Iclone 8 Render Engine

[AutoDidact]

Is the OP Rendering stills or animations?
I only ask because in the context/parlance of GI render engine settings
“Brute Force”is typically the absolute SLOWEST option because (as the term implies) it is projecting an unlimited number of unbiased rays with ZERO
compromises.

I would imagine Redshift handles
“Brute Force” pretty well
I would not know, as my old “retired” C4D only has VRAY
and the old standard Maxon engine

but Depending on the complexity of your scene and texture map sizes “Brute Force” rendering is the option most likely to consume all of your GPU’s VRAM which is why old non RTX “Brute Force” path tracers like Iray was a terrible choice for iclone and Reallusion was wise to promptly abandon it.

[Nirwana]

@AutoDidact

“Brute Force”is typically the absolute SLOWEST option because (as the term implies) it is projecting an unlimited number of unbiased rays with ZERO
compromises.

Well, I’m not familiar with the “technical” background of the various GI modes, but, since Redshift is a biased renderer as far as I’m aware, maybe “brute force” in RS does not mean “unbiased rays”; I don’t know.
However, what I do know is that while “brute force” may be the slowest setting in Redshift, the alternatives (again, in RS) are not often not that much faster (and/or cause artifacts in animations—I very rarely do stills as the final “product”). In fact, I’ve had scenes when the other GI modes were actually slower than “brute force” (I spend quite some time on finding what render settings work for a specific scene)—YMMV.

[AutoDidact]

@Nirwana

However, what I do know is that while “brute force” may be the slowest setting in Redshift, the alternatives (again, in RS) are not often not that much faster (and/or cause artifacts in animations—I very rarely do stills as the final “product”). In fact, I’ve had scenes when the other GI modes were actually slower than “brute force” (I spend quite some time on finding what render settings work for a specific scene)—YMMV.

Yes as GPU RTX acceleration is the “norm” these days, Brute force is now a viable option even for animations
as the higher number of rays projected to every point in the scene will typically overcome the inherent weakness of a biased engines projecting only just enough rays and “quitting” based on a fixed number of samples chosen by the user.

Arnold is Unbiased (slower but Hollywood film level production quality)

But Vray is a hybrid render engine
where one can set a fixed number of samples in biased “light cache” mode
or simply go full unbiased Brute force.

But as you said, with the many other variables to consider it, is nearly pointless to make an objective setting recommendation for everyone.

[navdawg1]

@animagic

t render plugins where costly and never usable for animation. The one before Iray (I forgot the name) was the worst, as the company who made it was not interested in animation. Iray was slightly better, but there are a number of things that did not work that were never resolved. So RL tried, but it just didn’t work out. I use the iClone renderer with post-processing in After Effects to get the look I’m after, so even I use more than one program, but that doesn’t bother me. I don’t expect my animation program to spew out complete movies.

Possibly down the road there will be an AI solution where you can just select the look a

100% correct.