V-Ray 5 for 3ds Max - Educational

V-Ray for 3ds Max is a production-proven rendering software. Known for its versatility and ability to handle any type of project — from massive, dynamic scenes having thousands of lights to a sublime still life - it is the go-to solution for artists and designers across 3D industries.

Highlights

Go Beyond Rendering

Post-process your projects in V-Ray:

Explore Creativity Without Limits

Optimize your workflow:

MATERIAL MANAGER Efficiently browse from a library of over 500 render-ready materials including metals, glass, wood and more.	MATERIAL PRESETS Save time creating common materials with presets for aluminum, chrome, glass and more. Presets for most used hair colors have also been added.	MATERIAL PREVIEWS New rendered material swatches show you exactly what your materials will look like.
COAT LAYER Add reflective coatings directly in the updated V-Ray Material, saving you both material creation and rendering time vs. using Blend material.	SHEEN LAYER Create soft microfiber fabrics like velvet, satin and silk with the new Sheen options in the updated V-Ray Material.	TEXTURE RANDOMIZATION Add variety to your scene with the new VRayUVWRandomizer map and enhanced VRayMultiSubTex controls.
STOCHASTIC TEXTURE TILING Automatically remove texture tiling artifacts with the new Stochastic tiling option on the VRayUVWRandomizer.	EXTENDED V-RAY DIRT Weathered streaks and dirt in crevices are now easy with the enhanced V-Ray Dirt, which now employs both ambient and inner occlusion.	NEW SUN AND SKY MODEL Reproduce the subtleties of twilight when the sun is below the horizon with the new Sun and Sky model.

And More:

Features

Rendering

• CPU AND GPU RENDERING - Powerful CPU and GPU rendering built for the demands of high-end production. V-Ray GPU CUDA renders on CPUs as well as GPUs to take full advantage of all hardware.
• DENOISING - Automatically remove noise and reduce render times with V-Ray or NVIDIA AI denoiser.
• CHAOS CLOUD - Render scenes directly to the cloud with a push of a button.
• RESUMABLE RENDERING - You can stop your render at any point and pick up where you left off.
• DEBUG SHADING - Easily isolate textures, materials and geometry to help debug large shading networks in V-Ray IPR and V-Ray GPU IPR.

Lighting and Illumination

• ADAPTIVE LIGHTS - Faster, cleaner and more accurate rendering in scenes containing many lights and image-based environment lighting.
• LIGHTING ANALYSIS TOOLS - Accurately measure the light levels in your scene using the lighting analysis tools.
• ACCURATE LIGHTS - Simulate any type of natural, artificial, or image-based lighting with a wide range of light types.
• GLOBAL ILLUMINATION - Choose from several global illumination options – exact, approximate or a hybrid of both.

Cameras and Optical Effects

• LENS EFFECTS - Fast and accurate simulation of real-world camera lens effects like bloom and glare with dust and scratches. Fine-tune lens effects interactively while you render.
• POINT & SHOOT CAMERA - Perfect renders are as easy as taking a snapshot with the Automatic Exposure and White Balance settings.
• PHOTOREALISTIC CAMERAS - Real-world camera controls let you work like a photographer. Render images with detailed depth of field and cinematic motion blur.
• VIRTUAL REALITY - Experience your project in virtual reality. Create content for popular VR headsets with 6x1 cubic and spherical stereo camera types.

Materials

• PHYSICAL HAIR MATERIAL - Render more realistic-looking hair with accurate highlights. Use melanin color as a base and Glint and Glitter controls for additional highlights.
• METALNESS - The V-Ray Material adds support for PBR shaders with the Metalness reflection controls.
• PHYSICALLY BASED MATERIALS - From multilayered car paint to accurate subsurface scattering and in the aLsurface shader, you can create any material imaginable.
• V-RAY TOON SHADER - Quickly add cartoon and cel-shading effects to your 3D projects.
• VRSCANS MATERIAL LIBRARY SUPPORT - 1000+ scanned materials. Import and render directly in V-Ray.

Textures

• MEMORY-EFFICIENT TEXTURES - Work with production-ready, multi-resolution tiled textures from your favorite applications, like MARI, Mudbox and ZBrush.
• TRIPLANAR MAPPING - Quickly apply seamless textures without UVs.
• ROUNDED CORNERS - Generate perfectly smooth edges at render-time — with no extra modeling.

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.
• CLIPPER WITH RENDER-TIME BOOLEANS - Create complex cutaways and sections using any mesh object.
• HAIR & FUR - Render realistic hair efficiently and flicker-free. V-Ray includes procedural fur, optimized hair shaders, and supports 3ds Max Hair And Fur, HairFarm and Ornatrix.
• SPECIALTY GEOMETRY - Create unique geometry like infinite planes, metaballs and isosurfaces, particles, and object cutaways with render-time booleans.

Atmospheric and Volumetric Effects

• VOLUME RENDERING - Render fog, smoke and atmospheric effects that respond correctly to light. Bring in volume grid caches from Houdini, FumeFX and Phoenix FD.
• AERIAL PERSPECTIVE - Simulate natural-looking skies with realistic atmospheric depth.

Render Elements

• RENDER ELEMENTS - Choose from nearly 40 unique beauty, utility and matte passes to give you more control over your rendered images in compositing.
• CRYPTOMATTE - Auto-create ID mattes with support for transparency, depth of field and motion blur.

Educational License Features

V-Ray Next for 3ds Max 1-Year Edu (Student) License by Chaos Group.

V-Ray for 3ds Max for Students: Advanced Ray-Tracing for 3ds Max. Includes one floating user license, one floating render node license.

Edu Proof

Proof of Academic Status

An educational institution, or a student/staff member at the institution, may use V-Ray Educational licenses for educational purposes only and not for commercial for-profit work, transfer, or resale.

Student/Teacher Educational license
A "Student/Teacher" is a person who can confirm enrollment/employment at a degree-granting educational institution. Students and staff must present current student ID or current proof of employment at the educational institution to purchase a license.

Universities/Educational Institutions licenses
"Universities/Educational institutions" are defined as those dedicated to education, including a public or private, school or a two-year or four-year college or university or career school that is accredited by a state or other appropriate governmental agency or organization. An educational institution is not a government or nonprofit agency, a commercial customer, a corporate training environment, or other training program or center that serves commercial or professional customers. Universities/Educational institutions must purchase software with documentation issued by the institution.

Sending the Proof
Information regarding where to send your Proof of Educational Status will be automatically e-mailed to you upon receipt of your order. You can also check our Educational Orders FAQ.

Technical Support
Novedge does not provide technical support for educational versions of the software. If you need technical support please refer to the manufacturer website for additional information.

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HW Specs

Recommended System Specification

Manufacturer's system requirements are generally the bare minimum that you need to run the software and insufficient for effective and productive operation of the product.

Our suggested "real world" mid-range desktop system key specifications to properly run V-Ray are as follows:

• CPU: Intel Core i5
• Memory: 16GB
• Graphics Card: NVIDIA QUADRO P620
• Hard Drive: 500GB NVMe
• Operating System: Windows 10 Pro

Novedge, in partnership withHigh Speed Computing, can also provide the perfect hardware for your design needs,pre-installed with your software, at a very competitive price. Contact us to discuss custom-configured workstations and laptops.

Suggested Workstation

Silver 3D Workstation CPU: Intel Core i7 Memory: 16GB Hard Drive: 500GB NVMe Graphics Card:NVIDIA QUADRO P1000

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