Key Features

Rendering

CPU AND GPU RENDERING

Highly-optimized CPU and GPU rendering for the best combination of fast rendering and superior image quality. V-Ray GPU CUDA renders on CPUs as well as GPUs to take full advantage of all hardware.

CHAOS CLOUD

Render scenes directly to the cloud with a push of a button

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LIGHTING & ILLUMINATION

GLOBAL ILLUMINATION

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

CAMERAS AND OPTICAL EFFECTS

LENS EFFECTS

Adds support for Cryptomatte render elements.

Fast and accurate simulation of real-world camera lens effects like bloom and glare with dust and scratches. Available as a Nuke plugin to add directly in compositing.

VIRTUAL REALITY

Experience your project in virtual reality. Create content for popular VR headsets with 6x1 cubic and spherical stereo camera types.

MATERIALS

PHYSICAL MATERIAL

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

UNIQUE SHADERS

Choose from a collection of specialty and purpose-built shaders for SSS, hair, car paint, utility shaders and more

MATERIAL PRESETS

Save time creating common materials with presets for aluminum, chrome, glass and more.

TEXTURES

MEMORY-EFFICIENT TEXTURES

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

GEOMETRY

PROXY GEOMETRY

Render massive scenes with proxy objects. V-Ray proxies also support layered alembic files and efficiently replace complex scene geometry and load only at render time.

ATMOSPHERIC & VOLUMETRIC EFFECTS

VOLUME RENDERING

Render fog, smoke and atmospheric effects that respond correctly to light. Bring in volumes from Houdini, FumeFX, Phoenix FD and OpenVDB caches.

RENDER ELEMENTS

LIGHT PATH EXPRESSIONS

Output any lighting contributions with Light Path Expressions for fine-grained control in compositing. Use boolean operations to easily combine LPEs, or quick start with built-in presets.

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System Requirements

Windows

Please make sure that your system fulfills these requirements before installing V-Ray. Note that V-Ray is only supported for 64 bit operating systems and 64 bit versions of Maya.

The following table shows the versions of Autodesk Maya and operating systems on which V-Ray is supported. Note that V-Ray is only supported for 64 bit operating systems and 64 bit versions of Maya.

Linux

Please make sure that your system fulfills these requirements before installing V-Ray. 

The following table shows the versions of Autodesk Maya and operating systems on which V-Ray is supported. Note that V-Ray is only supported for 64 bit operating systems and 64 bit versions of Maya.

Mac OS X 

Please make sure that your system fulfills these requirements before installing V-Ray.

The following table shows the versions of Autodesk Maya and operating systems on which V-Ray is supported. Note that V-Ray is only supported for 64 bit operating systems and 64 bit versions of Maya.

What's New

LIGHT MIX

Now, from a single render, you can create dozens of lighting scenarios. Change the color and intensity of lights in real-time without having to render again. When you have the look you want, you can save your light mix recipe, send the layers to comp, and update the lights in the scene.

NEW COMPOSITOR

Composite your renders in the new V-Ray Frame Buffer. Now it includes a layer-based compositor that allows you to combine render passes, set blending modes, and adjust colors without going to a separate app.

LIGHT PATH EXPRESSIONS

For better control in compositing, construct your own render passes with Light Path Expressions. Output specific light contributions with timesaving presets or by writing custom expressions. Expressions can even be combined with Boolean operations.

NEW V-RAY PROXY

The new V-Ray Proxy is fast to work with and easy to manage. Proxies now load in the background when opening your scene, so you can start working right away. Plus a new hierarchy view allows you to select, hide, and assign materials to objects inside proxies. You can even create rules to easily modify multiple objects at once.

Full list of New Features >

Free Trial

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