Kray 2.3 has been realeased today with bugfixes and some new features while we keep working heavily on Kray v3.

• Kray 2.2 update released!
• Looking for developers
• Send us your best scene for Kray Demo Reel
• Latest works

Kray 2.2 update released!

Kray 2.2 has just been released. This is mostly bugfix release while we keep working hardon next generation Kray engine. There have been many bug fixes in this release and couple of new features:

• bake only mode added to skip final raytracing step
• new stereo camera mode
• power multiplier for physical sun added

If you have not downloaded Kray demo yet to try it out follow Kray demo download link.

Looking for developers

We are looking for some new developers that would help us speed up the development and also help us port Kray to other software. Please contact us if you are interested in helping.

Looking for best of Kray scenes

We decided it would be a good idea to put together Kray demo reel. Our friends at garagefarm.net have generously offered us to render full HD reel for us.

So if you think you have some scenes that we could put in Kray reel please contact us and we will give you details on where you can upload the scene.

Remember you don't need to render the scene yourself, just send us ready to render scene and we will take care of it. Of course you will be able to use the rendered animation later in you demo reel too.

Latest works

Here are some of the latest work from talented artists:

by Sylvain Saintpere.	by Sylvain Saintpere.	by Sylvain Saintpere.	by Richardo Quinn.	by Richardo Quinn.
by Rob Armstrong.	by Ola Haldor.	by Markus Gröteke.	by Sylvain Saintpere.	by Sylvain Saintpere.

• Kray 2.1 update + Demo version
• Special offer: Kray + LWCAD bundle!
• Kray Presets Database
• Development news
• Tutorials and free scenes
• Latest works
  

We have finally created a place where users can share their Kray presets. Check it out:

http://www.kraytracing.com/joomla/forum/index.php?f=16&rb_v=viewforum&w=1920&h=1200

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.