The Ultimate Render Engine Comparison for Architects 

Unreal Engine 5.3 is the future !

Which is Paint.

@@jlec9081 If the work goes ahead, go ahead

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Yeah, I can't believe he compared this render based on different artists, materials and items. It's really annoying, especially after watching half of the video and ending up with unexpected results.

There are plenty of videos on this exact subject

I could say the same thing, it depends on what is your PC spec, what result you want, the time you have to do the work

Exactly, I also work with v-ray, corona, twinmotion and enscape on my daily basis workflow. I used to work only with corona but I had to learn the others because my coworkers used them and sometimes I had to comeback to fix or change things on projects for customers. In my experience I can safely assume that they are all very good if you understand what you're looking for, all having their strenghts and weakenesses when compared with eachother.

Precisely said! If we were having this conversation 4 years ago then it would've been a different idea, but nowadays all engines are very similar in terms of base quality. It will then come down to what you said, how much time you have to to then go for an engine that allows you more advanced controls. PC specs is also a major bottleneck at the moment. But then at the end of the day it's about learning the core skills of archviz and utilizing the tool that most fits your current needs.

please delete twinmotion from that list ... its childrens play not a professional software

Vray/Corona is amazing

Hi Steve and Oliver! Thought I'd just let you both know how thankful I am for your courses, most of which I have bought and followed. Thank you for making it very accessible for us from the "Global South" by charging a fair amount. You have no idea how much good you both are bringing to the world through us. Thank you, thank you, thank you. nadiah x

@@nadiahposthumus4893 Yeah! Totally agree!

About the number 2: That's what stayed in my mind throughout the entire video. 2. I applaud this video for having a very south american perspective! It just goes to show the challenges and probably disadvantages of not being in Usa / Europe aka the first world

In my Opinion UE5 is the best rendering software.

Thanks a lot for the kind words, Steven! Your feedback is always so valuable 🙏 I appreciate your pointing these things out on the video, it shows me that my intentions with the video were fulfilled. And about Blender, I know right? It’s been on my list for things to learn for months (if not years haha). It has so much potential, and it still blows my mind that is free 🤯 Thanks again dude! Your support means a ton to me!

Good job bro

I’m in grad school for LA and D5 has been my go to.

which laptop do you use

@@Sahil-mz2kr dell g15 ryzen 5 5600h rtx 3050 16gb ram

Congratulations 🎉 I also work in D5 Render and ArchiCAD

it depends on author of work, corona is possible to give the same realistic result

⁠@@smelikfedor7798​​⁠​⁠​⁠ I sincerely think that the Corona is already fading into the background in terms of realism, it has been used as the gold standard for a very long time. But now I see such works in Cycles, which I have never seen in Corona. It may be also because of how much more useful and convenient blender in comparison to 3ds, but still

​@@boom7836 the potential of both engines is infinite realism. Its the artists that make the difference.

@@hldemi_fishing Sure. I'm just talking about my experience. I've never seen anything like ZORE Studio made in blender done in 3ds max.

@@boom7836 keep looking. Take a look at MIR for the start.

Thanks a ton for the message, Massa! It truly motivates me to keep creating more! And that’s always my goal, to generate value to this community 🙏

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Thanks a ton Tony! And I really appreciate your submission for this community project 🙏 RT engines are indeed special and they are closing the gap with other types of engines when it comes to realism. I’m eager to see how they will evolve in the next few years

d5 works for me. we got enscapr at uni didnt quite like the render output. i switched to d5. easy render if u wanna get fancy u can photoshop post prod. i used d5 at work now for rendering.

@@paolosalgo6987 tysm!

Thank you so much, Eric!

Thanks for the feedback, Ashton! Yes that’s an almost perfect workaround. And I’ve used in a few times, but it’s not a perfect isometric view. Meaning that if I export line work from 3D to Illustrator, the base render will not line up precisely. But still, that definitely helps while the Orthographic Projection hasn’t been included 😁

why did you do the switch? what was the main reason? we are contemplating on transfering from L to D5.

@@dopudja111 I switched honestly due to the feedback I was hearing from the ArchViz community . I wanted a program that would produce higher quality renderings and also have a bigger library of high quality assets . I checked out the free version of D5 a year ago and was shocked at how high quality their 3D assets were and I kept hearing how fast D5 was adapting their program to the wants of the users . After testing, I realized I could produce higher quality renders at a fraction of the time , plus my computer worked faster than it did in Lumion. The biggest difference from Lumion is seeing your edits in realtime . D5 allows you to edit your materials/lighting and instantly see what you will get in your render . Enscape was similar but it took much more effort to get the look that I wanted. I loved Lumions plant library so I tested out all the programs to make sure I had everything I wanted . Over the last year , I’ve been in contact with D5 staff and they are so fast about responding to issues and requests . If you want to check out some of my D5 work you can follow my Instagram : instagram.com/ashtonaime3d

@@LearnUpstairs I’ve talked to the D5 staff and they said they definitely have it on their list for the next few versions :) so hopefully we will have the accurate isometrics soon

I have been using d5 render for 5 years, it is very good for me, my customers all over the world are very satisfied

I think here the exterior scene looked the best out of all of them, but let's be serious, we all know how crazy good Corona and Vray are when it comes to the archviz, they the had potential to end up on the top of the list aesthetics wise, I'm surprised how mediocre they looked

I created a heavy exterior scene in 3ds max vray and was unable to make renders due to lack of PC power. I switched to blender and it renders this scene without any problems with the same quality as vray, corona, plus it is more convenient to work in blender. Corona requires a powerful processor, vray requires a lot of vram, in blender 8GB of vram is enough for me, but in vray it was not enough, and 3ds max froze.

@@user-qx8ig3rm2othat’s very interesting my experience with both vray 3ds max and blender is the exact opposite. One of the biggest criticisms I have of blender is how poorly it handles geometry dense scenes especially compared to 3ds max. It also can’t do microdisplacement near as well as vray without absolutely murdering vram.

@@user-qx8ig3rm2o IMO the problem is on 3ds side, it's a really crappy software.

@@TheBaquajean vray is pretty good, 3ds max is old and slow and bloated.

Thank you so much, Mustafa! I'm glad you enjoyed it 😄

Wow appreciate your sharing your perspective on this! You’re right, time is a vital asset, and for most people it should be one of the top things to look at when choosing a rendering engine

wise choice

Thanks a lot tor the comment! Appreciate you noticing this 😁 It took way longer than I expected haha from the initial data gathering and scripting months ago to then maybe 2 full weeks of recording and editing. I had other projects in between that didn’t allow me to finish this video earlier

Oh that is totally right! The way I see for companies to fight this back is work with Price Parity (and do it right!). It doesn’t make sense at all to charge someone from the US the same as someone from South America for example. And even within SA there are so many economic differences. For the size of these companies it can’t be that challenging to implement a solution like this 🤷 And I’m sure it would be much mote profitable possibly even almost ending piracy. Just like it has happened with many games on Steam. Thanks a bunch for the support, Edson! 🙏

yeah, twinmotion is basically a mod for unreal...

yeah and for blender you have quixel bridge with all megascans assets as well@@rubenliniker7515

You can export this assets to literally any app using Bridge...

@@antonvoloshin9833 so can you download any texture and import it into your software of choice. Im saying it is RIGHT into unreal and you just gotta press ADD and boom it's ready to use

@@rubenliniker7515 I could say twinmotion is basically built in unreal is a less powerful, more UX/UI friendly, beginner version of unreal

they grow like everyone else really. From what im seeing. and the interiors are the same as twinmotion or lumion = trash

@@AAAAAAndreyAndreev lumion 2023 is good in interiors, older version is trash.

For the past year, I have been rendering interiors with TM pathtrace with extremely good results. I used to work with Vray (rhino) and the results I get now are almost the same. Time is the main factor here, there is no point in sparing the time if you are mainly designing and you are not exclusively a visualizer. In my opinion, D5 is the fastest growing, and I plan to fully migrate there. Now I know that a scene can look like a videogame sometimes with little to no realism, but honestly, when you apply the basic DSLR rules you would using Vray or corona, then it becomes almost as good. It all depends on the skills and the pc specs of course. So calling them "trash" when they are being praised by a huge percentage of the community, just makes you ignorant.@@AAAAAAndreyAndreev

Totally! The fact that D5 listens actively to the community is amazing! They constantly push out updates with what the feedbacks were saying. And they’re evolving fast! Hopefully they continue on this track. The new 2.6 version that just came out seems interesting, it has a UV Randomizer which is something I’ve always wanted. But be prepared to fry that new graphics card haha D5 is heavy, maybe even heavier than Lumion

@@AAAAAAndreyAndreev not really, the technology that software uses is up there, how it turns out depends on your ability and mastery of the tool. And if you’ve paid a little bit of attention to their updates, you’ll know the dev is different, pace is different, future also seems different for them

What a deal! I didn’t know they once had a lifetime pro plan. And indeed they have so many updates throughout the year and each one with major changes. But what makes it better is that they’re taking the community feedback very seriously! Appreciate sharing your input, Rulza!

We did as well! And we switched to Affinity Suite….

True! Their new update is insane!!!!! 🔥

Oh thanks for pointing that out! It’s still not a native library but this sure changes things a bit 😁

@@LearnUpstairs The quixel megascans asset library was made free to ALL unreal Engine users, some years ago, when Epic bought quixel. Free for everyone, including hobbyists, solo developers. Considering that the unreal Engine is also completely free to use, that's pretty amazing. You only have to pay epic a bit of money if your business revenue goes over $1 million/year. Even then, it's still really reasonable. Last time I checked it was 5% of revenue. Quixel Bridge is pretty slick, and allows very easy access to the whole megascans library of materials and assets. It's about as seamless an integration as you could reasonably expect, for something that is not actually integrated into the unreal Engine. Unreal Engine users also get to use the 3rd component of Quixel's trinity - Mixer. It's a materials tool, a bit like the Adobe substance 3d tool set which includes painter. If you want to connect to the Quixel megascans asset library from blender via bridge, I'm pretty sure you have to pay a recurring licence, it's not free. It's only free for unreal Engine users. Cycles is very good, and Blender's addon ecosystem is superb, and mostly inexpensive. Blender Guru did a render engine comparison fairly recently, and came to the conclusion, that for archviz, Corona was the best, but by a fairly fine margin. He reckoned it was especially good at handling caustics, for water and glass. But, the really interesting thing, for me, as a Blender user, is that cycles was very close behind. That's very exciting considering that blender and cycles are free, and corona is very expensive. Admittedly, to use cycles effectively, you do have to know how to use blender, because cycles is not a stand alone render engine, but I found that once I had learnt the basics of blender, using cycles is quite straightforward. It works just as you would expect. The real challenge, is, as always, everything else, like particularly getting your lighting set up right. I liked your video, very well thought out and presented. 🚀

r u an architect ? how fast can you produce results when comparing to twinmotion.

@@vmafarah9473 Yes I am an Architect, Twinmotion workflow is a bit faster than Blender, especially at the start, but now I feel way more comfortable using Blender over any other rendering software due to the excessive use of Blender

And THE MOST amazing part is that it is absolutely FREE but I have a bias

It's still a pain in the ass to use. It has terrible optimization for larges scene with a ton of particles and vegetations. V-ray proxies are absolutely destroying it.

@@flashgames1273finally someone really knows what’s talking about! Blender is a big pain for nowadays

​@@flashgames1273 I understand your frustration as a new user or beginner in using blender for archviz. It may seem terrible. But guess what, with geometry nodes, blender handles much larger scenes with ease and much more efficient than Max. For proxies, you can look at instances and viewport display types for something similar.

I agree that blender is too good when it comes to archviz but for architecture students, i think, for getting some satisfied quality renders ,it asks for more amount of time on learning and also since self exploration is not an option on such a high-end soft, fetching courses for specific and yet struggling in on some details is what makes it too complex to learn unless your entire profession is into archviz or any 3d works.

True. Honestly, Unreal Engine 5+ is the future. Lumen + Nanite geometry system, on top of undisputed Quixel Megascans library = The best workflow You can learn on Twinmotion and progress to Unreal Engine, or cross operate on both per your needs. Both offer Quixel's Asset library for FREE

Yes and twinmotion is basically a dumbed-down version of unreal with a friendly interface for beginners. I love it!

also Available for Blender by Quixel Bridge Add-on 😊😊

​@@anwarpalliyalil2193 hmm, for Blender also? I thought Quixel was free only for Unreal Engine and Twinmotion. I am aware of Quixel Bridge and Mixer, but aren't those payable in other programs?

@@anwarpalliyalil2193 via plugin is not native though, and you technically are not allowed to use those asset for free outside of UE.

Thanks!!! I used Premiere and After Effects from Adobe