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Karma vs Redshift?

🕑 Added 2024-07-11 08:42:42 +0000 UTC

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Karol Lasia

So when are we getting Karma?

Paul Thien

please give more tuts about Karma. I don't have much budget for redshift license

SoHail

One of the reasons that I haven't joined your Patreon over the years was that you were on Redshift. Drop it, please. :>

Eirik H

Back here again. It would be nice for us to figure out how to make Karma look like Redshift or Octane.

Taek Oh

I've been using Redshift too and Redshift was definitely one of the reasons that I liked your contents. But it was never the main reason that I was following you. It doesn't really matter what Renderer you use after all. Personally this is the perfect time for you to change to Karma. I was also thinking to stop renewing Redshift at the end of this year. It means that I will have to start learning Karma already. I will be more than happy to do that with you together! Also I believe many Redshift users are already moving to Karma now.

Lukas Verikas

Surely the answer here should take into account what is more industry standard and used by most people professionally? In the end we all need to eat.

Eirik H

Having been working/studying using Octane in Houdini, I'd been seriously considering switching to RS as it seems to be better integrated with Houdini. I love Octane so much for its ability to achieve realism quite quickly, but I still have issues with rendering particles, for example. About a week ago, I was doing a tutorial with a cool RBD fracturing effect (not one of yours, sorry Nick) and particles were used to simulate the ultra-fine debris. For some reason, even after setting up the materials and scene for rendering, the particles didn't show up in the final render. When rendering single frames or a group of frames (20 or so) they showed just fine. I've wasted so much time trying to figure what's going wrong... It's experiences like these that make me seriously think about RS or just totally diving into Karma, if it can be used to achieve the realism that RS or Octane produce so well. So, I would love to see more stuff on Karma if possible, especially since my PC is not a powerhouse. :)

Justin Dykhouse

Karma is the way.

Cadian

This sounds like you're using karma without going into solaris maybe? The solaris desktop gives karma rendering in the viewport! Can't speak on how good it is compared to RS as never used it, but i know for sure karma has a render view!

Ali Dawi

It has a render view…

Craig Zuckerman

Have used Arnold and RS in C4D, for many years, used RS a bit in Houdini, would love to know more about Karma. I also would love NOT learning more of RS, although I like it, would rather spend my time, learning more within Houdini. These softwares are expensive, and time consuming to learn as it is, more Karma, please!-;)

Kev Sutherland

RS is my everyday, but I’m genuinely interested in learning Karma and the production flow. My current perception is that it comes with several gotchas, especially XPU but would def like to learn more.

Ahmed Abu Rady

I Wanna add to this since this topic is hot here now :D from the comments I can see almost the only reason people looking forward to in Karma is to drop one more payable license, whether RS or Vray they're not cheap. I would say if learning USD and doing some personal fun stuff is your thing definitely go and learn Karma but doing client work these license prices won't be even fraction of one project cost so the cost is totally irrelevant in this case at least for me. adding on one of the missing things in Karma is Renderview :D funny enough we talking about render engine in Redshift or other renderers we're able to zoom in out, check passes, channels a whole lot of features just in the render view window that is something you need when you work on a big scene I don't wanna "Render to Mplay" every time I still stand Karma is very annoying render engine to work with :D

Amstutz

I m a Redshift user. I never tried Karma so far but I know I need to wake up

Frankie

I want to drop my Redshift AND Substance Designer License. 😂

Chris Cousins

Karma here - same as SarahB, I feel comfortable just trying stuff out in RS but whenever I use Karma it's so clunky, painful to set up and it slows down so badly on anything but the simplest scenes - it feels like I must be 'doing it wrong', so some pointers on best practice for MaterialX, and CPU vs XPU would be great.

Sarah B

Karma cause I know RS more and, I admit, I still have not tried out Karma.

Cadian

Personal preference is karma cos i dont want to pay for any more licenses lol, but have always followed your tutorials, watched the RS parts and just did the rendering in karma anyway

Jorge Losilla

I wouldn´t say a bit of improvement. On RTX40 it´supposed to be 2x3 times faster and that seems to be coincident with my experience. I have a 4080 and 3080 and to me it´s much faster.

Ahmed Abu Rady

I just installed 20.5 yesterday and first thing I did is i took a scene I've done in redshift threw simple materials on objects in Solaris coz i wanted to see if theres real improvement in speed I can say definitely theres a bit of speed improvement but still far slower than redshift thats for sure

Jorge Losilla

From my experience that is totally feasible. It´s always annoying learning a new piece of software. But lighting tools in Solaris are amazing. Karma on H20.5 it´s really, really fast. Some things are more convenient in Redshift, like Maxon_Noise but others are better in Karma. My reason for switching to Karma it´s that I found RS lately very buggy, specially on reallly heavy scenes.

Simon Phillips

Maxon killed RS

Tcharck

Please Please Help us with Karma, I'm using V-Ray but I wanna drop my license too to try to do everything inside Houdini without plug-ins. Thank Nick, Tcharck from Dallas Tx US🇺🇲

Charl Pieterse

Redshift for the win!

Ahmed Abu Rady

Hi Nick I really tried and gave it a shot multiple times in my experience It makes my multi shot workflow a lot slower and more time consuming and even with the beautiful things that I see people produce with KarmaXPU Redshift still vastly superior GPU engine so much faster and much more control over the render settings personally what I've decided I wouldn't use Karma unless theres something that's deeply integrated like oceans and if redshift release support for ocean spectrums for example I'll still drop Karma It still has to mature after all its pretty young engine redshift has been there for ages in comparison