Sorry have not used Vray - it does look really good - but would like to chip in - Arnold is the bees knees - the stuff we are getting out is stunning, and it is doing stuff MR would have run for the hills long ago.
S. _____________________________ Sandy Sutherland Technical Supervisor sandy.sutherl...@triggerfish.co.za _____________________________ ________________________________ From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] on behalf of Eugen Sares [softim...@keyvis.at] Sent: 22 June 2012 08:15 To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Fwd: Re: Who has switched to Vray and loves it? Hi, the most important feature for me would be a progressive-refinement-type Frame Buffer/Render Region, like VRay-RT. This reduces light and shader-tweaking iterations to a minimum. Arnold has it, too. Irradiance map/lightcache preview is helpful, but there should be the "final" look right from the start, without black pixels inbetween. Regarding VRay-RT: to me, it does not make much sense to fork VRay into CPU and GPU versions, and dedicate the GPU-version only for fast preview (with missing features), and the CPU-version for final rendering. Is this still the official approach? >From a user's standpoint, I don't want to worry about such things. If there's >a GPU, use it, if not, offer progressive refinement anyway. (I'm aware this is technically problematic. If one fine day CPU/GPU-memory gets unified, this might be the start of a new age in rendering) Another thing: VRay tends to have a somewhat overwhelming number of parameters, so a good handful of render presets, including the "unified settings" would be appreciated. Also, a compehensive (short but not too short) documentation on how the different render engines work and play together would be nice. Best, Eugen -------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: Re: Who has switched to Vray and loves it? Datum: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 01:03:36 +0300 Von: Kamen Lilov <kamen.li...@chaosgroup.com><mailto:kamen.li...@chaosgroup.com> Antwort an: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com<mailto:softimage@listproc.autodesk.com> An: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com<mailto:softimage@listproc.autodesk.com> I'd like to chime in to this discussion. What are the things in VRay/XSI you hate most? A missing feature, clumsy configuration, poor documentation, any kinds of instabilities, etc? Disclosure: I run the XSI integration team at ChaosGroup so, obviously, I am not impartial to this discussion. But I am keen on making the product work well for all you VFX folks out there :) and I can take criticism. Shoot at will :) On 6/21/2012 10:11 PM, Marc-Andre Carbonneau wrote: Hi, I’m wondering who has switched to VRay for Softimage completely and loves it. I don’t seem to see much commercials or movies stating they have used Vray for Softimage. Has it picked up? Now, after a few months now, how does it compare to Arnold? Why have you picked VRay instead of Arnold? How’s Vray’s “buy one get 5 free for your farm” working for you? Thanks. Marc-Andre
