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What improvements would you like to see in Kray next?

Posted: Sat May 22, 2010 6:48 pm
by jure
Hi,

since development of the next major Kray version has begun we would like to hear your opinion about which improvements would you like to see in Kray the most.

This will help us in plan our development cycles better and hopefully make you happier too! :)

You can select up to 3 options.

Re: What improvements would you like to see in Kray next?

Posted: Sat May 22, 2010 7:38 pm
by Janusz Biela
Of coarse I was vote :P

Re: What improvements would you like to see in Kray next?

Posted: Sun May 23, 2010 11:05 am
by zukov
I'm afraid that kray is subjected to lightwave's orientation ( what is doing , newtek ? )
as I found.. only version up within same intager number( 9.x )mess up kray's node support capability.
I think if kray would be stand alone . internally possese assets like node texture, fur or so. (my personal wish)

Re: What improvements would you like to see in Kray next?

Posted: Sun May 23, 2010 11:41 am
by geo_n
Where is alpha and matt support and light exclusion and exr support? Is it better lightwave integration? :mrgreen:

Re: What improvements would you like to see in Kray next?

Posted: Sun May 23, 2010 1:37 pm
by jure
geo_n wrote:Where is alpha and matt support and light exclusion and exr support? Is it better lightwave integration? :mrgreen:
Yes that would be it...

Re: What improvements would you like to see in Kray next?

Posted: Sun May 23, 2010 9:21 pm
by 3dworks
better AA, better AA, better AA ;)

Re: What improvements would you like to see in Kray next?

Posted: Mon May 24, 2010 4:53 pm
by geo_n
3dworks wrote:better AA, better AA, better AA ;)
kray has bad AA? Lewis from hc forum did point out that the glass in the sample interior scene has too much jaggies in kray.

Re: What improvements would you like to see in Kray next?

Posted: Mon May 24, 2010 5:33 pm
by khan973
Even though GPU rendering could improve things, something is missing.
A VPR.
Tweaking materials take ages as there are no way to preview them correctly. We have to launch a render each time because we need to work the textures under the same lighting conditions.
I don't like this workflow, it's time consuming. FPrime's render is too far from Kray's one to be useable.

I hope you guys can come with a good solution!

Re: What improvements would you like to see in Kray next?

Posted: Mon May 24, 2010 9:46 pm
by 3dworks
agree 100% - that would be my feature number one as well!

markus

Re: What improvements would you like to see in Kray next?

Posted: Mon May 24, 2010 10:03 pm
by olahaldor
GPU! And VPR.

Re: What improvements would you like to see in Kray next?

Posted: Mon May 24, 2010 10:22 pm
by larry_g1s
khan973 wrote:Even though GPU rendering could improve things, something is missing.
A VPR.
Tweaking materials take ages as there are no way to preview them correctly. We have to launch a render each time because we need to work the textures under the same lighting conditions.
I don't like this workflow, it's time consuming. FPrime's render is too far from Kray's one to be useable.

I hope you guys can come with a good solution!
VPR would be my number one choice too. I love the Kray render engine and won't use anything else for interiors. Exteriors are becoming enjoyable with it since it's fast, but a VPR is one of the things that make fPrime still sooo useful. That and the progressive refinement feature.

Re: What improvements would you like to see in Kray next?

Posted: Mon May 24, 2010 11:05 pm
by jure
Yes that one is high on my favorite list too so we will work hard for sure to make it happen ASAP.

Re: What improvements would you like to see in Kray next?

Posted: Tue May 25, 2010 1:10 am
by khan973
That would be a HUUUUGE step forward for sure!

Re: What improvements would you like to see in Kray next?

Posted: Wed May 26, 2010 2:10 pm
by jdomingo
i voted for all except for the network rendering. but the most important for me is i think, better / faster g.i. (ultra super duper F***ing photo realistic result). :)
VPR or GPU rendering is just added feature maybe. since if it can render faster with better g.i., why do we need VPR or GPU? but of course i still love to have these 2 on the next release.

Re: What improvements would you like to see in Kray next?

Posted: Fri May 28, 2010 10:09 pm
by roger1972
MPD (micro poly displaements) would be nice....