Vantage licence options - annoying lacks

[mat_olszowy]

Hey,

there is 2 annoying omissions in the vantage license.

1. No material preview in 3dsmax with Vantage Licence. Do I really have to buy Vray licence for a ball preview in mtl editor, even if I don't render using vray at all?

2. There is a scatter inside of vanatge and you can use it - but it has limied options, and can't be used with livelink.
So if you wish to use chaos scatter from 3dsmax with Vantage, and you have Vantage licence - than you can't because there is no licence for chaos scatter. Nobody will buy vray licence for chaos scatter guys. - forest pack works much better and cost less for a lifetime licence.

I definitely think that these two features should be included in the Vantage license (especially first) as a standalone rendering engine.

[tashko.zashev]

hello,

You can deactivate the V-Ray materials render preview from the Settings panel and use the 3ds max native one. Hope this will give you a better workflow in your case:



About the scatter limitation, unfortunately they are separate software's and one type of product comes with different number and types of licenses.

[mat_olszowy]

Hi, thank you for the answer.

To render via Vantage you need to have set Vray GPU as a render engine. This switch is not available than.

Btw, I deactived this with Vray 6 set, and no effect.
I don't have rendered preview of vray materials in material editor - instead of this I have a black box.

[tashko.zashev]

You may need to also switch the Material preview renderer from the Common tab.
I did a quick check (V-Ray 7 license off) and you should be able to get a basic diffuse colors for the swatches.

the Slots need to be refreshed after the switch.

Not sure how useful will be this workflow, but you can see how it goes.

[npg]

To render via Vantage you need to have set Vray GPU as a render engine.

Just to be clear for other readers, this requirement exists only in 3dsMax.