Vray?

[Cyberphil]

Originally Posted by scottydoh

What cost are you talking about? 3DS Max is provided free through the Autodesk Student Center. And by default the 2012 version comes with three render engines (Mental Ray, Quicksilver and the default Scanline)

The cost I am mentioning is the cost of buying a Vray engine. My point was that everything we now receive is completely free. I believe the Vray engine is about $1200, well out of most teams animation budget.

While were on the topic, autodesk is using a lot of resources to make sure FIRST teams are able to produce impressive pieces like we have seen a lot of in the past few days on CD. So much is possible with the given software I could not even imagine learning everything and still being unhappy about my options.

I guess what I am trying to say is: Thank you Autodesk for everything you do for us!