Chaos V-Ray

Professional 3D rendering software for Cinema 4D artists and designers

V-Ray for Cinema 4D puts industry-standard technology for photorealistic 3D rendering into the hands of Cinema 4D artists and designers. With smart tools and powerful rendering capabilities, V-Ray’s combination of speed and creative control is perfect for any project.

Bring ideas to life

With V-Ray’s complete set of lighting, shading, and award-winning rendering tools, you can bring any idea to life.

Built to handle it all

Built to handle your biggest projects, including scenes with massive amounts of geometry and thousands of lights.

Get the job done with ease

Artist-friendly tools and an intuitive interface help you work smarter, making it easy to get the job done.

Render fast

V-Ray’s GPU and CPU rendering capabilities boost any production speed. With fast interactive rendering, you’ll see the changes to your scene rendered on the fly.

Ready to scale

Harness the power of multiple computers to render high-resolution images with V-Ray’s distributed rendering. Or take your rendering to the cloud with direct access to Chaos Cloud.

Go beyond rendering

V-Ray 5 is more than a renderer. Built-in compositing and interactive light mixing let you fine-tune and finish your renders in the V-Ray Frame Buffer without going to a separate app.

What’s new in V-Ray 6 for Cinema 4D

V-Ray Decal

Add anything from stickers and labels to cracks, stains, and scratches in just a few clicks. Project V-Ray Decals onto surfaces at any angle without extra UVW work or disturbing the underlying materials. Turn on displacement for even more realism.

V-Ray Enmesh

Tile 3D geometry patterns across objects to create complex surfaces with lots of detail for stunning close-up shots. Enmesh is ideal for creating intricate panels, fences, fabrics, and so much more, and it uses much less memory than displacement or copying by hand.

Procedural Clouds

Create the perfect sky for your environment in just a few clicks with V-Ray Sun and Sky’s new procedural cloud system. Easily simulate various cloud types and weather conditions, from partly cloudy to overcast. Render realistic stills or dynamic timelapse.

Particle rendering support

Quickly render particles based on different conditions such as size, speed, color, and many more. Achieve a wide variety of effects — from splashes and foam to bubbles and sparks.

V-Ray 6 for 3ds Max Update supports the latest version of 3ds Max 2024, with MarerialX support and USD for 3ds Max. See Update Details for more

Go beyond rendering

Chaos V-Ray for 3ds Max is the world’s most complete 3D rendering software for high-end visualization and production.

V-Ray for 3ds Max is 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.

V-Ray 6 for 3ds Max brings in scattering, memory-efficient 3D geometry pattern tiling across objects, procedural clouds, cloud collaboration, and much more.

Award-winning rendering technology for any project.

For truly photorealistic renders, you want a raytracer that’s built for quality, optimized for speed, and ready to scale. V-Ray gives you the power to work with lightning-fast interactive and heavyweight production rendering—all while getting the most from your CPU and GPU hardware.

Built to handle your toughest scenes.

When you’re working with the biggest scene you’ve ever seen, you need a renderer that won’t let you down. Billions of polygons? Thousands of lights? V-Ray can handle it all. Render anything and everything with V-Ray. Adaptive Lights, Proxy Objects, Distributed Rendering — an arsenal of production-proven features when you need them.

Post-process your renders without the need for a separate tool.

V-Ray equips you with a complete set of lighting, shading, and rendering tools—all integrated with 3ds Max. The redesigned V-Ray Frame buffer with light mixing and layered compositing means you only need to use one tool for more than just rendering — no need to go back and forth between different apps.

Free up your machine with quick and easy cloud rendering.

Turn your computer into a supercomputer with easy access to cloud rendering directly from V-Ray. Keep working on your designs and render them on the cloud.

Work seamlessly with other software.

V-Ray is compatible with all the most popular 3ds Max plugins — Substance, Forest Pack, Railclone, Ornatrix, Tyflow, Phoenix FD, and more. V-Ray is also the perfect fit for any pipeline with support for open standards such as Alembic, OSL, OpenColorIO, and now ACEScg.

The world’s most complete rendering software for animation and visual effects.

For 3D artists who need a fast and flexible renderer, V-Ray for Maya – Rental Options is built for speed, and designed for production. No matter the project, V-Ray delivers when it matters most.

Create without limits.

Generate complex geometric surfaces for stunning close-up shots at no extra memory cost. Create custom skies for your environments with ease. Take your product design and HDRI renders to the next level. Speed up your projects’ reviews and approvals by taking them to the cloud. Get data to optimize your scenes for even faster rendering. Free up your creative time with a number of workflow and performance enhancements. And more.

Emmy and Academy Award-winning rendering technology.

V-Ray is production-proven. For more than a decade, the world’s leading studios have used V-Ray to render over 400 television series and feature films. In 2017, V-Ray’s ray tracing technology received a Sci-Tech Academy Award for its contribution to photorealistic visual effects. In 2021, V-Ray was awarded an Engineering Emmy for advancing the use of fully ray-traced rendering.

High-powered rendering at any scale.

Take full advantage of your hardware with production rendering that scales on multiple CPUs, GPUs, or both. You can even render a single image across multiple machines with distributed rendering.

Seamless integration with your pipeline.

V-Ray works seamlessly with Maya and your studio pipeline. This includes support for MASH, Bifrost-USD, and MayaUSD, as well as your favorite Maya plugins, including Golaem, Massive, Ornatrix, Chaos Phoenix, Yeti, and more. V-Ray for Maya is also compatible with ACEScg, Alembic, OpenVDB, and OpenColorIO industry standards.

Easy to deploy and customize.

V-Ray is easy to deploy on any Windows, macOS, or Linux network and offers flexible licensing options for you to choose from. The bundled V-Ray Standalone renders scenes directly with V-Ray, which is perfect for headless render-farm nodes.

V-Ray for Maya also includes two software development kits to customize your rendering workflow. For example, you can write custom shaders with the V-Ray SDK (C++) or build custom pipeline tools with the V-Ray App SDK (Python).

What’s new in V-Ray 6 for Maya

Generate complex geometric surfaces for stunning close-up shots at no extra memory cost. Create custom skies for your environments with ease. Take your product design and HDRI renders to the next level. Speed up your projects’ reviews and approvals by taking them to the cloud. Get data to optimize your scenes for even faster rendering. Free up your creative time with a number of workflow and performance enhancements. And more.

The ultimate solution for SketchUp rendering

V-Ray® for SketchUp is a 3D rendering software that combines real-time and photorealistic rendering — all in SketchUp. From beginner to pro, Chaos® V-Ray has all the tools you need to create stunning architectural renders and animations.

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.

See your designs in real-time.

Seeing your Sketchup designs in real-time has never been easier. Now with V-Ray Vision, you can visualize your designs in real time while you work in SketchUp. Move around your model, apply materials, and set up lights and cameras — all in a live real-time view of your scene. You can also package your V-Ray Vision result for others to experience as you did in SketchUp.

Create photorealistic renders

With true-to-life lights, cameras, and materials, rendering with V-Ray is as real as it gets. For any project, you can see exactly how it will look. It’s as close as you can come to the real thing before it’s built.

Bring your scenes to life.

Employ our curated collection of smart assets — including high-quality models of furniture, accessories, vegetation, and people — and stage your project with just a few clicks. The all-new Chaos Cosmos asset browser lets you easily drop render-ready 3D content right into your SketchUp scene.

Get a headstart on your next project.

V-Ray comes with hundreds of ready-to-render materials that you can apply to any scene and access to an extensive library of video tutorials, free technical support, and helpful forums. In fact. V-Ray has one of the largest visualization communities, with a world of community-created content that’s readily available.

Chaos V-Ray is the ultimate power-up for SketchUp.

V-Ray and SketchUp are the perfect team. SketchUp is, of course, the world’s most widely used 3D modeling software for architecture and design. And V-Ray is the world’s #1 rendering software for architectural visualization. In other words, the two together are the perfect combo to take your designs to the next level.

What’s new in Version 6 for SketchUp

V-Ray does everything when you’re ready to create photorealistic renderings and animations. And now, V-Ray 6 for SketchUp lets you do even more. Powerful new tools let you create detailed geometric patterns and beautiful custom skies. New and improved materials boost rendering speeds and realism. And cloud collaboration and Enscape compatibility bring teams together like never before.

Real-time and photoreal rendering in one.

V-Ray for Rhino lets you accomplish more than ever before.

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 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.

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 to render layers, make color corrections, and instantly adjust the 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 in V-Ray 6 for Rhino

V-Ray 6 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 time-lapses with the new procedural cloud system. Create more complex and more realistic materials with just a few clicks. And more.

Now better than ever.

With V-Ray 5 for Unreal, it’s never been faster or easier to take your V-Ray scenes into Unreal’s real-time engine. Chaos’ smart technology gives you our most flexible and efficient light baking workflow to date, while effortlessly handling the material conversion.

V-Ray for Unreal is a plug-in for Unreal Engine (UE) Editor that allows you to import your V-Ray scenes from 3ds Max, Maya, and SketchUp directly to Unreal Engine Editor for rendering. To point out, V-Ray for Unreal maintains data consistency. In other words, your original materials from V-Ray for 3ds Max, Maya, and SketchUp remain connected to their real-time versions. To explain, call them up when you’re ready to render. Use V-Ray for Unreal for light baking. In addition, use it for the rendering of native UE scenes or of 3rd party data that has been imported to Unreal Engine Editor with Epic’s own Datasmith.

Custom light baking controls

V-Ray 5 gives you a new level of control over light baking. Now, in addition to Preview, Medium, and High-quality presets, you can completely customize your render settings. This means you can fine-tune global illumination, sampling, and noise levels so they’re optimized for your specific project.

Post-processing is built in.

V-Ray 5 introduces a new Frame Buffer with post-processing controls built-in. You can make color corrections, combine render elements, and add finishing touches without the use of a third-party image editor. This saves you time and helps you get the perfect look straight from your renderer.

Coat layer

A new Coat layer has been added to the V-Ray Material. In summary, it makes it easy for you to create materials with reflective coatings like coated metal and lacquered wood.

Respect pivot points

Now when you import objects with V-Ray for Unreal, their pivot points will remain unchanged. In previous versions, pivot points were placed at the world origin.

Selective export to V-Ray scene

Select any objects in your scene and export them as a V-Ray scene. This makes it easy to transfer assets to other V-Ray applications.

Intel Open Image Denoise

For users without an NVIDIA graphics card, the Intel Open Image Denoise uses your CPU to reduce noise during interactive rendering.

Blue noise sampling

With blue noise sampling, your rendered image will appear cleaner using the same amount of samples. This is especially noticeable when rendering motion blur and depth of field effects.

Initial out-of-core support

V-Ray 5 adds initial support for rendering large scenes that exceed your GPU memory.

Tight integration for a smooth workflow.

Houdini 19.5 and Solaris support. Make use of Houdini 19.5 features such as the Hydra Hair procedural, Solaris Render Region, and many more — now supported by V-Ray. Plus, a fully-featured V-Ray Hydra delegate for Solaris.

Enhanced Volumetric Rendering

Generate more realistic volumetric effects such as clouds, smoke, and more, with support for anisotropic scattering also known as Phase Function for volumetric rendering. Easily create masks for volumetrics with the new option to export Cryptomatte elements without using the Volumetric Geometry mode.

Enhanced volumetric rendering

Chaos Cosmos

Bring your scenes to life with Chaos Cosmos, our free library of high-quality V-Ray content. With its collection of high-resolution materials, beautiful HDR environments, and render-ready 3D models such as plants, trees, bushes, and more, Chaos Cosmos is a great resource for your next project. Learn more about Chaos Cosmos. Chaos Cosmos

Procedural clouds

Customize just the right clouds for your environment without spending hours browsing through HDRI libraries. V-Ray Sun and Sky’s new procedural clouds system helps you achieve the perfect look and animate your clouds for impressive time-lapses in a simple and memory-efficient way. Procedural Clouds

Ocean rendering

Create the perfect ocean waves with native support for Houdini’s ocean tools. With more control than ever, you can render Houdini’s oceans faster, without the need for texture baking.

Ocean Rendering

V-Ray Enmesh

Repeat geometry across the surface of an object in the most memory-efficient way possible. In just a few clicks, you can create complex surfaces with lots of detail such as chain mail, car grilles, metal grids, panels, fences, fabrics, and so much more, as if geometry was a texture.

V-Ray Decal with Displacement

You can now use V-Ray Decal to add displacement to any surface for even more realistic cracked walls, rocks, scratched and rusty surfaces, embossed lettering, and more. You can also instance your Decals for an advanced material bombing workflow.

Finite Dome Light mode.

Elevate your HDRI environment renders with the new, more flexible ground projection capabilities of the V-Ray Dome Light. Set the scale of your light, and enjoy full control over blend settings with the new Finite Dome mode.

V-Ray 5 for Nuke offers powerful rendering for compositing artists.

Chaos V-Ray for NUKE offers powerful ray-traced rendering for the VFX industry’s #1 compositing application.

Quality

Top artists and studios use V-Ray every day to render world-class imagery and visual effects.

Power

Equally important, V-Ray adds production-proven lighting, shading, and rendering capabilities to NUKE’s powerful compositing toolset.

Speed

Save time by making look development decisions on the fly, and output final frames faster by rendering directly in post-production.

Creative Control

V-Ray for NUKE gives you full control over lighting, shadows, reflections, and more, similarly, without the need to send it back to 3D.

Smart Integration

Furthermore, V-Ray fits seamlessly into NUKE’s native node-based workflow.

An Industry Standard

Additionally, V-Ray’s Academy Award-winning ray-traced renderer in Nuke’s industry-standard compositing application gives artists the best of both worlds.