realistic renderings

[Designer1]

10 hours ago, Dermot said:

Normally, you should not need to upgrade to new hardware every time you upgrade to a new version of Chief.  X13 is pretty unique because it has a brand new rendering engine that is taking advantage of the latest video card technology and is much more demanding on your hardware.  Most of the time it is more a question of how much money are you willing to spend to save some time doing your job.  

 

There is a big difference in price between a new system that will run X13 well and a new system with a video card capable of using the new real-time raytracing.  I priced out a new off-the-shelf home computer a couple of months ago and found about a 2X price difference.  If you want to continue using the CPU based ray tracing engine and don't really need the real-time raytracing, then you might be able to purchase the upgrade and a decent system that will run X13 for something that is still within your budget.  

 

You should also consider all of the new features in X12 and X13 that you might find helpful:

https://cloud.chiefarchitect.com/1/pdf/marketing/x13-new-features.pdf

https://cloud.chiefarchitect.com/1/pdf/marketing/x12-new-features.pdf

 

Along with these there might be some newer library content that is available that you might not be able to take advantage of with X11.

 

I highly recommend calling our sales team and speaking with someone who can walk you through some of your options and what we might recommend for you specifically.

 

Dermot, I noticed that Eric noted that raytrace has better results than RTRT.  I just started using X13 and thought these were the same thing just instantaneous results. Is there a big difference in results?  Obviously the biggest difference is the time between the two.

[Dermot]

Real-time raytracing and CPU raytracing are not going to get the same results because they are using different engines.  It's not just going to be a speed difference.