cant decide what Render engine to use?

[Anonymous]

Well i am sort of a weird spot, our office cant seem to decide on what Render engine to use. We have been using Artlantis with good results have not upgraded to artlantis studio. Now that we are all on Arch10, we have discussed working with Lightworks more. I have used 3D max,form Z, sketch up, and had good results with those as well. But I really wish i could just figure out what the best Engine is for ArchiCAD. ie, least amount of problems, best results, cost for extra textures/libraries. Most importantly since all our time is billable total amount of time spent to produce final rendering. We is the general feeling/opinion on this issue?

[Anonymous]

WhiteMan wrote:
Hi,
I also started to work on my rendering about 7 months(before I used Lightworks 😄 ), and I have to say that v-ray is the best for me. After you build the model in ArchiCAD, save it like .3ds, import it into 3d max, and render it with v-ray.
On the other hand it si not easy to learn 3d max, v-ray

here is my result after half of year learning 😄

Your picture looks very good, i like it. The problem here is the rendering time. You needed 1hr to render two walls, window and glass table with torches. Now imagine some complex house in high resolution. It would take at least one day. And what if you want to change something on the pic that was rendered for 20 or 40 hours before and u need to render it again?

I used 3d max myself (and rendered for hours, even days), now I'm looking for faster solutions like artlantis and internal archicad lightworks. Use 3d max v-ray only for some big competitions, I don't have an idea where else could it be of use in architecture.

[Anonymous]

I am a die hard Artlantis user, would not dream touching lightworks in archicad, unless it had radiosity and ease of use.

As an solo architect, Artlantis does the trick.

But!

If i had a company, and one of my guys was going to become the renderer, then i would invest in Cinema 4D, hands down.

I have no experience with that software, but it seems pretty decent.

Main factors are:
C4D is owned by Nemetschek.
Archicad is also owned by Nemetschek.

Need I say more? (nudge nudge)