Hi Nicole, I abandoned MentalRay many years ago after years of pain and trouble using (fighting) MR in a production environment.
First I used 3Delight which solved some of the problems with MentalRay but had its own, and after Arnold became a viable alternative we switched to that and I have not used MR since then except for baking the odd texturemap. Now I am playing with Redshift too, and while I would say Arnold is more robust and versatile still, Redshift is amazingly fast and very quickly catching up with Arnold. If you have serious need for rendering for animation I would not hesitate for a second, regarding getting Redshift for replacing MR. It is much faster and provides good GI with motionblur and DOF, the most troublesome areas of MR rendering, and it is quite easy to get up to speed with. If you do havy duty FinalGather renders, you will love Redshift. At least you should try their trial if you have a decent graphics card - it will quickly convince you :) Cheers Morten > Den 12. april 2017 klokken 18:40 skrev Nicole Beeckmans-Jacqmain > <arc.ann...@gmail.com>: > > > Hi. > Watching the Augmented Reality Videos and latest Games made me wondering > if I should not get myself a copy of Redshift for mynext project. > > I am wondering if Redshift is just faster than MentalRay, or if it > does also output, in finer, higher render quality than MRay?? > > (sorry if this sounds a total nooby question!!) > > Seeing Substance Painter 2 tutorials, i've got a hint with it, and with > procedural texturing in general, > there's a whole broad field of experimentation opening in my project with > it. I hope to be able to use it soon > with Softimage 2015s2. sorry i could not answer your question, i am on the > lookout myself for these outdated infos. > > Regds, > Nicole. > > > > 2017-04-11 18:53 GMT+02:00 Patrick Neese <patrickne...@gmail.com>: > > > I bought Substance Painter for texturing UE4 assets, but wanted to use it > > with Softimage as well. > > > > It appears MILA shaders would be a good approach. Is anyone using > > Substance Painter for texturing (metal-rough) or anther PBR texturing > > program with Softimage? I found and tried to setup the shaders/materials > > (3.11 version i believe) as suggested for maya here: > > https://support.allegorithmic.com/documentation/display/ > > SPDOC/Mental+Ray+for+Maya > > > > But for some reason the non-metallic items aren't rendering correctly. > > The export templates are a bit different from the walkthrough too(gray > > images no alpha). Anyone have any suggestions/experience? Because I have > > no idea what I'm doing :) I'd love to get off Mental Ray, but I can't > > justify Redshift/Arnold as a hobbyist with projects few and far between. > > So, I need to figure out a mental ray solution. > > > > Thanks! > > > > ------ > > 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. ------ Softimage Mailing List. To unsubscribe, send a mail to softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com with "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm.
