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| Just to offer a balance to some recent opinions expressed here, I think that characterizing CS6's ray-tracer as "messing up" and "unusable" is inaccurate and unfair. I delivered an excellent broadcast commercial incorporating gorgeous ray-traced 3D graphics THE DAY AFTER I downloaded my CS6 upgrade. Adobe personnel on this list have acknowledged that the initial release of the CS6 ray-tracing engine is the first step and there is more to do. Whatever frustrations you have with this iteration, It would be productive to submit feature requests, as Todd Kopriva has urged time and again, addressing whatever issues you have with the function of their products. I intend to, even as I continue to use the new features in a professional environment on a daily basis. So for me so far, the ray-tracer has been useful and has performed reasonably on a MacPro 3,1 with Q4000 GPU. It will not by any means replace C4D, rather it is another tool that works very well in the appropriate situation. Quite usable. That plus the new caching scheme - not to mention improvements across the rest of the suite in PS, PP, etc - made the investment in upgrading to CS6 feel like a good deal, frankly. Robert W. Walker Los Angeles |
