Immerse yourself in the interplay of light and shadow as natural illumination pours through the expansive glass windows. I learned Shaderlight in an afternoon and said “Good enough for me!”.Dive into a world of architectural elegance with this stunning rendering. No matter how good the “best” renderers are there will always be some other tool that comes along that usually has more settings to configure that will inch you closer to reality. It was really interesting but also quite scary of how many variables affect true photorealistic rendering.

He built his entire PhD dissertation around how sunlight “renders” one leaf. What turned me off to some of the high-end renderers was when I worked on a project with a computer science student in grad school. I used E-on Vue for a while but it was like learning to fly a jet while performing heart surgery on a newborn (maybe a bit of an exaggeration). When I was looking at tools, aside from price I was looking for something that rendered plants and lights reasonably well on my lowly laptop and eventually landed on Shaderlight. It is not as configurable as many of the other rendering tools out there, but the trade off is ease of use. You are spot on when you say there are a ton of rendering apps / plugins out there. So it can help me chose which one to go for. So please if you use Thea or Vray or other render programs, share your knowledge. So how is that in Thea, Vray etc? Is there places to get/buy more at decent price? A decent library, render ready saves a lot of time.

but when i put that into vray it just makes a mess, 1.5 is more like 35 in real life.Īnd implemented material library. So is this intuitive in Thea? I find it a little bit confusing in V-Ray sometimes. I would like the lights to be easy to set up, like the possibility to adjust lumen/lux, angel of spotlight, kelvin color etc. So i can find out how lights work in a room etc. So how is it in use? For me lights is kind of important. But i can’t seem to find that many tutorials and howto on it. Many possibilities with it from the looks of it. Price is decent and it looks complex enough to keep me going. Iv also looked at LumenRT which also seems expensive but good.Īnd finally the one im looking on more and more. And then there is the price, quite expensive. Sometimes i just want to add something simple and render. Though i find some stuff anoyingly confusing sometimes.And way to complicated. Which is kind of important, so one does not have to spend lots of time learning. The comunity seems big, and there is lots of videos on youtube on howto.

Iv tried a little of V-Ray and it seems ok. As topic says, it seem like there is a ton of render program to chose from.

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