Member jima Posted September 30, 2019 Member Report Share Posted September 30, 2019 I've been experimenting in the render room with simplistic environment maps in an effort to get photorealistic results. Is there a particular environment image available to achieve this? I am trying to emulate a simple indoor scene a photographer might have in a studio. Possibly a video link? I'm thinking about buying rendering software that will give me the results I want - not happy about dropping $1000 on keyshot. Thanks all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member L'Ancien Regime Posted September 30, 2019 Advanced Member Report Share Posted September 30, 2019 (edited) Maxwell Studio has always been the finest of authentic ray traced render engines. It's material editor is excellent, one of the easiest for cooking up new textures. $595. But you should just get the totally free Radeon ProRender. There's a thread on it. It's really good and fast too. Edited September 30, 2019 by L'Ancien Regime Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Hdharris Posted September 30, 2019 Member Report Share Posted September 30, 2019 blender works for this too tbh and theres an applink connected to 3d coat to boot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member jima Posted October 4, 2019 Author Member Report Share Posted October 4, 2019 Thank you very much Hdharris and L'Ancien Regime! I haven't looked at Blender in ages. It is way better than I remember. Been doing some of the online training. Hit a snag in getting ProRender working but cycles gives pretty good results. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member Skye Posted October 4, 2019 Advanced Member Report Share Posted October 4, 2019 You can use Octane in Unity, both are free, you just need to register. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member jima Posted October 4, 2019 Author Member Report Share Posted October 4, 2019 I downloaded Unreal Engine a few weeks ago and didn't get back to it. I've heard about Octane, but did not realize it was free. Thanks for the tip. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member Dmitry Bedrik Posted October 4, 2019 Advanced Member Report Share Posted October 4, 2019 Use a blender and a luxrender. This render is much better than cycles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member Skye Posted October 5, 2019 Advanced Member Report Share Posted October 5, 2019 16 hours ago, jima said: I downloaded Unreal Engine a few weeks ago and didn't get back to it. I've heard about Octane, but did not realize it was free. Thanks for the tip. Yes, Octane is free but UI might be little bit intimidating but there are tutorials on Octane youtube how to use it in Unity. https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/integration/octanerender-for-unity-installer-scene-105646 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlosan Posted October 5, 2019 Report Share Posted October 5, 2019 Octane Demo is free but watermarked. Full version is not free, as i can see here. Octane Unity, paid monthly plan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member jima Posted October 6, 2019 Author Member Report Share Posted October 6, 2019 ProRender looks good, but I'm completely new to Blender. I can't get ProRender added on. But I must say cycles is very nice as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlosan Posted October 6, 2019 Report Share Posted October 6, 2019 On 10/4/2019 at 8:24 PM, Dmitry Bedrik said: Use a blender and a luxrender. This render is much better than cycles. If your comp and video board specs are enough, this is the best advise. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member L'Ancien Regime Posted October 6, 2019 Advanced Member Report Share Posted October 6, 2019 Cycles vs free Octane for Blender 2.8 https://render.otoy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=72241 It's getting really crazy now. I know Mike Pan. He's one of the devs for Cycles. He holds Blender meetups in Vancouver once a month. I was at one and mentioned the free Renderman for Blender. His eyes flashed and he said that Cycles was going to be better. I'm beginning to understand what he was saying. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member Dmitry Bedrik Posted October 6, 2019 Advanced Member Report Share Posted October 6, 2019 Quote Cycles vs free Octane for Blender 2.8 No need to confuse cycles and e-cycles. E-cycles is a paid addon, where the dude just swapped the start of the denoise (it starts on each tile, not on the whole image, which makes the transition to the next tile faster) and proudly passes it off as a new render, also selling for inadequate price. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member jima Posted October 9, 2019 Author Member Report Share Posted October 9, 2019 I just got cycles working to suit me, and the 3cd pbr material translated very well. I exported as obj with material. I get that Andrew wants to get every aspect of 3dc the best it can be, but I'm not sure improving the render room is worth much effort considering what already exists. Thanks all for the help. I have other things I want to get back to, but I appreciate the knowledgeable input from everyone. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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