| I don’t think iray is what everyone is looking for. It is not intended to render animations. It is meant to be used to render, and I stress, “Still” images with the advantage of having live updates to lighting and materials before you render an image within iray. What I want out of Mental ray is an interactive preview window, and iray is not it. |
The HUGE advantage of iray is hardware-accelerated, physically correct rendering without the need for any "cheats" such as GI photons or final gathering. If you want interactive rendering, I think you'd be better with V-Ray RT. |
Exactly, not everyone uses Max for animations, so iray has a place for people doing lighting studies who want more interactivity and also physically correct results (archviz). Being able to see the final lighting solution in close to RT without going through photon emitting / FG phases is very helpful for making lighting adjustments.
Can Autodesk post a Quicksilver demo video? It would answer a lot of questions. My understanding is that it isn't simply an interactive viewport, it's a new rendering engine that utilizes the vidcard GPU, which will be a helpful addition to 3dsmax for product designers who need to get a better final rendering in less time.
