Available in: V-Ray for SketchUp, Rhino
Now, V-Ray users with an active Vantage license can explore and render their scenes in real time at final-frame quality, directly in the V-Ray viewport. Immediate visual feedback, no extra windows, and a unified workflow enable faster iteration, more confident decisions, and smoother design reviews—all with production-proven reliability. Vantage’s full ray tracing simulates how light behaves in the real world, without rasterization or approximations. Achieve stunning realism in real time with physically accurate cameras, lights, materials, and global illumination
Parallax interiors add realistic interior depth and lighting to exterior renders without modeling or heavy geometry. Lightweight to render, easy to apply, and adjustable per window, they make buildings feel alive, especially in night scenes, while keeping performance fast and production-ready.
Available in: V-Ray for 3ds Max, SketchUp, Rhino
The new, quick caustics are easier to control and faster to render, removing the complexity traditionally associated with photon-based setups. For common scenarios like pools and water features, quick caustics deliver believable light patterns without the cost of full photon tracing. The result is accessible, predictable, and practical caustics for everyday visualization.
Available in: V-Ray for 3ds Max, SketchUp, Rhino
Adjust the lighting of Gaussian Splats to better match your scene. Easily rebalance pre-baked illumination so splat assets integrate naturally into V-Ray projects. This makes it easier to use Gaussian Splats as part of a broader visualization workflow, especially when working with assets captured under ambient lighting.
Available in: V-Ray for 3ds Max, SketchUp, Rhino
Deliver vibrant, nighttime realism instantly with automatic headlights and taillights in Anima for every vehicle in your scene. There’s no extra setup required - simply generate your traffic and watch your cityscapes glow with physically accurate lighting. Enjoy the ultimate shortcut to high-end automotive visuals and atmospheric urban night shots.
Available in: V-Ray for 3ds Max, SketchUp, Rhino
AI Mood Match uses a reference photo to automatically align your scene’s lighting with the look and atmosphere of the image. By analyzing the lighting conditions in the reference, it configures V-Ray’s Sun and Sky or image-based lighting to produce a closely matched mood.
Available in: V-Ray for SketchUp, Rhino
AI Enhancer now brings realistic detail to large, uniform surfaces such as floors, walls, asphalt, and terrain. By adding natural variation like wear, dirt, and subtle imperfections at the correct scale, expansive areas gain depth and realism without manual re-texturing.
Available in: V-Ray for 3ds Max, SketchUp, Rhino
Enjoy more consistent and reliable single-object enhancements in the AI Enhancer. By preserving an asset’s original characteristics, it avoids misinterpretation and unwanted changes, reducing manual fixes and ensuring predictable results across scenes.
Available in: V-Ray for 3ds Max, SketchUp, Rhino
Materials, generated by the AI Material Generator, now support high-resolution 4K textures, delivering sharper detail and higher-quality results. An enhanced interactive 3D preview lets users fine-tune normal and roughness settings, adjust tiling, and preview materials on different objects before saving them to the library.
Available in: V-Ray for 3ds Max, SketchUp, Rhino
The new Node-Based Material Editor introduces a visual way to build and adjust V-Ray materials in SketchUp and Rhino. By working with connected nodes, artists can better understand material logic and create more complex shaders with greater control. Designed to complement existing material workflows, the Node Material Editor offers a more flexible and intuitive approach to material creation. Available as an early preview, it lays the foundation for a fully featured node-based editor planned for future V-Ray releases.
Available in: V-Ray for SketchUp, Rhino
New camera controls in V-Ray for 3ds Max give artists greater precision and flexibility when framing and rendering scenes. Objects can now be included or excluded on a per-camera basis, making it easy to manage variations without duplicating geometry or relying on complex scene states. Object-based autofocus allows the camera’s focus distance to stay locked to a selected object or point in 3D space, ensuring clear focus even as the camera moves.
Available in: V-Ray for 3ds Max
Color control and working with images in the V-Ray Frame Buffer is now easier and more predictable. A new histogram widget gives you a clear view of color distribution, while the advanced Image layer makes it easier to manage backgrounds, reference images, and watermarks directly in the VFB.
Available in: V-Ray for 3ds Max, SketchUp, Rhino
The new Cosmos Sets group compatible assets into ready-made arrangements that can be placed in a scene as a single unit. From furniture groupings to decorative details, sets provide a fast way to populate scenes with assets that naturally work together. Each set can be easily rearranged after placement, giving users both speed and flexibility when building realistic, well-composed environments.
Available in: V-Ray for 3ds Max, SketchUp, Rhino
Scatter Clusters in V-Ray for SketchUp and Rhino give you finer control over how assets are distributed across a surface. With the new Cluster Painting mode, you can paint areas of higher density, such as flower patches in a lawn, while keeping surrounding regions more sparse or uniform. With a single scatter, you can quickly transform empty surfaces into natural landscapes.
Available in: V-Ray for SketchUp, Rhino
Bring more realism to large surfaces with decal scattering in V-Ray for 3ds Max. By adding decals to Scatter’s guests list, you can quickly distribute details like cracks, dirt, or wear across flat areas, eliminating repetition and making surfaces feel more natural. Simply, create a Scatter, include your decal as a guest, and adjust the parameters to get the exact look you need.
Available in: V-Ray for 3ds Max
Transform empty asphalt into realistic, populated parking lots in just a few clicks using Anima. Effortlessly create perpendicular, oblique, or parallel parking arrangements to accelerate your production and add a layer of essential realism to commercial projects. Anima, which is part of the V-Ray Collection, gives you the fastest way to handle complex traffic layouts - no need to place cars one by one anymore - just hit generate.
Available in: V-Ray for 3ds Max, SketchUp, Rhino
The new Reviews feature in Chaos Cloud provides a structured workflow for design approvals. Files are organized on a visual Kanban board and tracked through stages from draft to review to approval. Teams can submit files for review, receive official approvals, and monitor progress in real time, replacing the fragmented mix of emails and external tools that currently slow down the architectural design sign-off process.
Available in: V-Ray for 3ds Max, SketchUp, Rhino
Chaos Cloud Collaboration now supports video files, allowing teams to present and review animations, walkthroughs, and camera flythroughs using the platform’s existing review and annotation tools. Leave comments directly on the timeline by selecting the exact second or marking a time span.
Available in: V-Ray for 3ds Max, SketchUp, Rhino
Vantage now allows you to achieve a similar toon effect like the V-Ray Toon feature in real time. Easily illustrate early-stage design concepts or guide your client through complex scenes with Toon Outlines, while maintaining your photoreal camera setups and lighting. No need to spend any time post-processing, your stylized toon frames and animation sequences are ready to fly into the next mood board, client review, or presentation.
Available in: V-Ray for 3ds Max, SketchUp, Rhino
Vantage’s real-time fluid simulator has new controls for smoke and temperature expansion for greater artistic control over fluid simulations, making it easier to shape motion and achieve the desired look. We have added support for exporting VDB caches, so that simulations can be seamlessly integrated into production workflows and further refined as needed.
Available in: V-Ray for 3ds Max, SketchUp, Rhino
