On the contrary - CG has done a lot of work on the integration with Vray, and they’ve done a great job keeping it up to date. From my understanding, the interactive pipeline is something that needs a change from the Blender Foundation end, and may be out of Chaos Group’s control.
The problem is not that Blender is free, but that it uses the GPL open source license which is incompatible with commercial software. The GPL license requires any plugin for Blender to also be open source. We are lucky because we can do this for V-Ray by making the actual V-Ray translator in Blender open source, and it outputs V-Ray scene files which are then rendered with V-Ray Standalone. However we can only do this because of the specific way in which a renderer works. Other plugins like ForestPro would be a lot more complicated to implement.
Best regards,
Vlado
ahhhaaaa now i see, never knew that
anyone else tried max 2018? some problems i knew existed in 2017 stil exist in 2018 even after it was reported at the same time 2017 came out, well as reported to me by 3 people so far, then i wonder did they make real change other than add arnold which i hear also is really slow
I don’t know. It’s not 4K compatible, so I can’t even try. I know that strangely enough, the 3DS MAX icon is the same as 2017; don’t they change that every year?
They probably run out of budget :))))
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They probably run out of budget :))))
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4k is working fine for me @glorybound.
Maybe right-click on the 3ds Max 2018 icon and make sure that ‘Disable display scaling on high DPI settings’ isn’t enabled. Just a wild guess. I have no idea why it might not be working.
When I first installed 2018, the dialog box where I entered my serial number was non high-DPI compatible but after that everything seems to be working fine.
That button isn’t checked. Odd that mine isn’t working. The help says that MAX will auto detect the dpi, but it’s not for me.
latest vray and other plugin can use on 3dsmax 2018?
Plugins need to be recompiled. We plan to release official builds with V-Ray 3.6 a bit later on, but in the meantime if you email us to support@chaosgroup.com we can provide you with an experimental build.
Best regards,
Vlado
and again… you get new max, then wait half of the year to get all plugins you’re using recompiled and soon new max is out… why if they don’t change anything plugs always need to be recompiled?
There are lots of changes related to Qt 5 and the new UI system.
Best regards,
Vlado
2018 was installed on the office computers and now removed, waste of time and crap
If you read the comments on cgpress where one Autodesk employee defends the 2018 release. I find the explanation for this “lackluster” release it pretty insulting.
Stating that you can’t make everyone happy is obviously true but cheering bug fixes and improvements on broken features as great reasons to upgrade is laughable at best.
When you introduce new features in a major release and or break others you are obligated to fix those and not let people pay for the fixes a year later.
I did. I opened it and after 2 min I closed it with no intentions of using it. The interface bugs alone are enough for me to skip this service pack of a release.
All is similar to what happened to intel. High prices no big tech jumps and BAM we get RYZEN happen 
If only leaving max could be such an easy task as change the processor of your computer.
we have to face it …we will get SHIT!!!
if you have a look across the internet there is not much happening…no real protests (apart from that petition), no action
they will just get away with it and they know it
i will not be the one who will shout here that i will make a jump to Blender or Houdini or C4D…no fuc… chance i coudl convert TB of assets (someone said its very easy through script…LOL), force my workers to start learning something from scratch.etc…
I will have to stick to MAX as long as i have this company or leave the business (not an option)
And whats worse…i really love working with max although its buggy…Its like staying married knowing your wife is cheating
Bummed and screwed over from AD totally
So staying on maintenance with our 3 licences and renting an extra 1 and i will have to raise the pricing somewhat to cover the costs
ok i wish i could start some pole here to ask the majority of you which software you will jump ship to, already some have said to c4d that i know, would like to know for the rest of you where, does C4d have issues like what max does with autodesk?