is this the sequel?
well it looks pretty good to me, and they seem to have learned a bit from the maxwell customer support…still lot of people doubting this to be any different from the other spanish unbiased renderer…
Yeah, it’s already started some commotion over at cgarchitect…Just from what people are saying, it does sound a little too similar to be a coincidence.
http://www.cgarchitect.com/vb/18900-grain-spain-falls-mainly-plain.html
Well, the math is already available…
On the bottom of page 6 of their PDF is an image that I think is directly taken from Richard Rosenman’s absorption tutorial:
http://www.richardrosenman.com/project/imagesandmore/?cid=85
(The old, non-flash version that is).
haha I was going to post but then desided to wait cause I dont like to start the flame 
But, this is odd to me. On one side it looks like a very good renderer, that which maxwell never have become.
On the other hand it looks a lot like maxwell. A lot. Not to mention their location in Madrid. They seem to be very professional in how they present them selves. It can mean two things:
1 - they are real and mean serious business.
2 - they are completely fake and want to make as much money as possible of of the customers before they dissapear and no one will be able to find them.
If number 1, then NL has some thinking to do, for they have just met real competitor.
If number 2, watch out
You deside.
That’s odd, I went to check it out, and page 6 is blank now… Hmmm???
naw its all there.
Its not same as richards test, by result. But it is 100% ripped from him.
here is another thought:
People have been asking for revised beta engine of maxwell, and now they got it
they have a really nice bunny rabbit model
that should be the vray test scene model!!!
The VR stuff sounds interesting to me.
http://www.chaosgroup.com/forum/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=12589
fryrender does look interesting indeed, I would be interested in seeing how the VR thing works
They posted some test, taken from oold day VRay scene.
Nice indeed. Esp. rendertimes.
Well, tested this scene with VRay, to be sure no one is forgotten
A64 3200 2gb
1h5m (65minutes, compared to 50 on dual core for FrY)
I’m not going to compare results! Noway, but I’m telling you I’m still with VRay
This image was computed with Irrmap + DE and LC as secondary. So, I can tell, this is not as fast as I expected (I got tired of remaking textures etc.), but nevertheless still fine. IMHO.
And I like this FrYr. more and more… 
i m really still very suspicious about it…
and the rendertimes they supply r they rendered on one machine?
can u share the scene?i d like to run some tests myself!
http://rapidshare.de/files/31947895/studyhall\_VRay09c.rar.html
without reworked textures
and the original for VRay 1.09
http://rapidshare.de/files/31824970/Studyhall.rar.html
Paul this does seem strange about fry rendering so fast. Number one, is that sunlight through dielectrics is “working” in fry is odd to me too since from what I can remember it was not possible to solve this in maxwell. Number two is that those images are literally noise free. I doubdt that such clean images can be produced in under an hour a frame time.
Well I got several thoughts about FrYr… Short - It’s as Physical as VRay. Maybe slightly “more” unbiased
And not an hour - 50minutes on DUAL CORE CPU. This makes me think of twice increase on Single. BTW - Maxwell makes similar image in 50minutes with 15sl.
So - if you ask me I prefer FrYr. than Maxwell.
There are other similar renders that are as fast if not faster. I have been playing with Busyray(www.busyray.com) recently and that is mega fast, plus it uses standard max textures and lights and cost $49!! I took the liberty of rendering the study hall, this is what it looks like after 40mins at 1280x768. The vray one still looks better and in my eyes rock but to render it with busyray all I did was check preview and press render. No tweeking of settings as there aren’t any.
This renderer is still in its infancy but it shows potential…and is miles better IMO than Maxwell or Fryrender. Of course Vray rules
Anyway here is the image.
paul, there is a saying: if its too good to be true it probably is.
paul, did you use vray mats in vray test? or max mats..