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1. Re: 3DSMax Render Speed - Scanline vs MR

   

   Reply by Runner · Mar 2011 · Home› Technical Talk

   Hi It is indeed true, “multi bucket render” or "Multi core rendering" will increase the speed of your render.Of course speed will come down to your settings but it will be probably faster using Mental Ray.

2. Re: 3DSMax Render Speed - Scanline vs MR

   

   Reply by marks · Mar 2011 · Home› Technical Talk

   I've tried disabling light tracer but it doesn't seem to make much difference. The real problem I'm encountering is that anything which comes into max from ZBrush just takes forever to bake - eg a ZB mesh optimized down to 450k will take about 10x longer to bake in max, than an equivalent 450k subdivided object in max.

3. 3DSMax Render Speed - Scanline vs MR

   

   Topic by marks · Mar 2011 · Home› Technical Talk

   I've always used the "default Scanline" renderer in max for everything including baking AO and normalmaps. However, I've been doing a little research and I've seen conflicting opinions that MR is faster for basic rendering tasks like these (especially with multi-core CPUs). I just wanted to ask if there is much truth in…