Vue: (1 minute, 20 seconds)
Now, I'll be the first to admit that the Vue render looks better. But ... a lot of that is in the texture mapping and those texture maps were generated in Vue for import into Lightwave.There are also some flaws in the exported Lightwave model. Again, that model was generated by Vue.
But look at the render times. 80 seconds vs 2.2 seconds. Lightwave is 36 times faster. There's a lot of room to tweak and improve the render. Lighwave will certainly do that kind of work. I just brought this object in, threw in a background sky, and hit render, without adding many niceties. What's going on in the Vue renderer that makes it so slow?
Lightwave (2.2 seconds)
e-on has a version of Vue which integrates into Lightwave (or 3DS Max). I went with the stand-alone on the assumption that a stand-alone rendered would be faster than a program running under the hood of another program. Looks like I was wrong. I can 'sidegrade' to the integrated version, but that's another $400, money I'm reluctant to spend given how unhappy I am with this software.
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Just curious but are your two render time comparisons comparing like for like? The vue render appears to have a spectral atmosphere model which while it gives realistic results does slow the render down. The sky in Lightwave doesn't appear to be as complex, more like a Vue 5 sky. What lighting model were you using in each GI, GR, AO or a simple ray trace?
There are lots of settings you can tweak in Vue and some good tutorials on how to improve your render speeds. I'd personally suggest looking at Peggy's Vue render settings tutorial. Hope that helps you get the results you want a bit faster. Stick at it the results you can get from Vue really are worth the effort.
Thanks.
Admittedly, Lightwave has fewer cool settings turned on. The Vue render was with the default sky and nothing special turned on.
I'll check out Peggy's tutorial and see if I can get any more speed.
The problem with the default sky is it's a spectral atmosphere which is great because it looks really good but it's the newest atmosphere model in Vue and it is a lot slower than the olded standard or volumetric model. You might want to see if a standard atmosphere will give an acceptable look (especially if the sky doesn't have any clouds in it).
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