#Renderman vs arnold how to#
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For particles or any instanced stuff without complex shaders it does pretty good though. It doesn't seem to be as smart as Vray for adaptive sampling. Mantra so far has been pretty slow especially for any geometry shading. I'm use to using Vray and its pretty great! Dont really have any complaints, but i havn't done alot of comparing. There's Grid Markets cloud rendering/simulation i guess maybe i could use it if absolutely necessary.

#Renderman vs arnold how to#

So wondering how to make the most of those three computers. With Houdini Indie i guess i can render on three computers. I've been really luving Houdini so far, and the workflow benefits are amazing! but the only thing that makes me a bit uncertain is the rendering part.

Same as you that I haven't get my hand on it yet.Īnd renderman. I have heard of Octane and heard that it's fast. I am not sure if my methods are as good as those who uses it for longer period, but with simple quick lighting setups are giving me something close to what I expecting. Really like the dome light HDRI light info. I didn't really use arnold before until previous once in maya and now in houdini. Well if sideFX have a plan on improving the speed of mantra that will be a great news. It's next on my list to try.no idea how it performsĪgreed on the Mantra volume shader part. I haven't used it yet myself though.Īnd finally, there is renderman. There's also Octane which is supposingly very fast. It even does volume vector displacement, which is pretty damn cool. The cool thing with arnold is that it has a very good volume rendering algorithm. I'm really looking forward to see how Arnnold's gpu rendering will compare to it. Still some issues with transparencies ect. Custom AOV's has just been implemented recently for example. It's pretty damn fast.but then again, there is still things that it can't do. When it comes to geometry rendering, we use Redshift here at Stormborn. I really hope sideFX has plans to change that. It's native understanding of houdini instances and packed geometry is also a huge advantage over other renderers.īut yeah, it's unfortunately not the fastest. It gives you the most flexibility and control. Rendering – note on the shader used for the tutorial – 1:11Įxtra_scriptsForFeathers.py – constraint to surface using follicles, draw guide curves based on mesh, create and place joints based on mesh.GoranPavles wrote:I still like using Mantra for volume renders in houdini. Extra Instancing geometry with fur on it – 3:49Ġ8. Extra Installing Yeti – using OS X Yosemite – 3:39ġ1. Extra Simulating guides using maya hair – 3:55Ġ6. Making feathers part 2 – video only ‘timelapse’ – 6:46Ġ5. Videos have a resolution of 2048×1280 presented as h.264 quicktimes.Ġ4.

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If you have any questions, as always feel free to contact me, blaabjergb If you are a beginner, mid-level or if you enjoyed my other tutorials and would like to know how to approach setting up a feathery wing, then these videos are for you!

#Renderman vs arnold series#

This tutorial series is only using Arnold renderengine to a minimum, and users of V-Ray and RenderMan can still use this tutorial.

You will also get extra videos covering the provided scripts, instancing and of course the installation of Yeti and setup of Arnold renderer.

I will be showing how to set up a simple wing rig which will then drive the feather instances upon rendertime. The focus in this video series is to set up a wing with feathers that can be animated along with the wing. In this series of videos I will be talking about and setting up a feathery wing using Peregrine Labs Yeti together with Autodesk Maya and Solid Angle Arnold.