Chaos Group
Company Overview:
Chaos Group is a worldwide leader in computer graphics. We create the technology that helps artists and designers create photoreal imagery and animation for design, television, and feature films. Our physically-based rendering and simulation software is used daily by top design studios, architectural firms, advertising agencies, and visual effects companies around the globe. Our research and development in cloud rendering, material scanning, and virtual reality is shaping the future of creative storytelling and digital design.
Chaos Group provides innovative rendering solutions for the media, entertainment, and design industries. For over a decade the flagship rendering software, V-Ray®, has set the standard for speed, quality, reliability and ease of use, and it has become the rendering engine of choice for renowned international studios. The company proudly supports the 3D community through a suite of software solutions: V-Ray® for Autodesk® 3ds Max®, V-Ray® for Autodesk® Maya®, V-Ray® for Autodesk® Cinema 4D®, V-Ray® for Rhino®, V-Ray® for SketchUp®, Phoenix FD™ for Autodesk® 3ds Max®, Phoenix FD™ for Autodesk® Maya®, and Pdplayer™.
Name | Description | Manufacturer | Function |
Pdplayer | Pdplayer™ is a professional image sequence player and viewer for the 3D, CG and VFX industry. | Chaos Group | Visualization |
Phoenix FD for 3ds Max | Phoenix FD™ is a powerful tool for fluid simulations. Aimed to meet the needs of VFX artist to simulate fire, smoke, explosions as well as liquids, foam and splashes, it has now become universal simulation software for every production house. | Chaos Group | Visualization |
Phoenix FD for Maya | Phoenix FD™ for Maya empowers VFX artists to simulate fire, smoke, explosions, liquids, foam and splashes, while offering exceptional flexibility and speed. | Chaos Group | Visualization |
V-Ray Cloud | Simple, fast cloud rendering. From V-Ray. Introducing a push-button cloud rendering service for artists and designers. No hardware to configure. No virtual machines to set up. Click render and V-Ray Cloud takes care of the rest. | Chaos Group | Visualization |
V-Ray for 3ds Max | V-Ray® for 3ds Max is a complete lighting and shading solution that can be flawlessly integrated in every 3D Artist’s and designer workflow. | Chaos Group | Visualization |
V-Ray for Blender | V-Ray is a free plug-in for Blender that exports your scene into a .vrscene file which can be rendered by the V-Ray Stand Alone application. In order to use it you need to install a custom Blender build which has the V-Ray plug-in and scene exporter properly integrated. | Chaos Group | Visualization |
V-Ray for Cinema 4D | V-Ray 3.7 for Cinema 4D comes with a large variety of new features and improvements designed to make the life of 3D artists a lot easier. The core of V-Ray for Cinema 4D is the same that has made V-Ray the industry standard for the VFX community. | Chaos Group | Visualization |
V-Ray for Katana | V-Ray and Katana are cornerstones of Atomic Fiction's workflow. Chaos Group has an obvious passion for making amazing, production-focused tools and are constantly looking towards the future. | Chaos Group | Visualization |
V-Ray for Maya | V-Ray® for Maya is the preferred rendering engine for the Film & VFX industry. | Chaos Group | Visualization |
V-Ray for Modo | V-Ray is a rendering plug-in for Modo. In addition to supporting most standard Modo features, V-Ray supports many third-party plug-ins. | Chaos Group | Visualization |
V-Ray for Nuke | V-Ray for Nuke is a plugin that renders Nuke scenes with the V-Ray rendering engine. It also provides support for advanced atmospheric and liquid effects such as fire and water. | Chaos Group | Visualization |
V-Ray for Revit | V-Ray core rendering technology integrates into Autodesk Revit introducing tools for VR output | Chaos Group | Visualization |
V-Ray for Rhino | V-Ray® for Rhino offers visualization professionals a state-of-the-art solution that generates high-quality images of unparalleled realism. | Chaos Group | Visualization |
V-Ray for SketchUp | SketchUp® users in all fields depend on V-Ray® as a quick, easy and cost- efficient way to render their most cutting-edge images. V-Ray 3 for SketchUp is a brand new rendering experience redesigned from the ground up. The new user interface is clean and simple. With quick presets and streamlined controls you can focus on being creative, without worrying about the technical stuff. | Chaos Group | Visualization |
V-Ray Render Node | COST EFFECTIVE RENDER LICENSES V-Ray Render Nodes support network & distributed rendering on the following applications: V-Ray for 3ds Max, V-Ray for Maya, V-Ray for MODO, V-Ray for NUKE, V-Ray Standalone, V-Ray for Blender, V-Ray for SketchUp, V-Ray for Revit & V-Ray for Rhino. | Chaos Group | Visualization |
V-Ray Standalone | V-Ray Standalone is a separate executable rendering engine that provides visualization professionals the opportunity to render scenes and models without using third-party 3D applications. | Chaos Group | Visualization |
VRscans | VRscans is a scanning technology which converts real-world materials such as textiles, plastic, paint and metal into digital materials. These can be used in 3D software tools to create photorealistic computer-generated images and animation. VRscans is combination of a hardware-based scanning system and a software-based rendering plugin that work together to easily create material properties for creating realistic renderings without the usual workflow of texture maps and tweaking shader settings. This enables a high level of accuracy for visualizing real-world materials in renders. | Chaos Group | Visualization |