braddewald Posted September 20, 2010 Share Posted September 20, 2010 Vray 2.0 has been announced. Is anybody excited about it or does it seem like too little of a jump to legitimize a purchase? If you are, then what are you excited about the most? I'd be interested to know everyone's thoughts... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devin Johnston Posted September 20, 2010 Share Posted September 20, 2010 We don't really know what's going to be in 2.0 except for Vray RT/GPU unless they've released a features list I haven't seen. I'm optimistic that there will be new things in it that we haven't heard about yet but even if there isn't anything new I'll still upgrade just to be able to use RT. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Mottle Posted September 20, 2010 Share Posted September 20, 2010 Many of the new features were recorded and put online here: http://shop.cgarchitect.com/siggraph-2010-chaos-group-end-user-event-demos.html Out of curiosity does anyone even read the articles I write and put on the site? It seems I'm always posting links to them here as no one visits the main site. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devin Johnston Posted September 20, 2010 Share Posted September 20, 2010 Sorry Jeff but I rarely visit the main site I have a bookmark that takes me strait to the forum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thablanch Posted September 20, 2010 Share Posted September 20, 2010 To Jeff, I read the articles.. ( when they are related to my workflow or to my interest.. ) For Vray 2.0.. Excited?, for sure... in the past years, only good things came from Chaosgroup, good products and wonderful customer support. Features, we've seen some in the presentations, and hopefully, we will see some more in the weeks to come. Of course RT on GPU is the most exciting part. ( I tried some other GPU engines, so I'm curious to see what Vray has to offer.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidR Posted September 20, 2010 Share Posted September 20, 2010 I was excited by bloom and glare, and then they announced RT, which blew everything else away. I'm looking forward to hearing everything that's in 2, esp. improvements that aren't as sexy as RT, like better animation modes, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sketchrender Posted September 20, 2010 Share Posted September 20, 2010 As much as i love Vray and RT I have both, I can not get the New Vray RT to work. I am throwing a massive file at it probably close to 600mb all in all referenced in to a base file, and I can not get it to do anything the CPU does. So I presume to get the most out of it I will have to spend more money apart from the upgrade price and no discount for the rt users who bought it years ago. I have a NVidia FX 3500 and will have to update that to really see any results to be honest. So yes I am always delighted with Vray products but it's gona cost this time and work is scarce very scarce. phil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devin Johnston Posted September 20, 2010 Share Posted September 20, 2010 If your using the GPU version then it's probably hitting it's memory limit and that's based on how much memory your video card has. Since these cards aren't ment to work on files that are multiple gigabites in size I forsee some big problems ahead if people in this field really want to use GPU rendering on a daily basis. The Tesla cards that Nvidia has developed are a step in the right direction but at $3000 and up I don't see many companies buying them in the quantities the'll need. I hope Chaos can find a way to merge the CPU and GPU rendering methods of RT to buypass these problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erickdt Posted September 21, 2010 Share Posted September 21, 2010 The new VRay photographic exposure rollout in enviroment ought to make it a bit easier to create panoramas. E Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidR Posted September 21, 2010 Share Posted September 21, 2010 to Phillip Kelley: my FX4600 is 20x slower than my $300 GTX465 using nVidia's 'custom garage', or whatever it's called -clearly the CUDA cores of newer cards outperform older Quadro's, although my FX4600 is still much better for wirefframe, refresh, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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