Just wondering. Was thinking about the old days of Vray, when it was a public beta? I think the forum was on a Delphi forum… Who was around back then?.. circa 12/2002…
I was around, and I think we all remember Da_Elf from back then 
Trapezium/J_bug was around too.
I got my first Vray tests dated something like december 2001. Damn…
Mare
I think around then i was a brazil alpha nerd…hahaha how foolish was I
Dare a say it but i was Testing Finalrender at the time… 
I was already there and already thought that Vray was more interesting than other packages.
It was also my first and unique forum interest.
Vray grew up a lot, but I didn’t so much in the same time.
Bye !
Gael
I honestly cant recall exactly when I started using vray, but it seems like I was using it circa 12/02. Thats only a little over 2 years ago. I switched from brazil alpha about the time they really stopped releasing public versions, whenever that was. I hated not having the latest when all these others were showing all the new tricks…
i was testing vray from the 1st day they announced an open beta testing soemthing like the 10th of december 2001 or something like that. or end of november. heck i was going thorugh this hard drive and found VRay0.10.01121301.zip as my oldest vray file on this computer the date next to it is 12/25/2001 10:34pm hehe. was also testing it at work so im sure ive got alot of early beta stuff on their computer as well. but i moved on from that company since then and came back here to barbados
I was a lurker on the delphi forums, I wonder if I can find any of the 0.0 betas, it would be cool to see how they would run on these faster computers.
i dont think i can use my copy of .10xxxx since i think it was for max3 and 4. we used max3 at my old work place. *barf* hehe. but anyone with max3 is welcome to give this file a try. hehe. lets see who can pull up a version of vray older that mine. im sure someone out there has one of the earlier ones than that one
I was on to vray roughly around the same time as Da_elf but around mid to late Dec 2001. Hey Elf on that file didn’t those older versions have time bombs on them? I cant check here as after I bought vray when it first came up for sale I trashed anything previous to 1.0 but have pretty much everything after that 
-dave
those older versions didnt have the time bomb. i think that came out with the 0.5 versions. but there was a 0.5 that came out about 2 builds before 1.0 was released that had a faulty timebomb
EDIT
hehe the 0.1 versions didnt have the time bombs but hey. they didnt have much of anything either. i think the free version is way more advanced that the 0.1 versions. maybe vlado can open a novelty section on vrayrender.com and offer the very 1st vray build for people to have fun with hehehe
Yeah, I remember they were time bombed as well. I must admit that I
used the Brazil from it’s first alpha too, but changed to VRay when I saw
how fast it was compared to Brazil. Do you guys have any “retro” renders
lying around in your HDs? It would be nice to see those… i have few, but
don’t have any place to upload images.
Mare
this was done during the beta days. not a good render though
hehe and everone recognises this model i assume
hehe found another. not my model but i converted alot for it to render in vray.
Yeah, I came over from beta testing Brazil when it was called Ghost. I’m so glad Chaos dropped that Delphi forum.
--Jon
Found some space on my friends server… Few retro shots…
Damn, I was in love with the skylight renders. Both images dated
january 2002.
Mare
great stuff man! I didn’t really get past simple stuff with brazil, as it was my first Gi renderer and i knew so little… I still have alot of my brazil renders here…
aaaah crap… you guys are right… it was not 2002… it was 2001. Man I get older every year.
i was to young to understand what vray was back then
aaaah crap… you guys are right… it was not 2002… it was 2001. Man I get older every year.
LOL its ok its prob just alzheimer’s setteling in, but dont let that get you down because there are some pluses to it. Like you get to make new friends every day
-dave