i tryed famous vray render machine and my results are shown in this pic.
critics and coments are welcome
screenshot your render settings… It’s not bad.
tried? where did you try it?
Why are my spidey senses smelling something fishy…?
What do u people mean? Can u be a little more objective.
What is this all about?
contact chaos group and give them your vray registration information so that the can link it to your forum account and you will get full forum access. i guess your info would be in the package you got with your dongle
i would complete my registration acount if i had posibility cuz im using limited educational version of vray. I know i have to purchase full version of vray. Thats why i was just testing untill now, i will jump into using vray for my future works, i used mental ray and maxwell before. i only asked u to help me for changing my way of work and to see where am i and whith knowlege of vray thats why i asked u for comments and critics.
thnx for understanding.
so none of u wont comment, i got it just because im using educational version. C’mon dont be such commercialized just because i didnt purchase full version of vray
The Educational Releases also should allow forum access if i am not mistaken. The “Free” Versions dont…for a reason…
Regards,
Thorsten
ok guys, thnx for advertising
v-ray
I really love the idea of people who buy v-ray getting write access to the forum. It is like a secrete society. The support is the best and the users are topnotch! I think people are fortunate to have read rights if they don’t purchase. The kind of information you get here is worth the price of the software itself.
Are there versions of vray which are free but with enough options to enable a newbie to put together a decent enough portfolio to land a job?
@artani8000:
The educational version isn’t limited. It can do the same things as a full version.
@instinct:
My sister bought an educational license but she doesn’t visit this forum so I don’t know about the access.
I have access through my work license.
@Jonferimonic:
Isn’t that what the demo is for?
I got my job from the old vrayfree - 1.09 or something. haha.
dont laugh the free version was tonnes better than those old alphas we used to use before 1.0. wow. those were the pioneer days. i remember when incremental add first came out
Yeah the portfolio which got me my first job was built from 1.06 or slightly earlier. Before that radiosity was the next big thing.
Same here! 
I didn’t get my job from it but at the time the firm I was at was too damn cheap to actual buy vray advanced so I was “stuck” on the 1.09 free version. Even that though was tons better than anything available to me at the time (on viz 3.0 I think so no MR, no radiosity). The only real alternative in our office was Accurender which was showing its age and was painfully slow by comparison.
I learned on vray free and did a lot of really nice renderings with it - probably to my detriment because at the time I couldn’t convince them of a need to pay for the full version. I left that place and started on my own and the first thing I did was buy a copy of VIZ and VRay. I’m 100% positive that I purchased vray advanced because of the great experience I had with vray free. If vray free wasn’t out there I know I would have definitely considered other rendering engines as alternatives. Yeah, there’s other “free” versions of other engines but they really limited what you could do - primarily in terms of resolution which limited it to pretty much just playing around.
Personally, I think Chaos should update the free version (is it still available?) to include some of the newer features and support the latest max releases. I’m not sure where to draw the line though on making it too nice (e.g., do you include light cache?) but for me it was a great intro to actually using vray rather than just playing with it via the “demo” versions.
i totally agree with Dlparisi, its time for Chaos to take next step, it will make lot of
new 3d artists to use vray, then vray maybe will become monopoly render engine i think it has capacity for that
We are planning to update the free version; it’s a bit tricky to find the right set of features for it though.
Best regards,
Vlado