V-Ray for Blender community edition is FREE

Now that’s a bombshell

I was excited when Chaos announced V-Ray for Blender, even very excited. then the release was more than disappointing, in my opinion quite badly integrated and expectation that Blender users would pay for lacklustre VRay seemed like a delusion.

I would consider “bombshell” an overstatement but definitely a pleasant surprise from Chaos.

Hm…
Corona appears ‘neglected’ and rather receives price hikes oppose to proper R&D and wider DCC apps support.
‘Smells like teen spirit’ (read: hype) to get some of those ‘dead souls to cross over’ (ref. “Dead Souls”, N. Gogol, 1842).
I’d imagine Chaos would devote more to Corona section, if they really wanna get the honey for the CGI winter, since it’s way more in line with the PT paradigm & workflow (Cycles), effortless and surpassing it in image quality. But no, instead they choose to keep pounding the beaten horse (ref. “Turin Horse”, Bela Tar, 2011).

PS
Enjoy some classics