pmg radiosity comparison question

#1

Hi there,
I’ve posted this question in a couple of other forums and been met with a deafening silence. Maybe I’ll be more successful here, hope so. I’m a longtime LW user. I have a project that I would like to use radiosity in but LW is too noisy. I’ve seen Vray in action with Max and it was very fast and was not noisy ( you know, blotchy). I’ve seen renders from PMG and I’m wondering how fast is the radiosity in comparison to LW, and does it have problems with blotchiness compared to LW. I know you can always crank up the settings on any renderer to reduce noise in radiosity, just want someone to give me an idea whether messiah is any faster and worth looking at.
Thanks for any replies
Mike Logan

#2

messiah’s GI solution is much much faster than LW’s native solution. Fprime helps in this regard of course - atleast for a quick preview, but there has been some discussion that the final render of the same quality takes just as long as LW’s native GI solution. Hopefully, Worley is helping NT open up that aging SDK a tad, so that Fprime can be more robust. I use LW currently, but continue, like you, to keep my options open. I’ve also been toying with XSI.

messiah has several different options regarding GI - there’s Monte Carlo, Photon and a Hybrid (which is somewhere between the two). As far as noise goes, it has a built-in noise reduction function which helps minimize the noise and blotchiness, but as with all renderers, it takes some tweaking to get things just so.

Heck, for less than the price of Fprime, you could try out the workstation version and see whether it’s something that could possibly work out for you. Of course, messiah doesn’t have anything equivalent to Sasquatch or Hypervoxels - so, that may be a limiting factor. I don’t have any experience with Vray but have heard about and seen it’s great renderings. I’ve heard of some people getting Max, just so they can have access to several diffferent renderers like Brazil, FinalRender, Mental Ray, VRay, etc…

#3

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