One of the best resources I found in gaining an understanding of what makes a good render station is I still use the Mac for everything except modelling and it is great but having a dedicated modelling station is a better setup for me. Having a reliable and quick interactive rendering option has changed the way I am able to design. It has proved a great investment even after a couple of months in terms of render output. Reluctantly (having been a committed Mac user for 15 years) I specified and bought a custom built PC. I have an iMac 27 with decent spec but even with fairly simple SU models, lighting and textures, V-Ray was super slow and crashed often.įollowing extensive research and seeking dozens of opinions, I realised that a £5000+ Mac setup might be able to do a decent job but for £2000 I could get a PC to do a great job. Unless you can afford to spend a huge amount of money on a new Mac you will struggle to use V-Ray effectively. It’s something you must pay attention to in the warehouse.Īside from all of the excellent feedback so far on model sizing as a critical feature of efficient modelling, I can offer some advice on V-Ray hardware requirements. Do you really need 8mb faucet handles that nobody can see? That kind of thing. But ultimately there is no cure for a bloated file with millions and millions of edges except to dump unnecessary high poly components. There are tricks to working with higher poly and texture files, work in monochrome style with textures off and make careful use of tags to control visibility of the things you are not working on, keep shadows and profiles off. You will probably need one someday, but it’s not going to save you from yourself. The take home is it’s still a decent computer and with the same file of 37 million edges you would likely not see an enormous improvement for the cost of a new computer. Your discrete graphics card is also not terrible. Ram would help you, 16 is on the low side but workable. SketchUp runs on a single core of your processor, so more cores will not help, processor speed will, you are at 2.5 which is really not too bad, if you went for a newer MBP in the 3’s you might notice, probably not.
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