you can use all 6 licenses at the same time. (we do not recommend rendering animated sequences with DR, except for brute force GI) Octavian Ureche Friday, March 29, 2013 4:23 AM Price wise, last i checked, vray was just about under 1k and came with 10 render nodes. But i'm also looking forward to an official price for redshift. Might be quite tempting if it's in the right ballpark.