RS is way too much flexible and powerful for it's users.

[Jean-Sebastien Perron]

The maxwell renderer demo reel says it all : beautiful images, no animation. And the few animations have noises moving around. RS must offer a way to use stand alone renderers (that is really important). For now there is not one "efficient" standard way of communicating with a renderer. All of them use all sorts of undocumented SDL (scene description language) or worst : binary or .dll But I don't agree that the RS renderer is not good enough. It is perfect, just not what some need right now. What is needed is a "perfect GI" button or template scene (Seriously) like Strata3D. Strata3D do all the setup for you with predefined scenes. Procedural materials will always have AA problems, textures never will. The problems found in RS are the same encounter in Renderman. Pixar renderman generate a lot of lighting glitches that need to be corrected by hand for example. Contrary to Renderman, all these small (look at me) stand alone renderers are not production ready. To create beautiful images with renderman you need a lot of work. In renderman there is no GI, only the mathematical function to code it yourself inside your shaders. By reading and experimenting a lot with Renderman, I found that it has a lot of similarities with RS. RS can make images as beautiful as any other renderer on the market. For that you need to understand rendering, lighting, shading and RS a little deeper. And that is what most RS users are not ready to invest time in. Don't blame the car, blame the driver. It's not fair to compare RS to other renderers. RS is a pure Raytracer. Like any methods there are pros and cons. Contrary to many other 3d app, RS does not offer decent scene setup and materials right from the start : you have to do it all from scratch. Prepare for the flames and the usual offended : ) Jean-Sebastien Perron www.NeuroWorld.ws