Autograss plugin

[trick]

...Also isn't there a way for all these "vray extra plugins" to be tied to your vray dongle license?...

I've been wondering this too: this way I could take it where I want without nagging about extra authorisations all the time !!! But I guess they will lose sales from people that do not have dongles

[Morne]

... But I guess they will lose sales from people that do not have dongles

what makes you think people without dongles will "buy" any plugin?

[trick]

what makes you think people without dongles will "buy" any plugin?

For the same reason bankrobbers steel money to use it

[glorybound]

Videos

Did you guys watch the videos? very nice looking plug-in. I'll be putting it on my to-buy list. I have just been bitten to many times by plug-ins that do not work and they have no support. if anybody uses it please share your experience.

[voltron7]

Yeah, very impressive tutorials and gallery...plug-in looks so good, but a bit price too steep at the moment...

[ShaunDon]

Yeah, now that they've revised the pricing I took a closer look and I'm pretty impressed. Especially with the variety of grasses they have any the ability to do patchy grass, which is a little more of pain to Photoshop. But still, I simply cannot accept that they want to charge per rendernode. Considering its usefulness, I could see a $300 workstation license cost, but to charge per rendernode when VRay itself doesn't limit rendernodes is absurd. In my opinion the only software that I can understand having that kind of pricing structure are net renderers like Deadline.

[glorybound]

render node

You do get 5 nodes, correct? This is my understanding. Doesn't V-ray limit you to 10 render nodes per license?

[dlparisi]

You do get 5 nodes, correct? This is my understanding. Doesn't V-ray limit you to 10 render nodes per license?

Only on DR. Backburner is unlimited.

[ShaunDon]

Exactly. We've got more than a dozen nodes we use for animations, and to license them all would cost about as much as one seat of V-Ray. Doesn't seem equitable at all for a plug-in to me.

[duke2]

It seems a bit odd to be that Vlado did the pitch for it. Is he in marketing now? (and not even Chaos Group stuff at that!)

I believe it was the same case for Vue.

[pentool]

Seriously. If I compare this plugin to what GroundWiz can do, it should not be more than 99 bucks. But that's the absolute top price.

[duke2]

Ever tried to place 1million+ instances of anything with GroundWiz? Yeah.

[bakbek]

What this plug seems to be able of doing looks really great but i couldn't agree more with all of you about the pricing - if grass is all it does then 100$ - 150$ seems more realistic. We have VRayScatter and this could be done with it (true we need to model some strands and texture them) and a lot more.

bottom line is it looks very user friendly but too expensive. hope they will revise the pricing and perhaps provide a demo so that we can really try it before we buy it.

Cheers

[BLADE]

Plug-in looks good but is much to expensive. At least I want to use all Vray DR machines (10) without any extra rendernode licence. But then again I don´t want to think about another license hassle over the network...

Greets
BLADE

[glorybound]

Demo

They now have a demo.