NEW — Faster GPU rendering architecture
V-Ray GPU has been redesigned for better performance and faster parallel processing.
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The next major release of V-Ray will be smarter, faster and even better.
Here’s a look at some of the new features available now in V-Ray Next for 3ds Max, beta 3.
V-Ray GPU has been redesigned for better performance and faster parallel processing.
Accurately analyze and measure the light levels in your scene with new lighting analysis tools.
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Now supporting Alembic 1.7 with layering — for faster, more efficient handling and updating of Alembic data.
Render volumetric effects such as fog, smoke and fire with the speed of V-Ray GPU. Compatible with V-Ray Volume Grid which supports OpenVDB, Field3D and Phoenix FD volume caches.
Introducing incredibly fast real-time denoising based on NVIDIA's AI-accelerated denoising technology. Learn more >
Fast GPU production rendering with faster, cleaner lighting — now supports environment fog and VRscans. Learn more >
Faster, cleaner image-based lighting, removing the need for skylight portals. Learn more >
Fast, automatic scene analysis determines correct exposure and white balance for your image.
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Back by popular demand, the V-Ray Physical Camera has been updated with a simpler UI and support for the new auto exposure and white balance settings.
New more realistic VRayHairMtl2 hair shader with melanin color controls, better highlights and more natural light distribution. Learn more >
Easily switch between several materials applied to any object with the new VRaySwitchMtl, great for rendering material options, adding random variations or creating render passes.
Load any texture or material that’s available in V-Ray Standalone and render it in V-Ray for 3ds Max using the new V-RayPluginTex or VRayPluginMtl.
Denoise any render element, not just the beauty pass, for better control in compositing.
Updated rendering architecture that takes full advantage of modern hardware, including optimized vector calculations using SSE 4.2 and customized Intel® Embree ray tracing library 2.13.
© Thomas FeinerRender professional-quality, photorealistic images and animation with V-Ray’s adaptive ray tracing technology.
© Dabarti StudioV-Ray GPU CUDA now renders on CPUs as well as GPUs, to take full advantage of all available hardware.
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.
© BlackhausChoose from several global illumination options – exact, approximate or a hybrid of both.
New algorithm that dramatically speeds up rendering in scenes with many lights.
© Forge & MorrowSimulate any type of natural, artificial, or image-based lighting. With a wide range of light types, including area lights, physical sun & sky and IES lights, you can render any lighting scenario.
© Tonic CGIReal-world camera controls let you work like a photographer. Render images with detailed depth of field and cinematic motion blur.
Instantly add GPU-accelerated glare and bloom for added photorealism. Fine-tune lens effects interactively while you render.
© Alexander RazgonyaevExperience your project in virtual reality. Create content for popular VR headsets with 6x1 cubic and spherical stereo camera types.
© Studio AikoCreate any type of physical material. From multilayered car paint to accurate subsurface scattering, you can make any material imaginable.
© Chaos GroupGeneral-purpose shader by Anders Langlands includes built-in SSS controls; popular for skin.
New, physically-accurate reflection model.
650+ scanned materials. Import and render directly in V-Ray.
© 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.
© NKIRender realistic hair efficiently and flicker-free. V-Ray includes procedural fur, optimized hair shaders, and supports 3ds Max Hair&Fur, HairFarm and Ornatrix.
© Den BrooksRender massive scenes with proxy objects. V-Ray proxies efficiently replace complex scene geometry and load only at render time.
© Thomas DeffetCreate unique geometry like infinite planes, metaballs and isosurfaces, particles and object cutaways with render-time booleans.
Create complex cutaways and sections using any mesh object.
© Federico CiavarellaRender fog, smoke and atmospheric effects that respond correctly to light. Bring in volume grid caches from Houdini, FumeFX and PhoenixFD.
© Dabarti StudioSimulate natural looking skies with realistic atmospheric depth.
Pixomondo © Paramount Pictures37 unique beauty, utility and matte passes give you more control over your rendered images for compositing.
Now with full support for GI, reflections and refractions for accurate light mixing in post.
Automatically create ID mattes with support for transparency, depth of field, and motion blur.
Get the free decode plugins for NUKE and Fusion available on Github >
© TendrilReview, analyze and post process your renders directly in V-Ray’s advanced frame buffer. You can be sure your images will match your final output.
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