Powerful CPU and GPU rendering built for the demands of high-end production. V-Ray® GPU CUDA renders on CPUs as well as GPUs to take full advantage of all hardware.

Easily place buildings in context or create and render complex 3D environments with accurate reflections and refractions. Fill your scenes with splats of real-world environments or objects that are memory-efficient and rich in detail.

Reduce noise and speed up production rendering with the V-Ray Denoiser. Use the NVIDIA AI denoiser and the Intel® Open Image Denoise depending on your hardware for noise-free interactive rendering.

Render scenes directly to the cloud with a push of a button.

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Get rapid, consolidated feedback on your work’s progress. Upload your renders to Chaos Cloud Collaboration right from V-Ray’s Frame Buffer, and share your work with clients, team members, and other stakeholders for easy review, markup, and comments at any time. Effortlessly create immersive, interactive virtual tours.

Our integrated asset library, Chaos Cosmos, enables you to search and add render-ready models, materials, and HDRI skies to your scene directly from the V-Ray toolbar. Cosmos assets have automatic level-of-detail, accurate scale, and can be used across 3ds Max, Rhino, and Revit.
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Effortlessly transfer data from Enscape to V-Ray. Fine-tune and add details to transform real-time designs into sophisticated, high-end visualizations. Preserve design decisions and ensure continuity from concept to final render, freeing up precious time to bring your creative vision to life.

Note: Enscape 3.5.6 or above and V-Ray 6 for 3ds Max, update 2 or above required.

Create and collaborate more freely with seamless data flow across teams and applications. Export V-Ray data to USD for effortless sharing of your work, render MaterialX shaders, continuing right where your colleagues left off.

Manage all your lights and cameras from a single location. The V-Ray Lister now offers an enhanced user interface. Explore new features for bulk adjustments, filtering, searching, and more.

V-Ray's new progressively calculated caustics achieve real-world reflections and refractions in less time. Easier to set up, without the need for pre-calculated photon maps. Now, also supported on V-Ray GPU.

The new algorithm automatically detects and removes bright pixels (fireflies) during rendering, reducing the time needed to produce final images and enhancing overall rendering speed.

Get reports on the time spent calculating shaders and volumes, exporting scenes, compiling geometry and displacement, loading bitmaps, and more. Locate all hot spots in your scene and optimize pipelines for even faster rendering. Pair with the Memory Tracker for even more data.

You can stop your render at any point and pick up where you left off.
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Easily isolate textures, materials and geometry to help debug large shading networks in V-Ray IPR and V-Ray GPU IPR.
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Select industry-standard ACEScg for rendering with automatic color space adjustment for textures, dispersion, sun & sky, and light temperature colors.

Fast and accurate simulation of real-world camera lens effects like bloom and glare with dust and scratches. Fine-tune lens effects interactively while you render.

Perfect renders are as easy as taking a snapshot with the Automatic Exposure and White Balance settings.

Real-world camera controls let you work like a photographer. Render images with detailed depth of field and cinematic motion blur.

Now, you can quickly set custom aspect ratios for each of your V-Ray cameras, saving precious frame setup time, then batch render in your preferred resolution locally or with Chaos Cloud Rendering.

Experience your project in virtual reality. Create content for popular VR headsets with 6x1 cubic and spherical stereo camera types.

Work with production-ready, multi-resolution tiled textures from your favorite applications, like MARI, Mudbox and ZBrush.

Quickly apply seamless textures without UVs.

Generate perfectly smooth edges at render-time — with no extra modeling.

Add variety to your scene with the new VRayUVWRandomizer map and enhanced VRayMultiSubTex controls.

Automatically remove texture tiling artifacts with the new Stochastic tiling option on the VRayUVWRandomizer.

Weathered streaks and dirt in crevices are easy with the enhanced V-Ray Dirt, which now employs both ambient and inner occlusion.

Render fog, smoke and atmospheric effects that respond correctly to light. Bring in volume grid caches from Houdini, FumeFX and Phoenix FD.

Simulate natural-looking skies with realistic atmospheric depth.

Create dozens of lighting scenarios from a single render. Interactively edit the color and intensity of lights and light materials, and see the results without rendering again. You can save your light mix settings, send the render elements to compositing, and update the light values in your scene.

Fine-tune and finish your renders in the new Layer Compositor. Combine render elements, set blending modes, and adjust colors without a separate post-processing app.

Refine and render specific parts of your scene by defining custom-shaped regions in the VFB without unnecessary re-rendering. Create multiple regions in any shape and focus precisely on the areas you want to fine-tune.

Make pixel-perfect adjustments to your image without re-rendering. You can now use any of V-Ray's masking render elements — Cryptomatte, MultiMatte, and Object/ Render/ Material IDs — to select and fine-tune parts of your render. Smooth out desired areas of your image, or apply Lens Effects to specific lights and materials within post.

V-Ray’s extensive post-processing capabilities are bolstered with batch image processing and a new Sharpen/Blur layer for even more artistic control without leaving 3ds Max.

Quickly explore different looks for your renders with the new color correction presets in the VFB. Once you've chosen the mood/style you're after, you can easily customize the selected preset to perfectly match your creative vision.