Posted: 07 September 2008 at 6:32pm | IP Logged

Does anyone have comparative render images to show the real life improvements ARX have over standard Pro/Photorender? That is apart from improved scene setup advantages etc.

I always have to spice up my Pro/Photorender images afterwards in Photoshop for best results. (Improve contrast, saturation, sharpness, fix buggy pixel scatter etc)

For the price of ARX, I could buy something like Autodesk Viz (3DS Max lite) or Maxwell Render. The only down side of course is that you lose associativity when exporting STL files for importing into Max. But I would still rather do this to get a "industrial design" look in my renders...

I'm not bashing PTC products, merely trying to have constructive discussions which may lead to software improvements of ARX and Photorender. (eg. after 20 000 people petitioned on a Dell forum, Dell was prompted to start shipping some of their PCs with Ubuntu Linux instead of Windows!)

Posted: 08 September 2008 at 4:06am | IP Logged

I would say the render software that has came forward leaps and bounds over the last few months is Hypershot by Bunkspeed,  I checked out the 15 day demo and was super impressed.  The ease and simplicity required to create fantastic looking renders was commendable, and all for under £500.

 Check out thier gallery, some cool stuff !

 http://www.bunkspeed.com/hypershot/index.html

Posted: 16 September 2008 at 1:54pm | IP Logged

Do rendering capabilities improve going from basic pro/e to advanced assembly? We have an IT department that frowns on 3rd party programs & Accounting that frowns on unnecessary major upgrades.

Currently rendering for the fun of it.

Posted: 16 September 2008 at 4:27pm | IP Logged

Volunteer wrote: I don't think it is worth the money

I'm beginning to agree. Anyone use Flamingo?

Posted: 16 September 2008 at 7:27pm | IP Logged

Let's start different topics for different rendering software. Otherwise this topic becomes bloated and we're back to square one with 1001 posts

I'll start a Bunkspeed Hypershot topic

Posted: 17 September 2008 at 9:00am | IP Logged

Well, I'll take all that as a no. Hmmm... Flamingo, Hypershot... time to surf.

Thanks

Posted: 17 September 2008 at 7:44pm | IP Logged

I cant see why advanced assembly would help with rendering. The next step up within Pro/E for rendering is adding PTC's ARX (Advanced Rendering Extension)

Posted: 18 September 2008 at 7:30pm | IP Logged

kdjolly wrote:  Hmmm... Flamingo, Hypershot... time to surf.

Can you use Flamingo with Pro/E? Dont think so, its a plugin for Rhino. You'll need Rhino to run Flamingo which may not be worth it if you already run Pro/E.