Adaptive Dome Light
Faster, cleaner and more accurate image-based environment lighting based on V-Ray Scene Intelligence.
Production-proven ray traced rendering with a full suite of tools to create professional photoreal imagery and animations.
Built to handle the absolute toughest projects and largest scenes.
Multicore CPU and GPU-accelerated rendering engines for optimized speed and scalability.
Real-time look development with interactive lighting, shading and rendering.
Integrated seamlessly into Maya and designed to fit any production pipeline.
Top artists and studios rely on V-Ray for Maya to create award-winning animation & visual effects.
Faster, cleaner and more accurate image-based environment lighting based on V-Ray Scene Intelligence.
Redesigned IPR for faster feedback and continuous updates.
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.
Create high-quality previz and animation tests via Playblasts with Viewport IPR.
Fast new GPU rendering architecture that now supports more high-end production features.
V-Ray GPU now supports blazing fast rendering of volumetric effects like smoke, fire and fog.
Adds support for Cryptomatte render elements.
© Ian SpriggsRender 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.
Easily create non-photorealistic, cartoon and cel-shading effects. Now with new options for advanced line control.
This powerful tool layers textures with blend modes and individual masking controls.
Now supporting Alembic 1.7 and layers for efficient handling and updating of Alembic data.
Render scenes directly to the cloud with a push of a button. Learn more about cloud rendering in Maya >
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