True, it originated as a REYES renderer, but now it may be better thought of as a hybrid renderer taking advantage of both techniques when needed.
I like working with Arnold too, but I don't think fast renders are one of its strongest selling points. Ciaran On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 4:48 PM, Alan Fregtman <alan.fregt...@gmail.com>wrote: > I haven't tried 3Delight, but Arnold is **way** too good. My gut feeling > is Arnie is probably faster overall. > > That said, they're entirely different rendering architectures so it's not > fair to compare. 3Delight is (as I understand it) renderman-compliant which > implies they probably use the Reyes rendering model: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reyes_rendering > whereas Arnold is not a reyes renderer, but a superoptimized "hardcore" > raytracer: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_tracing_(graphics) > > It would be more fair to compare 3Delight against Pixar's Renderman, and > Arnold against mentalray, than Arnold to 3Delight or Renderman to mentalray. > > Just my $0.02, :p > > -- Alan > > > > On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 11:28 AM, Leonard Koch > <leonardkoch...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> That entirely depends on the use-case. >> Arnold is in faster most raycasting situations, but 3Delight will be >> faster for for example motion graphics or character animations with >> unrealistic shading. >> And even then it can very much depend on the complexity of the scene and >> on of what kind that complexity is. >> Then there is also the aspect of artist time spent to get to that >> render-time, which - depending on how easy it is to get from the default >> state to the final render state - can wildly differ in between the >> different renderers and shots. >> The speed of a renderer in a production is a very complex metric and >> can't really be summarized into a simple statement like "Arnold is faster >> than 3Delight". >> >> >> On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 4:19 PM, Christopher < >> christop...@thecreativesheep.ca> wrote: >> >>> Is it as fast as Arnold :) ? >>> >>> >>> Morten Bartholdy wrote: >>> >>> Looks interesting Greg. Two questions: >>> >>> 1. What is your hardware setup ? >>> >>> 2. Could you upload it in higher resolution so we can read the menus? >>> >>> >>> MB >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Den 28. maj 2013 kl. 15:37 skrev Gregory Ducatel >>> <gduca...@gmail.com><gduca...@gmail.com>: >>> >>> >>> Hi Guys, >>> >>> In case you did not had a chance to look into the next version of 3dfs, >>> here is a little test I did. >>> >>> http://vimeo.com/66105781 >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> Greg >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >
