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Benefits

V-Ray and Enscape compatibility You can now open your real-time Enscape scenes directly in V-Ray to continue building on your work to take it to the highest possible level of photorealism. Your department can now experience a fast and easy end to end design process.
	Visualize in real-time New in V-Ray 5, V-Ray Vision gives you a live real-time view as you build your model, apply materials, and light your Rhino and Grasshopper designs. Now you can visualize any project in real-time while you design. You can also package your V-Ray Vision result for others to experience just like you did in Rhino.
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.
	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.
	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.

What's New

The latest release of V-Ray enables you to take advantage of powerful new ways to collaborate with colleagues and clients. Now, bring an Enscape scene inside V-Ray and take it to photorealism. Share your work and get feedback with Chaos Cloud Collaboration. Add custom clouds and create breathtaking timelapses with the new procedural cloud system. Create more complex and more realistic materials with just a few clicks. And more.

Next level collaboration

V-Ray & Enscape compatibility Now, you can take your real-time Enscape scenes into V-Ray’s photorealistic rendering engine and unlock AEC’s most powerful visualization pipeline. Chaos worked together to ensure Enscape 3D models, lights and materials are fully supported by V-Ray, so your projects develop smoothly with effortless collaboration between designers and visualization specialists.	Chaos Cloud Collaboration Get feedback the easy way with Chaos Cloud Collaboration. Share your images and panoramas directly from the V-Ray Frame Buffer to colleagues and clients anywhere in the world.

Streamline your workflow

Procedural clouds Bring your scene to life with customizable skyscapes. V-Ray 6’s procedural cloud system generates memory-efficient cloudy skies and even gives you the ability to create eyecatching timelapse animations.	V-Ray Enmesh Add patterns over surfaces to create anything from fences to fabrics without breaking a sweat.	Finite Dome light This new V-Ray Dome Light feature makes it easy to add depth and scale to your project’s background when using image-based lighting.

Enhanced material creation

Distance Texture Quickly and easily add realism to your scenes by varying effects such as procedural fur or displacement based on their proximity to other elements. Form mold spots under downpipes or a path through a lawn.	Better translucent materials With improvements to the V-Ray Material’s subsurface scattering mode it’s faster to render translucent materials such as marble and frosted glass.

Enhanced Dirt texture Get more control when placing dirt in your scene by adding or excluding objects	Iridescent materials Oil spills, soap bubbles, and other iridescent surfaces are easy to make with the V-Ray Material’s new Thin Film option.	More accurate reflections V-Ray 6’s new energy preservation technique gives more accurate results from metals and rough reflective materials.

Key Features

Rendering

• Enscape compatibility - Transfer your real-time scenes from Enscape and promote them to the highest level of photorealism. V-Ray supports Enscape materials, material keywords, light sources and compatible assets.
• Real-time rendering - V-Ray Vision gives the power to design and refine in real-time to anyone working in Rhino or Grasshopper. Now, you can explore a real-time view of your scene, set up lights and cameras, and apply materials.
• CPU, GPU and 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.
• Smart 3D assets - V-ray's integrated asset library, Chaos Cosmos, enables you to search and add render-ready objects, materials and HDRI skies to your scene directly from the V-Ray toolbar. Cosmos assets have automatic LODs, accurate scale and can be used across Rhino, 3ds Max, SketchUp, and Revit.
• Denoiser- Remove noise and dramatically cut the render times. With V-Ray Denoiser, you can denoise each render element in post-production. And with the NVIDIA AI Denoiser, V-Ray delivers instant feedback with less noise, while you design interactively.
• Interactive rendering - Render while you design. See results right away as you adjust lights, materials and cameras. You could also look at the denoised image while rendering in the Rhino viewport.
• Resumable rendering - Stop your production renders and continue right where you left off without starting over.
• Render Elements - Render separate layers for more artistic control in image-editing software.
• V-Ray Swarm - Render with maximum power using V-Ray’s new simple and scalable distributed rendering.
• Animations - V-Ray for Rhino enables light studies, turntables and fly-through animations rendering and an optimal way.
• Line rendering - Apply contours to your entire scene or to a separate shader with a single click. Intuitively tweek controls to get the desired appearance.
• Chaos Cloud Rendering - Rendering on the Cloud is just one click away.
• Automating snapshots & batch renders - V-Ray Batch makes it easy to render snapshots from the same project or views from multiple Rhino files all at once.
• Viewport rendering - An overlay on top of Rhino's viewport. It is rendered interactively and if scene changes are made, updates the rendered result.

V-Ray for Grasshopper

• Straightforward workflow. Power functionality - Visualize within the environment you use to model. Use the node system to utilize V-Ray’s powerful functionalities through five Node groups and their components.
• Forget baking - Render generative geometry directly in Grasshopper. Work uninterrupted without the need to bake your designs in Rhino as you iterate.
• Real-time rendering - Add the Live Link component and watch your design update in real-time. Launch Vision for real-time visualization while you model inside Grasshopper. Send your most complex projects to Chaos Vantage for previz in pure ray-traced real-time.
• Cosmos inside Grasshopper - Add render-ready 3D content directly inside your definition. The Cosmos component lets you import and manage a vast and ever-increasing array of 3D models, materials, and HDR images.
• Customizable materials - Start with the basic preset V-Ray material and modify it form the node or with the Asset Editor. Alternatively, use your own materials from previous projects or just employ the vast material library directly.
• Customizable lighting - Utilize V-Ray lights and customize them to move from realistic to stylized. Easily add numerous light sources to find your models’ best appearance.
• Animations - Create, render and export animation sequences right in Grasshopper. Animate the movement of the sun or the camera by employing the V-Ray Graph and Timeline components.
• Scattering - Create a realistically distributed entourage in Grasshopper that materializes in Rhino only after you’re started rendering.
• Lighting analysis - Perform a light intensity evaluation of your project and visualize the results on your render.
• Cameras - Use the V-Ray Camera component to simulate physical camera settings like aperture, shutter speed and ISO. Take advantage of Orthographic or Stereo camera parameters to facilitate your workflow.
• Clipper - Render cross sections or fast cutaways right in Grasshopper. Convert custom meshes to clippers for render time Boolean effects.

Lighting

• Light Gen - Explore the best lighting for your scene without the need for manual setup. Automatically generate hundreds of natural light versions for your exterior or interior.
• Light mixing - Easily fine-tune any light source in your scene after you’re done rendering. Group them, adjust their brightness and color, and create your best presentation.
• Light instances - Lights can be instanced and controlled as a single light in the Asset Editor.
• Global Illumination - Render realistic rooms and interiors with V-Ray’s powerful and fast global illumination.
• Accurate lights - Render natural and artificial lighting with a wide range of built-in light types. Adaptive Lights mode helps you substantially speed up render times in scenes with many light sources.
• Image based lighting - Light your scenes with a single high-dynamic-range image (HDRI) to render faster, cleaner and more accurate image-based lighting. Use the Adaptive Dome Light and remove the need to set up Portal lights for interiors.
• Finite Dome light - Set up the HDRI environment around your model with improved precision with this new V-Ray Dome light mode.
• Sun & Sky - Render realistic daylight for any time and any location. Visualize stunning sunsets and sunrises, and control the sun’s position for maximum artistic effect.
• Procedural clouds - Add procedural clouds to your V-Ray sky and animate them with a flexible and memory-efficient system.
• Lighting analysis tool - This tool makes it easy to to visualize the real-world illumination (Lux) values of any scene.

UI

• Smart Asset Editor - Create, edit and manage all of your assets including lights, materials, textures, geometry and render elements all in one place. All assets are structured in an intuitive folder structure.
• File Manager - Manage all of your scene files in one place. Set file paths, create scene archives, and keep track of assets like textures, IES files, and proxy objects.
• Chaos Cloud Collaboration - Upload images and image panoramas to Chaos Cloud directly from the VFB, and collaborate with colleagues and clients.
• Color picker - A powerful color picker, which provides RGB color values and a corresponding Kelvin temperature slider, allows you to save and modify temperature values for every color slot.
• Frame Buffer - Completely redesigned Frame Buffer upgraded to intuitively handle post-processing tasks like color corrections and compositing among other improvements.
• Accurate viewport previews - Get an accurate preview of your materials in the Rhino viewport with improved reflections, refractions, bump maps and more.
• Power up with scripts - Use RhinoScript and Python to program V-Ray Next to do even more for you, like automating scene management or accessing parameters not shown in the UI.
• Universal asset preview - Preview your materials, lights, textures and render elements in a single viewer. Observe how parameter changes affect the appearance of the asset in a specific isolated setting.
• Texture instancing - Map multiple material parameters with the same source texture to simplify the shader structure and management.
• Asset tags - Group assets using the new tags system in the Asset Editor to improve scene organization in complex projects.

Camera

• Real-world cameras - Work like a photographer with controls for exposure, white balance and depth of field.
• Virtual Reality - Render VR content for popular virtual reality headsets.
• Interactive lens effect - Instantly add GPU-accelerated glare, bloom and procedurally generated dust and scratches for added photorealism. Fine-tune lens effects interactively while you render.
• 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.

Materials and Textures

• Physical materials - Create great looking materials that look exactly like the real thing.
• Procedural textures - Texture NURBS models with ease with a rich set of procedurals that don't require UV unwrapping.
• Native materials support - Render an enhanced version of your Rhino materials without converting them to V-Ray shaders.
• Material library - Download on demand a vast array of high resolution materials. Simply drag and drop to bring realistic textures to your models instantly.
• Material Metalness - The V-Ray Material adds native support for metallic reflections (Metalness) for greater compatibility with PBR materials from applications like Substance Designer.
• Material Coat - Add reflective coating to your material to achieve effects like varnished wood or metallic paint.
• Material Sheen - Create realistic soft fabrics like velvet, silk or satin.
• Randomizer - With the new UVW Placement randomization options, texture coordinates can be randomized to fix patterns and achieve realistic materials.
• Weathering and dirt - Quickly add dirt, control its spread amount and position on the surface of your design.
• Decals - Project unique materials onto objects of any shape and create effects like graffiti on a wall, markings on a road, or logos on a product.
• Distance texture - Vary effects such as displacement or procedural fur based on proximity to create a realistic correlation between the elements in your composition.

Atmospheric and Volumetric Effects

• Fog - Give your scenes depth with new realistic 3D fog and light scattering effects.
• Aerial perspective - Add depth to your images with realistic atmospheric effects.
• Volumetric materials - Realistic material light scattering and translucency.

Geometry Management

• Proxy objects - Add highly detailed and complex objects like grass, trees, and cars with memory-efficient proxy models. Easily add pre-animated 3D objects with animated V-Ray proxies.
• Proxy previews - Control the look of V-Ray proxies in the Rhino viewport. Select from Whole mesh, Bounding box, Point (Origin), Custom preview, and a new low poly Proxy preview mode.
• Displacement - Quickly apply surface detail to a single object or a whole group in your scene. Get materials like brick and stone without the need for extra modeling.
• Grass & fur - Create realistic grass, fabrics and carpet with V-Ray Fur.
• Section cuts - Render quick cutaways and cross sections with V-Ray Clipper.
• Object scattering - Scatter objects and Chaos Cosmos assets to create detailed terrain in a memory-efficient way. Use essential randomization parameters like density, size, and orientation for maximum realism.
• V-Ray Enmesh - Render repeating geometry over object surfaces to create complex geometric forms — perfect for panels, fences, fabrics, and more.
• V-Ray Scene import & export - Import and render V-Ray scenes from other applications such as 3ds Max, Revit, and SketchUp or share complete ready to render V-Ray for Rhino files.

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