we still like vray

[RErender]

V-Rays double reflection does not happen in my tests, not sure if it is caused by the egz glass (I made my own) or 1.47.03 vs. 1.49.23. I tried the scene with adaptive sampling on the LC but it did not clean up all the way at 30000 samples. I guess that is expected since with adaptive the samples would be concentrated at the details? Really not sure how it works.

Looking forward to Morbid's tests, One thing to remember though is the point of the Maxwell test was that it only took 15min. to set up the scene with pretty good results.

[Morbid Angel]

eric, 15 min to setup, knowing your real settings. We for example dont know if the environment was black or not black when the photo was taken.
We dont have a direct input for watts and luminaries in vray light material, so that needs a special formula for the conversion. We dont know the exact color mesurments and reflectance paramiters of the glass, walls etc. Where as nextlimit could just photograph each of the surfaces with a uniform lighting and sample its color.

However once the setup would be complete, and the render can be matched to the photo, in vray many ways to make the render go fast, and if I had a crack at it, it would take me several hours to set it up and then 30 minuts to render this, where as it probably took maxwell 15 hours or so.

[Da_elf]

its always easy to fake it and have it looking closer to the real thing and take waaay less time to render. so i have to ask myself. what use is having all the physically accurate stuff in maxwell is its become totally useless due to render times. a person well versed in vray could setup the scene and fake it quicker and look 99% like the real thing.

[Morbid Angel]

agreed.

[RErender]

I agree, I have not spent my money on Maxwell

I still think that there is a definite advantage to having a user friendly interface that allows you to quickly put together a physically correct scene. If V-Ray had it's speed plus the easy presets...

[Morbid Angel]

all in time :P I believe that very soon, we will have the "perfect" renderer and it wont be maxwell

[rivoli]

I believe that very soon, we will have the "perfect" renderer

did you say very soon? how soon is very soon?

[Morbid Angel]

well I dont know the dates. But I can see as to how things are coming together. And by the looks of it, its getting close. Thats as much as I can say.

[rivoli]

that's fair enough, thanks Dmitry.

[vlado]

A little late, but here is what I got with that scene:



Best regards,
Vlado

[ene.xis]

damn!
Vlado that looks amazing!can u share some info?

[Monumedia]

the rendertime is even better!
it looks great and clean and i like the soft-reflection
in this version. the wrong double-reflection on
the sphere will go if you build your own glass-material
instead of using egz-glass. seams to be a bug in the
shader.
i wish some more information about render-settings too

nice day!

[DaForce]

Hey Vlado, be a pal and share your max file

[Olli96]

Hey Vlado, be a pal and upload the latest build into the support area - just kidding, i can wait for 1.5...
looks great btw

Olli

[ene.xis]

Hey Vlado, be a pal and upload the latest build into the support area - just kidding, i can wait for 1.5...
looks great btw

Olli

i second that and i m not joking...ufffff i wanna play with new thingys...
....yeah....but then again i can wait patiently for 1.5...