I ponder if anybody would possibly have the ability to level me in direction of an acceptable rendering utility that fits my wants and doesn’t require me to take out one other mortgage, resembling V-Ray.
I’m specialising in recreating road scenes with historic road furnishings from the Fifties resembling road lighting, utility poles and highway indicators. All these parts I’ve created in Sketchup. Assuming my laptop is highly effective sufficient to create massive road layouts in SU the place I can place my fashions, I then wish to render the scene to make it look real looking. The principal supplies in my fashions are wooden, metallic, concrete, ceramic/earthenware and glass however clearly road scenes will embody vegetation and buildings, roads and pavements.
I’ve tried out Twinmotion and Fluidray however there appears be such a steep studying curve for the previous and never a lot in the best way of on-line tutorials for the latter. Twinmotion additionally hardly capabilities in any respect solely 2015 iMac: so terribly gradual.
Any recommendation can be tremendously appreciated.
My thanks as ever to John McLenahan, with out whose assist and tutelage over the previous two and a half years I’d be nowhere.
Regards.
Andrew
The applications I’ve explored in depth are V-Ray, TwinMotion, and Enscape. I used these applications as displays for my architectural initiatives, not as a principal service of manufacturing renderings. Additionally, it has been some time since I used V-Ray, and I’ve seen enormous progress within the ease of use since I used it in my follow.
For me, the convenience of use versus the standard of output, Enscape is the very best. Since I solely choose up this system in the course of the design part, rendering software program for me is for intermittent use solely. Once I used V-Ray I managed high quality renderings however solely after a protracted examine. Then once I picked it up once more after a month or so, I used to be virtually beginning over once more.
For me, Twinmotion has an odd workflow and connection to SketchUp. Enscape has speedy updates that may be turned on or off, and switching between SU, and Enscape is seamless. However V-Ray is a extra highly effective render.
A bit late with this however it will possibly’t harm…. I see you’re on a Mac in order that places you a bit behind the eight ball because it had been. I’ve but to listen to of any of the favored render applications that enable entry to the gpu when rendering on a Mac laptop The gpu sharing the load is the place the pace comes from. Should you’re not beneath a time crunch there are plenty of good render engines to select from. Simply bear in mind you’re not going to have the identical pace as the oldsters on home windows machines. As a fellow Mac consumer I’m in the identical boat. I’m a Twilight consumer myself , completely proud of it however render occasions could be a bit lengthy relying on what I’m doing. The cross us Mac consumer obtained to reveal.
