V-Ray 3.0 for Maya Beta Now Open

[chaosmarketing]

The V-Ray 3.0 for Maya Beta program is now open! This major release is just around the corner and we’d like your input to help make this our best update yet.

A new Progressive Rendering Engine, support for several open source technologies, plus up to 5x faster ray tracing and rendering performance are some of the features included in the initial round of enhancements.

Our new website V-Ray.com has been updated with a complete list of new features and improvements to the already powerful toolset.

V-Ray 3.0 for Maya public beta is available now and open to all V-Ray for Maya commercial users. Join today!

[Jvincentfx45]

Hello,

Its was stated earlier that this would be available to edu customers as well is this still the case. Also will there be a pricing for edu clients.

Best, James

[jasonhuang1115]

Also, would be great to learn the pricing for upgrading from EDU 2.x to commercial 3.0.

[antonia.yordanova]

Dear Jvincentfx45,

The beta program is open to licensed commercial users only. The recommended end user price of V-Ray Academic license (1-year) is 74 EUR/ 103 USD/ 64 GBP (excl. dongle cost, shipping, VAT and local taxes) and includes free updates and upgrades throughout the year.

Antonia

[antonia.yordanova]

Dear jasonhuang1115,

Please e-mail us at sales.software@chaosgroup.com and we'll provide an upgrade quote.

Antonia

[vlado]

Its was stated earlier that this would be available to edu customers as well is this still the case.

Our goal (well, mine, at any rate) is to get it tested by as many people as possible, regardless of license type they have. If there's any misunderstanding here, please email me to vlado@chaosgroup.com and we'll sort it out.

Best regards,
Vlado