Pricing and release date announced

[snakebox]

"Sales will start in November. We do not want to give you exact date yet – we still want to cram in some new features."

So what, you are just selling a product that aren't done from November?  I think you have to be really careful with your wording. Myself and others I know reads this as 1.0 is done and ready for sale in Nov, and I will be a little disappointed if not?

[johan belmans]

I would rather like to have a "finished, robust, and all the promised features are working" product, then a product which is fixed to a date.
May be in this case it wasn’t wise to announce a date, but hey those guys are doing some great work. And the latter is more important than just a date.

[snakebox]

When it comes to getting studios to actually spend money, dedicate their production etc.. you need a date.. and you need to deliver.

They certainly do great work, but I 99% could live totally fine without interactive rendering, if everything else was 100% stable for instance.. if you want all features to be 100% stable and robust, I'm not sure you will ever see a final release then :p  not even renders like mental ray, vray etc can do that ;)

[johan belmans]

Hey
my studio is 100% using corona at the moment, I only didn't spend any money yet ;-)

[snakebox]

So are we, but there are still things we badly need to keep doing this, and its not new features...

[Javadevil]

So are we, but there are still things we badly need to keep doing this, and its not new features...

Gee give the guys some slack, its been free for years now and your getting upset over the forsale version isn't going to meet its deadline.

Corona works fine in most cases for me and if it doesn't I use another renderer.

I don't know many software companies that promise release dates,  autodesk do,  but look at the mess they put out, most of the time its not in a decent shape until the SP's get released.

[juang3d]

I agree, it should not be released if it's not ready, the current version works quite well IMO

Cheers

[arczi]

I agree too. Corona team always wanted to make a dialog with users so it's not in a good manner to demand things now (especially now- since it's pretty difficult time for them in the developement imo).

[marioteodoru]

I don't think anyone demands! I think we'll just like to know something. Like how much we're gonna have to wait. For instance i could tell my boss, "listen man, the render engine is not  ready yet. and so it's you sss strawberry. I'll get back to you in a week, or in 2 month :D. And so will be my paycheck:D"

that's all. we all understand that the work this guys do, it's very difficult, and i personally am in a great admiration for they'r work.  But don't be like nextlimit was. Don't say something and than keep silence when it's not there. This will just annoy users. Tell us, approximately, how long :)

[Ondra]

We are preparing a blogpost about current state

[juang3d]

Cool!

Thanks Keymaster.

Cheers.

[rampally]

I would rather like to have a "finished, robust, and all the promised features are working" product, then a product which is fixed to a date.
May be in this case it wasn’t wise to announce a date, but hey those guys are doing some great work. And the latter is more important than just a date.

100% Agreed

[marioteodoru]

Why don't u release the 1.0 on daily builds like before and collect your money when u succeed the e-commerce software ?!?

[Ondra]

Update: https://corona-renderer.com/blog/corona-renderer-project-update/

[Ondra]

I am really pissed! Do you realize we are doing production with your software ?! Do you?

We do, and that is why we do not want to release something branded as stable without proper testing.