Will there be a scheme where Vray users cab get a discounted (or free!) corona licence - especially during the early days so we can help iron out bugs with materials and rendering compatibility etc?
Asking if youâll get a discount is one thing but a FREE licence.. Have you tried asking that on the official Corona forums, after all Corona is still Corona and V-Ray is still V-Ray and they are still selling as separate entities, at least for the foreseeable future. Chaos Group and Render Legion, may well have joined forces and be working together..BUT
(correct me if I am wrong)
it doesnât mean that Vray users or Corona users are one and the same thing now.. and I have a feeling, they will both continue to be Corona and Vray for some considerable time⌠It was my understanding that Render Legion (Corona), were searching for investors, not someone to buy them outright.. and in the end they chose Chaos Group (Vray etc) which I believe was a great choice. So why would they want to discount Corona or (laugh) give you a FREE licence, to help iron out bugs, which virtually every piece of code suffers from. Very few if any software developers do that, unless they have signed you up to some form of beta testing program.
Hey maybe Iâm wrong. though I doubt you will ever see them give out free licences.. For me, if I was to invest in another company, my first thoughts would be to make sure that company is making money or has the ability to make it, not to go giving stuff away or for that matter, discounting their product(s) it just doesnât make financial sense. I would want my investment to grow.. Of course we could end up, with a similar licensing strategy, for Corona, as we have with Vray, or vice versa and features of one, benefiting from the other. I myself a looking forward to the near future and seeing what comes from these two companies getting together
Still good luck getting discount, and even better luck getting a freebie
Free doesnât make sense, but we have no Corona licenses and would consider picking up a few at a steep discount. We arenât interested though in full price Corona. It does make sense to see if there arenât any bundling opportunities. Those who use Vray could try out Corona and those who Corona could try out Vray.
Not really sure how a steep discount makes any much sense either. I mean, to you as a customer you want a discount, sure 
But how does that make business sense?
Shush !!!
Letâs all agree that a really generous discount would be a really great idea to be implemented as soon as possible by Chaos ! 
âso we can help iron out bugs with materials and rendering compatibility etc?â
Chaos have already said that they want to reach parity with corona so materials, lights and cameras are compatible.
So there is certainly going to be a need for testing.
would be better an universal license or a transfer licenses between bothâŚIf you are a Vray user and you want to change your license permanently to Corona would be a good option.
Pretty sure they have their own âgroupâ that do whatever testing is necessary, pretty sure they donât just sit their coding for a few months and just throw it out there, fingers crossed. So I no need to give discounted licenses to members for that purpose. Then again, surely members have been helping iron out whatever bugs get missed or go unnoticed for years,as far as Vray is concerned, without getting a discount after all if that wasnât the case, many of the sections in this forum would be pretty emptyâŚ
CV-ray anyone???
The universal licence is a nice idea though. Iâd prefer the same licensing system that Vray uses, applied to Corona, but keep them as separate entities, at least for some time yet and yes, the ability to change your mind at any point and convert the license to the other, but only once sounds fair enough
and surely those that want to see how Corona compares to Vray or vice versa, can get their hands on a demo anyway
End of the day, I am more than happy to stick with what I am using for now and just wait and see what comes of this allianceâŚ
Cmon man, thereâs so much work that go into these programs⌠and they keep getting exponentially better and more efficient. Free license? If you take your work seriously and this isnât just a hobby just pay up. What does it cost like 500 bucks for a perpetual license? If that seems like too much of an investment then something else is misaligned.
Not trying to sound rude. There is a direct correlation with quality of the updates. In the end you will always get what you pay for.
You might not be rude, but youâre a bit sanctimonious right?
I mean, do you not think I already pay for my Vray and Phoenix licenses? and if I do that, itâs not like Iâll be using Corona all the time - so-, like I said in my email - a discounted version where we test and integrate features would be a reciprocal deal.
After all, the best people to test the eventual convergence of the features of the apps would be people who already know how to use at least one of them.
You seem a bit sanctimonious yourself, thinking that you testing their product is somehow of great value to them to the point where they should pay you in the form of a discount. There are thousands upon thousands of people testing them by daily use. If you just want to mess around with it and donât want to invest in the perpetual license just get the subscription, itâs like 25 bucks a month or something I think, instead of trying to get a discount off the perpetual.
Weâre never going to buy a Corona License. Especially now that the best parts of Corona will theoretically be ported over to VRay. But it might be a useful tool from time to time for $100. Thatâs $100 more than theyâll ever make off of us. If 30% of Vray customers paid $100 for Corona vs 10% paying full price, then it would be $300\yr vs $300\yr in revenue. I donât know if the numbers actually work out favorably for them, but itâs worth investigating for people like us who wouldnât mind having it on hand to have in our toolkit.
I donât really think you properly know what sanctimonious means mate. Plus, you are replying in a way that tells me you havenây fully read or understood my posts . Your attitude is no good and Iâm done with you,
I canât imagine needing to buy Corona, as the future looks great for both - but I think it would certainly enhance the eco system if we could work with both renderers. Knowing I can open projects set up for both would be extremely useful.
If you want to take on a freelancer that only uses Corona, but you use Vray? fine. If thereâs a job with a larger studio and you want to prep your assets with one tool, or edit assets from another - great - I think this is going to keep people in the Chaos ecosystem.
Reminds me of when clients used to lowball me, then say âwell you can either have the work, or not. What do you choose?â
Corona is worth every single penny and youâre all poorer for not owning a license.
Is it really worth shelling out the money for those of us who already have VRAY licenses though? I mean, is it that vast a difference, given the fact that they are beginning to merge technologies?
I get that you like Corona - and it does look cool - but I feel like youâre wilfully ignoring the rationale behind the comment you are replying to, and my initial post.
For me itâs Vray and will remain Vray for the foreseeable future. For others itâs Corona. You try it and if it works for you, you use it. All this wanting a discount now that Chaos Group / Render Legion are buddies, is nonsense. They are not the same product, despite similarities and shared features. So if youâve been using Vray I suggest you stick with it, unless Corona has something you desperately need, which personally I find unlikely. Same goes for Corona users, unless Vray has something they desperately need.. For me itâs more a âkeeping up with the jonesâsâ mentality, rather than one or the other, having something that is really that important to anyoneâs workflow. I keep saying it, again and again. At the end of the day, the one and only thing that really matters, is the end result, that amazing render that you have spent ages working toward and there isnât a single person here, given a dozens scenes rendered in either one, who isnât told which was used, that could tell if it was Vray or Corona, unless they were just very very lucky.. Yeah itâs nice to add all those little bells and whistles and make the thing as easy to use as possible. but it all leads to that rendered image and if you are doing this commercially (because nobody really cares if you are using one or the other, just for fun) itâs down to the client to decide if the image is good enough or not.. and they for sure, couldnât give a damn what you used to create it. For all they know, you just take their CAD drawing, PDFâs, scribbles and feed that into the computer and it does all the Modelling, Texturing, Lighting and Rendering, while you sit watching TV, drinking beer or sunning yourself in the garden etc
If I were ignoring your rationale, I wouldnât have replied at all.
Mate. I am a real person at the other end of this. You donât need to be calling what Iâm saying ânonsenseâ.
You also donât need to be giving a facile lecture on art versus render tech.
I simply stated that it would be interesting to use Corona if you are a VRAY user. As has already been expressed, those of us using Vray are happy with it, but it would be interesting to use and explore Corona - and the benefit for Chaos is that we can hell guide and develop interoperability to benefit the Chaos eco system and catch bugs for any of the trillions of permutations of problems that come up.
Having two separate renderers is great for the Vray + Corona teams. Having them work together is also amazing for reasons that have already been explored here and elsewhere.
âFor me itâs more a âkeeping up with the jonesâsâ mentalityâ
No, itâs called professional curiosity.
Then why did you reply clearly not take into account my rational at all?