purchasing vRay Advanced question...

[shaneburger]

How many machines does vRay Advanced support for simultaneous use? Meaning 2-3 machines open in an office with Max6 running on each and vRay on each? Can I use multiple machines to calculate one lighting calculation? How about using multiple machines to render one image?

Lastly, if I were to purchase vRay today, does it come in a download that is available as soon as I buy it or does it have to be shipped to me?



shane.

[Dynedain]

yes, the download is immediately available but the license activation requires an email back to chaos group (with a quick turn-arround).

As for how it works, currently the license ties itself to the license of max. So one copy of advanced will only work on one workstation, but for netrendering purposes through backburner it can be installed on as many as you want. If you use the vray distributed rendering feature it can use 10 networked machines for DR on the default license.

Supposedly the upcoming version of Vray will have a system for managing floating licenses so one license of vray can be used on multiple machines (but still not simultaneously).

[shaneburger]

Thats too bad. I was also testing out FinalRender (which has a network license) and was hoping vRay had the same. I like the rendering quality much more from vRay.

Good news about the distributed rendering, though, as we have quite a few fast machines in the office that I would like to take advantage of overnight. Does the distributed part apply to the GI calculation?


shane.

[Da_elf]

here is how liscencing will be working. you can use up to 10 computers for DR (all working on a single image) and unlimited amount of computers can be used for network rendering using backburner. This is for a single liscence. you can only use the main computer it is installed on to texture and render from. meaning that computer is where the network rendering is farmed out from. the current public versions of vray dont let you use network power for the irradiance map. however maybe future versions will allow for it.

[Dynedain]

Thats too bad. I was also testing out FinalRender (which has a network license) and was hoping vRay had the same. I like the rendering quality much more from vRay.

Good news about the distributed rendering, though, as we have quite a few fast machines in the office that I would like to take advantage of overnight. Does the distributed part apply to the GI calculation?


shane.

As i said, a network license manager is supposed to appear in 1.5

[shaneburger]

Ok. Thank you very much for the info. I'm still going to get it. Best and easiest rendered out there right now...