Vray for Softimage official release

[diissar]

this is a great news,does anyone of you tried rendering GI with Vray?
is there any flickering issues?
sorry if its sounds like a noob question,i never had the chance of using Vray before.

thanks

[origin]

You can download demo and try it for yourself. It has limitation to 5 lights only, small watermark and 640x480 max render resolution (but you can draw as big render region as you like, strange)

[diissar]

You can download demo and try it for yourself. It has limitation to 5 lights only, small watermark and 640x480 max render resolution (but you can draw as big render region as you like, strange)

thanks for the infos, gonna check it right a way

[nuverian]

Great news indeed. I see it evolved from the beta quite a bit. I really like the fur support and the pdplayer integration. Even if minor seems quite handy.

[steelbug]

The VRay core is actually version 2. Its just that not all features are implemented yet like VRay RT

V-ray RT will be implemented any time soon. They have one person encodes RT
According to this need to wait a long time.

[owei]

Hi!
If there is just one guy coding on RT, that does not mean that the plugin for Soft needs that long. The plugins for the different packages are built by a bigger team, so building the "bridge" from Soft to "RT" is an other thing than coding RT itself...

As far as I know, Vray for Soft has the same features and issues as Vray for other platform, despite the RT implementation, as already mentioned. Flickering could be an issue of course if you use any GI approximation such as "light cache" or "irradiance map" and so on. There is much info around on the web concerning solutions to this issues. The cool thing is, because all the shaders and render settings are the same over the whole range of different implementations into different packages (fo 98% I guess) it´s easy to adapt tuts found on the web to the Vray4Soft plugin.

cheers,
oli

[diissar]

Hi!
If there is just one guy coding on RT, that does not mean that the plugin for Soft needs that long. The plugins for the different packages are built by a bigger team, so building the "bridge" from Soft to "RT" is an other thing than coding RT itself...

As far as I know, Vray for Soft has the same features and issues as Vray for other platform, despite the RT implementation, as already mentioned. Flickering could be an issue of course if you use any GI approximation such as "light cache" or "irradiance map" and so on. There is much info around on the web concerning solutions to this issues. The cool thing is, because all the shaders and render settings are the same over the whole range of different implementations into different packages (fo 98% I guess) it´s easy to adapt tuts found on the web to the Vray4Soft plugin.

cheers,
oli

Thanks for your explanations
cheers,
Younes

[azurecgi]

Just bought a full version of VRay for Softimage but a little miffed at the licensing

3DS Max - Unlimited licenses

Maya - 10 Render licenses

Softimage - 5 licenses

WTF?

Are we seen as a soft target or something?

[Memag]

V-Ray for Softimage released (mailing list thread)
http://groups.google.com/group/xsi_list ... 17bddb2951

Licencing may be clearer after reading this thread.

[azurecgi]

V-Ray for Softimage released (mailing list thread)
http://groups.google.com/group/xsi_list ... 17bddb2951

Licencing may be clearer after reading this thread.

Have you read it?

It is more or less making the same point as me.

No answers there!

[origin]

there are no simple answers ;)

fact is:
max comes with unlimited mray nodes and vray for max has unlimited nodes (or 100?)
softimage comes with 5 mray nodes and vray for softimage has 5 nodes

[Memag]

"It was always 5 Batch licenses with XSI. "

Stephen Blair

[azurecgi]

I know I only have 5 Batch licenses, but so does Maya.

So how do you explain Maya users getting 10 Vray Licenses?

Fact is the number of SI batch licenses is irrelevant if I want to use Vray Standalone!

[Memag]

I know I only have 5 Batch licenses, but so does Maya.
So how do you explain Maya users getting 10 Vray Licenses?
Fact is the number of SI batch licenses is irrelevant if I want to use Vray Standalone!

I don't know.
I would go the money route as it is very important factor in business.
SI licence is cheaper than Maya's.
Softimage has significantly smaller user base, so they need to balance the income/purchased licences.

[azurecgi]

SI licence is cheaper than Maya's.

Not half as expensive though is it?

I think this whole 'small user base, so we'll charge more' approach is very short-sighted. If the software and it's add-ons are seen as expensive and not good value for money, then it will always have a 'small user base'!

[origin]

you dont have to buy workstation license to get additional rendernodes afaik