!Restored: lightworks vs artlantis vs cinema4d vs ...

[Anonymous]

Hello,

there is a poll somewhere on a similar topic, but I prefer direct comments on what is the best rendering according to taste.

I am posting three examples of what the latest versions of LW, ATL and C4D can do on interior design.

LightWorks:
http://www.lightwork.com/lw_image.php?img=fukui_kitchen_640

Artlantis:
http://www.abvent.com/community/galeries/images/web_1156502732.jpg

Cinema4D:
http://www.maxon.net/pages/solutions/images/architektur/vernissage_02/ponce_kitchen.jpg

It jumps to my eye that cinema4d is the best, followed by Artlantis. Lightworks is simply not photorealistic. There is no information on the time taken by each render. Real-time rendering is not a joke, and lightworks may have had to compromise. It is not clear to me how ArchiCAD would cope with the different object files. I do not want to insist any further on this, but I find the "import" approach way too cumbersome. Native support for c4d, for example, would do best. Indeed, it is not clear to me how one would use an .gdl object in ArchiCAD and have it mapped into a different .c4d object in the renderer, the latter one being the one I meant to use in the first place.

Comments please.

Bob

[Electric Flute]

Sorry for the 3 posts.
I didn't get it.

[Anonymous]

How about Final Render? It has a module for C4D.

http://www.finalrender.com/gallery/v/

[Anonymous]

Electric wrote:
If ArchiCAD could export DWG by materials, the transfer would be as good as Revit. The 3DS export already has it, but MAX just import DWGs with the "File link Manager" tool, making 3DS not the best file option export.
This limitation was already discussed HERE

What a shame Graphisoft!

I've been searching the forum here and haven't found an answer, so please forgive me for digging up an old thread if this has been answered....

but has this issue been resolved. I'm failing to figure out how to get the translator to export a dwg with its material definitions from ac11...

any ideas? thanks in advance - bk