That's pretty far from my typical day with MR, it's definitely production ready. With that said, I do appreciate that you reach a good result quicker in Arnold, and the feedback is typically much better, but I'd have to say that Sitoa crashes Soft more than MR does. MR is very predictable, and very works very well with passes and general tricks you need on a daily basis in regular production. Many scenarios are faster to render than Arnold due to its biased optimizations.
On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 10:22 AM, Mirko Jankovic <[email protected]>wrote: > Hmm Arnold long way for production? > I'm not sure but from what I saw, having more predictable results with > faster tweaking times with Arnold is waaaaay more production ready than > anything with MRay. > Unless you are some king fo MRay genius ofc. > Experience of having to sit through whole rendering waiting if MRay will > crash on scene or not... ugh.. not something I would EVER wanna get back to. > With Arnold if nothing else I'm sure that it will chew through whatever is > thrown to him. > But everyone got their own reasons and in any case happy rendering :) > > > On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 10:17 AM, olivier jeannel <[email protected] > > wrote: > >> I'm quite the opposite. >> I'm rather happy I can still use MR, even if it's rather slow if you >> compare to LW renderer (as far as I remember). >> MR is tweakable to death, and I can always manage to get my definitive >> render to have a "decent" look at afordable time. >> >> I do start Arnold from time to time, yes it produces much better results >> but its still way to long for a production, specialy these days when every >> body ask for 1080P. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Le 25/02/2013 20:31, Vladimir Jankijevic a écrit : >> >> I think it's still worlds apart from anything that comes out of Arnold >> and/or Maxwell. Yes I know it's only envAO, but still. I'd rather let it >> render twice the time to have a really beautiful render than have to fake >> all of the illumination and get something like this. >> >> Oh man, I'm so happy I'm not in Mental Land anymore... >> >> >> On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 8:04 PM, Tim Leydecker <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Thanks for the hint to unified sampling! >>> >>> Nice. >>> >>> Here´s a mR unified sampling version with DOF. >>> >>> *Switched to Gaussian (3) for Filtering. >>> *1/8/1/0.032 unified sampling settings... >>> *mia_lens_bokeh used 4 samples, should have been 6. >>> *global Ambient Occlusion Rays = 64, should have lived with 48 as before. >>> *mib_lens_clamp (0-1) added to get rid of some hard to filter hotspots. >>> >>> MacPro2008//2.8GHz//7cores rendering in low priority >>> >>> ' INFO : RC 0.10 info : rendering statistics >>> ' INFO : RC 0.10 info : type number per >>> eye ray >>> ' INFO : RC 0.10 info : eye rays 15449600 >>> 1.00 >>> ' INFO : RC 0.10 info : reflection rays 61512093 >>> 3.98 >>> ' INFO : RC 0.10 info : refraction rays 1421904 >>> 0.09 >>> ' INFO : RC 0.10 info : shadow rays 4232441256 >>> 273.95 >>> ' INFO : RC 0.10 info : environment rays 3727286053 >>> 241.25 >>> ' INFO : RC 0.10 info : probe rays 3777812169 >>> 244.52 >>> >>> ' INFO : RC 0.4 progr: rendering finished >>> ' INFO : RC 0.4 info : wallclock 3:22:12.48 for rendering >>> >>> I like the unified sampling, it is indeed easy to use and can be a real >>> speedimprovement! >>> >>> The same image without DOF took ca. 45 minutes... >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> tim >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On 25.02.2013 09:58, Arvid Björn wrote: >>> >>>> It's pretty easy, and it will change everything. Dof could even speed >>>> up your render due to the more clever sampling scheme. I usually go with >>>> mia-bokeh, stopped using post-dof >>>> quite a while ago. Similar thing with motion blur, it's a different >>>> game with unified sampling. >>>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> --------------------------------------- >> Vladimir Jankijevic >> Technical Direction >> >> Elefant Studios AG >> Lessingstrasse 15 >> CH-8002 Zürich >> >> +41 44 500 48 20 >> >> www.elefantstudios.ch >> --------------------------------------- >> >> >> >
