V-Ray has single-handedly changed the face of Architectural Visualization. Neoscape has been using it in production since its very first release, and we continue to use it in all of our work. It is full of relevant and robust features, while remaining speedy and easy to use. I can not imagine working without it.

Lon Grohs
Principal/Creative Director
Neoscape, Inc.

V-Ray never ceases to amaze me. It's brilliant output is somehow matched by very efficient rendering speeds. The ability to control minute details of sampling allow the user to optimize scenes to degrees that other renderers pale in comparison on. The amazing support for additional channel data via OpenEXR is also unprecedented. The shading system is straightforward and easy to get into. We can generally teach new artists the VRay setups within a week or so and they are very productive immediately. The support from the development team is so fantastic that there should be some kind of gold medal handed out for it. Very quick responses on bugs and even sometimes features. VRay continues to be a very integral part of a very tuned pipeline that is geared especially towards photographic reality.

Robert Nederhorst
VFX Supervisor
SpeedShape, Santa Monica

I’ve been using V-Ray since 2001 working in Film, TV, Commercials, and since that time it’s the only render engine I have ever needed or wanted to use. V-Ray’s ease of use and speed, coupled with its innovative approach to high end features like Global Illumination, Physically accurate Image based lighting and shaders, makes it the best render solution out there on any platform.

Greg Tsadilas,
VFX Supervisor at Red Magnet

V-Ray 1.5 for Rhino Now Available!

Rendering by Travis Serio

V-Ray 1.5 for Rhino includes many new features and improvements, including real-time rendering using V-Ray RT, optimized image-based lighting with the new Dome Light and efficient memory management using Proxy objects.

New Features:

	V-RayRT - a revolutionary new rendering engine that provides instant feedback and streamlines scene setup. Because V-RayRT is built upon the same robust core as V-Ray, it is seamless to transition between the two.
	Dome Light -provides a simple, artifact-free solution for creating image based lighting. Its powerful importance sampling analyzes HDR images to optimize light tracing and GI precision.
	V-Ray Proxy - indispensable tool for managing scene memory and efficiently rendering massive amounts of geometry. V-Ray Proxy objects are dynamically loaded and unloaded at render time, saving vital RAM resources.
	Lens Effects (Glare / Bloom ) - simulate the natural lens effects that occur when photographing highlights.
	Dispersion - provides the ability to trace and refract light based on its wavelength, creating even more realistic results.
	Retrace Threshold - reduces Light Cache artifacts and improves the appearance of glossy reflections and refractions when using the time-saving feature - Use light cache for glossy rays.
	Ambient Occlusion - generates shading based on an object’s proximity, making it an effective solution for enhancing GI details without significantly increasing render time.

VRayDirt - simulates shading around corners and crevices of objects based on a radial distance. VRayDirt can be used to produce a variety of effects, including ambient occlusion renderings.

Interpolation (Reflections and Refractions) -accelerates rendering by approximating and caching the effects of glossy reflections and refractions.

IES Light - uses photometric data to provide accurate light definition.

Sphere Light - adds a spherical area light to the V-Ray 1.5 for Rhino toolset.

Additional Parameters such as roughness for diffuse BRDFs, along with exit color and max. depth for reflections and refractions, provide new levels of control when creating materials in V-Ray 1.5 for Rhino.

Improved Rhino Integration

V-Ray 1.5 for Rhino supports the RDK Sun and can be used in conjunction with the VRaySun/ Sky system.

V-Ray 1.5 for Rhino supports the 32 and 64 bit versions of Rhino 5.0. as well as the 32 bit version of Rhino 4.0
 

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With support for Softimage's award-winning ICE system, dynamic geometry, and V-Ray Proxy objects, V-Ray for Softimage supports the size and complexity of even the most demanding scenes. Its physically based toolset, including versatile shaders, lights, and cameras, makes it possible to standardize rendering workflow with the quality, speed, and stability of the V-Ray core.

Rendering by Rémi Morisset (AXYZ)

Rendering by Rémi Morisset (AXYZ)

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Rendering by MFX AB

V-Ray 2.0 for Maya Update Now Available

A V-Ray 2.0 for Maya update is now available, offering new hair and fur capabilities, V-Ray RT GPU enhancements, and tighter Maya integration. The update is free for V-Ray 2.0 for Maya customers.

New Hair and Fur Capabilities

• A new VRayHairMtl shader to render hair and fur with unprecedented control, quality, and speed.

• Extra attributes to apply materials to Maya’s native hair.

Rendering by MFX AB

V-Ray RT GPU Enhancements

• V-Ray RT GPU now supports texture-mapped rectangle and mesh lights, simple light portals, and the VRayBlendMtl.

Additional Improvements

• Optimized memory usage and multithreaded performance for dynamic geometry.

• Optimized Irradiance Map and Light Cache to reduce flickering when using time dependent option of the DMC sampler.

• New Flakes material.

• Improved support for standard Maya shading nodes.

Rendering by MFX AB

Installation and Deployment Improvements

• Now Mac OS users can benefit from the user-friendly GUI installer for both VLRService and V-Ray for Maya.

• Windows and Linux OS users can easily take advantage of the two installation options: executable installation or an archive file for easier deployment on a cluster of machines.

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.vismat Material Collection Now Available

The .vismat Material Collection contains 140 high quality .vismat materials for use with VRay for SketchUp and VRay for Rhino, most of which are new and not included in the standard 'Sample Materials' distribution.

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Learn to create photo-realistic architectural interiors in V-Ray for 3ds Max with Evermotion's incredible "learn-by-example" Archinteriors Vol. 16. This DVD contains 10 top-quality ready to be rendered scenes, each with professionally designed 3D models and materials. Simply load a scene and render! Get a "behind the scenes" look at what it takes to create professional and commercially viable architectural interiors within V-Ray for 3ds Max.

Available Worldwide There are no territorial restrictions on this product and it can be purchased from any location.

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Renderings by Dennis Brunn

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V-Ray has become the top choice for fast and accurate photo-realistic rendering. Offering state-of-the-art rendering technology, V-Ray has single handedly transformed the CG industry.

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3ds Max Plug-in for V-Ray and Mental Ray

MultiScatter is a plug-in for 3ds max which works with V-Ray and Mental Ray rendering systems. It is possible to create complicated scenes with a huge amount of objects easy and quickly with the aid of this plug-in.

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Plug-in for 3ds Max and V-Ray

Autograss is your one-click grass solution for V-Ray
Select your object, click Autograss, and you're done. You've got photorealistic grass that renders in V-Ray for 3ds Max.

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V-Ray for Softimage looks to unite the rendering workflow for VFX and animation studios

With support for Softimage's award-winning ICE system, dynamic geometry, and V-Ray Proxy objects, V-Ray for Softimage supports the size and complexity of even the most demanding scenes. Its physically based toolset, including versatile shaders, lights, and cameras, makes it possible to standardize rendering workflow with the quality, speed, and stability of the V-Ray core.

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The V-Ray Rendering System offers the fastest photo-realistic rendering technology in the world. Coupled with the Maya platform, V-Ray for Maya provides an unprecedented amount of power for your advanced rendering needs.

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SketchUp is one of the most widely used and easy to learn 3D Modeling software on the market today. With V-Ray for SketchUp, users now have one of the most powerful rendering tools available to visualize their models with the upmost quality and realism. V-Ray works within the SketchUp environment allowing users to be able to efficiently incorporate the task of rendering within their current workflows.

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Rhino users of all fields, from engineering and architecture to design and animation need a robust ray-tracing engine that enables them to bring their ideas to life quickly, easily, and cost-effectively. With V-Ray for Rhino, ASGVIS offers these visualization professionals a state-of-the-art solution that generates high-quality images of unparalleled realism. Developed with Chaos Group, V-Ray for Rhino works with Robert McNeel & Associates' Rhinoceros, which is one of the most popular Windows-based NURBS modeling tools available today.

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V-Ray for C4D brings the power of V-Ray to Cinema 4D. V-Ray offers the fastest rendering technology in the world and has single handedly transformed the architectural and advertising industry. Take your renderings to the next level with V-Ray for Cinema 4D.

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V-Ray / Blender is an open source (GPLv2) project of V-Ray integration to Blender. It is implemented as an exporting script to V-Ray Standalone file format (.vrscene).

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