X5 Vs Thea...

[ivancyr]

I'm certainly no expert....I've played with X5 for all but two weeks....but I'll say that I'm fairly impressed with the new rendering engine and its simplicity. As one mentioned on a previous thread somewhere regarding Kerythea; they had 2 PHD's and found that rendering engine beyond scope of understanding without excessive time lost to simple fundamentals.

The attached is 16 passes of the X5 RayTrace with the photon mapping turned off and the rest turned on and left at default settings. I believe it completed in just over 30mins....using a HP dual quad core at 2.3GHz.

Thea provides more options, I'm still working on getting grass to look real using an export out of CA and rendered in another engine so I can make a golf course. So far....I've made "product" that I'd never attach my name to!

Ivan