hemant peace - Comparison between 3ds max vs vray vs lumion vs twinmotion vs d5 render

Hello friends ,

Here i do comparison of following software which are gernally use in interior and exterior Rendering .  It is  difficult to compare these software because each software has his own advantage and disadvantage .but here i try to  distinguish them on the bases of their work .


3DS MAX
3ds max is a software which is  developed by  Autodesk . It supports modeling and much more things like animation etc  . Whereas vray is a render engine which is a third party application used for Rendering . .

Over view of 3ds max

1 . It is a Autodesk product .
2. Use for 3d modeling , animation , digital images , character modeling , movie making , video game industry , visualization in engineering , manufacturing, educational , and medical industries . Also use in real estate and architectural industries .

 Pros
 1 . 3ds Max uses polygon modeling in which artist have high degree of control on every object .
 2 . Its features stimulations and optical physics , like 3ds shaders (subsurface scattering), dynamic simulation, particle systems, radiosity, normal map creation and rendering, global illumination, and its own scripting language .
3 . It give a tremendous amount of options for the customizations .
4 .Perspective matching is a  feature that allows us to fit  within any still-frame photographic background images effectively due to which we can do virtual staging easily .


Cons
1. Making video walkthrough in 3ds max vray is to time consuming process .
2 .3ds max does not produce render it self instead it use built in render engine like mental ray, scanline render  or third party render engine like vray or corona .
3 .  It is not cross-platform: it only works on Windows.
4 . 3ds Max will not be a simple task for a beginner
5 Several time it may crashes during working .



V-RAY
Overview
A third-party render engine plug-in for 3ds Max.
It is developed by Chaosgroup, a European company .
Vray has two rendering engines Vray Adv. is the CPU version of Vray and Vray RT is the GPU version.
Vray is a render plugin.  Vray's features mainly aim at creating photorealistic images .  Currently, Vray exist for 3D Studio Max, Maya, Rhinoceros 3D, Sketchup, Softimage, Blender etc.

PROS
1 . We can create any type of material we imagine by various type of material used in vray like normal Vray material specialized materials like the VrayLight material, VrayBlend material,  vraymaterial wrapper etc .
2 .VRAY is flexible engine  it allows to recreate any type of scene and support many different tools and plugins

CONS
1. vray is not  standalone software it depends on max or sketch up file .
2 . Vray offers a certain level of customization ,but every time we add detail we have to wait for the scene to render.
3 . Takes time to render , and working in it is not a fluidic process .
4 .Vray only has materials library and not have object , sound and effect library as lumion contain .
5 . default textures are ugly. Creating custom textures can be long and complicated.
6 we need Photoshop to create a decent sky with clouds.




LUMION
Overview
 Lumion is developed by Act-3D, and is also a GPU-driven software.
Lumion is categorized as Architectural Rendering and Urban Planning and Design
Lumion is for architects and to make their workflow faster (with fast renders and ready-made library).

PROS
1 It produces faster results and with its huge library, you don't need to model every fine detail.
2 You can produce static renders as well as video walkthrough using Lumion with very little effort.
3  It does not need special training and incredibly easy to use.
4 It is real-time renderer, you can make changes on the go instead of waiting for complete render.
5 Lumion’s prominent feature is being quite faster (especially exteriors) and having a huge library of objects, materials, sounds & effects ready to use.


CONS

1 it not produce render elements/passes.
2 A very good Lumion-render can compare to a not so good VRay-Render. A perfect VRay-render is normally like a photo .
3 cost is highy .
4 it is not modeling software .
5 it is a large size software .



TWINMOTION
Over view
Twinmotion is a GPU-driven software powered by Unreal Engine. Twinmotion is a real-time 3D immersion software that produces high-quality images, panoramas and standard or 360° VR videos .Developed for architecture, construction, urban planning and landscaping professionals

PROS
 1 .Twinmotion is the first real-time visualization software that officially supports the Mac PC platform.
2 .Twinmotion is easy to learn .
3 .Twinmotion features direct one-click synchronization with ARCHICAD and Revit.
4. Hardware Adapting Feature
Twinmotion 2019’s Automatic Hardware Detection feature can lower the viewport graphics quality to allow low-end hardware run smoothly. Rendering quality is unaffected by this feature .
5 . software come with a large library of materials of up to 2K in resolution.
6 . Twinmotion contain PBR (Physically-Based Rendering) materials that react to light and the environment as they would in real life.
7 . Comes with sound library also as lumion .
8 .-Overall control is heaps better than lumion, xyz coordinate move and transform, model exported in layers, texture animation and customizations etc

CONS
-quality is subpar compared to Lumion (twinmotion 2018 however, is worth keeping an eye for)
-limited tech support



D5 RENDER
Overview
Render Engine is a New Realtime Raytracing RTX Software Architecture From Dimension 5
Pros
1 . You can create Animation, walkthrough, virtual reality, Panorama 360° and Full-scene realtime roaming more easier and faster than before.
 2 . new realtime engine that combines ray-tracing and rasterisation techniques.
 3 .New Architectural Rendering Software for Exterior & Interior Design Rendering.

 Cons
1 . New software still have available in beta version .
2 . Do not support modeling inside it .