Maxwell Render vs Lightworks vs Artlantis vs ??

[Arcadia]

I am a designer working almost exlusively in residential. I don't have masses of requests for high qaulity photorealistic presentation drawings but would like to get more and try and promote this aspect of my business and I have a job coming up I need to do some images for so now is the time to decide. I have got some good results from Lightworks but its slow - especailly getting the lighting right. What are the advantages/disadvantages for maxwell Render and artlantis? I'm leaning towards artlantis.

How much quicker is artlantis over lightworks?
Is the standard library of shaders/objects that comes with artlantis sufficient or will I need to spend hundreds of dollars to get the extra libraries?
Do the material and textures I have created in Archicad transfer across to artlantis?
Can I place objects in maxwell?


Any tips or help with this decision would be appreciated. I'm yet to download a demo of either program as I don't want to waste my time with the wrong one.

[Arcadia]

Thats interesting about Maxwell - I didn't know it would run in Archicad. So it works like an installed rendering engine like Lightworks? I'm still going to stick with Lightworks for a while but I may have another look at it down the track. Cheers.

[TMA_80]

Arcadia wrote:
. So it works like an installed rendering engine like Lightworks?

absolutely.

( i also prefer your lightwork render BTW)

[Anonymous]

Hi Arcadia...

You can sendme the ArchiCAD file to make my proposal?.

Thanks.






Gerzaim
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