3DWorld review: VRay 1.5 vs Brazil V2 -> VRay SLOW!

[^Lele^]

I only dealt with what was at hand, and have even been told of amateurism.
Rendering big is no issue with vray, and the the time taken increases linearly with the MPx rendered, so that to me would be a no issue.
What would be nice to see it's extensiblity, ease of pipeline integration in something other than archviz, shading flexibility, scriptability, and so on.
But given the reactions to a simple archviz image, I'll happily leave these tests from when I'll have to experience it firsthand from within an actual company.

[joconnell]

Being completely honest I think nearly every brazil image I see looks too dark - I think peoples adoption of gamma corrected rendering and the pseudo-infinite bounces of light cache makes vray renders far more realistic - if anything the whole argument about not being able to see bump mapping and so on leads to brazil users having far too much purely for it to be visible which I don't see often in real life. I like the renderer since it's more easily tweakable than vray by breaking physical conventions but I'm far happier with the results I get from vray.

[RayOfLight]

we've played with this too on our dutch forum > http://www.3dstudio.nl/component/opt...9/topic,1039.0
Had our share of all the "problems" in this file.
We also compared rendertimes between brazil, vray and mental ray, that was fun
The goal was to create a visible as-good-as similar visual. Rendertimes were very close, both brazil and vray at about 4 minutes (faster was possible, but then quality dropped visibly). Mental ray however needed about 20 minutes...
Still, this was the second article about vray by this author in 3D World mag, and the first one was too complicated as well...I've been wondering whether I should write something myself...(as if I have the time )

[Paul Oblomov]

Me too thinks, that lighcache is a greatest addition to vray ever. And ability to use bruteforce on primary and lc on secondary is unique.