Chaos group buying out corona!

[lukx]

Is this something that you would be interested in?


Best regards,
Vlado

I would

[trick]

...Is this something that you would be interested in?...

It's just been a few weeks I intended to buy a Corona license. Just for the sake of doing some (larger scale) interiors with it. Not because they would be better than done with VRay, but just to differentiate my skills. It's actually plain rediculous having to buy full licenses when you probably only need one of them ( or the combination of them) full time. Until I heard of the merge I would have bought a Corona license, but now I wonder what is wisdom in regards of combined future power. Do I really need Corona NOW.... do I wait what goodies we get from this ...will there be a reduced VRay/Corona pricing for Corona/VRay users ? It's all a bit of a guess. Anyway..... it's not my intention to switch ....I even still do some project in finalRender ... just because it works better in some cases...

[vlado]

Hm, what kind of projects work better on finalRender?

I can't help much with the other questions, unfortunately. You can get a Corona subscription for a month or so if you want to check it out. There is also 45-day demo.


Best regards,
Vlado

[trick]

Hm, what kind of projects work better on finalRender?
...

I had a project about a collapsing building with all the debree, smoke, etc. which rendered faster with all GI turned on. Just also mentioning it was all about speed...not about quality...
About Corona....will probably get me a license anyway anytime soon

[glorybound]

The first thing I thought when I heard the news was, brilliant thinking... now all V-Ray users will buy a Corona license and a lot of Corona people will eventually buy a V-Ray license. I had a Corona license, but I canceled it because I trusted V-Ray would do its best to top anything Corona was doing. I am a loyalist. Now, I'll probably purchase Corona again once the two are seamlessly integrated.

[viscorbel]

Good news, now both renderers will benefit from the work done by the other team!
VRScans in Corona anyone? It's actually one thing that I thought Corona lacked in terms of future-potential, and it didn't seem that it would be likely they would develop an alternative given how much work has been poured into it. Now I think there is a chance it will happen

Vlado is a great guy and it's really frustrating reading the emotional outbursts on Corona forums, about the 'evil' Chaosgroup swallowing the defenseless Corona and destroying it.
I really admire how he can keep his calm and still politely answer all the concerns etc.

[PIXELBOX_SRO]

i ve been running Corona paralel to vray for a while now.
Both engines have its great parts.
The most important for me rather than all the money/licencing talk is that we will be fully able to use all the assets outthere without having to spend valuable time on conversions/export etc.

Right now were preparign a series of high quality models and i really struggle doing all the versioning between Corona and Vray....simply put, Corona is not there with handling linear displacement where it shoudl be and to get exact match is almost impossible. So i am really kind of reconsidering when to start selling the models...whether to wait for the compatibility or not.

Looking forward to the future guys it will be great...and i also wish the guys on the Corona forum see it too eventually - cos right now its pure panic and hatred there...for no reason really

[lukx]

the good thing is that I can finally buy Corona without feeling like I'm cheating on VRay

[andybot_cg]

Is there any plan to combine the licenses for both engines?

You got me there

Is this something that you would be interested in?

Yes! I've watched Corona for some time and kept hoping that it expands to other software platforms. Now with this buy-out, I am hopeful that the future is interoperability with Vray assets and software integration.

[olly]

Is this something that you would be interested in?

We would also like to see this. The main reason we have not tried out Corona yet is daunting prospect of a 14 year archive of VRay scenes!

[duke2]

We would also like to see this. The main reason we have not tried out Corona yet is daunting prospect of a 14 year archive of VRay scenes!

The sole thing stopping us from adopting Corona (not necessarily for everything) is our library and back catalog of VRay stuff. If Corona were to read vray materials/lights/etc. then we'd definitely be looking at it seriously.

[ataylor]

You got me there

Is this something that you would be interested in?

A while ago the Corona guys have made it clear that they want Corona to be the best archviz renderer on the market, so I guess they have picked a direction already. Of course, a renderer needs to do many other things as well (hair, volumes, skin etc). Eventually I think it will depend on the users and what they want from the products, and what makes sense from an implementation point of view.

Best regards,
Vlado

Does this mean the positioning of each renderer will be more of
Vray towrad the VFX world and Corona more for arch viz?

Curious how these will sit market wise?

[flino2004]

in terms of features, Vray has way more than I need... I'm not into movies and advertainment (VFX stuff) the Path is Corona ARCH VIZ I would go there.
but I would like to see a universal license or at least for some months so current Vray and Corona users can really see what tool works best for us.

[sherridge101]

Would be cool to see Corona's Bloom and Glare and tonemapping over in the VFB.

And the Filmic Highlights - The standard highlight clipping pulls in too much of the highlights currently.