Vray 1.6 open beta
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kalu - I believe that there are licensing restrictions on some of the textures used for some materials, which prevent us from giving them away for free (this was the case with the Arroway materials I believe). It's not hard to make a material, and we provide plenty of documentation and tutorials on how to do it. If we made the life of a beta tester too easy, we would never find any bugs.
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@dkendig said:
kalu - I believe that there are licensing restrictions on some of the textures used for some materials, which prevent us from giving them away for free (this was the case with the Arroway materials I believe). It's not hard to make a material, and we provide plenty of documentation and tutorials on how to do it. If we made the life of a beta tester too easy, we would never find any bugs.
Thanks for the information. I talk to some people in Chaosgroup USA and as usual very helpful and different of the main company in Europe.
Thanks again for the comments.
Kalu.
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2 questions .
Pardon what could be a silly question. Do I have to uninstall my licensed copy to install this beta. My good sense is telling me I should do that but last time I had trouble activating which resulted in a disruption of office work for 3day or so..
Will this upgrade come free for Licensed users?
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@cuttingedge said:
2 questions .
Pardon what could be a silly question. Do I have to uninstall my licensed copy to install this beta. My good sense is telling me I should do that but last time I had trouble activating which resulted in a disruption of office work for 3day or so..
Will this upgrade come free for Licensed users?
Unfortunately, you cannot run the beta and 1.49.01 together, you have to uninstall.
There is pricing information on their website, no, not free upgrade.
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I was going to apply, and then I saw the little warning on the vray site: Windows 32 bits only.
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It's compatible with windows, and there is only a 32bit build of our plugin (as it always has been). SketchUp is also only 32bit.
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I see that lens effects have been added, thank you very much for adding this!
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@dacastror said:
I see that lens effects have been added, thank you very much for adding this!
Yeah, I'm liking it too. A big caveat though is that it is currently not working with DR.
(DR stability has been greatly improved
One can actually use saved maps now - saving irmaps was broken in 1.49) -
works fine on my 64bit machine.
With the exception of a few renders that never completed.
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and i still haven't heard from them...
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Vray Beta is warning me when I open another instance of SketchUp that the program did not close properly and asks me to send a report. I believe this is happening because the other instance has not shut down.
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@krisidious said:
Vray Beta is warning me when I open another instance of SketchUp that the program did not close properly and asks me to send a report. I believe this is happening because the other instance has not shut down.
Like wise
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is anyone else having trouble installing this? I am getting the message that it is not compatible with my version of windows ie 64 bit vista, i have also tried it on a 64 bit windows 7 with the same problem. frustrating as I'm really looking forward to trying this out!
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ignore my above post, I have re-downloaded it and it appears to be working now
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@holmes1977 said:
@krisidious said:
Vray Beta is warning me when I open another instance of SketchUp that the program did not close properly and asks me to send a report. I believe this is happening because the other instance has not shut down.
Like wise
same here
BTW, is this the place to write about all the beta testing issues? or on the horrid forums of chaos group?
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Am I the only person having trouble accessing the beta testing thread at the chaos group forums?
I am a registered vray user, yet since the beginning (a few years ago) I've had so many issues with registering and accessing their forums. It is true chaos, as their name suggests.
I had to register once just to download vray, and had to register a second time with a different name to be able to access the forums - because they needed a username that is linked somehow to the email I bought the software with, or so I thought... but that didn't work either... after emailing them for weeks I finally got access to the forums which were almost empty since they did the union with which ever other company they were before... and now I am blocked from the beta testing threads... great! I could download the beta, but not report about it...
What is with these guys?? This is truly ridiculous !!! of course I sent them a support request ticket and waiting for an answer now...Why not just open up the forums to the wide public like sketchucation is without all these ridiculous restrictions.
Anyway - I have a list of so many bugs to report about this beta release, and I have nowhere to write them... other than here maybe.
Yes, they have an email to report bugs, but in my opinion that is not the way to do beta testing... I don't want to report something twice + there is the pressure effect when the bugs are out in the open. So... should I open a new thread here in sketchucation? or dump my list into this thread?
Happy betaing everyone!
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Yup, they do like to make things complicated.
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Do we have to be selected as a beta tester or do we simply download and install the beta version and are automatically considered a beta tester? I was expecting a confirmation email.
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@halroach said:
Am I the only person having trouble accessing the beta testing thread at the chaos group forums?
I am a registered vray user, yet since the beginning (a few years ago) I've had so many issues with registering and accessing their forums. It is true chaos, as their name suggests.
I had to register once just to download vray, and had to register a second time with a different name to be able to access the forums - because they needed a username that is linked somehow to the email I bought the software with, or so I thought... but that didn't work either... after emailing them for weeks I finally got access to the forums which were almost empty since they did the union with which ever other company they were before... and now I am blocked from the beta testing threads... great! I could download the beta, but not report about it...
What is with these guys?? This is truly ridiculous !!! of course I sent them a support request ticket and waiting for an answer now...Why not just open up the forums to the wide public like sketchucation is without all these ridiculous restrictions.
Anyway - I have a list of so many bugs to report about this beta release, and I have nowhere to write them... other than here maybe.
Yes, they have an email to report bugs, but in my opinion that is not the way to do beta testing... I don't want to report something twice + there is the pressure effect when the bugs are out in the open. So... should I open a new thread here in sketchucation? or dump my list into this thread?
Happy betaing everyone!
Hi
This was posted by Devin on the Chaos Forums
"if you can't see the forum, send an email to support@chaosgroup.com so that they can fix your account to have proper access."Im the same as you, I cant see the beta forums. But have just sent an email to support and hope to hear back from them soon.
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I was sent a special account login for Beta... Aside from my other account.
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