Chaos Group have posted an announcement regarding the future version of V-Ray for Max and their plans to work on a Maya connection. Read on for more.
Announcement posted by Peter Mitev (Chaos Group) at the Support forums for Chaos Group’s software products.
“Hi all,
We would like to shed some light on the nearest future of V-Ray.
As the aggressive development of V-Ray has lead it far beyond what we
promised in the beginning, we have decided that the next major version
of V-Ray will be 1.5. Even though we have included a lot more than we
initially planned, 1.5 will still be a free upgrade for all current
V-Ray users. Massive polygon rendering will be included the Advanced
version for free.
Our latest estimates are that V-Ray 1.5 release candidates will be
coming at the beginning of May 2004. In the mean time, new V-Ray builds
will be available to a very limited number of people through our
internal builds. This means that all new features will be included in
the internal builds only until we release the 1.5 release candidates.
We do this in order to have more freedom while reorganizing the VRay
core and as a precaution against software piracy as well as the
competition who made it a habit to rip features directly from V-Ray.
Any registered user can ask us for the internal build, but we will
grant access on a case-by-case basis. If we do not reply within 48
hours of your request, please consider this a refusal.
Furthermore, once we have released V-Ray 1.5 final, we will
concentrate on the first release of the standalone version of V-Ray, as
well as connections for Alias MAYA and other platforms. As we have
taken special steps in the past few months to make V-Ray practically a
standalone module, the first release should not take too long. This
step took us a lot longer than we promised, but we will make up for the
much shorter development times that we require from now on. Which means
