High-performance ray tracing
Powerful CPU and GPU-accelerated rendering built for the demands of high-end production.
Powerful CPU and GPU-accelerated rendering built for the demands of high-end production.
Fast and accurate rendering of native Houdini volumes and OpenVDB caches.
GPU bucket rendering with fast multi-GPU performance and support for Cryptomattes.
Control custom attributes of geometry (including splines and particles) with the User Color node.
Interactive look development supported in the Houdini render view.
Isolate selected textures and materials to help debug large shading networks in IPR.
Simple, one-click solution to submit jobs to render on the Chaos Cloud.
© Daniel KhoUnique method for ultrafast rendering of scenes with hundreds or even thousands of lights.
© AardmanHighly optimized indirect lighting with V-Ray's proprietary Light Cache and brute force GI methods.
Instance lights with full control over per-instance light parameters, without affecting light link settings.
Efficiently browse from a library of over 500 render-ready materials including metals, glass, wood and more.
Support for material overrides* based on groups, bundles and attributes.
*VEX and per-primitive string overrides such as texture randomization are not yet supported.
Automatically import material node hierarchies from V-Ray® scene files and make changes in Houdini.
Create realistic-looking hair with accurate highlights using the V-Ray Physical Hair material.
*Currently supports hair as SOP geometry
The standard V-Ray Material supports Metalness reflection values for PBR shader workflows.
Physically-based shader with built-in SSS controls, popular for rendering realistic skin.
Per-Primitive Material Assignment is now supported on the GPU, allowing artists to utilize Stylesheets and the Material SOP.
1000+ ultra-realistic physically scanned materials ready to import and render.
Create texture maps with all the lighting and material information for game assets and real-time environments.
For more realistic textures and materials, add variety and subtle imperfections with the new VRayUVWRandomizer map and improved VRayMultiSubTex controls.
Simpler randomization of textures with support for per-face and per-primitive string attributes.
Transfer and override the properties of V-Ray scenes from other apps like Maya and 3ds Max.
Instance any object type (including volumes) using Packed Primitives, Instancer and "instancepath" attributes.
Efficient handling of Houdini's native packed primitives for instancing at render time.
Support for Houdini's native Alembic layering, transformations, instancing and per-object material overrides.
Drive shader parameters such as color, alpha and particle size through custom per-point attributes.
Fast rendering of realistic fur and hair with V-Ray Fur.
Directly import assets from other DCC tools without the need to rebuild materials.
Faster geometry export for quick render startup.
Memory efficient instancing of large hierarchies of objects.
Quickly simulate the effects of participating media such as fog and atmospheric dust.
Create natural-looking atmospheric depth as objects fade into the distance.
Added support for instancing of volumetric effects.
Render any set of lights (including wildcard selections) as separate render elements.
Render a wide variety of beauty, utility and matte passes for complete control in compositing.
Smoother export of textures and procedural maps to custom render elements.
For better control in compositing, construct your own render passes. Output specific light contributions with timesaving presets or by writing custom expressions.
