Important V-Ray 1.5 announcement

[TJE]

I'll try and squeeze somrthing out of Vlado and Peter tomorrow at the 3d festival...

[RErender]

I'll try and squeeze somrthing out of Vlado and Peter tomorrow at the 3d festival...

[RErender]

Woops, no edit button :P

I was going to say , just buy them a lot of beers

[cocolas]

hehehe...yeah...just loose'em up a bit :P

[TJE]

How about they buy me beer to loosen up all the waiting-around-tension that's been building up - and THEN tell me when it's coming out??

:P

[gl0w]

ill bet they announce the release at the festival.

[vlado]

There will be more news on VRay 1.5 after the 3D festival, when we get back home. I'll just say that it's coming soon.

Best regards,
Vlado

[Spinoza]

can you give a list what bugs are fixed and what features are in to ease the pain?

[RErender]

LOL, spinoza

[Cararan]

I'll be watching out for this and see what all the hype has been about.

[TJE]

Sorry guys, they wouldn't let me buy them beer, since it was free!

[Spinoza]

Sorry guys, they wouldn't let me buy them beer, since it was free!

make them drunk an quench some infos out.

[vlado]

Hello guys,

Sorry for the delay. We are back from the 3d festival and are putting all our effors into releasing the first official public versions of VRay 1.5; we are aiming at having a build available at the end of the next week. It will be available to all registered users of the Advanced version of VRay.

Here are some of the changes in the new builds:

Geometry pipeline

• Reliable handling of extremely large datasets (millions of unique raytraced triangles) even with limited memory resources.
  
  Extensible with custom geometric primitives through the VRay Geometry SDK.
  
  Includes VRayFur and VRayPlane as additional geometric primitives.
  
  Enhanced displacement mapping, many times faster than the previous version; includes view-dependent displacement mapping for fast high-quality results.
  
  Efficient and fast raytraced motion blur, even with deforming and/or complex geometry such as fur and displacement mapping.

Global illumination

• A new fast iterative global illumination method with quick convergence for interior scenes (lightmaps)

Additional VRay-specific materials

• Several simplified materials for faster rendering (glass material, diffuse material, diffuse+fake specular material, self-illumination material).

VRay-specific virtual frame buffer

• An enhanced frame buffer with many additional options.
  Works directly with the floating-point sample data provided by the renderer.
  
  Allows rendering of very large output images directly to disk for saving precious RAM resources.

Floating license system

• Completely independent of the 3dsmax authorization system.
  
  Support for floating licenses.

Developer SDK

• Allows the implementation of VRay-specific material shaders and geometric primitives.

Best regards,
Vlado

[Long John]

what i miss on the list:

working and improved DR rendering for 3d max 6.

i

[RErender]

Looking forward to it!