vray vs scanline ?

[walee]

I was wondering if I were to do a rendering without using GI, using vray is still better and faster than the scanline renderer of 3DSMAX ? is it a wise choice to use vray over the standard 3dsmax renderer ? is it really faster ?

thx for your comments ...

[RErender]

It will be faster in some cases, mainly with lots of reflections, it is most beneficial when doing things scanline can't like 3d motion blur, real dof or displacement.

[J_Bug]

Reflections and refractions have always blown the standard scanline away in speed and quality for any tests I've done.

--Jon

[roppin]

antialiasing, much better in v-ray

/D

[dans]

But in vray you might miss 2 important features (mainly for post production) of the scanliner: render elements and the multi-layered G-Buffer.

[cocolas]

But in vray you might miss 2 important features (mainly for post production) of the scanliner: render elements and the multi-layered G-Buffer.

and fake highlights.....althoght there is workarounds that....

[egz]

cocolas, that's a limitation of the VRay material, not the renderer

[cocolas]

opps, yeah...you're right egz

[tammo]

the strange thing is,
i bought vray because of its GI features.
now i dont use GI anymore,
but still vray on every project.

if i start something new,
the first thing that i do is change the renderer.

the best thing are those super-fast vray shadows.
second for me is raytrace reflection.

stuff i dont use anymore is:
motion blur- sloooooow (use max render effect)
Dof- slow (done in post)
GI- flicker in animation or high rendertime (i always have animated objects)
displacement- flicker in animation
"Make Art" button- who needs art?