Render Plugins Advice
by Brian Smith
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Jul 10, 2008 at 9:06:41 pm
Hey- Does anyone here have any experience with V-Ray for C4D? I have a project coming up where I have to model photorealistic interiors of Penthouse Style Condos. I have the studio bundle of C4D 10.5, but I am very impressed with some of the 3rd party render engines for lighting. I have seen a couple of others out there I was impressed with from banner adds on CC, but I can't remember what they are called. Any suggestions on other plugins for advanced lighting rendering? Or advice on V-Ray?
Re: Render Plugins Advice by Adam Trachtenberg on Jul 11, 2008 at 12:41:57 am
In addition to VRay there is finalRender, Maxwell Render, and Fry Render. I have the first three. VRay and fR are both very fast GI renderers with excellent quality. In terms of quality and speed I think VRay has the edge. fR has bucket rendering so you can easily split up a single frame over a network. VRay doesn't, but it allows unlimited nodes, whereas fR gets very expensive if you exceed the included (can't remember number) amount.
They have quite different approaches to materials. fR can use most native shaders/materials, but it also has a a shader tree system that uses the Xpresso interface. I find it hard to get my head around it. VRay has it's own shader which can also use most native Cinema shaders, but you have to convert existing scenes's shaders (there's a one-click utility).
fR's licensing server is a pain in the butt, and the renderer is not available for Macs -- they've been promising Mac support for YEARS.
Maxwell can produce beautiful results but it's dog slow --pretty much out of the question for animation. Fry is similar but I haven't used it.
Re: Render Plugins Advice by Brian Smith on Jul 11, 2008 at 2:53:15 pm
Well it sounds like VRay may be the way to go. Thanks for your help! One last question, can render with VRay utilize the NET Render service? Or would I have to have it installed on all the machines that I have NET Render on?
