V-RAY NEXT FOR MAYA

Highly-optimized, adaptive ray tracing for the best combination of fast rendering and superior image quality.

Get an added speed boost with GPU-accelerated look development and final frame rendering.

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V-Ray GPU CUDA now renders on CPUs as well as GPUs, to take full advantage of all available hardware.

Stop your render at any point and continue where you left off.

Adds support for Cryptomatte render elements.

Create high-quality previz and animation tests via Playblasts with Viewport IPR.

Redesigned IPR for faster feedback and continuous updates.

Automatically remove noise and cut render times by up to 50%.

The NVIDIA AI denoiser is now available for interactive rendering with V-Ray IPR in the viewport.

Quickly isolate selected textures and materials to help debug large shading networks in IPR.

Easier to optimize your scene with new memory usage report for textures and objects.

Render scenes directly to the cloud with a push of a button.
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Fast new lighting algorithm that speeds up rendering in scenes with many lights.

Render natural, artificial and image-based lighting with a wide range of light types, shapes and controls.

Choose from ray traced and hybrid global illumination methods for the perfect balance of quality and speed.

Faster, cleaner and more accurate image-based environment lighting based on V-Ray Scene Intelligence.

Create any type of physically-based material with multiple layers.

Choose from a collection of specialty and purpose-built shaders for SSS, skin, hair and more.

General-purpose shader with layered SSS and glossy fresnel reflections — popular for skin.

Now supporting NVIDIA’s universal Material Definition Language format.

Compatible with 1000+ ultra-realistic scanned materials.

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Render more realistic-looking hair with accurate highlights and new glint and glitter controls.

The V-Ray Material adds support for PBR shaders with new Metalness reflection controls.

Generate perfectly smooth edges at render-time with no extra modeling.

Quickly apply seamless textures without UVs.

Work with multi-resolution tiled textures from top applications MARI, Mudbox and Zbrush.

This powerful tool layers textures with blend modes and individual masking controls.

Easily create non-photorealistic, cartoon and cel-shading effects.

Now supporting Alembic 1.7 and layers for efficient handling and updating of Alembic data.

Fit massive scenes into memory and cut render times using load-on-demand proxy objects.

Render realistic hair with support for Maya hair and fur, XGen, Ornatrix, Shave and a Haircut, and Yeti.

Render optimized volumetric effects and import OpenVDB files from Realflow and Houdini.

V-Ray GPU now supports blazing fast rendering of volumetric effects like smoke, fire and fog.

Output a complete set of beauty, utility, and matte passes for total control in compositing.

Render individual lights or groups of lights as separate render elements for accurate light mixing in post.

Automatically generate ID mattes with support for transparency, depth of field and motion blur.