Five years of V-Ray

[vlado]

On this date five years ago (13th March 2002) , we released officially the first version of V-Ray after a short beta-testing period (since December 2001) and more than a year of internal development (first code is from autumn 2000).

The first version included the QMC sampler, irradiance map and brute-force GI, the three image samplers, dof, motion blur, VRayMtl, VRayLight, VRayShadow, and VRayTex (maybe something else too, but I can't remember it right now)...

Anyways, just an interesting fact

Best regards,
Vlado

[mcvltd]

Happy birthday Vray!!

[dlparisi]

Congrats and thanks.

[jonnybefree]

hehe ja happy b-day.
you're having some first tests you've done in this epoch?

[ene.xis]

Time does fly!

congratulations Vlado and Chaos team!

[Morbid Angel]

hehehe....when I saw first renders of vray on cgtalk...I had no idea what renderers were, why they existed. I barely understood how 3d worked
Ahh...good old times

[joconnell]

ha ha ha - noob

[posterus]

happy birthday v-ray. dont know where i wud be without it.
quick someone render a birthday cake
-joe

[Candelero]

happy birthday v-ray. dont know where i wud be without it.
quick someone render a birthday cake
-joe

Don't know about the rendered cake, but I assure you, the REAL ONE, was, jsut AAAWWWEEESOME... so tastttyyyyyyyyyy....



Best regards,
nikki Candelero

[EricCamper]

Sweet....I have to say thanx to vray dudes and Scott. I believe it was Scott that got me to buy it when we were working on a project together. I shall have a beer for the occasion...Perhaps two.

[ShaunDon]

You've built a hell of a market share in those five years, and I'm proud to say I started using V-Ray in year one. Since then it's become an irreplaceable part of our production. Every time a new renderer comes out or upgrades, I'm always very interested to check it out, but I've yet to see anything that comes close to V-Ray's adaptability. Especially when you factor in cost of deployment, and your utterly amazing commitment to us end users. No other software developers come close.

Congrats Vlado, to you and your team. Looking forward to seeing what you guys come up with in the next five years.

Best regards,
Shaun

[glorybound]

Vray's Birthday

Thanks to forums like AutoDesk VIZ were VRAY is showcased. I first saw a VRAY renderng a year ago their and I had to find out what they used.

[dlparisi]

I'm not sure when it was released but my first exposure to VRay was with VRayFree. For a couple of years this was my main renderer at the firm I was at because they were too cheap to pay for the advanced version (based on the amount of 3D work we did it may have been a good business decision though). I produced a bunch of really nice renderings that were much better than the VIZ crap they were doing before and they rendered out pretty damn fast too. When I went on my own I splurged for the full version and haven't looked back. This brings back some memories .

[glorybound]

VRAY

I downloaded VRAY free, but didn't spend the time to figure it out. Not until I forked over the dough did I learn it. I bought it mainly for the displacementmod. I spent month's trying to do good grass the old way. Now grass is second nature like many of the VRAY settings. I would love to see into the future of VRAY.

[dimo]

Happy birthday VRay!

Our present is on it's way (and will be downloadable for everybody soon)!

Best regards,

Dieter