Diffrent types of Renders

[dennisn8tkk]

Mental Ray, Renderman, Brazil, ZooRender, and others ?? Wich are the best and what are the strong and weak pionts of each ? I was woundering if there is something (Book, or DVD) or even someone that will explane this is I can have a better understanding. I would like to use the best render for the job.
If anyone who can help me on I would be greatfull.
Thanks and have a great day !! :smile:
Dennis

[McGergs]

Well Renderman is the best. Very hard to grasp and understand though. They use it in almost every big movie production.

Renderman for Maya - is a dumbed down version of Renderman. It is cool but I find it sometimes doesn't work well with certain things in Maya.

Maxwell Render - This is a very accurate light renderer. It has some cool materials too. Prepare to waist your life away waiting for the renders to complete though. I recommend this only for nice still shots. And even then it will take forever.

Mental Ray - Comes with Maya and many other 3D packages. It is the most integrated renderer with Maya. I love Mental Ray because most everything works with it in the package.

VRay- This is a very good renderer for 3DS Max. Very easy to use and renders pretty fast.

Brazil - Another good renderer. I don't know much about it though,That is for the Max Gurus to explain. I hate 3DS Max.


Turtle - Looks very promising for video game rendering. Haven't tried it yet.

Final Render - Looks cool. Haven't tried it yet.

[dennisn8tkk]

Thanks VERY Helpfull

[Broomy]

hi

i have recently been messing about with the demo of turtle,a and i must say that i believe that one is the best because it is the fastest renderer on the planet.

I had a scene that i was messing around with and AO with MR took minuites while Turtle took seconds. i have always thought the the bump/displacement was slow in MR it is rapid with turtle, and with microPolys the detail is amazing.

I expect now it may be going through you mind, yeah, speed is great but what about quality, well with the SSS/FG/ and surface transfer the quality is definitely there. If u want to try it here is the link

http://www.illuminatelabs.com/turtle3/trial

and a review

http://www.illuminatelabs.com/press/newsarchive/turtle-3-reviewed-in-3d-world/

Turtle is not only used in games either so it holds up with the best of them IMHO :biggrin:

Good luck in choosing, its a hard one :)

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