3DATS - Why Vray vs Mental Ray?

[dpinning]

Why was Vray chosen as the renderer over Mental Ray in the "One Project" book, when Mental Ray is included/part of 3ds Max?

 

http://3dats.com/oneproject.asp

Edited May 20, 2011 by dpinning

[Justin Hunt]

two simple reasons, Vray is considered the industry standard, and 3dats has been a long time user and teacher of Vray, they know it inside out.

 

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[Dave Buckley]

And the book wasn't written by 3dats really, it was written by catapult, a team of ukranian artists who use vray

[Brian Smith]

well it was and wasn't. we (3dats) sat down with them and laid out exactly what we wanted covered, they wrote the book in Russian, our own in-house Russian artist translated it into English, we did extensive editing ourselves and filled in a lot of holes. and we chose vray because it has far more users, period.

[steyin]

and we chose vray because it has far more users, period.

 

 

Mention that on AREA and they would beg to differ, although from my observations I agree.

[Brian Smith]

as they say, ignorance is bliss.

[Stan Zaslavsky]

doesn't matter what choice one makes - there will always be those that will not be happy with this choice ... knowing this - you might as well make the choice and let people choose whether to buy the book or not ...

for me this book has been awesome - great creativity by catapult and very professional presentation by 3DATs - great job guys.