Re: Rendering alternative to mental ray needed..

[Jason S]

Yes! & 3D-Light along with the RenderTree arguably makes for the most visual renderman shader (or shader network) creation tool out there,  & supporting loads if not most native shaders. Which you can actually use compiled output as RM shaders elsewhere, essentially using the rendertree as a RM shader authoring tool. >From 3DLight Site..  It achieves seamless integration into Softimage, without any compromises in workflow, and brings a higher level of rendering performance and capabilities otherwise unavailable to the Softimage user base (or anywhere else) . The most important benefits are: Significantly faster global illumination and subsurfce scattering Significantly faster rendering of motion-blur and depth of field (up to tenfold) Significantly faster rendering of Hair and Fur (up to fivefold) Ability to use displacements extensively with negligible impact on performance Ability to handle much larger scenes using significantly less memory Better quality rendering with perfectly smooth subdivision surfaces Proven RenderMan standard and practices with RIB import/export and RSL shaders Network caching for efficient bandwidth utilization while rendering on a render farm Among the long list of features in 3Delight for Softimage, you will find support for: Physically plausible materials, including skin, dual coated surfaces and glass. The Render Tree, shader compounds and more than 200 Softimage native shader nodes The ability to add RenderMan shaders (as materials) as well as RenderMan shader nodes Toon shaders and Inking ICE Volumes, Particles and Strands Volumics Render Maps All geometries, including subdivision surfaces, NURBS, Fur and curves Scene caching for rapid lighting Integration in the render region and support for most output formats XSI 7.0, Softimage 7.5, Softimage 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014 compatibility On 03/23/14 11:33, Sebastien Sterling wrote: Thanks guys for being in-depth and vocal, we live in interesting times, a few years ago you had VRay RenderMan and that was about it. now we got: maxwel octane Lux Arnold Redshift Lagoa 3Dlight On 23 March 2014 14:42, Jason S <jasonsta...@gmail.com> wrote: On 03/23/14 9:28, Jason S wrote: .. to provide a certain (well needed or deserved) "edge", ... should have wrote..  " to provide a certain (well needed or deserved) -push-, " Cause a clear "edge" is exactly what it already got ( in a very-much timeless way ), and exactly what anyone that know it would rather not needlessly sacrifice. ________ Also for the RRay ICE list paste from "Re: What use is ICE really?" ** How's THAT for a CONSTANT STREAM OF BRAND NEW KILLER FEATURES ! **  ;-)