From my tests it looks like arnold is somehow a little faster in pure bruteforce. Also, they have very pleasant noise imho. And they have glossy reflections depth. Which sometimes provides you with pretty fast glossy surfaces, that you might think it is the way, it should be. Until you, of course, w…

I have a bit of experience using Arnold and I wanted to put in my 2 cents to some of the previous comments on this thread. Arnold is not an adaptive renderer, or so says their dev team. Every pixel is sampled at the same rate, and every pixel is sampled at a squared rate, therefore 2 samples =4, 4…

You’ll have to look out for V-Ray 3.0 then :wink: Best regards, Vlado

I’d well believe that at the minute - I used arnold for max back 10 years ago and it was a very simple renderer. Everything was pure raytracing with no shortcuts so everything was just a matter of grain. Marcoss was a believer in using nothing but good maths. Vlado’s also mentioned in other posts t…

I hear you :slight_smile: That’s another thing that we want to improve for 3.0. It’s a hard task though - reducing complexity but at the same time giving all the options that you need. I think we have a way to do this now, but we’ll see… Best regards, Vlado

I think you should make it more complicated - dont even bother having buttons to do anything, have a blank textbox. make users code their own features. vray 5 should just be a maths textbook and a ring binder of research papers.

As cubicle is alluding to above, vray is very rewarding once mastered. You’ve given the users a very good bag of tricks to cover a lot of different situations, maybe it’s more of a support manual issue? A lot of the documentation is done in a very dictionary / scientific style which will give a def…

Speaking of documentation. Here is Arnold’s web-based doc. Help I like the design and how the information is laid out.

Documentation is one part of it, but I still think the setup could be simplified. Best regards, Vlado

True, I’ve written a tonne of documentation for in house tools and processes and fairly often people just won’t bother reading it - more intuitive, easier controls reduce the need for docs in that respect :slight_smile:

Just a pointer/question: When you say you did a side-by-side comparison, do you mean you set vray to trace without adaptivity? As by skipping the sample rejection scheme entirely, you can gain a humongous amount of speed in vray too. It’s just very risky as it can get out of hand very very quick…

Has anyone tested arnorld vs vray ?

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Sorry Lele, should have quoted Dmitry there, was more a scripted approach to getting good settings. Must resume email chats on quality and theories though!

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Has anyone tested arnorld vs vray ?

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