V-Ray 5 for Houdini - Subscription Renewal

V-Ray for Houdini is a production-proven CPU & GPU rendering software for high-end VFX and animation. It comes with all the tools artists need to render amazing-looking procedural effects. Seamlessly integrated in Houdini, it enables smooth scene exchange and iterations between Houdini and other DCC applications.

Highlights

Academy Award-winning ray tracing technology - V-Ray’s performance is production-proven. It’s been used by the world’s leading studios to render over 300 television series and feature films. In 2017, V-Ray received a Sci-Tech Academy Award for its contribution to photorealistic visual effects. Fast and scalable to help you meet tight deadlines - V-Ray’s adaptive ray tracing is highly optimized for superior speed and scalability. Take full advantage of your hardware rendering on multiple CPUs, & GPUs, or both. With V-Ray’s distributed rendering, you can render a single image across multiple machines.

Smart integration for a smooth workflow - V-Ray works seamlessly with Houdini and enables smooth scene exchange with other DCC applications. ACEScg support is new in V-Ray 5, joining other industry standards like Alembic, OpenVDB, and OpenColorIO. Creative control to render anything imaginable - Bring your projects to life with the right tools for the job. V-Ray equips you with a complete set of lighting, shading, and rendering tools. It's the most full-featured 3D rendering software available.

What's New

LIGHT MIX Easily create different lighting scenarios without having to render again. When you have the look you want, you can save your light mix setup, send the layers to comp, and update the lights in the scene.	SIMPLIFIED ACESCG WORKFLOW Enable ACEScg so V-Ray 5 can automatically convert the colors of textures, light temperatures, etc. to the correct color space, without the need of additional nodes.
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.	NEW LAYER COMPOSITOR V-Ray expanded the capabilities of the VFB. With the VFB’s new Layer Compositor you can fine-tune your images — combine render passes, set blending modes, and adjust colors all within V-Ray.

Key Features

Rendering

• HIGH-PERFORMANCE RAY TRACING - Powerful CPU and GPU-accelerated rendering built for the demands of high-end production.
• INTERACTIVE RENDERING - Interactive look development supported in the Houdini render view.
• VOLUME RENDERING - Fast and accurate rendering of native Houdini volumes and OpenVDB caches.
• MULTI-GPU PRODUCTION RENDERING - GPU bucket rendering with fast multi-GPU performance and support for Cryptomattes.
• UNIFIED WORKFLOW FOR CUSTOM ATTRIBUTES - Control custom attributes of geometry (including splines and particles) with the User Color node.
• DEBUG SHADING - Isolate selected textures and materials to help debug large shading networks in IPR.
• CHAOS CLOUD RENDERING - Simple, one-click solution to submit jobs to render on the Chaos Cloud.

Lighting

• ADAPTIVE DOME LIGHT - Exceptionally fast image-based environment lighting using V-Ray Scene Intelligence.
• ADAPTIVE LIGHTS - Unique method for ultrafast rendering of scenes with hundreds or even thousands of lights.
• GLOBAL ILLUMINATION - Highly optimized indirect lighting with V-Ray's proprietary Light Cache and brute force GI methods.
• LIGHT INSTANCES - Instance lights with full control over per-instance light parameters, without affecting light link settings.

Materials

• V-RAY MATERIAL LIBRARY - Efficiently browse from a library of over 500 render-ready materials including metals, glass, wood and more.
• MATERIAL STYLESHEETS - Support for material overrides* based on groups, bundles and attributes.
  *VEX and per-primitive string overrides such as texture randomization are not yet supported.
• V-RAY SCENE MATERIAL OVERRIDES - Automatically import material node hierarchies from V-Ray scene files and make changes in Houdini.
• PHYSICAL HAIR - Create realistic-looking hair with accurate highlights using the V-Ray Physical Hair material.
  *Currently supports hair as SOP geometry
• PBR MATERIALS - The standard V-Ray Material supports Metalness reflection values for PBR shader workflows.
• ALSURFACE MATERIAL - Physically-based shader with built-in SSS controls, popular for rendering realistic skin.
• GPU MATERIAL ASSIGNMENTS - Per-Primitive Material Assignment is now supported on the GPU, allowing artists to utilize Stylesheets and the Material SOP.
• VRSCANS MATERIAL LIBRARY SUPPORT - 1000+ ultra-realistic physically scanned materials ready to import and render.

Textures

• TEXTURE BAKING - Create texture maps with all the lighting and material information for game assets and real-time environments.
• RANDOMIZED TEXTURES AND COLORS - For more realistic textures and materials, add variety and subtle imperfections with the new VRayUVWRandomizer map and improved VRayMultiSubTex controls.
• CUSTOM ATTRIBUTE TEXTURE PATHS - Simpler randomization of textures with support for per-face and per-primitive string attributes.

Geometry

• V-RAY SCENE EXCHANGE - Transfer and override the properties of V-Ray scenes from other apps like Maya and 3ds Max.
• INSTANCING - Instance any object type (including volumes) using Packed Primitives, Instancer and "instancepath" attributes.
• PACKED PRIMITIVES - Efficient handling of Houdini's native packed primitives for instancing at render time.
• ALEMBIC SUPPORT - Support for Houdini's native Alembic layering, transformations, instancing and per-object material overrides.
• PARTICLES - Drive shader parameters such as color, alpha and particle size through custom per-point attributes.
• V-RAY FUR - Fast rendering of realistic fur and hair with V-Ray Fur.
  
• VRSCENE UNPACKING - Directly import assets from other DCC tools without the need to rebuild materials.
• FASTER TIME TO FIRST PIXEL - Faster geometry export for quick render startup.
• MASSIVE INSTANCING - Memory efficient instancing of large hierarchies of objects.

Atmospheric and Volumetric Effects

• ENVIRONMENT FOG - Quickly simulate the effects of participating media such as fog and atmospheric dust.
• AERIAL PERSPECTIVE - Create natural-looking atmospheric depth as objects fade into the distance.
• VOLUME INSTANCING - Added support for instancing of volumetric effects.

Geometry Management

• RENDER ELEMENTS - Render any set of lights (including wildcard selections) as separate render elements.
• LIGHT SELECT RENDER ELEMENT - Render a wide variety of beauty, utility and matte passes for complete control in compositing.
• CUSTOM AOVS - Smoother export of textures and procedural maps to custom render elements.
• LIGHT PATH EXPRESSIONS - For better control in compositing, construct your own render passes. Output specific light contributions with timesaving presets or by writing custom expressions.

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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 with High 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