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One thing that I like about Iray is it’s more centralized and consistent.
Does anyone know of any good guides as to how to properly set up lights and textures? My renders are fine but I'm always looking to improve and I never touch the shaders.
...3DL or IRay?
I like photorealism, so I would have never installed Daz in the first place if it had just 3Delight! :)
...while I do work with Iray (soon Octane4), I also do illustration work that isn't photo real for which 3DL is much better suited as I can preoduce a more different looks and styles "in render" without requiring postwork. It also doesn't require a hefty GPU card to render high quality images in a short amount of time.
I prefer 3delight for animation. I love Iray & Photoshop for everything else
I did try Iray when it very first came out - I was very excited, I remember that part. Then I suffered through some very slow rendering and totally indifferent results and realized I could have just used Luxrender if I wanted to bleed that way, and crawled apologetically back to my 3DL. I am not looking for photorealism in my work, I realized, and realism only works well when it works everywhere. The smallest detail can give the whole game away, and make it all a wretched pretence. Plus, I really can't afford to rebuy everything just for IRay, and I certainly can't afford the time for the learning curve for something I'm pretty sure isn't where I'm going anyway.
Really, in many ways the two are apples and oranges - what's really being expressed is artistic vision and style, and what good ever came of comparing that? Either you like, or you don't, it moves you... or not. My favorite art pieces are paintings, not photographs, and I prefer the Romantics. Iray just isn't where my heart is.