Otherwise - Artlantis gives you 80% of the result with 10% of time investment and 10% of monetary investment. I still can't see why architects WASTE TIME with max, unless if strictly in the visualization business. ) brought us to a very different pack of beasts. ) that used to be manageable once upon a time (when XTs still existed. IMHO the inertia of 3D Studio (licensed or otherwise. But the workflow is easier and probably faster in Artlantis.ĭo you NEED to use Mental Rays and other stuff? How much does it cost to buy the software? I think I understand most of 3ds max (haven't found the time for particle flow and character studio), but I get good results when I find the time. > But mastering such an application takes a long time. You might want to replace glass, water and other more extended materials with the tremendous Mental Ray Arch & Design shaders and you're ready to go.

You can easily export a 3ds file from ArchiCAD, load it into VIZ/max, remove the ArchiCAD SUN spot, add a Daylight System (set date and time), activate Mental Ray, activate final gathering on preset draft/low and press render. I could just learn the simple navigation commands (such as zoom, pan, move, rotate) and the visualization tools (camera, lights, materials) and you are ready to render! I myself had used it this way for several years till I found time to learn some modeling techniques and I still do not know animation at all, because I have never needed it. Stefan is absolutely right! I haven't used C4D but I know it is similar to 3DS Max, which means you need a lot of experience to be able to produce impressive renderings.īut I have to make a point - you do not need to learn the whole 3DS Max with all of its modelling and animaton stuff to suit your purpose. So Artlantis fits it market very well: not the very best, but the right balance between quality and ease-of-use. It is only after some serious effort that you can get over that level of quality in the 'pro' applications. FWIW, when you first start using one of the high-end applications, your renderings will probably be worse than what you were achieving in Artlantis.

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