Understanding metalness
The importance of metalness and why we’ve added the Metalness parameter to the V-Ray standard material to better support a PBR workflow in V-Ray Next.
Dramatically Expand your Material and Texture Library with V-Ray Plugin Nodes
Would you like more shaders and textures at your fingertips? In this helpful guide, we’ll reveal the key to unlocking access through the V-Ray Plugin Nodes.
What does the new NVIDIA RTX hardware mean for ray tracing, GPU rendering & V-Ray?
With the big announcement of new GPU ray-tracing hardware, Vlado explains what this breakthrough means for the future of rendering.
Ray-Traced Rendering Accelerates to Real-Time With Project Lavina
Discover how Project Lavina is adding real-time to the ease and accuracy of ray tracing for Chaos solutions.
V-Ray Next: Denoising in Production
We explain the differences between NVIDIA's AI denoiser and V-Ray Next's own denoiser. We explain how ours allows for proper compositing and temporal denoising.
Getting a cinematic look with V-Ray GPU Next & volumetrics
Tomasz Wyszolmirski from Dabarti Studio shares some top volume rendering techniques using V-Ray Next.
How to set up Lighting Analysis in V-Ray Next
Find out how to analyze and measure the light levels in your 3D scene using the new Lighting Analysis tools in V-Ray Next for 3ds Max.
Next Level GPU Rendering in V-Ray Next
Learn all about the new production-ready features and improvements coming to V-Ray GPU in V-Ray Next for 3ds Max.
V-Ray Next: The science behind the new hair shader
A deeper look at the new hair shader in V-Ray next. It describes how to understand the shader in a more physiological way, then takes you through the steps of setting one up for Look development including using V-Ray GPU in IPR rendering.
V-Ray Next: Switching the camera from manual to automatic
The new automatic exposure and white balance settings in V-Ray next not only make the rendering process simpler and faster, but they also balance your renderings for both speed and quality.
V-Ray Next: Experiments with the NVIDIA Optix Denoiser
Noise is a common issue with rendering, usually solved by longer rendering. Another solution is denoising. Using NVIDIA's OptiX denoising algorithm, V-Ray experiments with real time denoising based on deep learning.
V-Ray Next: Smarter rendering with the New Adaptive Dome Light
A new smarter use of Image Based Lighting (IBL) through the V-Ray Dome Light, which is smarter and faster especially for interior scenes.
Understanding V-Ray Hybrid rendering
Now that V-Ray CUDA was rendering on both CPUs and GPUs, and producing the exact same results, V-Ray Hybrid rendering was officially born.
Understanding V-Ray Benchmark
V-Ray Benchmark is a free utility to benchmark your hardware against other hardware when it comes to rendering with V-Ray.
Saliency in VR
A recent paper on computer vision from Stanford University, Universidad de Zaragoza, and University of California Berkeley explains the Saliency of VR.
How to move V-Ray scenes between applications
We developed V-Ray scene files to help you move a scene from one application to render in another.
V-Ray GPU Benchmarks on Top-of the-Line NVIDIA GPUs
V-Ray GPU Benchmarks on Top-of the-Line NVIDIA GPUs
Understanding V-Ray Swarm
New to V-Ray for Revit, Rhino, and SketchUp, we are introducing V-Ray Swarm, which is an evolution of Distributed Rendering.
V-Ray GPU improvements in V-Ray 3.5 for 3ds Max
V-Ray GPU improvements in V-Ray 3.5 for 3ds Max
Understanding Live VR rendering
We take a deeper look at how to output the Active Shade VFB from V-Ray 3.5 for 3ds Max into a VR headset.
Understanding Resumable Rendering
In short, resumable rendering is the ability to have incomplete renders resume where they left off.
Disney Research parametrically constructs eyes based on simple data
Disney Research parametrically constructs eyes based on simple data
Understanding Adaptive Lights
Understanding Adaptive Lights
Understanding Glossy Fresnel
We take a closer look at the Glossy Fresnel effect that will be added to to upcoming V-Ray service packs