V-Ray 6 for Revit - Upgrade

Highlights

V-Ray for Revit is the most comprehensive rendering toolset for photorealistic rendering in Revit. As well as handling every task requiring physically correct lighting and materials, V-Ray now gives you even more. Easily create cloudy skies and animate beautiful timelapses. Place decals without limitations. V-Ray 6 boosts team collaboration by letting you bring Enscape data inside V-Ray, and review renders on Chaos Cloud.

Unify your visualization workflow

Enscape to V-Ray compatibility If your team is using Enscape for design development in Revit, this is the news you’ve been waiting for: V-Ray now reads Enscape cloud settings, materials, and compatible assets, allowing Revit designers and visualization specialists to collaborate like never before. Enscape clouds are transferred to illuminate your model in its true lighting. Enscape clouds are transferred to illuminate your model in its true lighting. You can apply V-Ray properties to Enscape materials to take them to photorealism or substitute them with V-Ray ones. 3D models can be replaced with higher-quality equivalents without starting from scratch. With this compatibility, early design intent is kept and arch-viz specialists can build on the work in a smooth handover.

Review and approve anytime, anywhere Sharing your work for approval is now simplified by Chaos Cloud Collaboration. Upload renders and 360 panoramas, collect and track feedback, and access project files from any device, any time you need them.

New workflows for improved efficacy 

V-Ray Decal Apply graffiti, road markings, autumn leaves, or other unique materials onto surfaces. And add realistic relief using displacement.	Procedural clouds Cirrus, stratus, or cumulus? Enrich your skies with exactly the clouds you envision and animate their movement in solar study animations.
Finite Dome light Embed your model into an HDR image environment and tune the scale of the surroundings to perfection.	Asset tags Group families and materials with the new tagging system to manage complex projects more efficiently.

Better materials

Realistic Generic materials Visualize native Generic materials with improved fidelity and refine them to photorealism in the Asset Editor.	Improved Dirt placement Place dirt or weathering effects exactly where you want them by including and excluding objects.

Enhanced translucent materials Render materials such as frosted glass and marble faster with the improved subsurface scattering mode.	Iridescent materials Create iridescent materials such as soap bubbles, oil spills, and polarized glass with the new Thin Film option.	More accurate reflections Render metals and other rough reflective materials with improved accuracy.

Additional features & improvements

Key Features

Rendering: 

• Enscape compatibility - Transfer your Enscape materials, compatible 3D models, and cloud settings to V-Ray. Build on designers’ work and take your model to the highest level of photorealism.
• Render-ready 3D assets - The integrated asset library, Chaos Cosmos, enables you to search and add render-ready objects to your model directly in Revit. With accurate scale, automatic LODs and interoperability across 3ds Max, SketchUp and Rhino, Chaos Cosmos assets are an essential addition to any Revit pipeline.
• CPU, GPU & Hybrid rendering- V-Ray comes with two powerful rendering engines. You can choose between super-fast GPU and CPU or Hybrid rendering to best suit your project needs and requirements.
• Real-time preview - With V-Ray Vision, you receive real-time high-quality visual feedback of your model as set up materials, lights, and cameras. Alternatively, you can take your design to the next level with Chaos Vantage Live Link, and explore even the most complex model in pure ray-traced real-time.
• Interactive rendering- Render interactively while you design. Fine-tune lights, materials and cameras and see the results right away.
• Denoiser - The NVIDIA AI Denoiser uses artificial intelligence to remove noise in an instant. And the V-Ray Denoiser supports denoising individual render channels to simplify compositing.
• Scene Intelligence- Automatically analyzes your scene to optimize rendering so you get the best quality in less time.
• Chaos Cloud Rendering- Rendering on the Cloud is just one click away.
• V-Ray Swarm- Powerful and scalable distributed rendering system that's simple and fast. Get an extra speed boost with V-Ray Render nodes.
• Render Channels - Choose from many unique beauty, utility and matte passes to give you more control over your rendered images in compositing.
• Settings management- Set up individual lighting, mood, and composition per view in the same Revit model. Easily share render settings across teams and projects.
• Batch rendering - Leave V-Ray to render your project images while you are away. Batch rendering helps you schedule multiple views for rendering with a click of a button.
• Sun animation - V-Ray adds extra realism to Revit’s Solar Study. Explore and visualize the impact of natural light and shadows on your designs across a variety of timespans.

User Interface:

• Seamless integration- V-Ray naturally fits into Revit's UI and complements your Revit workflow without altering your BIM database.
• Asset Editor- Create, edit, save and manage your V-Ray materials all in one place with the new Asset Editor. Various advanced materials give designers even more control to fine-tune their designs.
• Appearance Manager- Take your Revit renders to the next level. With the Appearance Manager, you can set basic Revit assets to automatically switch to more realistic V-Ray assets at render time.
• Frame Buffer- Track history of your rendered images, fine-tune their color parameters and save them directly to your Revit project.
• Chaos Cloud Collaboration - Upload images and image panoramas to Chaos Cloud directly from the VFB, and collaborate with colleagues and clients.
• Asset tags - Add tags to families and materials, and manage complex projects more easily.

Lighting:

• Accurate lighting- Simulate any type of natural, artificial, or image-based lighting.V-Ray automatically converts all Revit lights to V-Ray ones and further extends Revit's lighting capabilities.
• Light Gen - Study your model in different lighting scenarios without the need for lengthy manual setup. Automatically trigger hundreds of natural lighting scenarios, choose the ones you like best and render.
• Light mixing- Experiment and adjust your model’s lighting after you have rendered. Tweak the brightness and color of individual or groups of light sources to find the best rendition for your space.
• Adaptive lights- This lighting algorithm dramatically speeds up rendering in scenes containing many lights. And you can render image-based lighting much faster with the new Adaptive Dome Light. It’s exceptionally quick for interiors and substantially speeds up your rendering.
• Lighting analysis- Easily visualize real-world illumination values (lux) with the new Lighting Analysis render element.
  
• Sun & Sky- Take advantage of our improved sky model to present your design in its best light when the sun is at the horizon. Alternatively, use the sky generation parameters for full creative control.
• Procedural clouds - Add clouds to your V-Ray sky and animate them when exporting solar studies.
• Global Illumination- Render photorealistic rooms and interiors with powerful and fast global illumination.

Camera:

• Real-world cameras- Work like a photographer, with controls for exposure, white balance, depth of field and more.
• Automatic exposure & white balance- Capture the perfect exposure every time. The new Auto Exposure and Auto White Balance camera controls make rendering as simple as point and shoot.
• Lens effects- Add that extra touch of photorealism with real-world camera lens effects such as bloom and glare.
• Virtual Reality- Experience your designs at 1:1 scale. Create content for popular VR headsets with 6x1 cubic and spherical stereo camera types.

Materials and Textures:

• Physical materials- Create great looking materials that look exactly like the real thing.
• V-Ray Decal - Add decals using V-Ray’s flexible system — place them onto any surface, across multiple objects, and even stack them one over the other.
• Native materials support- Render an enhanced version of your Revit materials automatically.
• Decals- Add images to paintings, signs, screens and more. V-Ray Next for Revit adds full support for Revit Decals.
• Contours- Give your model a sketch-like look. Use the global contour settings to create every outline automatically or the Contour material attribute to highlight a certain region.
• Coat & Sheen materials- Use these two new layers to add distinct effects to V-Ray materials. The Coat layer creates polished surfaces while the Sheen layer is perfect for realistic fabrics such as silk or velvet.
• Randomizer- Use the UVW Randomization asset to create realistic materials by randomizing patterns and colors. The Stochastic Tiling functionality removes texture tiling seams.
• Weathering and dirt- Easily add weathering effects to any surface of your model with the V-Ray Dirt texture with complete control over its position and amount.
• Metalness- The V-Ray Material adds native support for metallic reflections (Metalness) for greater compatibility with PBR materials from applications like Substance Designer.
• Texture maps- Create realistic and unique shaders using any texture map or one of V-Ray’s many built-in procedural textures - Gradient, Temperature, Tri-Planar, etc.
• Material overrides- Make the most out of your early designs and get a feel of your project by quickly rendering cardboard models.
• Chaos Scans- 2500+ scanned materials. Import and render directly in V-Ray.

Atmospheric Effects:

• Environment Fog- Quickly add realistic atmospheric depth and haze and use true 3D fog with realistic light scattering.
• Aerial perspective- Simulate natural looking skies with realistic atmospheric depth.
• Volumetric materials- Realistic material light scattering and translucency.

Geometry Management:

• Geometry replacements- Work smart without altering your BIM database. Use your Revit families as stand-ins for all V-Ray objects.
• V-Ray Proxies- Use your Revit families as stand-ins for V-Ray proxy objects. These are memory efficient models of highly detailed objects like trees and cars.
• V-Ray Grass & Fur- Render realistic grass, carpets or fabric.
• Randomize proxy objects - Add variety to your scene entourage such as plants and trees by randomizing the scale and rotation of V-Ray Proxy and V-Ray Scene instances.
• V-Ray Scene - Link and render V-Ray scenes from other applications such as 3ds Max, Rhino, and SketchUp. Share complete ready-to-render V-Ray for Revit files.
• Displacement- Quickly add surface detail without extra modeling. It’s perfect for architectural materials like brick and stone. The displacement asset can be applied to both V-Ray materials and Revit materials.
• Object scattering - Scatter Revit families and Chaos Cosmos assets to create detailed terrain in a memory-efficient way. Use essential randomization parameters such as density, size, and orientation for maximum realism.
• Section Box- Render sections easily with full support for Revit's native section box.
• Infinite Ground Plane- Create context for your project in a click of a button.

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