Hello Christopher: > Does 3Delight require shader dev or can a small to individual get what needs > to be done fast.
We certainly don't want you to hire devs to achieve nice imagery. I think the latest versions are very easy to use (and comes with a nice physically plausible material). That being said, we will always make sure to provide you the tools and the processes to render images that will differentiate you from your competition. That is why, shader programming is very easy in 3Delight for Softimage (among other flexibilities). -- Aghiles > > ::Christopher > > Alan Fregtman 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 <[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]>: >>> >>> 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 >>> >>> >> >>
