aRtBee opened this issue on Jun 13, 2014 ยท 101 posts
aRtBee posted Sat, 14 June 2014 at 4:30 AM
But do note the crispyness and multipicity of the internal reflections in the front balls. This is Octane, you've got to wait a bit, and then you get something. Though Vue is not doing that bad either.
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to the other discussion: I can compare a family car to a formula 1, and mention speed. I can compare a family car to a road-train, and mention cargo volumes. But why should I compare the formula 1 to the road-train?
same here: I can compare Firefly to Vue, I can compare Firefly to Octane, but why should I compare Vue to Octane? It's so different. Don't make religions out of it, please.
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I just finished a series of Vue renders, no vegetation, just clouds, reflective objects and low sun. Render times varied from 10 hours (sun at 4* above horizon) to 20 hours (sun at 0* above horizon, rays parallel through cloud layer) and the latter reduced to 5 hours when I altered the default "flat earth" model to a "spherical earth" model. As I said earlier: light scattering through cloud layer formations is the Vue speed killer.
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stated already: Vue d'Esprit is what you need for rendering Poser scenes, $199 which is about half the price of the Octane+plugin combo. I paid $700 to replace my 560Ti by dual 770/4Gb/OC's and I'm facing airflow-heat management issues as a consequence.
But it's just different tools for different trades. They are not each others alternatives, in my opinion. Unless you've got them for speeding up Firefly results only.
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Usually I'm wrong. But to be effective and efficient, I don't need to be correct or accurate.
visit www.aRtBeeWeb.nl (works) or Missing Manuals (tutorials & reviews) - both need an update though