Nyghtfall opened this issue on May 14, 2014 · 161 posts
thd777 posted Wed, 14 May 2014 at 4:11 PM
With that computer you won't have any issues with Vue.
I would not base a descision on the free Pioneer version. It is severely limited with respect to import, export, rendering and more. It gives you a flavor of the interface but other than that it is not much use. Too limited. The free PLE ( http://www.e-onsoftware.com/try/vue_2014_ple/ ) is based on Infinite (Which I use) and has all features. It gives you a better impression about what can be done.
The kind of scenes you are looking at are doable with Vue. They will require some serious work with materials (which you can buy or learn how to do yourself in the function editor).
Vue is typically much faster than Lux Render once you learn how to set up your scene and render options. Vue gives you full control over every aspect of lighting and rendering (in the advanced versions). A fully optimized Vue scene can give you the same quality as a Lux Render in a signifcantly shorter time for many scenes (there are things where Lux or any non-biased render engine are superior (complex caustics with accurate dispersion for example).
Vue can definitely do decent indoor renders (there are some examples in my gallery). However it was originally designed as a landscape modelling and render app and one has to jump through some hoops sometimes for a pure indoor render. It is getting better though. Several features were added in the last addition that help a lot and there are more changes planned in the next version.
Hope this helps
TD