i was going to compose a scene as well, but then i saw Solo's render
and i just gave up... lol...

why bother? he won!

anyway, here it is where i quit and just hit "render"

Thea4Sketchup BSD, 30 minutes (old Core2Duo...)

yup, he's right....

rendering such a good and detailed model next to some low poly furniture and plants?

your great job modeling that iconic camera deserves better...

@cotty said:

@solo said:

Care to share the model so everyone can play?

Would be a great one for a new [Render this] topic

+1

i know... i tried the last update also

still slower to render than v.4 and still slow and buggy in the interface tabs

i've decided to make the switch to a new render engine, but im still testing them all
looking for speed + quality + good performance on my old pc
vray 2.0 is in the pole position right now...

great render
although its a little bit burnt on that upper side wall.. maybe try a lower iso

just out of curiosity: 3 hours and 7 minutes in which preset?

i forgot to share some pictures of the tests i did
dont mind the model or the quality of the renders, because it's not mine, i just downloaded the model from the internet for quick rendering tests...

@ginchius said:

@xonpt said:

you should separate the paintings from the wall, like half a centimeter, so that they dont look like glued to the wall, but hung on

apart from that, its almost perfect

very good one

Thanks,
I did a 5 mm space between picture and wall, but, I think, there was no shadows around the frames because of bad lighting.

well, then i shouldnt have said anything, because you actually did what i said... my bad, sorry... lol

but its weird how that spacing didnt cast any shadows

even so, the images are great!

@massimo said:

The images were rendered at 1500X1043 px for 5-7 hrs each (depending on the scene) on my old i7 with 6 Gb of RAM.

this is the only reason i dont switch to Thea... the unbiased engines are amazing, and now with the 1.2 final gathering, the biased ones are almost equally good

but i miss a biased preset where you can give up a little bit on quality, but get a render in 15 to 30 minutes, like you can do in VRay

even with "basic" interior preset, with no supersampling, i get 2 to 3 hour render in these kind of complex lightning scenes (my machine is even "older" than yours...)

but again, amazing images, you and Thea work very well together

very good

but out of curiosity, could you tell us the average time it took to render? (and of course the original resolution and rendering power of your machine)

i also think Thea 1.2 is amazing... its biased engine is almost as good as unbiased ones, but i find it much slower, in comparison to VRay 2.0
so that's why i am curious to know your feedback about Theas biased speed

anyway, the renders are great, thanks for sharing

you should separate the paintings from the wall, like half a centimeter, so that they dont look like glued to the wall, but hung on

apart from that, its almost perfect

very good one

this is great!

but if i may point out 2 things that would make it even better:

1. no street lamps; by 1930s all these busy streets had street lights

2. cars in the middle of the street with no drivers; maybe darken and add some reflection to the windshields, so that you cant see that there is no driver

but those are just "moddel" issues... the rendering and post-processing are very good

Hi, this is my first post here, and im from Portugal, so sorry for any bad english

Anyone here uses Artlantis? I have used it for years, but i just downloaded the new Artlantis 5 demo, and i have to say that i am very dissapointed...

1. Is it just me (because i was so used to the old interface) or is the new interface a mess? What i loved in Artlantis' previous versions was the ease of use and simple but intuitive interface, and now its gone, as an attempt to look more like Maxwell or Thea...

2. With all the new animated tabs and buttons, i also think its slower to work with

3. Rendering, although not comparable to VRay or Maxwell or others, has been one of the fastest and the one with the best ratio of speed vs. quality, IMHO
   But all the tests i did, version 5 is slower, and in most cases took twice the time as in version 4...

So, has anyone here tested Artlantis 5? If so, any thoughts?