*1. I don't want to throw away a expensive CPU based renderfarm.* It will be obsolete soon anyway so just make good planing for next render tool, CPU or GPU road.
*2. mental ray still has more shaders. It's slow sometimes but it is rathergood when you want to do non physically based things. A bit like Softimageitself, the all-purpose, swiss knife.* First time I heard something like this for MRay. Mostly it is in line I wanna puke or quit 3d completely due to rendering part :) When I discovered Arnold and then even more Redshift that is when a big issue I had with SI, ie rendering was solved and 3d was fun again. MRay was PAIN non stop! Swiss knife.. yea could say that, got ton of things but nothing good for most of things :) Redshift saved my 3d ;) On Sat, May 28, 2016 at 1:16 AM, Sven Constable <sixsi_l...@imagefront.de> wrote: > I use mental ray almost exclusively for any project so far, even I'm > evaluated arnold, redshift and maxwell. Maxwell is so far the most accurate > renderer I've seen so far in terms of light distribution in a scene and > nothing comes close to it in my opinion. It's amazing if you do product > rendering only. But it lacks in shader variety, softimage integration and > general tweaking, as mental ray has and allows. Arnold may be a killer for > big projects, heavy scenes but its expensive. Redshift is affordable,has > good GI for animations and the best integration in Softimage besides mental > ray (I'm still wondering how they managed to get the round corners shader > into RS! I was thinking it's a mental images/NVIDIA patent) > There are only two things that stopped me switching from mr to RS: > 1. I don't want to throw away a expensive CPU based renderfarm. > 2. mental ray still has more shaders. It's slow sometimes but it is rather > good when you want to do non physically based things. A bit like Softimage > itself, the all-purpose, swiss knife. > > So yes, I use mental ray. > sven > > -----Original Message----- > From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com > [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Matt Lind > Sent: Saturday, May 28, 2016 12:28 AM > To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com > Subject: Anybody still using mental ray? > > While on the subject of nostalgia and recent release of various tools for > XSI. > > I have a selection of mental ray shaders I wrote long ago still perfectly > valid as they're utility nodes for accessing renderer preferences, lights, > performing math, or other basic features missing from the native shader > library. Some have unique features, but also limitations due to mental > ray's architecture. If released, would anybody actually use them other > than > for tinkering? As in, does anybody still use mental ray in a serious > production context where you'd benefit from such shaders? > > Don't say yes because you want free digital swag. > > Matt > > ------ > Softimage Mailing List. > To unsubscribe, send a mail to softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com > with > "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm. > > ------ > Softimage Mailing List. > To unsubscribe, send a mail to softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com > with "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm. > -- Mirko Jankovic *http://www.cgfolio.com/mirko-jankovic <http://www.cgfolio.com/mirko-jankovic>* Need to find freelancers fast? www.cgfolio.com Need some help with rendering an Redshift project? http://www.gpuoven.com/
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