Chaos Group

V-Ray for Rhino

Product Overview

V-Ray 1.5 for Rhino offers visualization professionals a state-of-the-art solution that generates high-quality images of unparalleled realism. The plug-in works with Robert McNeel & Associates’ Rhinoceros, which is one of the most popular Windows-based NURBS modeling tools available today.

Rhino users in all fields - from engineering and product design to 3D animation - depend on V-Ray as a quick, easy and cost efficient way to render their most cutting-edge images.

V-Ray 1.5 for Rhino Key Features

Here are some of the key features of the new V-Ray 1.5 for Rhino. For a complete list of features and improvements in V-Ray 1.5 for Rhino, please click here.

V-RayRT® - a revolutionary rendering engine providing instant feedback and streamlining scene setup. Because V-Ray RT is built upon the same robust core as V-Ray, it is seamless to transition between V-Ray RT and production rendering.

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Dome Light - create simple, artifact-free image-based lighting using the Dome Light. Its powerful importance sampling analyzes HDR images and optimizes light tracing and GI precision.

V-Ray Proxy - an indispensable tool for managing scene memory and efficiently rendering massive amounts of geometry. V-Ray Proxy objects are dynamically loaded and unloaded at render-time, saving vital RAM resources.

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Lens Effects (Glare / Bloom ) - simulate the natural lens effects that occur when photographing highlights.

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Dispersion - trace and refract light based on its wavelength.

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Retrace Threshold - reduce Light Cache artifacts and improve the appearance of glossy reflections and refractions when using the time saving feature - Use light cache for glossy rays.

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Ambient Occlusion - generate shading based on an object’s proximity, and enhance GI details without significantly increasing render time.

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VRayDirt - simulate shading around corners and crevices of objects based on a radial distance. VRayDirt can be used to produce a variety of effects, including ambient occlusion renderings.

Interpolation (Reflections and Refractions) - accelerate rendering by approximating and caching the effects of glossy reflections and refractions.

IES Light - use photometric data to provide accurate light definition.

Sphere Light - create spherically shaped area lights.

Pricing & Upgrade Policy

Chaos Group products are licensed per machine and with one V-Ray for Rhino license you can start and use V-Ray GUI and tools inside the platform, start one local render job, speed up rendering using distributed rendering on up to 10 render slaves.

To provide optimum security, reliability, and portability Chaos Group requires a hardware key to license its software. This hardware security key safely protects the V-Ray License from computer malfunctions, routine hardware maintenance, and equipment changes; and it affords the user the ability to use V-Ray on multiple machines.

It is important to note that the hardware key is not a node-locked device. The V-Ray License Server is a floating license system, allowing multiple users to check out a license up to the maximum concurrent number of licenses available.

V-Ray 1.5 for Rhino customers will have the option to purchase a new hardware key or install the license on an existing one.

The official suggested end user price of a single new license of V-Ray 1.5 for Rhino is 690 Euro/ 960 USD/ 590 GBP

Crossgrade to V-Ray 1.5 for Rhino from all supported platforms is possible. Please, contact our sales team at sales.software@chaosgroup.com for details.

Note: Prices do not include dongle/VAT/shipping.

Educational Policy

Chaos Group Educational Policy is designed to meet the various educational needs of both the institutions and students at a preferable price. An educational institution, or a student/staff member at the institution, may use our Educational licenses for educational purposes only and not for commercial for- profit work, transfer, or resale.

Student/Teacher Educational license

A "Student/Teacher" is a person who can confirm enrollment/employment at a degree-granting educational institution. Students and staff must present current student ID or current proof of employment at the educational institution to purchase a license. Students and staff may purchase up to 1 (one) license from the option below:

V-Ray 1.5 for Rhino EDU license – 180 Euro/ 250 USD/ 160 GBP per license

* Educational clients can receive a free upgrade at any point in time after purchasing a dongle.
Note: Students need to provide evidence of their present academic status.

Universities/Educational Institutions licenses

"Universities/Educational institutions" are defined as those dedicated to education, including a public or private, school or a two-year or four-year college or university or career school that is accredited by a state or other appropriate governmental agency or organization. An educational institution is not a government or nonprofit agency, a commercial customer, a corporate training environment, or other training program or center that serves commercial or professional customers. Universities/Educational institutions must purchase software with documentation issued by the institution. The following Bundle is available to Educational institutions under our Educational Policy:

University V-Ray 1.5 for Rhino Lab Bundle - 30 licenses - 610 Euro/ 850 USD/ 530 GBP

* Educational clients can receive a free upgrade at any point in time after purchasing a dongle.

System Requirements

Hardware:
     • Pentium, Celeron, or higher processor.
     • 200 MB disk space.
     • 512 MB RAM minimum. 2-3 GB or more recommended.

Supported Platforms

V-Ray for Rhino runs only on:
     • Windows 2000 including server
     • Windows XP Pro
     • Windows XP Home
     • Windows Vista*
     • Windows 7*
     • Windows 8*

V-Ray for Rhino will not run on:
     • Windows NT
     • Windows 95
     • Windows 98
     • Windows ME
     • OS X or lower
     • Linux

* V-Ray for Rhino runs as a 32-bit application on Windows x64 and will also run as a 64-bit application with the 64-bit version of Rhino 5.

* V-Ray 1.5 for Rhino builds support Rhino 4 and Rhino 5.

* Virtualization systems such as VMWare and Parallels are not recommended.

* Currently we do not have a version of V-Ray for Rhino on the OS X platform. We have been in contact with Robert McNeel and Associates regarding the options for porting our Windows version of V-Ray for Rhino to Rhino for OS X. However, Rhino for OS X is in the work-in-progress phase and the official Rhino OS X SDK for third party developers is not yet available. We will continue to investigate our options and will announce news on V-Ray 1.5 for Rhino OS X as soon as it becomes available.



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