Lord Tyrion
05-26-2003, 08:34 PM
Chaos Group announced today that due to the great amount of requests its award-winning renderer V-Ray will be sold at 30 % off its original price and will cost only USD 559 for users who prove to have purchased a finalRender license. The offer ends June 08, 2003. For more information contact us at vray@chaosgroup.com
"The first thing that caught my eye about V-Ray was its physically correct 3D motion blur - a feature surprisingly absent from many renderers and yet critical for film VFX work. Then I discovered the fast and flexible GI. And now V-Ray has become a valued addition to Digital Dimension's 3D toolset.", says industry veteran and Senior Technical Director at Encore Hollywood and supervising animator on such popular television shows as Ally McBeal, Roswell, Charmed, The Invisible Man, and Boston Public, to name a few had this to say: "V-Ray has simply become our renderer of choice. After looking at the various render solutions out on the market and pre-market arena, my decision was easy. We were looking for a solution where we weren't limited and bound by renderer-specific shaders. We were able to take existing scenes, switch to the V-Ray renderer and have them render successfully without having to make any modifications. I was impressed not only with the seemless transition, but also with the render quality and the vastly superior speed of the renderer. I never thought I would see exceptional Global Illumination as being viable in a production environment, Chaos Group has proven me wrong with their intelligent and beautiful solution."
V-Ray feature list:
- True raytraced reflections and refractions
- Glossy reflections and refractions
- Translucency (with volume fog) for creating wax, marble, smoked glass
- Area shadows (soft shadows). Includes box and sphere emitters.
- Indirect Illumination (global illumination, global lighting). Different approaches include direct computation (brute force), and irradiance maps.
- True 3D Motion Blur. Includes Quasi-Monte Carlo sampling approach, Motion blur with analytic sampling
- Depth-Of-Field camera effect.
- Anti-aliasing. Includes fixed, simple 2 level and adaptive approaches. G-buffer based antialiasing
- Caustics (Radiosity)
- G-Buffer (RGBA, material/object ID, Z-buffer)
- Reusable irradiance maps (save and load support). Incremental sampling for fly-through animations.
- True HDRI support. Includes *.hdr, *.rad image loader with proper texture coordinates handling for both cubic and angular maps support. Map your images directly without distortions or cropping.
- Built-in area lights for physically correct illumination
- Built-in material for faster materials calculations
- Distributed rendering for utilizing all of your studios computers per-frame, ideal for dramatically reducing render time for stills.
- Different camera types: fish-eye, spherical, cylindrical and cubic cameras
- Internal analytical displacement maps.
- Global photon maps
- Instanced geometry rendering
- Displacement maps based on Chaos Group's technology that does not create additional geometry, thus reducing memory usage.
*all the registered marks and trademarks are property of their respective owners. V-Ray software and V-Ray logo are property of Chaos Group
http://www.vrayrender.com
"The first thing that caught my eye about V-Ray was its physically correct 3D motion blur - a feature surprisingly absent from many renderers and yet critical for film VFX work. Then I discovered the fast and flexible GI. And now V-Ray has become a valued addition to Digital Dimension's 3D toolset.", says industry veteran and Senior Technical Director at Encore Hollywood and supervising animator on such popular television shows as Ally McBeal, Roswell, Charmed, The Invisible Man, and Boston Public, to name a few had this to say: "V-Ray has simply become our renderer of choice. After looking at the various render solutions out on the market and pre-market arena, my decision was easy. We were looking for a solution where we weren't limited and bound by renderer-specific shaders. We were able to take existing scenes, switch to the V-Ray renderer and have them render successfully without having to make any modifications. I was impressed not only with the seemless transition, but also with the render quality and the vastly superior speed of the renderer. I never thought I would see exceptional Global Illumination as being viable in a production environment, Chaos Group has proven me wrong with their intelligent and beautiful solution."
V-Ray feature list:
- True raytraced reflections and refractions
- Glossy reflections and refractions
- Translucency (with volume fog) for creating wax, marble, smoked glass
- Area shadows (soft shadows). Includes box and sphere emitters.
- Indirect Illumination (global illumination, global lighting). Different approaches include direct computation (brute force), and irradiance maps.
- True 3D Motion Blur. Includes Quasi-Monte Carlo sampling approach, Motion blur with analytic sampling
- Depth-Of-Field camera effect.
- Anti-aliasing. Includes fixed, simple 2 level and adaptive approaches. G-buffer based antialiasing
- Caustics (Radiosity)
- G-Buffer (RGBA, material/object ID, Z-buffer)
- Reusable irradiance maps (save and load support). Incremental sampling for fly-through animations.
- True HDRI support. Includes *.hdr, *.rad image loader with proper texture coordinates handling for both cubic and angular maps support. Map your images directly without distortions or cropping.
- Built-in area lights for physically correct illumination
- Built-in material for faster materials calculations
- Distributed rendering for utilizing all of your studios computers per-frame, ideal for dramatically reducing render time for stills.
- Different camera types: fish-eye, spherical, cylindrical and cubic cameras
- Internal analytical displacement maps.
- Global photon maps
- Instanced geometry rendering
- Displacement maps based on Chaos Group's technology that does not create additional geometry, thus reducing memory usage.
*all the registered marks and trademarks are property of their respective owners. V-Ray software and V-Ray logo are property of Chaos Group
http://www.vrayrender.com