Contrary to better options (I really should have been on my bike), curiosity got the better of me and took another dive into the morass. Fired up Windows Rhino, ick (at least that’s a personal problem), and had a go again. Wrestled the beast of an interface in an attempt, as best possible in short order, with limited experience, at an apples-to-apples shootout with one perceived single purpose leader - Brand X. Fair fight, no! Interesting, yes!
Used @BrianJ rough approximation of the Eames Fiberglass chair as the stand-in model, the same vanilla startup default HDRi as in Brand-X, ubiquitous ‘white’ studio parameters, and did my best to equalize all else with very limited Rhino 6 experience.
I think, with effort, I can beat the thing into submission and get something out of it, as @holo has demonstrated above. Not likely presentable world class renderings, but so what, there certainly will be an appreciative market for what it can do.
I’m still most interested in, and think the greater value to mine, is the digital rapid visualization photorealistic aspect of ‘Rendered’ inside of native Rhino; for quick peeks at in progress work. It is good to see that such has progressed from - “WTF” - to merely - “MEH”…Progress! If progress is linear, we might yet have something down-the-line. That’s a challenge @nathanletwory
And here’s an idea about the render setup interface several experienced users have squawked about, that perhaps is already underway. Have @Marlin and crew use the Mac version as the test bed to un-!@#$ the Windows interface… Just a thought.
So, with rapid as possible, yet photorealistic, interactivity as the goal, here is what I got:
after 10 seconds of not moving the mouse (hint - needs to be faster!)
after 1:30
after ‘completed’ at 2 min 21 second
To compare as a benchmark future goal, here is ‘Brand-X’ after 5 seconds (actually looks like this after 2-3, but takes me 5 to grab the screenshot)
Here’s a vid of interactivity in Brand-X from the Mac side of the same machine. A side-by-side vid of both would be cruel and unusual punishment, plus I’m too lazy to procure Windows screen recording.
And for doo-doos and giggles, here is one actual marketing shot of the Eames from Herman Miller
Keep beating this bad-boy. You’ll get there. Just not too much in v7. My vote, as always, is a focus on modeling.
Rhino and Brand-X models attached if anyone wants to have a go with same, or show us how to improve interactivity speed w/texture.
Eames.zip (1.8 MB)