Max 5.1 Save commnad resets Vray demo settings

[dantkent]

I noticed that my Vray (demo version) settings are reset when I do
a save within Max 5.1. Has anyone expereinced this ?

[egz]

This is one of the limitations in the demo. It is supposed to do it.

[dantkent]

Thanks egz. I thought about that "after" I posted the message. Guess I'll have to cough up the cash for the real thing.

[Da_elf]

in comparison to other GI renderers out there investing in a copy of vray is a really good buy for the money. its not as expensive and its a great tool

[Long John]

vray is a bit buggy but better then stage-0

i think it´s time that they stop making new features available (anisotropic reflections... whatever) and working on the stability and fixing the last bugs.

sometimes you have to make a CUT.

put the new features in vray 2.0 and come to an end with vray 1.x

i speak to many artist and they all say vray is a great tool but also that they are not 100% satisfied with the stability and the many bugs that come with every new build.

when it´s ok for some user to be the lab rat, it´s ok for me!
but you should have a product (or BUILD) that is sold as PRODUCTION READY and all others builds are clearly BETA.

today all the version are beta and you will never know what happens when you use a new build.

[egz]

That's what they have done..
The 1.08.04p is the latest stable build

All 1.09.x builds should be considered beta or even alpha.

At least that's the info we got from Chaos a while back, and newer users might not know this.

I don't know how many people actually use the 1.08 build though.. everybody wants to play with the new toys.

[Long John]

what i mean is a build with a more competitive feature set then 1.08.04.
1.08.04p has not even photon maps, if i am right?

i think since 1.09.01x is a point reached where vlado and peter should have stopped putting more and more new features in vray.
instead they should have worked on a stable 1.1 version (like they announced it for december 2002).

look at the mess with the 1.09.02a,b,c builds.
distributed rendering is still buggy and when i look in the BUG forum i see no end.

not everyone likes it to be a betatester.
i like to have a fixed set of features, that works as expected.
ok, software will always have bugs, but vray has to much (imho).

[Biohazard]

That's what they have done..
The 1.08.04p is the latest stable build

yes and no... In that case, where are the documentation, the sdk ?
I mean, I'm very enthusiast using Vray... It's a question of balance between features (Ho yes !) and support.

The fact is many people are using recent versions in production (build "U" for our own) without so much problems... These guys here are doing a great job in support and debug, so I won't be complaining about that. If it was 100% tested, validated and so ever, I doubt using GI would be so shiny groovy hippy...

We may appreciate a better visibility about the road map perhaps ?