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notareal · 22 Apr 2011, 15:27

@ledisnomad, Little correction related to Thea Render, it has both biased and unbiased engines and also does work as a interactive renderer.

ledisnomad · 22 Apr 2011, 15:55

@notareal: Duly noted! I have made that correction and re-attached it.

ledisnomad · 22 Apr 2011, 15:57

This is a very helpful list. If I could, I think I'd buy VRay, Vue, Maxwell, and Lumion so I would have speed, natural landscapes, unbiased realism, and animations respectively. But I can't afford all that.

There's always a lot of debate over the best renderer for a certain set of critera. Would it be possible and desired to create a robust spreadsheet of these renderers to compare their features, benefits, and best uses? I've started a very simple one and will attach it. What would be the best way to allow people to collaborate on filling in the blanks and adding more information?

SURenderers.xls

jason_maranto · 30 May 2011, 16:13

Here's a slight update for Maxwell with maybe a few more interesting comparative categories.

Best,
Jason.

SURenderers.xls

sketchyarchitect · 2 Jun 2011, 14:31

maybe have the list as a wiki?

ledisnomad · 2 Jun 2011, 15:08

What's the best way to set up a wiki, do you think?

Jim · 2 Jun 2011, 20:58

Google Docs is very good at document collaboration - including spreadsheets.

Tinygrasshopper · 19 Jun 2011, 23:00

Hi!
I just found this one, i'm gonna try it!

http://www.vidro-project.com/

Bryan K · 30 Jun 2011, 19:04

@ledisnomad said:

What's the best way to set up a wiki, do you think?

If you are on, or sign on with, a good hosting company, Wiki software is included for free.

Hint: GoDaddy is not one. (I build and administer websites)

A.Lacko · 6 Jan 2012, 20:06

I do not know if it is already written

RENDERLIGHTS

RENDERLights 1.9 - Virtual Reality for Professional Projection Solutions

(www.renderlights.com)

Cherryni · 13 Jan 2012, 01:42

Gaieus,thanks for sharing. We're trying to use more software to create 3d renderings beside 3ds max and vray.

edited by solo (advertising)

fluid · 21 Apr 2012, 10:37

Hi All,
We just released the first beta of FluidRay RT, our new real-time global illumination renderer.
You can check it out at http://www.fluidray.com
It's real-time, but you don't need a fancy GPU with tons of video RAM. It mostly uses the CPU and the system's main RAM.
All comments are welcome!

Regards,

Nicola

jpalm32 · 21 Apr 2012, 15:18

How Much $$$??? To take the time to evaluate a product, might be nice to know if it's 100 or 1,000.
Or did I miss something on the site?

brookefox · 4 May 2012, 21:04

I am new today to rendering, which I'm using to see how some light fixtures I modeled perform. Twighlight saves in demo are limited to 800x600, quite small, and partially covered with the brand stamp. Why is it called 'free'?

jo-ke · 5 May 2012, 17:58

@brookefox said:

I am new today to rendering, which I'm using to see how some light fixtures I modeled perform. Twighlight saves in demo are limited to 800x600, quite small, and partially covered with the brand stamp. Why is it called 'free'?

It is the demoversion. So you can try everything. I've did it like that and I've bought the full version. It's not too expensive and worth every penny!

brookefox · 5 May 2012, 19:08

Thank you. I really don't have the time to render... I just wanted to add some light sources to some fixtures I've designed and was misled by the assertions here that it was free. The spreadsheet needs to be corrected. I'll try LuxRender.

zdesayn · 4 Jun 2012, 08:58

great info...thank's

Ineshtine · 8 Jun 2012, 03:31

Care to also list Raylectron?

Thanks!
http://Raylectron.com

vidy · 13 Jun 2012, 07:39

and also renderin @ http://www.renderin.com

regards,
vd

Al Hart · 20 Jul 2012, 04:33

@ledisnomad said:

I've started a very simple one and will attach it. What would be the best way to allow people to collaborate on filling in the blanks and adding more information?

How can you claim to have put together a list of Rendering solutions for SketchUp, and have completely left out both ArielVision and IRender nXt?

This thread started out with a list of rendering engines, and many people have suggested ones which were left out. Perhaps you should add all of them to your spreadsheet.