Rush time!

[glorybound]

I have about three weeks to finish up about 60 renders (interior and exterior). Is anyone using Vantage for production renders? I get pretty good results quickly, but to me, they are pre-viz quality. However, I have seen some image, that the person swears was done in Vantage, and they looked dang good. Any setting suggestions?

[Luma3d]

I've been using it for production since it came out. Haven't gone back yet.

[glorybound]

I've been using it for production since it came out. Haven't gone back yet.

This should have been in the Vantage sections - my bad!

Do you have any tips? I was thinking about running it through AI sharpening to get rid of the softness. Are you seeing soft images come out of Vantage?

[Luma3d]

Are you showing something? I'm usually running into the opposite problem. Too sharp for my taste.

[Luma3d]

I would install the latest update. It has lens glare now and some other neat features. You can also us the built-in blur and sharpen sliders to help with your issue. I pretty much set up my settings as if I was using the production renderer. .003 for noise threshold, adjust reflection/fraction and GI bounces as needed. Set my render samples between 1000 to 1500k and only denoise the last pass.

[suzanne_doherty]

I find the settings straight out of the box work well for me in Vantage. Occasionally I have to adjust things like the opacity settings.

The post production part, like Filmic Tone Mapping, Lens Effects are brilliant too.

I echo what Luma3d says though, the images are often too sharp and clean. In post I'll soften things up a bit, add some noise and some usual adjustments.

Animations are still a bit glitchy / flickering, but I use CPU rendering for that, but as you're dealing with stills, I'd say give it a go. Rendering in minutes at 5k, rather than hours, is a big win!

[vladimir.nedev]

This should have been in the Vantage sections - my bad!

Do you have any tips? I was thinking about running it through AI sharpening to get rid of the softness. Are you seeing soft images come out of Vantage?

Maybe just disable the Bloom effect in the Vantage post processing settings (not my decision to have it on by default, so don't ask me about it) ?

Greetings,
Vladimir Nedev

[Luma3d]

Without bloom you'll get pixelated edges on your bright white areas. Light lenses. They are not antialiased.

[glorybound]

I rendered a 4K, 2K, 2K upscaled, and Vantage, and sent it to the client.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folde...BO?usp=sharing

Pardon the scene; it isn't done, but it is the current image I am working on with them, so I used it as a test.

• 4K - 1 hour
• 2K - 20 minutes
• Vantage - 5 minutes

Whatcha think?

[Morbid Angel]

Obviously the gaming 4k (vantage) looks best for the time you spent rendering it. I've also tried one of your images in topaz, it does a decent job from 2k to 4k.

[Luma3d]

Looks good. Is the Vantage image 4k or 2k.

[glorybound]

Looks good. Is the Vantage image 4k or 2k.

The vantage is 4K

[glorybound]

Obviously the gaming 4k (vantage) looks best for the time you spent rendering it. I've also tried one of your images in topaz, it does a decent job from 2k to 4k.

The 2K upscaled was upscaled using Topaz.

[Luma3d]

Gaming Vantage? The only gaming dcc I know of is UE. For the render time stick with Vantage.

[glorybound]

Gaming Vantage? The only gaming dcc I know of is UE. For the render time stick with Vantage.

It is how I explained it to my client. I told her to think about it as a gaming engine - not nesscerly 100% accurate, some cheating going on, but most will not notice.