BIG Lightning Challenge for K Ray

General disscusion about Kray
silviotoledo
Posts: 12
Joined: Thu Oct 05, 2006 12:26 am

BIG Lightning Challenge for K Ray

Post by silviotoledo »

I've seem some K ray renderings better than Maxwell ones here at the gallery.
Actually I tried lightwave to render this, but the result was too bad in comparisson to Mental Ray, Final Render and V ray ones. So I decided to not post. Lightwave rendeing times is also the big ones.

Some guys from Newtek forum are getting some good images, but no one looks realistic for me. For me the problem is lightwave render engine itself that is far from MR and V ray in terms of photorrealism.

It's a K ray area. Interior lightning. I really would like to see what K Ray users can do.

Where's the K ray users? This is the best place to see the power of K ray!

Lighting Challenge #17: Natural History from CGTALK

Discussion here: http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread. ... 5&t=691344

Download Models here: http://www.3drender.com/challenges/
jure
Posts: 2142
Joined: Thu Jun 02, 2005 6:53 pm

Re: BIG Lightning Challenge for K Ray

Post by jure »

That's a nice challange! I'd give it a go if i wasn't so overbusy with my projects... I hope you guys have more time! Johny? ;)
- Jure
User avatar
3dworks
Posts: 137
Joined: Tue Jan 10, 2006 11:25 am
Location: Berlin
Contact:

Re: BIG Lightning Challenge for K Ray

Post by 3dworks »

someone started already to do so:

http://forums.cgsociety.org/showpost.ph ... tcount=173

btw. it's always the artist, not the engine ;)

(for example, see this amazing rendering http://forums.cgsociety.org/showpost.ph ... tcount=148 made with c4d + vray)

markus
geo_n
Posts: 363
Joined: Tue May 20, 2008 3:01 pm
Location: jpn

Re: BIG Lightning Challenge for K Ray

Post by geo_n »

I posted my comment on newtek beta forum about the cgtalk challenge and wished johny would join. After that someone from kray joined and even made an animation.
http://www.newtek.com/forums/showthread ... 690&page=7


3dworks - That's my favorite one and I pointed that out at newtek forum as well in the same thread. But as you can see its a vray render. Something that is always consistent with good vray users is that they produce good renders. This doesn't apply to other render engines. I've seen bad renders from good users in the old mray engine but if they use vray it was totally better. Not everything is equal I'm afraid and that's why kray IS still better for archiviz than F9.
vsele
Posts: 23
Joined: Thu Oct 20, 2005 1:16 am
Location: Australia
Contact:

Re: BIG Lightning Challenge for K Ray

Post by vsele »

Hi guys,
actually I've already done an animation with kray for Natural History Lighting Challenge on CG Talk.....you can download the video at the address: http://www.3dlvisualisation.com.au/museum.avi ....the texture are not so perfect but I haven't so much spare time to dedicate.
Hope you'll like it..... :)

PS: and yes it was me on CG Talk...(I've seen your post too late 3dworks..ehehe) but the animation is a different one now...
Attachments
1d2.jpg
jure
Posts: 2142
Joined: Thu Jun 02, 2005 6:53 pm

Re: BIG Lightning Challenge for K Ray

Post by jure »

vsele wrote:Hi guys,
actually I've already done an animation with kray for Natural History Lighting Challenge on CG Talk.....you can download the video at the address: http://www.3dlvisualisation.com.au/museum.avi ....the texture are not so perfect but I haven't so much spare time to dedicate.
Hope you'll like it..... :)

PS: and yes it was me on CG Talk...(I've seen your post too late 3dworks..ehehe) but the animation is a different one now...
That looks very nice! What Kray version did you use to render it? Did you render it on single computer?
- Jure
vsele
Posts: 23
Joined: Thu Oct 20, 2005 1:16 am
Location: Australia
Contact:

Re: BIG Lightning Challenge for K Ray

Post by vsele »

Hi Jure , I'm using Kray 1.7 OB8 that I think it's the latest version available to the public....the animation was rendered at 1440x1152 3 AA Fullscreen with a time per frame of 20 minutes on average and it was rendered on one computer Dual Quad Xeon 2.66 with 4 gigs of RAM....I'm glad you like it :D
geo_n
Posts: 363
Joined: Tue May 20, 2008 3:01 pm
Location: jpn

Re: BIG Lightning Challenge for K Ray

Post by geo_n »

vsele - That's a very good render and really shows what kray can do and in a short time. Where did you get a clean lwo model? Lets all give this a test.
vsele
Posts: 23
Joined: Thu Oct 20, 2005 1:16 am
Location: Australia
Contact:

Re: BIG Lightning Challenge for K Ray

Post by vsele »

geo_n wrote:vsele - That's a very good render and really shows what kray can do and in a short time. Where did you get a clean lwo model? Lets all give this a test.
Eheheheh...I made it "clean"..... :D
User avatar
3dworks
Posts: 137
Joined: Tue Jan 10, 2006 11:25 am
Location: Berlin
Contact:

Re: BIG Lightning Challenge for K Ray

Post by 3dworks »

looking great!

markus
User avatar
archijam
Posts: 39
Joined: Tue Oct 30, 2007 1:47 pm

Re: BIG Lightning Challenge for K Ray

Post by archijam »

geo_n wrote:vsele - That's a very good render and really shows what kray can do and in a short time. Where did you get a clean lwo model? Lets all give this a test.
Matt cleaned up a LWO version of the scene:

http://newtek.com/forums/showpost.php?p ... stcount=12
silviotoledo
Posts: 12
Joined: Thu Oct 05, 2006 12:26 am

Re: BIG Lightning Challenge for K Ray

Post by silviotoledo »

The K ray render shown is great!

Lightwave itself is too far from it!

I still think the V ray renderings shown are the best ones, but K ray is almost there.

I know the user makes a big difference but the tool also does.

I'd like to see more K ray renderings.

Johnny :)?? Will you enter? he he he
User avatar
Janusz Biela
Posts: 3265
Joined: Mon Mar 13, 2006 10:39 am
Location: Finland
Contact:

Re: BIG Lightning Challenge for K Ray

Post by Janusz Biela »

IMHO Kray can much better then V-ray and much faster......
When receive free time I will make it.
btw thx for fixed object, now is much better for edit.
silviotoledo
Posts: 12
Joined: Thu Oct 05, 2006 12:26 am

Re: BIG Lightning Challenge for K Ray

Post by silviotoledo »

Can't wait to see more K ray images from Museum :)!
User avatar
vgabex
Posts: 98
Joined: Sat Dec 09, 2006 2:47 pm
Location: Hungary

Re: BIG Lightning Challenge for K Ray

Post by vgabex »

Hi!

Here's my version.
LW 9.3 + Kray OB8
Dome & Sun with skyportals + LW volumetric
Rendertime (1600x1064, 3xFSAA): 50 minutes on a Q6600 @ 3Ghz & 8gig
Attachments
Challange #17 - Natural History Museum - vgabex - v01.jpg
Locked