V-Ray for 3ds Max Key Features
- HIGHLY-OPTIMIZED RAY TRACING – Render professional-quality, photorealistic images and animation with V-Ray’s adaptive ray tracing technology.
- POWERFUL GPU RENDERING — NOW WITH HYBRID MODE – V-Ray GPU CUDA now renders on CPUs as well as GPUs, to take full advantage of all available hardware.
- V-RAY IPR – Fully interactive production rendering.
- V-RAY DENOISER – Automatically remove noise and cut render times by up to 50%.
- RESUMABLE RENDERING – Stop your render at any point and pick up where you left off.
- GLOBAL ILLUMINATION – Choose from several global illumination options – exact, approximate or a hybrid of both.
- ADAPTIVE LIGHTS – New algorithm that dramatically speeds up rendering in scenes with many lights.
- ACCURATE LIGHTS – Simulate any type of natural, artificial, or image-based lighting. With a wide range of light types, including area lights, physical sun & sky, and IES lights, you can render any lighting scenario.
- PHOTOREALISTIC CAMERAS – Real-world camera controls let you work like a photographer. Render images with detailed depth of field and cinematic motion blur.
- INTERACTIVE LENS EFFECTS – Instantly add GPU-accelerated glare and bloom for added photorealism. Fine-tune lens effects interactively while you render
- VIRTUAL REALITY – Experience your project in virtual reality. Create content for popular VR headsets with 6×1 cubic and spherical stereo camera types.
- PHYSICALLY-BASED MATERIALS – Create any type of physical material. From multilayered car paint to accurate subsurface scattering, you can make any material imaginable.
- ALSURFACE MATERIAL – General-purpose shader by Anders Langlands includes built-in SSS controls; popular for skin.
- GLOSSY FRESNEL – New, physically-accurate reflection model.
- VRSCANS MATERIAL LIBRARY SUPPORT – 650+ scanned materials. Import and render directly in V-Ray.
- MEMORY-EFFICIENT TEXTURES – Work with production-ready, multiresolution 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.
- HAIR & FUR – Render realistic hair efficiently and flicker-free. V-Ray includes procedural fur, optimized hair shaders, and supports 3ds Max Hair&Fur, HairFarm and Ornatrix.
- PROXY GEOMETRY – Render massive scenes with proxy objects. V-Ray proxies efficiently replace complex scene geometry and load only at render time.
- SPECIALTY GEOMETRY – Create unique geometry like infinite planes, metaballs and isosurfaces, particles and object cutaways with render-time booleans.
- CLIPPER WITH RENDER-TIME BOOLEANS – Create complex cutaways and sections using any mesh object.
- VOLUMES – Render fog, smoke and atmospheric effects that respond correctly to light. Bring in volume grid caches from Houdini, FumeFX, and PhoenixFD.
- AERIAL PERSPECTIVE – Simulate natural looking skies with realistic atmospheric depth.
- RENDER ELEMENTS – 37 unique beauty, utility and matte passes give you more control over your rendered images for compositing.
- FULL LIGHT SELECT RENDER ELEMENT – Now with full support for GI, reflections, and refractions for accurate light mixing in post.
- CRYPTOMATTE – Automatically create ID mattes with support for transparency, depth of field, and motion blur.
- V-RAY FRAME BUFFER – Review, analyze and post-process your renders directly in V-Ray’s advanced frame buffer. You can be sure your images will match your final output.
