The Need for Speed

[Smalerbi]

My wish is probably coming from a purely ignorant perspective because I have no idea how the programming end of things work. There are allot of good suggestions in this area of the forum and it would be great if most of them could take place, however, I would give them all up for some good old fashioned speed increases. I'm sure everyone in this forum realizes how important rendering times are in the production environment, especially when it comes to large flat surfaces such as glass, etc. I can only assume that the Vray programming team as squeezed as much performance out of the software and we will just have to wait for processors to become faster. I guess what I'm trying to say is, if it is possible, is to strap a turbo charger onto this bad boy we call Vray.

Scott.

[Brian briggs]

hey scott, do you have an example of what exactly so slow in vray?

I am looking at doing some timing comparisons between renderers, in particular Brazil and Vray. I was wondering if anyone could explain in detail what slows down Brazil and Vray.
Is it motion blur, area lights, depth of field, raytracing reflections, refractions, shadows etc?

I need to create some scenes that hi-lite each packages weaknesses in terms of render speed.
If you also have some example scenes, with images and timings that you could post, this would be very helpful. I have a scene that I can give you if you are willing to partake in this speed comparison.

If you are a serious user of either of these packages I would be very interested in your experiences.