May to get a new Renderer?

[underdog]

I think it's pretty safe to say that the render is not a high priority item for AW. Maya is really designed for highend production, where the studios tend to use Renderman/proprietary renderers. You'll find very few highend studios doing production work through a native renderer I think, except for previews.

Besides theres nothing wrong with maya's renderer...

[alexx]

Originally posted by underdog

Besides theres nothing wrong with maya's renderer...

ohh there is a lot wrong with the maya renderer. we did some bigger productions with and the maya renderer has a lot of problems that really can be show stoppers:
- lacking stability: i never saw another renderer before that stops in the middle of the rendering, telling me all is fine but half the frames are missing
- quality of rendering: jiggling bump lines and AA problems that can only be fixed with very high AA settings (have the fun and compare a maya rendering including bump with a mental ray rendering)
- missing features: every other package i am aware of (even very cheap ones) include since versions features like GI, FG and others that maya still not has
- heavy memory consumption: have a look at a modern renderer like final render or brazil.. they use only a fraction of the ram

but in the overall it is not AS bad as most ppl say.. it only need a lot of atention and tweaking sometimes.

and concerning the rumour that a new renderer will come: i am conform with you.. no way :)

cheers

alexx

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