Stick to vanilla LW or go with Kray?

[olahaldor]

I'm in a bit of hard thinking now. I'm REALLY interested in Kray - and I'd love to learn more about modeling with LWCAD (looking forward to the training, Larry!) and get into some more visualization of architecture.


Nowdays I'm starting to do some modeling on a project where the goal is animated 3D illustrations for a corporate presentation. The difference from regular viz/illustration is that we're going away from flat and dull images but rather use realistic light and shadow along with the clean paper model-look. (see attachment)

The question I'm asking myself then: is Kray worth the buck for these kind of images? Would for instance DOF render faster with Kray?

[silverlw]

DOF itself will not be faster but Global illumination and blurred reflections are areas where Kray shine.

[olahaldor]

I see.

This animation in 720p took about two+three hours (two separate scenes) to render for instance, with 12x AA.. The whole object of the world (bought from turbosquid) is about 300K polys, and the scene with the buildings and all the trees are incredibly 1.3mill polys.. I should probably get better at optimizing the trees..

http://www.insidethebox.no/kunder/topro/bygg_globe.mp4

[jure]

That world map should be updated. Serbia is now split to Montenegro and Kosovo.

[larry_g1s]

Thanks for the interest OlaHaldor.