V-Ray Next for Katana is powerful, production-focused rendering tool brings smarter, faster and even more powerful rendering to meet the needs of professional look development and lighting artists.
New features in V-Ray Next for Katana include the new Adaptive Dome Light, streamlined lighting setup, Cryptomatte render elements, Denoise render elements, improved inline documentation, plus much more. What's more, it also now works with Universal Render Nodes.
Quality- Production-proven CPU & GPU rendering for high-end VFX and animation.
Power- Built to handle the most demanding projects and visual effects pipelines.
Speed- Highly optimized adaptive ray tracing for superior speed and scalability.
Creative control- Full suite of lighting, shading and rendering tools for complete creative control.
Smart integration- Seamless Houdini integration and compatibility with other V-Ray applications.
Industry standard- Academy Award-winning renderer used on over 200 feature films.
What's New
V-Ray Next for Katana Get smarter, faster and more powerful rendering with V-Ray Next for Katana — now supporting Katana 3 & the new Hydra Viewer.
Adaptive Dome Light - Faster, cleaner and more accurate image-based environment lighting based on V-Ray Scene Intelligence.
Criptomatte Render Elements - Automatically generate ID mattes with support for transparency, depth of field and motion blur.
Streamlined Lighting Setup- New V-Ray Light creation menu and streamlined UI controls make lighting setup fast and easy.
Denoise Render Elements- Denoise individual render elements for added control in compositing. Denoised elements seamlessly recompose into a denoised beauty pass. Animation is supported.
New Physical Hair Material - Creating realistic hair materials is easier than ever with melanin-based color and glint and glitter highlight controls.
Improved Inline Documentation - Inline documentation is improved throughout and is now available for all lights, as well as several shaders and V-Ray nodes.
Metalness - The V-Ray Material adds support for PBR shaders with new Metalness reflection controls.
Key Features
POWERFUL PRODUCTION RENDERING - V-Ray for Katana delivers highly-optimized, adaptive ray traced rendering to meet the demands of professional animation and VFX. Render true cinematic quality with global illumination, depth of field and motion blur.
MASSIVE SCENES - V-Ray for Katana is built to handle huge workloads and massive scenes with heavy geometry and textures. V-Ray supports Katana’s native workflows and adds optimized instancing for even more performance.
GLOBAL ILLUMINATION - Choose from ray traced (unbiased) and hybrid (biased) global illumination methods for the best balance of quality and speed.
PHYSICAL LIGHTS - Simulate realistic natural, artificial, and image-based lighting with a wide range of light types and shapes, including area lights, mesh lights and more.
PHYSICALLY-BASED MATERIALS - Create physically-based materials with multiple layers – now with GGX highlights. And choose from a variety of purpose-built shaders for specialized materials.
OUT-OF-CORE TILED TEXTURES - Work with production-ready, multiresolution tiled textures in memory-efficient TX and OpenEXR formats.
V-RAY SCENE WORKFLOW - Bring in complete shading networks for V-Ray materials built in Autodesk Maya and 3ds Max. Export and render V-Ray scene files with V-Ray Standalone.
CHARACTERS & CREATURES - Create photoreal characters and creatures with V-Ray’s optimized tools and shaders for skin, ray traced SSS, hair and fur.
VOLUME RENDERING - Import OpenVDB, Field 3D, and PhoenixFD files with the V-Ray Volume Grid, and fine-tune rendered output with V-Ray's versatile volume shader.
RENDER ELEMENTS - Select from over 30 built-in render elements for complete control in compositing.
Specs
Installation Requirements
In order to work properly, your copy of V-Ray Next for Katana — 1-Month Rental requires Foundry Katana.
Support & Maintenance
A V-Ray Next for Katana major version has active SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE from 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.
A V-Ray Next for Katana major version has active SOFTWARE SUPPORT from its release date to the release date of the next two major versions. During the SOFTWARE SUPPORT stage Chaos Group will:
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.
