It's somewhat disapponting to read all these responses. Guys like Ondra and the rest of the Corona team are extremely rare, and they chose to work (very hard) for you. They can do many amazing things for you in the future as well. Still somehow you turned from loyal supporters to pure hatred in a single day. Hate me all you like, however those guys have been nothing but good to you.
I've worked on V-Ray really hard for 15 years, long days and many nights including weekends, with very few vacations, and no sick leaves to get where I am today (no matter how much you despise my work). It's a tough road to walk. Is it so bad that those guys want a short cut? I think you will like the results. Corona will continue to serve you well.
Best regards,
Vlado
you guys are who decided to use shortcut by destroy your competitor. this is a shortcut for chaos group , not corona team.
From New Horizons – plans for 2017 and beyondWhy did Render Legion decide to join Chaos Group?
We were looking for a strategic partner who would like to help us grow and who shared the same vision in the CG field. Chaos Group was able to offer us important knowledge in this field, with the resources and expertise to achieve our goals.
We shifted our focus to looking for a strategical partner instead, someone who shares our passion for CG graphics. We realised that such a partner could be Vlado and Peter from Chaos Group.
Neither Vlado nor anyone else at Chaos Group wants to destroy Corona. As you can see, it's the Corona team who approached Chaos Group for partnership. I think that some of you are way too emotional, which is understandable. So much so that you are willing to make up lies. As the developers of Corona put it, this will benefit both Vray and Corona users.
Last but not least, to further dispel the lies that Chaos Group want to destroy Corona, take a look for example at the upcoming Corona 1.7 release. It will use Vray's DMC sampler which will massively decrease render times. 2x render speed up on average from what I read. I won't say that this is "destroying" Corona. More like destroying the noise in Corona's renders faster. :)
I'm not sure what you guys are talking about here with Corona being more simple than Vray. [...] Out of the box it's as simple as Corona.
I have to disagree, I admit I stopped using V-ray right when 3.0 was launched. I've worked in the product viz industry and there, changes of +5/-5 in HSV where catastrophic.
What is +5/-5 in HSV? Never heard of this.
The main problem was the lighting. In Vray I had to make 3 lights, one which was only affecting diffuse, one for reflection and one for..specular. With Corona, one light is enough as somehow things are way more realistic and balanced.
That's strange. I've never had to create 3 separate lights instead of one with any Vray version. I'm not sure why you did this. Looks like you didn't do your materials properly if you had issues with speculars and reflections.