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« on: 2014-06-19, 18:22:56 »
I took a night scene with lots of frosted glass that I have been wrestling with early this week in Mental Ray and converted it to down to Max 2014 to see what I could do with it in Corona.
To explain the brief history behind this experiment, I got barely acceptable results from a 35+ hours 5400 x 3600 render in Mental Ray, and FG alone was taking 2+ hours. I had to spend another 2 hours in Photoshop creating masks and touching up the render just to bring my comfort level up enough to stomach sending it to the client.
I am not an expert at Mental Ray by any means so the scene is certainly not as optimized as it should be, but I am far less experienced with Corona...I get drastically better results within 1 hour of progressive rendering in Corona even at 10800 x 7200, usually landing on the third pass within that hour.
I let Corona do it's magic for 10 hours overnight last night and the clarity was simply jaw dropping when I inspected the results this morning. There is just no comparison to the results I have been dealing with from Mental Ray. I wish I could post the result in the gallery but the client is pretty sensitive about the project, so I cannot.
Today I have decided to retire the complicated mess that is Mental Ray from my workflow in favor of Corona A6 and Max 2014. It will take a little time for me to convert my scene templates and any revised scenes, but those results and this one difficult situation in particular make it impossible for me to justify continuing with Mental Ray.
Kudos Ondra!
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