The all-in-one visualization solution for Rhino and Grasshopper, V-Ray for Rhino is a 3D rendering software that combines real-time and photoreal rendering into one complete suite of visualization tools. From architecture to product design, it’s everything you need to bring your next design project to life.
V-Ray Next for Rhino is much more than a do-it-all renderer that creates gorgeous images of your designs. See your Rhino designs like never before. Visualize in real-time with V-Ray Vision. Light scenes automatically with Light Gen. Apply finishing touches to your photoreal renders in the new V-Ray Frame Buffer. And much more.
V-Ray Next for Rhino is compatible with Rhino 6 and Rhino 7. V-Ray for Rhino is supported on Windows only.
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Turn your vision into reality With photorealistic lights, cameras, and materials, rendering with V-Ray is as real as it gets. Communicate and collaborate with confidence, knowing that your designs look just right. |
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Go beyond rendering Introducing all-new tools that let you fine-tune and finish your renders without needing an extra app. Composite render layers, make color corrections, and instantly adjust lighting in the new V-Ray Frame Buffer. |
Elevate your designs Choose from a collection of smart assets — including high-quality models of plants, people, vehicles and furniture — and give your project real-world context. The all-new Chaos® Cosmos asset browser lets you easily place render-ready 3D content right into your Rhino scene. |
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Seamless Grasshopper integration Visualize your parametric designs on the fly. V-Ray for Grasshopper comes with V-Ray for Rhino and includes a collection of nodes to support V-Ray geometry, lighting, materials, rendering, and animation. |
The latest release of V-Ray for Rhino packs new tools for you to build designs more effectively, as well as new ways to create stakeholder presentations and engage them. Build detailed scenes without worrying about performance with the new scattering tool. Add stickers or markings to any surface with the V-Ray Decal. Use V-Ray Vision to share your designs through animations or even interactive 3D apps. Plus, take advantage of a number of powerful additions to V-Ray for Grasshopper like Scatter, Chaos Cosmos, IES lights components, and more.
Scatter Quickly create realistic terrain for your models with the new scattering tool. Easily add hundreds, thousands or even millions of Chaos Cosmos models and objects to any surface without worrying about memory resources—then edit their density, size, and orientation for complete control. |
Chaos Vantage Live Link Now, you can navigate your most complicated scenes in pure ray-traced real-time without any setup. Explore your model’s true materials and lighting, and easily output animations and images. Learn more |
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Chaos Cosmos materials With the addition of materials to Cosmos, there’s never been a better time to try out our collection of render-ready 3D content. We’ve included 200 new materials for your next project, including tiles, wooden floors, terrain, and more. They’re ready to use—but you can edit their color, bump, gloss, and more. |
V-Ray Material improvements With updates to the V-Ray Material, it’s easy to create realistic translucent and transparent materials such as glass. Plus, you can create materials such as plastic and wax quickly and easily via SSS and Volumetric translucency modes. |
Decals V-Ray Decal can help bring projects to life with unique materials that can be applied to objects of any shape. Create stickers on vehicles, labels on products, or graffiti on walls. |
More artistic control in post Add a photographic touch when polishing your final renders with sharpen and blur in the V-Ray Frame Buffer. |
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In order to work properly, your copy of V-Ray Next for Rhino — Workstation License requires:
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A V-Ray Next for Rhino major version has active SOFTWARE SUPPORT & MAINTENANCE from its release date to the following next major release date. During the SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE stage Chaos will:
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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:
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
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CPU: Intel Core i7 |
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Love V-Ray! HATE the dongle. You guys need to get rid of that antiquated method of controlling the license.
Novedge didn't put a license on key dongle the sent me as was suppose to be their policy for a commercial license. I floundered for a week wasting time (and $)with different answers from every IT rep, then finally I live chatted with Chaos group in Bulgaria and they said " oh you dont have a license, heres one" and it was fixed. The best I got from Novedge was "once again Sir, I'm sorry Im dealing with user problems all the time, you probably installed it wrong, try re-installing." Dear BruceWe are very sorry about the delay you experienced. We already refunded the cost of the dongle. We are committed to giving all our customers the best support we can and we'll continue to review and improve our service. Thank you for sending your feedback.-- The Novedge Team
Not sure how good it is, we've had it for three weeks and it still doesnt work. Problem is Customer Service is out of Country and it takes many days to get a response. Any solution they have suggested hasnt worked, and then we have to wait another few days for the next suggestion. Terrible.
v-ray for rhino is great engine to render models and designs on rhino. Although v-ray is quit sophisticated in terms of its render properties, it produces quit sophisticated images. I would highly recommend using v-ray for rhino over other programs because the images produces are quit facinating in terms of quality and details.
I love, is perfect. Amazing!
Love V-Ray! HATE the dongle. You guys need to get rid of that antiquated method of controlling the license.
Novedge didn't put a license on key dongle the sent me as was suppose to be their policy for a commercial license. I floundered for a week wasting time (and $)with different answers from every IT rep, then finally I live chatted with Chaos group in Bulgaria and they said " oh you dont have a license, heres one" and it was fixed. The best I got from Novedge was "once again Sir, I'm sorry Im dealing with user problems all the time, you probably installed it wrong, try re-installing." Dear BruceWe are very sorry about the delay you experienced. We already refunded the cost of the dongle. We are committed to giving all our customers the best support we can and we'll continue to review and improve our service. Thank you for sending your feedback.-- The Novedge Team
Not sure how good it is, we've had it for three weeks and it still doesnt work. Problem is Customer Service is out of Country and it takes many days to get a response. Any solution they have suggested hasnt worked, and then we have to wait another few days for the next suggestion. Terrible.
v-ray for rhino is great engine to render models and designs on rhino. Although v-ray is quit sophisticated in terms of its render properties, it produces quit sophisticated images. I would highly recommend using v-ray for rhino over other programs because the images produces are quit facinating in terms of quality and details.
I love, is perfect. Amazing!
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