PW toon - how much it will speed up rendering?

aiman.call_64d7601090

Hi people!

I'm thinking to buy PW Toon shader to make some comics. There is only one question stopping me to buy it - is it fast? I mean is going to speed up rendering process? I'm using 3delight rendering engine as I have just regular graphics card. I'm hoping to speed up my render with this shader,  am I correct? Can anyone perform simple render using basic scene(Dragon slayer? or Barefoot Dancer?) using 3delight and share stast here, please?

nonesuch00

Yes, my typical iRay renders with an 8 thread i7-3630 last anywhere from one half day to two days (43,200 - 172,800 seconds) and the current one I am rendering is at 16 hours & an astounding 131 iterations only (usually for a scene I get 120 iterations in 1 to 2 hours - I CPU render)!

The pwToon renders I do take about 30 - 60 seconds per render and the results are very nice, especially for models styled to look like caricatures to begin with. 

pwToon is so simple and fast you don't even need an nVidia card to get relatively fast renders.

aiman.call_64d7601090

big thanks! @nonesuch00

Leonides02

This only works with 3Delight shaders, right?

AlmightyQUEST

It is a 3Delight shader, yes, so only works with the 3delight renderer.

pwToon is very fast for me as well, but after coming back from a long break my renders have either been pwToon or else iray renders, so that's not a great comparison. So, they are fast, but not sure how much faster if you have slow renders with 3delight normally. Definitely faster than any shaders with things like refraction and sss though.

jesse.k.hill_7cbf9635c7

Does it only work with 3DLelight materials?

nonesuch00

jesse.k.hill_7cbf9635c7 said:

Does it only work with 3DLelight materials?

You go through and select material presets that are pwToon presets and they are ultra simplified 3DL shaders. They will render in 3DL or in iRay. I've rendered in iRay when I did them and they look fine to me, being that they were meant to look cartoon style and even converted to iRay on the fly (unless the programmers did a trick and auto-switch the render engine to 3DL when 3DL pwToon shaders are detected before rendering with iRay)

There is a renderer called DAZ Toon in the renderer drop-drop but I haven't tried that yet. They are fast, so try it you may like it.