Chaos has announced a new version of V-Ray 6 for 3ds Max. New features of update 1 include:
- Masking for Lens Effects and Denoiser
- V-Ray Light Material post-processing
- Decal cylindrical projection
- Decal additive bump
- Custom resolution per camera
- Initial USD export and USD Stage support
- Faster heavy scene loading
- Viewport composition guides
- Faster fog rendering
- Compressed textures mode for GPU rendering
- V-Ray Clipper Mesh mode for GPU rendering
- New V-Ray Material Translucency for GPU rendering
- Render Element support through refractive surfaces when GPU rendering
- Visual annotations and versioning on Chaos Cloud.
See a full list of what’s new and learn more on the Chaos website.
Too little for the huge upgrade price from Vray 4 (£1400 upgrade price). Reminiscent of the chamfer upgrades on 3ds max.
While that was my initial reaction towards Vray 5 and 6 as well, you (and I) need to consider that not only inflation is hitting companies like Chaos quite hard. But also the fact that we live in a world of content explosion since the pandemic. Developers, especially the good ones, have lots of options so you have to pay a pretty penny.
Chaos needs to work harder to win my dollars. I’ve got other rendering solutions in my pipeline, so for the money that they’re asking, I’m not impressed.
All conpanies of Software struggle with the principle of deminishing returns on investment… and with this i do not only talk about money, but with the fact, that Software introduces always first the major features until only the unimportant features are left.
When it comes to this point, customers start thinking of denying new software releases..
Which for a company can mean the end of the game.. so in a way they have no choise but to switch to a renting model .
So this is true for all ald programs, and the newbies seem to shine, while they very rapidly catch up to the point they have integrated the most important stuff.. and get the same problems as the old programs.
The comment section here is missing a thumbs-up-button.
You are going from Vray 4 to Vray 6.1 and complain about the price? Just use some free ones.
In my opinion Vray is one of the best rendering engines on the market, well worth the price for the features it delivers, the flexibility and reliability is best in class for me. All the time Vray saved my butt and got those clean renders out in time, has never let me down so far.
absolutely agree.
Yes, it is. Each time I have to switch from Blender/Cycles to Max, to my classic jobs like product design or interiors, I get always flashed by the clean look and incredible quality/speed ratio. Even Arnold does not come even close to this wonderful light and color representation level in the same render time.
I have to agree that Vray quality is superior, what I don’t understand is why they resist to release the blender version of it, it’s absurd, there are so much people that would shift to Blender in a blink if they could use their Vray license that is amazing, I lost the count…
I personally don’t want to use Vray, but I understand why many people prefer it, it’s a pity.
You know Chaos and Autodesk have very good relationship right?
I was trying to be polite, mainly because AFAIK Vlado has always denied that Autodesk has any effect in that decission… but yes… I know that 😉
Upgrade to V-Ray 6
$1,649
LOL
It’s $829
Also like a days work if you’ve been in the industry for any decent amount of time and aren’t selling yourself short.
#richwestegocentric
The point I was making was not that vray isn’t a great rendering solution. It was about the contents of the point release – for the most expensive render upgrade price by a long shot.
If I was spending £1400 to upgrade from vray 4 – I’d expect them to deliver a significant upgrade including in the point releases. This point release is chamferesque in my opinion – and fails to demonstrate the value implied in the pricing.
Not sure where you’re buying that from David but it’s listed as £358.80 per year for a solo computer on their website. If you buy the V-ray Premium for £538.80 per year then you get the suite thrown in, pretty amazing value when for comparison you consider what Autodesk offers with their updates. Using Vantage for animations will save you tonnes of money and hardware resources alone.