jocontreras wrote:
I have read one of the shortcoming of the program is its long render time..
Is this still true for version 2?
Have you compared it to artlantis?
I'm thinking of buying a rendering program. Your feed back (or anybody's)will be valuable to me..
Thanks....
I have Artlantis Render also. Artlantis is much much faster, however, I don't use these programs same thing.
Maxwell Render is for making a specific kind of photo-realistic
Art that is simply not possible with Artlantis. Render speed is not a factor for me if I am using a render farm.
The thing about Artlantis is that I don't need the kind of pretty pictures I am able to make with it. 30 min. of render time with Artlantis will probably get you to the best you can do with it. It's a very nice image.
But when it comes to Architectural Rendering,
Photo-realistic images are like a toupee. It better be a damn good one or your better off with out it.
I think it's safe to say that you can generate a better image with small amount of effort in Artlantis than you can with great deal of effort in ArchiCAD. So if your looking for something to take it up a notch from ArchiCAD, Artlantis is the best program available for doing that.
But if your looking for a way to take your ArchiCAD models all the way to the top of the high-end. I think Artlantis falls a little short.
As an ArchiCAD user, if I could only have one rendering program I would choose Maxwell Render since I am not very interested in a mediocre toupee. I have the ArchiCAD rendering engine for that.
Maxwell Render v2 and the ArchiCAD plug-in are a huge step toward making Maxwell a viable option as a first choice rendering engine, even for regular work if you use a render farm. Even the render farms are faster and more affordable these days. Another very big factor in choosing between Maxwell and Artlantis is the materials or shaders( if they still call them that ?) Getting enough quality shaders to do a good job in Artlantis will cost you. All of the very high end materials for Maxwell are free and of course you can make your own as well. You can create your own Maxwell materials in ArchiCAD too.
If you tried Maxwell before and thought it was not a viable choice, version 2 might change your mind.
Something else to keep in mind is that you can save your ArchiCAD model as .3ds or other file formats and import the model into almost any high-end rendering program. I don't know that having the Maxwell plug-in for ArchiCAD has a very large advantage over simply saving you model as .3ds and opening it up in Maxwell Studio. I have not used it enough to tell just yet.
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