V-Ray for 3ds Maxis 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
V-Ray 5 lets you do more with your renderer than ever before.
Composite renders and interactively relight your scenes in the new V-Ray Frame Buffer.
Set up materials fast with new presets and over 500 ready-made shaders.
V-Ray 5 helps you save time and make your renders look even better — both on the CPU or GPU.
Go Beyond Rendering
Post-process your projects in V-Ray:
LIGHT MIXING
Explore lighting possibilities interactively in real-time. Use LightMix in the new V-Ray Frame Buffer to freely experiment with lighting changes after you render, save out permutations, and push back improvements you’d like to have in your scene.
LAYERED COMPOSITING
The new Layer compositor lets you fine-tune and finish your images directly in the new V-Ray Frame Buffer — without the need for a separate post-processing app.
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:
LIGHT PATH EXPRESSIONS
Use the behavior of light, rather than just geometry, to produce flexible masks for very efficient compositing. Built-in presets make getting started easy, while scripting is there for ultimate control.
BLUE-NOISE SAMPLING
Achieve better noise distribution with fewer samples.
NATIVE ACESCG SUPPORT
Select industry-standard ACEScg for rendering with automatic color space adjustment for textures, dispersion, sun & sky, and light temperature colors.
INITIAL OUT-OF-CORE
Initial out-of-core implementation to handle your largest scenes.
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.
Specs
Installation Requirements
In order to work properly, your copy ofV-Ray Next for 3ds MaxWorkstation Licenserequires:
Autodesk 3ds Max 3ds Max: Realize your most complex, creative ideas.
Support & Maintenance
AV-Ray Next for 3ds Maxmajor version has activeSOFTWARE SUPPORT & MAINTENANCEfrom its release date to the following next major release date. During the SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE stage Chaos Group will:
Release minor updates including patches, bug fixes, service packs, enhancements, new minor features, and platform compatibility updates.
Provide support and technical assistance to clients.
Provide software builds for download.
Trial Download
V-Ray Free Trial Software Download
Download and test V-Ray before you make your purchasing decision.
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.
