# V-Ray for Katana questions?

**URL:** <https://forums.chaos.com/t/v-ray-for-katana-questions/59557>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [July 30, 2016, 7:25am UTC](https://forums.chaos.com/t/v-ray-for-katana-questions/59557 "2016-07-30T07:25:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![jasonhuang1115](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a88e4f/32.png) [@jasonhuang1115](https://forums.chaos.com/u/jasonhuang1115)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2016, 7:25am UTC](https://forums.chaos.com/t/v-ray-for-katana-questions/59557/1 "2016-07-30T07:25:56Z")

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Hi,

I am posting here as I don’t see a dedicated forum maybe due to its non-existence or me not having the right to browse it. Please move/delete to where the admin see fit.

With Katana being released on Windows and accessible for users running Windows, I am wondering:

1) if one needs a V-Ray for Katana license to render with.

2) is there a demo version of V-Ray for Katana? What’s the demo limitations?

3) is there a sub-forum for V-Ray for Katana? What’s the criteria to be able to view it?

4) pricing for V-Ray for Katana?

Thanks,  
Jason

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**Author:** ![joconnell](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/chaosprd/user_avatar/forums.chaos.com/joconnell/32/36063_2.png) [@joconnell](https://forums.chaos.com/u/joconnell)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2016, 1:44pm UTC](https://forums.chaos.com/t/v-ray-for-katana-questions/59557/2 "2016-07-30T13:44:52Z")

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Same - I’d be very interested in getting vray into a clarisse + katana / prman house I was in, I reckon it’d out perform both.

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**Author:** ![joconnell](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/chaosprd/user_avatar/forums.chaos.com/joconnell/32/36063_2.png) [@joconnell](https://forums.chaos.com/u/joconnell)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2016, 12:38pm UTC](https://forums.chaos.com/t/v-ray-for-katana-questions/59557/4 "2016-07-31T12:38:03Z")

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Legacy pipeline stuff and prman has more control, might be a better renderer. The nasty thing is the cost of prman and katana licenses though.

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**Author:** ![joconnell](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/chaosprd/user_avatar/forums.chaos.com/joconnell/32/36063_2.png) [@joconnell](https://forums.chaos.com/u/joconnell)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2016, 9:48am UTC](https://forums.chaos.com/t/v-ray-for-katana-questions/59557/6 "2016-08-01T09:48:25Z")

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Yep - I don’t really like the look of it and said studio has a lot of pretty experienced people with Prman, despite it also having a lot of issues. I’d see vray as being able to combine the roles that both play as a renderer. Clarisse does some very smart things in terms of selections and scene assembly and I’d say it’s a bit friendlier to start off with, if a bit frustrating to try and chase where data and connections are linking to. Katana seems like a good idea too, perhaps a bit expensive for the mass market? It definitely solved the issue of large scenes for some companies and softwares but a lot of things have caught up in the interim!