thickly

Anyone out there know when this is supposed to be available? Its been on their site as "Coming Soon" for a while. I would love to give it a try since the latest M~R release was less then stellar.

Tommy L

The price goes up when the demo comes out. I bought a license whilst its Beta prices and havnt really looked into it properly yet. I ran a couple of tests tho, and it looks very good.
The killer was that its in euros. Im English, so im used to my pound helping me out. The american Dollar is one soft puppy!

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kippu

lol ..... good one

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Bubbaloo

From what I've seen, the best Fry renderings I've seen are not as realistic as the best Maxwell renderings....

Tommy L

I would agree. But the user base for Maxwell is much larger and its been around alot longer. Fry has potential and a VERY responsive development team. One to watch for sure.

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Bubbaloo

I agree. Competition is a good thing!

Ernest Burden

Several of the artists that I had always thought were the absolute best at the Maxwell forum are now using Fry. Good artists produce good work, almost irregardless of the tools they use.

There are now enough people who have either switched or use both. Compare the work of these artists against themselves with the two programs.

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dave davidson

ive used both and from what i know is i can get equally if not better quality out of fryrender as i can maxwell. with a better workflow inside cinema 4d so fryrender to me is a bonus to my rendering experience IMHO. thats just my thoughts on the matter. and like they said as the better users with talent (not that there arent any there now) come over and start using it you will see better renderings just like you did when they started using maxwell.
As for when the demo is coming well "when its done" springs to mind your lucky you dont have to wait until version 1 is out before trying it, so its not all bad having to wait a little longer is it, plus as was stated before once its demo there will be no cheap purchase price.

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thickly

thanks for the replies -- hey Dave, have you seen better render-times out of fry? or at least less noisy images after a 24hrs.

Maxwell's render times actually don't really bother me too much -- but I don't make my living from arch viz -- its more the silly mistakes that seem to accompany each release -- texture paths, mxed not opening when double-clicking an mxm, etc... Unfortunately it seems M~R takes two steps forward, three steps back with each release. But faster renders would still be nice.

Even if the photo-real quality is not quite as good as Maxwell's -- its good enough for most of what I do. Maybe I can get the company to spring for the full purchase.

Ernest Burden

Can we stop that? Where did it come from?

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