ArchiCAD 9 Rendering Speed

[Anonymous]

Some of you may have noticed that I previously posted about what I considered to be insanely high rendering times for the sketch renderer when shadow casting is on. Today I am now officially an ArchiCAD 9 user and I have some good news to report. I tested the sketch rendering speed using the latest version of ArchiCAD 8 against version 9 using the Kohr-I-Noor rendering style in its default configuration.

The image rendered in ArchiCAD 8 took 30 minutes to render while the same image took only 4.5 minutes to render using version 9. That's a 666% speed improvement. I don't know if there is a problem with my installation of version 8 (there is no functional reason to suggest that there is and I've never had an OS X program become corrupted) but this improvement is pretty impressive from my point of view. What are your experiences with ArchiCAD 8 vs. 9 performance-wise?

[Dwight]

Cinema 4D is superior to LightWorks as currently licensed by Graphisoft for several reasons beyond pure rendering quality:

- radiosity.
- material editing and previewing is simpler
- OpenGl preview better
- more cinematic in feeling

Lightworks is more matteroffact, almost industrial in attitude while you feel that cinema is artistic [less productive.]

Is it worth the time investment????