[Others]rendering Amps - Polyloop

mon_stdnt · 19th February 2008, 18:23

I was wondering what rendering amps do you guys recommend for rendering products and stills?

Carrara's render engine is good and easy to use and Cinema 4D's is quiet okay, but I don't have GI, Ambient Occlusion nor Caustics on it. And I don't want to fork up $500 for the module.

Ive was looking at blender's features and I came across RAYTRARCING. I'm assuming it's free, since I haven't seen any price tag. Any of you guys tried it.

Thanks in advance.

graphinc · 20th February 2008, 16:16

Of course, blender is completly free (and more, it's opensource). The internal renderer now offers raytracing, ambiant occlusion, subsurface scattering but still not caustics for now. With blender you can use a lot of external renders (pov, yafray, kerkythea, indigo, sunflow,...)
Some rendering tries with blender :
http://www.graphinc.com/galerie/thumbnails.php?album=7
(I used Carrara before that)

rickei · 20th February 2008, 16:43

What type of product are you trying to render. Do you need realistic caustics?

I keep going back to Carrara, mostly because of the output settings. I can just set the image to render, at whatever dimensions and dpi that I want. this is very handy for print work, because i can do my framing and cropping before I ever render it out. As opposed to other 3D packages that force you render in preset sizes(2k, 4k, NTSC, A5 etc) and then crop down to the size you need. that eats up lots of time rendering things that will only be cropped out of the final.

as for C4d, it is good, but without the GI, AO you are better off with Carrara.
Can't say much about Blender, as I have never used it much, but I am continually impressed with renders, coming from it... seems YAFRAY may be a good choice.

19th February 2008, 18:23	#1 (permalink)
mon_stdnt Always learning Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: New York Posts: 420 My Photos: (0) Images: 15	[Others]rendering Amps I was wondering what rendering amps do you guys recommend for rendering products and stills? Carrara's render engine is good and easy to use and Cinema 4D's is quiet okay, but I don't have GI, Ambient Occlusion nor Caustics on it. And I don't want to fork up $500 for the module. Ive was looking at blender's features and I came across RAYTRARCING. I'm assuming it's free, since I haven't seen any price tag. Any of you guys tried it. Thanks in advance. __________________ www.rgamarra.com

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graphinc 3D bible Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: au pied du massif de la Grande Chartreuse Posts: 2,483 My Photos: (0)	Of course, blender is completly free (and more, it's opensource). The internal renderer now offers raytracing, ambiant occlusion, subsurface scattering but still not caustics for now. With blender you can use a lot of external renders (pov, yafray, kerkythea, indigo, sunflow,...) Some rendering tries with blender : http://www.graphinc.com/galerie/thumbnails.php?album=7 (I used Carrara before that) __________________ Cédric TROJANI , Graphiste et illustrateur indépendant http://www.cedrictrojani.fr

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20th February 2008, 16:43	#3 (permalink)
rickei Respect the Dawg! Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: USA - Conway, South Carolina Posts: 753 My Photos: (10) Images: 1	What type of product are you trying to render. Do you need realistic caustics? I keep going back to Carrara, mostly because of the output settings. I can just set the image to render, at whatever dimensions and dpi that I want. this is very handy for print work, because i can do my framing and cropping before I ever render it out. As opposed to other 3D packages that force you render in preset sizes(2k, 4k, NTSC, A5 etc) and then crop down to the size you need. that eats up lots of time rendering things that will only be cropped out of the final. as for C4d, it is good, but without the GI, AO you are better off with Carrara. Can't say much about Blender, as I have never used it much, but I am continually impressed with renders, coming from it... seems YAFRAY may be a good choice.