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Kray 2.0 video tutorials PDF
Saturday, 30 January 2010 18:10

New video tutorials for Kray 2.0 are available.

You can watch them here: http://www.kraytracing.com/wiki/Tutorials

More tutorials will be coming soon.
 
Interview with Grzegorz Tański PDF
Thursday, 24 December 2009 11:46

You can read an interesting interview with mastermind behind Kray rendering engine in January LightWave newsletter.

We will also release demo version of Kray 2.0 very soon so keep checking this pages for news.
 
Kray 2.0 released PDF
Tuesday, 01 December 2009 09:32
Ostroleka, Poland - December 1, 2009 - Mindberries, a software development company based in Ostroleka, Poland, today announced the release of its flagship product - Kray render engine. Version 2.0 brings major step forward in all parts of the software making it one of the fastest global illumination renderers on the market.
Read more...
 
New Webpage! PDF
Wednesday, 11 November 2009 00:00

New web page is finally online!

Please take a moment and explore the new web page. We hope you like it and, most of all hope that you will find it useful. You should be able to login with the same username/password you have been using on the old webpage/forum.

Now the webpage and forum are both synchronised and use the same login. If you have problems logging in please contact us.

We are going to improve the functionality of the website in the future days so everything may not function like it should just yet.

With the new web page we are getting ready for Kray 2.0 release. Soon we will make more detailed announcement so keep checking back.

Old Kray site is archived.
 
Kray on Rebusfarm PDF
Thursday, 05 November 2009 00:00
The easiest and affordable render farm around REBUSFARM now officialy supports Kray!

Render farm facts:

  • Comp. Power: 3700 GHz
  • Cinebench: 4 Mio.
  • 140 Intel XEON E5530
  • 140 Intel XEON E5420
  • 96 Intel Q6600
  • 64bit OS each 16 GB RAM

The automated Lightwave plugin FARMINIZER will automatically check your scene for problems and will warn you before you submit your scene to farm.
Here are quick guidelines you should follow before submitting your scene on the farm:

  1. check for 3rd party plugins and include them with your scene
  2. make sure all your objects and images can be found
  3. make sure you prerender shared GI file and LOAD is selected for Shared For All Frames GI mode.
  4. use Lightwave Image saver for output and disable Kray

You can find more detailed guidelines on how to prepare the scene for render farm rendering on our Wiki pages.
 
Kray 2.0 RC5 released PDF
Wednesday, 04 November 2009 00:00

Changes:

  • new GUI design by Matt Gorner
  • new master plugin: Kray Tonemap Blending
  • new master plugin: Kray PhySky
  • MacOS performance issues fixed (multi core, multi CPU systems)
  • TIFF support added
  • many bug fixes...
 
Kray 2.0 RC4 released PDF
Friday, 19 June 2009 00:00

Kray RC4 is ready for download!

Next release candidate has been released. Another bunch of bugs is fixed and now Kray is very close to final release. We are working on the new webpage and once it's done we will release final version of Kray 2.