This is when I realized I wasn’t gonna pay US$700 following Autodesk’s policy of releasing a new version per year! So instead, a possibility today could be, buy a good renderer like Vray/FinalRender/Brazil for US$800/900. If we add all this up it equals= US$6900. I bought Final render for max 5 at US$800 and then upgraded it to Stage1 for around US$300. I bought max in the days of max4, when it was even more expensive! I bought it at US$4200 + taxes, upgraded it to max5 and then ma圆, each upgrade at around US$700 = US$1400 (and believe me, there weren’t many improvements in them different story with each newer release of blender!). It totally makes sense! Let’s do some figures. This is a simple financial logic I see here which could make Blender Running VRay out of Blender can cut costs a lot.
Hypershot is like VRay for Rhino a half backed niche solution.īlender lacks render features possible with commercial solutions. Hypershot also at 999 offers faster rendering but very weak This quickly adds up to 20k and more of investment. Look when you want to by Max it will be around 3.500. Will be finished) but often the commercial renderer have some steps of advancement.Īnd I think this might be a selling point for Blender. While Indigo or Yafray are good programs (lets see when Yaf(a)ray Quite frankly Blender is the only 3D system I know which is so heavilyĭeveloped - but also here we saw many set backs of projects not being OpenSource in the past was not known for powerful solutions and
The problem I often encounter is when they hear FREE they think useless. It may even spawn a whole new breed of affordable renderers once their manufacturers realize the huge potential market they got at their fingertips. The newly discovered render engines also offered me a whole branch of interesting possibilities, and with them getting better day by day, it became an unbeatable combo! Having commercial alternatives for the render engine would be an interesting possibility to add to blender’s never-ending list of features. I never went back to them (commercial 3d apps) and adapted all my workflow around blender and it’s been my best move. In my personal case I switched from Max-final render, to blender-and the free renderers available (Indigo, yafray, kT, etc), firstly because of not being able to pay for updates anymore, but then I experienced in my own flesh and bone how powerful blender was and how faster I was able to model in it. I think commercial render engines should start looking at blender as a possible candidate for their standalone renderers.
It definitely would be a cheaper alternative, and blender’s modeling capabilities for the different fields (arch-vis, industrial, mechanical, organic) have proven to be at the same level or above the ones found in high-end commercial/price-bloated 3d applications. Cekuhnen is picturing a very interest concept here.
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