Hello Ciaran, Next release of 3Delight for Sotimage is a path-tracer. REYES is optional. (You can select one or the other).
The path-tracer introduces some novel sampling techniques, such as nice sampling across multiple bounces, high quality environment sampling (no need to blur your maps) and of course fast render region re-rending (for now only light, camera and material edits), … Regarding performance : some of you will be surprised. ;) -- Aghiles www.3delight.com On 2013-05-28, at 12:33 PM, Ciaran Moloney <moloney.cia...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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>: >> >> 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 >> >> > > >
