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BI is still there because it has a wealth of functionality that Cycles doesn't yet, and because it's really fast by comparison.
by qwertyuiop924 10y ago
BI is still there because it has a wealth of functionality that Cycles doesn't yet, and because it's really fast by comparison.
- astrodust 10y agoYou get what you pay for. A lot of times the real-time OpenGL render looks better than the legacy render.
- qwertyuiop924 10y agoYeah, I know. I've seem the side-by-sides. But if you just need a fast render...
- astrodust 10y agoCycles in preview mode isn't bad, you can tune it, and it's also possible to incrementally render in real-time. It looks all dithered, but it works quite well. Its performance will only increase as GPU acceleration options improve. CPU performance is pretty much at a dead-end now, it's barely improved in the last half decade but to slam more and more cores into the chips, while GPU performance is increasing rapidly even now.