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 <[email protected]>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 < > [email protected]> 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 >> <[email protected]><[email protected]>: >> >> >> 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 >> >> >> >> >> >
