Necessity of Vray using corona converter

[yashicagoyal]

Hello,

It's been some time that I've moved to exclusively corona rendering and I don't use Vray at all to render. All of us use a lot of free online models and materials in our scenes. Most of the times, the materials are in Vray and we use Corona converter to convert those materials. I wanted to know, is the installation of Vray absolutely necessary for the converter to actually read the vray materials and convert them to Corona materials?  which means, we need Vray license also just to convert those materials to corona?

Best,
Yashica

[vlado]

For the converter to work, you need to have V-Ray installed although it doesn't need to be licensed. The trial version will work just fine, even if it has expired.

Besides using the converter, Corona can render directly many V-Ray materials, even without V-Ray installed - although you will not be able to edit them.

Best regards,
Vlado

[yashicagoyal]

Even if vray has expired, it will work? Are you definitely sure?

[romullus]

Yes, that is true.

[vlado]

Even if vray has expired, it will work? Are you definitely sure?

Yes, I'm sure :)

Best regards,
Vlado