Sell me on Vray.

[Montwire]

I think I have good handle on Mental Ray, and have used other 3rd party renderers such as Brazil and Fianl Render and some for Maya, etc. I see that everyone in arch-viz is using Vray. I have a toy budget, and I am wondering why this community is choosing Vray over other renderers? If there are good arguments I will buy it, training DVDs and a handful of node licenses. I see it a lot on stock 3d asset sites have pre-made shaders which seems tempting. I have more clients than time and am thinking about buying mass of 3d models and shaders from evermotion, etc. I would need to learn how to use it in real life production in less than a week which is another factor. I am doing a lot of compositing cg models into real life footage. With all that said, sell me on it.

[AJLynn]

So now we're doing marketing for Chaosgroup?

 

Vray is good. Tons of features, flexible lighting and shader options. I give it the edge over mental ray. You can get it to be fast and good and it has some features that make GI for camera animation go faster.

 

I put it even with finalRender. I kind of like finalRender for reasons I can't really explain.

 

Anyway, if you want to buy something, and it's budget you can't spend on a vacation, expensive Scotch or an HDTV, go ahead and buy Vray. You'll like it and it will save you some time. It's not that different to use from those other programs you mentioned so it won't take you long to learn.

[manta]

Vray proxies and unlimited network rendering, distributed rendering with 10 computers (not 10 cores or 10 cpu's) you could use 10 Macpro's each with 8 cores, that's 80 processors...one licence

[kippu]

great community support

[STRAT]

and all you do is hit the 'make-nice' button for rendering. not as effortless as Maxwell and Fry, but getting there

 

[Devin Johnston]

I'm an ex-Final Render user and I also use Maxwell and for the money Vray has it all. I found Final Render takes more effort to make the GI look good and there is no where near the support for it that there is for Vray. Maxwell is great for exterior stills but the minute you want to do interiors or animations you need an army of render nodes and you have to purchase licenses for all of them and that get's very expensive. Vray gives you great quality at a low price and everyone is using it so the support is there. If I had it to do over again I would have skipped all the other engine and just gone with Vray.

[Brian Cassil]

I'm an ex-Final Render user and I also use Maxwell and for the money Vray has it all. I found Final Render takes more effort to make the GI look good...

 

Hey Devin, I know you grew tired of waiting for the R2 to come out in order to have compatability with max9 (we all did!) and I have been a disgruntled user in the past as well, but I have to say that R2 is everything I dreamed it could be. If you haven't tried it out it might be worth giving it a whirl since you are already familiar with the program. You're right about the support, and I think Edwin needs to take some personality classes, but even with all that I really couldn't imagine being more happy with R2.

[Devin Johnston]

Hey Brian I'm glad you've finally got what you've been waiting for, it just got to much for me dealing with Cebas and Next Limit. I'm a patient guy but there is only so much I can take, I'm much happier with Vray and I'm really tired of propping up the underdog just to get bit in the end. I hope Final Render 2 really takes off though you guy's deserve it.

[nohairmonk]

I think VRay is a good choice......