by Perryharovas » Mon Nov 12, 2012 2:22 pm
Perryharovas
Mon Nov 12, 2012 2:22 pm
There is a large market of Softimage users who are VERY frustrated with mental ray.
I am one of them, and we complain about it all the time. Every time we hit the render button.
Sure it (mental ray) is a fast raytracer for reflections and (usually) for refractions, but it is very slow for indirect lighting solutions, and final gather is
a poor replacement. There are also many knobs to fiddle with, and it is a constant balancing act
not only between speed and quality, but also accuracy. When you tweak some settings, it throws others totally off.
It is like trying to drive a Ferrari with a bunch of other cars stacked on top. The underlying Ferrari is still good, but
it can't be used to its fullest potential because of having to work about all the other cars stacked on top of it and trying to
prevent them from falling off.
Octane doesn't seem to have this problem, and that is a large part of why I am hoping this is released sooner rather than later.
The quality and speed are excellent, but it doesn't require constant tweaking to get a good result. It works like the real world, with
advantages the real world doesn't have (and neither does mental ray).
Please keep us updated on your progress as much as you can.
I am waiting with a fist full of money to purchase.
Thank you,
Perry