V-Ray 1.6 for Softimage Available

[kaizer_soze]

V-Ray 1.6 for Softimage Available

Chaos Group is pleased to announce the release of V-Ray 1.6 for Softimage.

This version contains a lot of fixes and optimizations, as well as a number of new features, including:

- Substantially improved ICE support

- Distributed rendering support

- New noise texture

- Support for importing Alembic meshes

- Improved mapping of multi-cluster geometry to V-Ray proxies

- Performance improvements in the exporter

- Support for property overrides

- Improved Multimatte texture, including material IDs

- Support for environment fog gizmo objects

- Sphere fade support


Owners of V-Ray 1.5 for Softimage can download the new build using their client login at the Chaos Group downloads page. Contact your local reseller if you’d like to purchase a V-Ray for Softimage license.

source: http://chaosgroup.com/en/2/news.html?i=525#newsid525

[Bullit]

Good news.

The wording qualifications are your own or they came from Chaos Group? there is no "substantial" in Chaos Group page you linked. I went there to see what it means and there is nothing, not even the word "substantial".

[rray]

Good to hear.

@Quote: Probably the quoted post was meanwhy "siliently" edited by chaosgroup.

[kaizer_soze]

@ Bullit - it was direct copy > paste from the Chaos page. Obviously as RRAY mentions they have made some silent tweaks to the text.

[Bullit]

Ok thanks for feedback.

[Soth3dlife]

I expected a bigger upgrade such as including RT

[Pancho]

Did anybody find this version in their download directory? I didn't.

[jamination]

the 1.6 files must have been pulled, I don't see them either.

from what i understand the RT stuff won't come along until 2.x and that will be a paid upgrade.

[Pancho]

They have been. And they will be replaced in the next few days. No idea why, but that's what they told me.

[origin]

I find rt useless (iuse vray in max since...dont remember), complete SI/ice integration and stability with fast export/iteration is more important IMHO

[ace63]

True - there have been a huge amount of changes and bugfixes not on this small list. Chaos group have done great work on this release.

[Pancho]

If RT is a realtime preview like in Modo or LW (or fPrime) it is badly needed. Lighting a scene in SI is horrible compared to LW or Modo. Nightmare. Hopefully SI will bring a native solution with 2014.

[jamination]

the Vray 1.6x files are up again.

[julius]

I would be very interested on purchasing Vray, but does anyone know the roadmap ?
If the 2.0 is coming soon, I would prefer to wait for it, and not to purchase a 1.6 version, and a 2.0 upgrade...

[wireframex]

Hopefully SI will bring a native solution with 2014.

Are you sure about it ?

[Pancho]

I'm sure that I want a instance feedback solution for lighting and texturing. If it is AD or Chaos group based, I don'T bother. But I need it, urgently. The preview window ("q") is just too lame.