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One of the reasons the original studio I worked for back in the day went with V-ray over mental ray was that V-Ray allowed unlimited render node licenses. Mental Ray at the time required you to buy a new license for every third node. At the time, we ran a 20 deck render farm (a pretty big deal for an architecture studio in 2002). Money being an object and the fact that V-Ray, though very new, was showing a lot of promise in the world of Arch Viz. we switched over to V-ray, never to look back.
I haven't been following the progression of Vray the last year or so, since I am at a much smaller design firm and extremely busy with no real tech support. Imagine my surprise when our re-seller explained that I had to buy a 5 node license package for our little 3 node operation to upgrade to 3.0. It's bad enough that this software works with a dongle. But to have to reprogram it and wait 24 hours for a file to begin using it is quite inconvenient. It's not like this process is doing anything to prevent the software from being pirated. It's all over the internet. So, I lost a day and a half to installing and waiting for the wbc context file....
Now that everything is up and running, I try to send an animation to render (which is already 2 days behind schedule due to the licensing process) now I'm getting errors on the boards.............because the .rtu file sent to us is missing the node licenses.
There has got to be a better way to go about this. At the very least, the re-sellers should be able to send the wbc files, as they are in the same time zone. I'm sure bigger studios with tech directors don't care, but for those of us who are on our own, or working in smaller studios it is a problem.
I haven't been following the progression of Vray the last year or so, since I am at a much smaller design firm and extremely busy with no real tech support. Imagine my surprise when our re-seller explained that I had to buy a 5 node license package for our little 3 node operation to upgrade to 3.0. It's bad enough that this software works with a dongle. But to have to reprogram it and wait 24 hours for a file to begin using it is quite inconvenient. It's not like this process is doing anything to prevent the software from being pirated. It's all over the internet. So, I lost a day and a half to installing and waiting for the wbc context file....
Now that everything is up and running, I try to send an animation to render (which is already 2 days behind schedule due to the licensing process) now I'm getting errors on the boards.............because the .rtu file sent to us is missing the node licenses.
There has got to be a better way to go about this. At the very least, the re-sellers should be able to send the wbc files, as they are in the same time zone. I'm sure bigger studios with tech directors don't care, but for those of us who are on our own, or working in smaller studios it is a problem.
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