I am weighing out some options… I noticed that it would cost $185 per month to lease 3DSMAX and $190 a month to lease V-Ray. Is it strange that a plug-in cost more to lease than the software you use it in? However, to own 3DS Max it would be $3675 and $1,040 for V-Ray. If V-Ray is 1/3 to own, should…

Vray is priced the same world wide with currency adjustments (lovely people!), 3dsmax on the other hand is not. It’s about 5,500 dollars for 3dsmax for me in Ireland or about 350 a month. The us just ends up getting very cheap pricing on autodesk stuff :smile:

I don’t see why. Autodesk and ChaosGroup aren’t the same company, nor the two softwares are used for the same goals, or on average for the same amount of time (for example, consider the amount of man hours spent within a DCC app to prepare a scene for rendering, versus the amount of time vray rende…

It cost more to lease V-Ray than 3DSMAX and V-Ray is 1/3 of the price. So, the leasing option for VRay is a lot higher. 3DSMAX is at 5.04% and VRay is at 18.27% Right or wrong, that is what it is. Now, a $52 a month sounds lovely :slight_smile:

Ha! Only difference is vray is good value for what it’s priced at :wink:

Very true - 3dsmax has been totally overpriced for years :smile:

[image] Thick Glass Hey, no complaints… it just didn’t make much sense. The way I see it is if you were working on a 6 month production everyone needs a copy of max for the entire duration - but only a few people would need vray and for less time. only the lighting, shading & rendering people n…

But, there are different needs. Freelancers are typically one man shops. However, one project a month should cover the software expense. VRay = $190 3DSMAX = $180 Photoshop = $9.95 $379.95 a month for the bare bones to do what I do. Probably a lot more for others, but not less.

Ooh! What might be interesting is say you’ve rented vray for a total of 6 non continuous months during a year, what’d be cool is if they gave you the option of paying something like 200 dollars to then get a permanent license. 520 dollars a year is pretty damn cheap for rental too if your main profe…

[image] On another topic I reckon the one month license rental is designed for studios that bring in a load of firepower for a month to finish off a job and since the setup and support cost for a licence is a fixed cost it has to be proportionately higher if chaos are only getting one months inco…

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glorybound August 20, 2014, 9:28pm 6

Hey, no complaints… it just didn’t make much sense.

Anyone else having issues installing 3DS Max 2017 ? "Access is denied" ?

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