Create realistic and astronomically precise night skies with ease. Achieve unparalleled realism in night scenes with accurate positions and light intensity of the stars, the Moon, and its phases (including solar eclipses), as well as the Milky Way. With the improved SunLight plug-in, you can now define night sky elements using real-world parameters—such as date, time, and geo-location—or customize them yourself to suit your project’s creative needs.

The new updated protocol, Distributed Rendering 2, is now available as separate stable builds. It brings many speed and performance improvements. In DR 2, there are no longer limitations in bucket rendering—the more machines you add, the faster rendering is. Progressive rendering assures better scaling with multiple machines.

Preview the output of GeomHair or LightIES plug-in in the viewport. Ease the design process by providing users with instant visual feedback of their adjustments. Use GeomUtils and LightUtils to provide visual cues when positioning V-Ray Fur and V-Ray IES Lights (LightIES and LightIESMax plug-ins).

Control programmatically the V-Ray Frame Buffer (VFB) history and toolbar via our new API available in C++, C#, NodeJS and Python.

Stay up-to-date with support for Node.js 22 and Python 3.13, ensuring compatibility with the latest development environments.

• Enhanced GPU rendering.
• Innovative new functionalities like the Gaussian Splats Clipping and the Scatter Clustering.
• New controls in the Exposure layer of V-Ray Frame buffer.
• New Tex2Sided plug-in that allows you to create two-sided textures.
• Improvements in TexMulti, UVWGenRandomizer, GeomScatter, RenderChannelLightMix, and other plugins.