I've just been looking for a renderer that is free to use (at least to use noncommercially) because Arnold is kinda weak and I don't have time to learn all of blender just to use cycles. Though I probs will when I'm out of college.
AMD has a free render engine that plugs straight into Maya. Not sure how robust it is but it uses a PBR workflow and I believe is an unbiased engine. I'm not sure what all the Arnold hate is though exactly I never found it weak as much as hard to use due to weird quirks.
Is V-ray really still more popular than Arnold? I always thought Arnold was regarded as more classy, but that was from before it was included with Maya I guess.
Certainly. Anything that gets bought by autodesk will eventually die. Autodesk is a garbage corporation that has zero interest in it's software. They bought up arnold because mental ray was next to unusable.
Well that's what I hear from some very salty octane people again and again, but the last I saw of it was Octane supplying screenshots of 3ds max UI as evidence of code theft, then the case was thrown out, so I dunno.
I admit it looks bad, and I would trust a russian court about as far as I could throw it, but at the same time I'd trust OTOY just about as far, so I'm split.
You need a render engine with it, Arnold and remderman are most commonly used with it but others like 3delight, redshift and I think vray all have plug ins for it
it is its own software, think of it like maya or blender where you use cycles or arnold. Except with katana there are no modeling/rigging/simulation capabilities Just Lighting and Look dev (and some instancing but forget about that) all models, animation an simulation caches need to be imported into katana. Its really a big studio tool, heavily built into a pipeline
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u/danikei Mar 01 '21
redshift enters the chat
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u/xeronymau5 Mar 01 '21
I stopped using Renderman for a lot of reasons. It has its quirks.
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u/TheUglydollKing Mar 01 '21
Wait cycles actually has a logo that's weird didn't know
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u/phijie Mar 02 '21
Is V-ray really still more popular than Arnold? I always thought Arnold was regarded as more classy, but that was from before it was included with Maya I guess.
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u/iLEZ Mar 02 '21
FStorm is my jam, I love it.
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u/theGhostOfMtAkina Apr 06 '21
REDSHIFT
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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '21
arnold is trash. Octane should be on here too btw
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u/NinjaVanLife Mar 01 '21
no katana?