vray is/not interesting

[nukleon]

Hi all

Let me ask you some things.There are many renderers on the market.Which do you thing is the best overall?Other renderers have some good know-hows that vray doesnt have.Which know-hows from other renders would you want to have in vray?

[cocolas]

what the.....

[natty]

hi nukleon
have you tried Vray Advanced?
What do you think is missing from vray?

[tammo]

i would like to have your know-how.

please send to me.

[tom schuelke]

Well

first, to switch it to the right direction, i know what i wouldnt want to be in vray .

sloooooowlyness.

this is the biggest advantage of Vray. While other renderers in terms of interface and sophisticated materials sometimes seem to be a bit more advanced, it seems to me, that vray is much much faster as others. so what ever happens this should stay.
All other things can be done in Vray as well as in other renderers.

but of course this question was ment seriously.

so what would i like more ? (hmm this also could be posted in the wishlist)

- faster sss

- sophisticated materials

- at last finished distributed singleframe network rendering (vlado works on this)

- vray frbuffer improvements , Geddart, EGZ and me worked on this and well, maybe later some of these ideas will find their way
http://www.tom-schuelke.com/vr-fbi.pdf

- some further improvements of global switches, and more options in Materials, still better improved fake highlights, a selfilu slot in the vray mat, many many little things.

but at last this will come soon or later, and the rest, vray is best.

Tom

[percydaman]

vray doesn't YET have the flashy bling bling that some other renderers might have. but it has them all beat in horsepower...[/i]

[axesaxes]

Vray has the best Forum

[plastic_]

mental ray has a cooler name

[nukleon]

nukleon

I have vray advanced. I am intersred in why are there a lot of expensive benchmarks and vray seems to me VERY easy. I am using finalrender in all my work because its the best cos I can tweak evereything I want and vray isnt stable so thats why

[suurland]

If it's the best then continue to use it!

/Thomas

[RErender]

Is this for real? Edwin is that you?

[suurland]

[natty]

I dont think we should get into who is best .... we all make our own choices into which renderer we put our time into ... i personally use vray, i also have used Finalrender and also Brasil, not to mention Lightscape and Virtualight.... oh and InSight, but have settled with Vray for many reasons... so you can pick holes in all these renders, but what is the point.

[Long John]

i would like to have a more focused development on vray.

seeing that the caustic bug was unnoticed an many others pop up, now that the early "1.5 beta" was released, i think we will see MANY 1.4.x.x versions before we see a stable and finished v1.5.

same game as with 1.1 if you ask me.

[plastic_]

i just finished a new project with 1.45.70, and didn't have a single problem, even with new features, including the amazing new lightmap and render passes.
i found some bugs i will report later, like putting a gradient into the vray opacity slot crashes max, but this is non-important stuff.