Holy $h1T!!! Vray buys Corona!!!

[Jiri.Matys]

Please, is there any date or some info about when will be new HDR dome light calculation from corona available in vray?

[BBB3]

Totally agree here. AD has not improved and will likely not improve Arnold much. I considered using Arnold over VRay since it was "there". However, the fact that I would have to now pay AD more money on a yearly basis on top of everything I already paid them for 3DS Max (which only improves drastically every 3 or 4 versions) in order to be able to net render it pretty much threw that option in the garbage. So I don't think may people will drop VRay for Arnold unless AD really makes Arnold fully free, like they did for MR and IRay. However, we know what AD did with MR and IRay and they are likely to do the same with Arnold. That's just my opinion based on 10 years of work with AD.

The irony there is that the guys at Mental Images continued to improve MR and Iray but Autodesk pissed them off by rarely exposing these improvements into the latest versions of Max, making the renderer look a lot more ancient than it actually was.

[LudvikKoutny]

The irony there is that the guys at Mental Images continued to improve MR and Iray but Autodesk pissed them off by rarely exposing these improvements into the latest versions of Max, making the renderer look a lot more ancient than it actually was.

I used to think that too, but it wasn't the case really. The fault was on both sides

Yes, Autodesk did not expose some of those features to the public, but mostly because they were generally really poorly executed. After about mental ray 3.7, pretty much every new MR feature turned out to be placebo. It did not speed up anything, nor did it improve quality of anything, it usually just did the thing it was supposed to do equally as wrong, just with different kind of artifacts/problems.