V-Ray for Blender, update 2 adds macOS support, AI-powered tools, and more.

V-Ray for Blender

Industry-standard, production-proven 3D rendering for Blender—now empowering even more artists around the world.

The quality your creativity deserves.

High-end rendering for any Blender artist-established or on the path to pro.

Industry-standard photorealistic rendering

Award-winning ray tracing technology designed for achieving first-class, photorealistic results with ease.

Physically-accurate lights

Achieve true-to-life lighting thanks to V-Ray’s Global Illumination and Caustics, delivering ultra-realistic reflections, refractions, shadows, and more.

Lifelike materials

Recreate any real-world material with just a single node using V-Ray’s PBR-ready shader set, including specialized nodes for hair, car paint, and other unique surface types.

Real-world cameras & lens effects

Tweak your 3D camera settings as a photographer would and simulate realistic lens effects like bloom and glare.

Render like the world’s best

The trusted choice of professionals across industries—and the go-to renderer for aspiring artists who want to create like pros.

Award-winning technology

V-Ray’s Emmy and Academy Award-winning technology helps artists around the world bring their ideas to life with state-of-the-art rendering.

Battle-tested in production

Backed by 20+ years of production history powering blockbuster films, TV series, commercials, and world-class visualizations.

Trusted and used by the industry’s best

Used by top-tier studios for their most demanding productions, where visual quality and reliability are non-negotiable.

Render anything. Handle everything.

Ready to take on the biggest challenges in production, delivering the speed and reliability needed for any project, regardless of industry, scale, or style.

Efficient hardware utilization

With powerful CPU, GPU, and hybrid rendering, V-Ray scales efficiently across any setup, taking full advantage of the available hardware.

Ready for heavy-duty rendering

Working on scenes with billions of polygons and complex lighting setups? No problem, V-Ray can handle it all thanks to Proxies and Adaptive Lights.

Has the solution when deadlines hit

With Chaos Cloud’s one-click rendering, you can offload your local machine and keep creating, so your progress doesn't.

Your creativity, uninterrupted

Work smarter and stay in Blender, without switching tools and breaking your creative flow. Keep your focus where it belongs—on creativity.

5,600+ free, high-quality assets

Populate scenes in just a few clicks with Chaos Cosmos, a library of ready-to-render models, materials, and HDRIs. No adjustments needed, just hit render.

Built-in post-processing

Perfect your renders with Light Mix, color correction, compositing, and masking in the V-Ray Frame Buffer, no re-rendering, no third-party apps.

Streamlined reviews

Easily share work with clients via Chaos Cloud, manage reviews, and simplify feedback cycles.

Work the Blender way. Deliver anywhere.

Continue working your way while harnessing production-proven rendering. Blender now fits seamlessly into any V-Ray-based production pipeline.

Work the Blender way

Render essential Cycles materials out of the box with V-Ray—no need to rebuild assets. Enjoy native-feeling integration with intuitive node-based editing, and more.

Works everywhere

Available for all major DCCs, V-Ray connects you with other teams and tools via the universal V-Ray Scene file format for easy asset imports and exports.

Virtual production-ready

With V-Ray for Blender, you can create scenes that are ready for virtual production shoots using Chaos Arena.

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V-Ray for Blender, update 2 now available.  

 You can now use V-Ray for Blender on macOS, as well as with Blender 5. Access the latest Chaos technology, including AI-powered tools for image enhancement, material generation, and upscaling—making it easier than ever to create stunning, realistic, high-quality renders. Plus, render faster and more efficiently with distributed rendering to spread the workload across multiple computers.  

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V-Ray for Blender includes all the essential features you need to create stunning stills and animations — plus access to a library of over 8,800 free, high-quality, render-ready 3D assets.
Do your post-processing right where you render, offload local machines to meet tight deadlines with a one-click cloud rendering solution, and streamline collaboration and reviews with a cloud-based sharing and annotation tool.


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