Recommendations for product rendering?
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I have to recant on the previous post where I stated that Keyshot doesn't allow for oxidized, weathered or aged material. This is incorrect. Keyshot has a label tool system that allows you to import your own graphics into the material library that is typically used for branding graphics but can also be used to make layered, oxidized or weathered effects with typical reflectivity and depth adjustment controls.
I also noticed that they have now implemented procedural textures for creating random texture materials such as granite, wood, oxidized metal, marble, and leather.
And their large drag and drop material library just keeps growing. They now have all the Pantone color library, internal lighting, caustic materials, Mold-tech textures, among others...
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Seems you like it...
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@xiombarg said:
I've been trying out Thea for a couple of days and been happy with it so far. It's a lot of program for the price and the interface is good. It has most of the major features of a high end renderer with similar results. Not super speedy though.
The speed depends on a lot of different factors, such as lighting, render method (plus settings)and material complexity etc.
I don't have a particularly high spec PC, but when I work on product-viz projects with Thea I regularly get clean unbiased results in 20 minutes and good quality biased renders in 5 minutes or less.
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i'd say thea is pretty damn fast!!
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That was my point
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V-Ray for SketchUp 1.6 Beta just started up recently
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@burkhard said:
Seems you like it...
That would be an affirmative. Keyframe is so much more powerful than I expected.
As far as Thea goes, I guess I don't really know what is considered to be fast when dealing with renderings for Sketchup, but with the low polygon counts that are typical in my Sketchup models, a rendering in any typical animation program might take a minute or two at most for a good biased rendering. But I do understand that animation programs are in a whole different class and price point.
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@hieru said:
That was my point
Oh I know, I was just responding to xiombarg and confirming your findings.
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@xiombarg said:
As far as Thea goes, I guess I don't really know what is considered to be fast when dealing with renderings for Sketchup, but with the low polygon counts that are typical in my Sketchup models, a rendering in any typical animation program might take a minute or two at most for a good biased rendering.
You could try Thea Presto GPU engine when it will be available publicly.
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@tomasz said:
You could try Thea Presto GPU engine when it will be available publicly.
The Rolex and diamond ring animations look excellent. I haven't committed myself to anything yet so Thea Presto GPU looks like a really good option.
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The Thea HDRI pack sounds like an awesome addition for product rendering. The HDRI pack combined with the Presto GPU and all combined with a very reasonable price point, Thea seems to be the best rendering software for your dollar available.
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Blender what else ?
Cycles
Internal renderer!
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