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VRay 3.0 for Softimage is available! Great news...I did not expect that to happen.. ;)

http://www.chaosgroup.com/en/2/vray_softimage.html

"What's New in V-Ray 3.0 for Softimage?

• New Progressive Production Renderer for interactive and production rendering
• New VRaySkinMtl with layered reflections and artistfriendly controls
• Render Mask to specify render regions using an object selection or image mask
• Deep Image support including OpenEXR 2.0 output
• emFluid 5 is integrated with V-Ray for SI"

And it´s free for all Vray for Softimage license holder..! Great!

Cheers,
oli

That's pretty cool! Especially the note about integration with emfluid 5 - if I need to do volume rendering any time soon that's a very tempting option.

Fantastic. The em5 integration is also very good.

It seems to not have Vrayclipper

I'm only seeing demo builds. Is that what I need to download?

it's just great! that's what i call an update!
thank you chaos group!

Ordered !!!

Because life is too short ;)

That's some good news - which is rare. Big thanks to Chaosgroup

Just installed V-Ray 3.0 for Softimage
I posted something about it in the Chaosgroup forum but maybe someone know how to do :

I didn't see RT option in the V-Ray options of the Render Manager

Phil

I don't think there is RT in Vray for Softimage.

mmmh

But I saw the demo where it was here ... Sad if you're right

Yes i think there is video of a version with it. I think the best is to contact Chaos Group and ask., maybe they can give access to a Beta.

I send them a request about it yesterday

Did they add refraction fog finally?

I think RT did not make it to this version (final version) of vray for softimage. There was a video showing RT in a early stage, but what I got from the ChaosGroup Forum is that they were trying to compile all the updates in a final release of vray for softimage.

So you got the Progressive Image Sampler which is suposed to be based on RT technology (so like RT for CPU only) considering that it works with the preview tool, I guess it should work similarly like RT. I'm not sure however about the interaction speed, vray 1.7 was super slow in the preview (when compared to mental ray) I think because it "loaded/exported" the scene every time you move the camera or move the objects. In the DEMO for RT they showed how much faster the interaction was with RT. Can you tell us if that's the way the Progressive Image sampler works? or is it still slow?

I feel the need for some demos!!!

Well Chaosgroup confirm that RT is not available with the actual version ...