Vray VS Thea render plants render
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I'd suggest Thea... but then again I love Thea so I'm biased.
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@solo said:
I'd suggest Thea... but then again I love Thea so I'm biased.
I think its time for me to start learning it. You may see lots on me in the forums with 100 and 1 questions.
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Eh, I tried it, but it's no vray...
Nice program, but not my cuppa.I gotta say, thea development seems to be on the ball and doing great things. Can't say the same for vray...
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If you wanna play with the big boy toys like high poly trees, fur, proxies, etc. I would say that it is totally worth the investment to start using Max and VRay. I love SU and I love VR in SU, but development is very slow and now that Google has dumped SU to Trimble, I would be prepared to jump ship and start using the industry standard program for arch/viz if you need to. You can still use SU for modeling but taking your model into Max allows you to push yourself even further. I started playing with the Cloth modifier in Max and it just blows my mind. One of a million reasons why I am starting the transition over.
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some of my friends what they do is they render first the background trees. then the foreground trees, then the house without trees, and if have trees minimal. all the save images in png. then they composed in photoshop. it means they render by stage..
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for me. if you want to look at this in a very very professional way. see the multi-scatter with Max and Vray.
as far as what you have now. i think this workflow for ground grasses is great... http://www.sketchupvrayresources.blogspot.com/2012/04/mtm-series-2012-40-iwasa-house-by.html download also the sample grass in the same post.
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@nomeradona said:
some of my friends what they do is they render first the background trees. then the foreground trees, then the house without trees, and if have trees minimal. all the save images in png. then they composed in photoshop. it means they render by stage..
Ive used this method a few times. Works well. Gets complicated when shadows/reflections of the foreground fall/effect on objects in the background. There is always tricks to work around this. But does take some planning and time.
Max Vray really does seem to be the industry standard. I just don't know how people afford it. I just don't make enough money off Arch Viz alone to warrant splashing the cash on that set up. Its like $3500USD 3dsmax 2012, $1350USD Vray2, $280USD Muli scatter. Thats one serious investment. But with alot of skills and a set of tools like these, the world is your oyster. Check out the latest works by Jamie Holmes http://jamieholmescg.blogspot.co.nz/....no relation to me
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No, and while Modo's render engine is far from bad (certainly for its price), it doesn't offer Vray's speed/quality ratio. I wish it did, though!
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I think there are a lot of folks using this software and not paying for it. Our industry is saturated with guys overseas using Max and Vray and charging $100 for a rendering. How do you think they are doing that?
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@valerostudio said:
I think there are a lot of folks using this software and not paying for it. Our industry is saturated with guys overseas using Max and Vray and charging $100 for a rendering. How do you think they are doing that?
Been up against this a lot lately.
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But you can use Thea with Modo and that can easily match Vray for speed and quality.
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But I think the user base is much larger for Max and VRay. Just like SU, when you have a question or need a plug-in or a pre-modeled piece of furniture, its there. Same with MAX. There are a million awesome scripts and the amount of stuff out there pre-modeled and textured for Vray is insane. I honestly would not consider anything else other than MAX and VRay. I've tried other cheaper solutions and you get what you pay for. I even tried going over to Maxwell and I just don't have the patience to deal with that rendering engine. Easy to use and setup, yep its a breeze. Render times are just plain ridiculous. I don't know why Maxwell doesn't do what Thea did and offer both biased and un biased, but I digress.
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@hieru said:
But you can use Thea with Modo and that can easily match Vray for speed and quality.
Maybe quality, but no way speed.
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@holmes1977 said:
@hieru said:
But you can use Thea with Modo and that can easily match Vray for speed and quality.
Maybe quality, but no way speed.
I'm willing to wager on this.
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@hieru said:
@holmes1977 said:
Maybe quality, but no way speed.
Are you forgetting the biased render options?
Ok...I havent tried the biased engine yet.....Mind you I havent seen many who have. Is it as fast as Vray?
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Recent animation using biased engine, 22 minutes total render time
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1129899/Produce.mov (should play online, let me know if it does not)
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@valerostudio said:
I think there are a lot of folks using this software and not paying for it. Our industry is saturated with guys overseas using Max and Vray and charging $100 for a rendering. How do you think they are doing that?
Im like Pete, Ive come up against this LOADS. Even when quoting architectural Design and plans. Getting out quoted by less than half. Hang on are they paying insurance, tax, software overheads. It seems being honest is a losers game. But I cant stand being robbed, so I would never do it myself.
I really wanted to get into Arch viz full time. I gave that away when I found out half the jobs in my country were being tendered to overseas company's for a third of the cost. I just couldn't compete. Hard to stomach when I cant even afford the software they use, and I charge 3x the amount that they do
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@holmes1977 said:
Hard to stomach when I cant even afford the software they use, and I charge 3x the amount that they do
I've run into the same problem but it is worth noting that often the quality of renders isn't that great..........obviously some people are willing to pay less even if that means they end up with a poor end product.
There are however signs that things are changing. In the last month I've received three emails from three different Chinese companies offering rendering services for around the same price that I would charge.
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