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Nice idea https://www.treddi.com/app/gallery/proj ... ell-render

Cool!

Very interesting. Generally, I like the Vray color rendition a bit better.

shadow in maxwell looks better

seghier wrote: ↑

Fri Dec 22, 2017 12:26 am

shadow in maxwell looks better

Agreed.

vray renders look like CG trying to be as realistic as possible, but maxwell's renders look like a real photo trying to be CG ...

well i dont think the maxwell render time is that low compared to vray for these scenes where the difference is minimal only to a trained eye.
im really saddened by the status of maxwell. been long time since an update worth lookin at (5+months).
Development looks like its stopped, i find myself in extreme need of motivation to even open the software compared to Redshift or other engines.

sad.

Is Redshift a good alternative for industrial, medical and transportation designers (Catia, Alias, Creo, NX)? Keyshot is a terrible alternative in our view.

There are almost too many renderers out there, but none have a plug-in for industrial design software (OBJ like in Maxwell's case is ok though) and it also would be tricky to adopt another renderer - only to find out a year later that it does not succeed in the market.

feynman wrote: ↑

Wed Jan 10, 2018 11:52 am

Is Redshift a good alternative for industrial, medical and transportation designers (Catia, Alias, Creo, NX)? Keyshot is a terrible alternative in our view.

There are almost too many renderers out there, but none have a plug-in for industrial design software (OBJ like in Maxwell's case is ok though) and it also would be tricky to adopt another renderer - only to find out a year later that it does not succeed in the market.

honestly Redshift is a must to have. It is so fast flexible and great looking quality that its quite crippling yourself to not use it. ITs also cheap and with a stunning development and support. it was the main reason why i dont find any motivation to even try any other engine.
Being a GPU render (biased with the possibility to go full bruteforce) it has an out-of core mechanic which doesnt eat all your GPU ram. this is a huge difference compared to any other engine out there. It basically uses your cpu/ram for lets say voxelization, when your GPU ram is filled. so render never crashes or fails.

it has passes, custom aov, curvature shaders, wireframe, utility nodes, its really a great engine and its worth the money. It keeps evolving and updating, so far i never looked back. I sometimes come here on maxwell forum to see if something is changed but since i bought v4 spending lots of money (they also discontinued softimage plugin) i hardly find any reason to use Maxwell.

I dont know what software you use but redshift supports 3dsMax / Maya / softimage / c4d / Houdini. It doesnt have a standalone mode for now (like maxwell studio).

Ok, thanks, we need industrial design (Catia, Alias, Creo, NX) compatibility. So if there's no standalone OBJ importing version available, it won't be useful. Well, one just has to keep lookin'...