New Viewport IPR & improved interactivity
Keep working while you render with fast new viewport IPR. Interactivity in V-Ray IPR on CPUs is now faster and supports atmospheric effects.
Scanline VFX — The Meg © Warner Bros. Ent. All rights reserved.
Scanline VFX — The Meg © Warner Bros. Ent. All rights reserved.
V-Ray comes with all the lighting, shading, and rendering tools you need to create professional, photoreal imagery and animation.
Built to handle your biggest projects and your toughest scenes. Render anything and everything with V-Ray.
Spend less time waiting and more time being creative. Deliver your best work and never miss a deadline.
V-Ray puts you in the driver seat. You’re in control. With V-Ray’s versatile features, you can choose the best approach for your scene.
Work the way you want – without interruption. V-Ray’s seamless 3ds Max integration keeps your workflow fluid and smooth.
Independent artists and top studios choose V-Ray every day to create world-class designs and visual effects.
Keep working while you render with fast new viewport IPR. Interactivity in V-Ray IPR on CPUs is now faster and supports atmospheric effects.
New glare and bloom lens effects have been fully redesigned to be faster and more accurate.
Faster multi-GPU performance on workstations and distributed rendering, plus added support for Cryptomatte render elements.
Faster, better sampling of environment fog helps you quickly add depth to any scene with V-Ray GPU.
Now available in V-Ray GPU, render highly accurate light refractions that split into their component colors.
Emulate the warped motion blur effects common in digital video and cell phone cameras.
The V-Ray Physical Hair material adds new Glint and Glitter controls for better highlights.
Improved lighting passes provide consistent, artifact-free results that are independent of light sampling as well as better support for the Adaptive Dome Light.
VFB color corrections (incl. Background and LUT) can be saved with the final render as raw .vrimg or OpenEXR files. LUT strength can also be controlled.
Improved V-Ray Scene export adds support for more features when rendering on Chaos Cloud.
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© Forge & MorrowAutomatically analyzes your scene to optimize rendering so you get the best quality in less time. See Adaptive Dome Light & Automatic Camera Exposure.
© Dabarti StudioFast new GPU rendering architecture with support for more of your favorite high-end production features.
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Instantly remove noise while rendering. Based on AI-accelerated denoising technology by NVIDIA.
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© Dabarti StudioV-Ray GPU renders on CPUs as well as NVIDIA GPUs, to take full advantage of all available hardware.
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Render professional-quality, photorealistic images and animation with adaptive ray tracing technology.
Fully interactive production rendering.
Automatically remove noise and cut render times by up to 50%.
Stop your render at any point and pick up where you left off.
© Double AyeFaster, cleaner and more accurate image-based environment lighting. Up to 7x faster than before.
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New algorithm that dramatically speeds up rendering in scenes with many lights.
Accurately measure the light levels in your scene using new lighting analysis tools.
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© Forge & MorrowSimulate any type of natural, artificial, or image-based lighting with a wide range of light types.
Choose from several global illumination options – exact, approximate or a hybrid of both.
© Tonic CGIPerfect renders are as easy as taking a snapshot with new Automatic Exposure & White Balance.
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Instantly add GPU-accelerated glare and bloom for added photorealism. Fine-tune lens effects interactively while you render.
© Ernest KośkaReal-world camera controls let you work like a photographer. Render images with detailed depth of field and cinematic motion blur.
© Alexander RazgonyaevExperience your project in virtual reality. Create content for popular VR headsets with 6x1 cubic and spherical stereo camera types.
Render more realistic-looking hair with accurate highlights and melanin color controls.
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The V-Ray Material adds support for PBR shaders with new Metalness reflection controls.
Apply several materials to the same object and select the one you want at render time.
Load any texture or material that’s available in V-Ray Standalone and render it in V-Ray Next.
From multilayered car paint to accurate subsurface scattering, you can make any material imaginable.
General-purpose shader by Anders Langlands includes built-in SSS controls; popular for skin.
New, physically-accurate reflection model.
1000+ scanned materials. Import and render directly in V-Ray. Learn more about VRscans >
© Alessandro BandinelliWork with production-ready, multiresolution tiled textures from your favorite applications, like MARI, Mudbox and Zbrush.
Quickly apply seamless textures without UVs.
Generate perfectly smooth edges at render-time with no extra modeling.
Efficient handling and support for Alembic 1.7 with layers.
© Den BrooksRender massive scenes with proxy objects. V-Ray proxies efficiently replace complex scene geometry and load only at render time.
Create complex cutaways and sections using any mesh object.
© NKIRender realistic hair efficiently and flicker-free. V-Ray includes procedural fur, optimized hair shaders, and supports 3ds Max Hair&Fur, HairFarm and Ornatrix.
Create unique geometry like infinite planes, metaballs and isosurfaces, particles and object cutaways with render-time booleans.
© Federico CiavarellaRender fog, smoke and atmospheric effects that respond correctly to light. Bring in volume grid caches from Houdini, FumeFX and PhoenixFD.
© Dabarti StudioV-Ray GPU now supports blazing fast rendering of volumetric effects like smoke, fire and fog.
© Dabarti StudioSimulate natural looking skies with realistic atmospheric depth.
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Pixomondo © Paramount PicturesChoose from nearly 40 unique beauty, utility and matte passes to give you more control over your rendered images in compositing.
Denoise individual render elements for added control in compositing. Supports animation.
Now with full support for GI, reflections and refractions for accurate light mixing in post.
Auto create ID mattes with support for transparency, depth of field, and motion blur. Get free decode plugins for Nuke and Fusion on Github >
© TendrilReview, analyze and post-process your renders directly in V-Ray’s advanced frame buffer.
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Tooltips are now in multiple languages: Japanese, Korean, Russian, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish.
New utility checks your scene to see if it's ready to render on the cloud with Linux and V-Ray Standalone.
Architectural communication studio Beauty and The Bit unleashed its inner Kubrick for this atmospheric short film. Watch it here, and find out how director Victor Bonafonte took advantage of V-Ray Cloud.
Award-winning arch viz studio TILTPIXEL taps into the power of Chaos Cloud to render an animation of the world-famous Harbin Opera House.
Leonardo Bartz from Mint Studios renders entirely on GPU. He reveals his workflow and shows how he makes use of V-Ray Next for 3ds Max's new features.
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