Take your rendering to the next level with V-Ray, a raytracer built for quality, optimized for speed, and ready to scale. With powerful CPU, GPU, and hybrid rendering, you can take full advantage of your hardware and meet the demands of productions of all sizes.
V-Ray is your trusted tool for any creative endeavor. From high-end, ultra-realistic rendering with physically accurate lighting, such as lifelike caustics, to stylized, non-photorealistic shading and lighting, V-Ray offers unparalleled versatility to bring any vision to life with minimal setup.
V-Ray’s interactive rendering is available via the V-Ray Frame Buffer, providing instant visual feedback on scene changes. It supports both CPU and GPU rendering, offers denoising for near real-time previews, region rendering, and more controls to speed up look development.
Enjoy fast, high-quality, noise-free viewport rendering with the NVIDIA OptiX AI Denoiser and Intel® Open Image Denoiser. Use the V-Ray Denoiser to quickly produce clean final images and make use of V-Ray’s firefly removal rendering option to automatically detect and eliminate bright pixels for flawless results.
Unlock ultimate creative control over your rendered images and streamline your compositing workflow with an extensive set of beauty, utility, and matte passes, including multi-channel and deep EXR output, Cryptomatte, Light Path Expressions, and more. Advanced output settings provide even greater flexibility in post-production.
Achieve realistic, flicker-free indirect lighting efficiently with V-Ray’s industry-leading Global Illumination algorithms. They accurately simulate how light interacts with surfaces to create natural shadows, reflections, and ambient light. Choose ray-traced or hybrid GI for the ideal balance of quality and speed.
Simulate any type of artificial lighting with V-Ray’s extensive range of light types. Whether you’re working on a studio lighting setup, artistic lighting effect, or physically accurate interior lighting, V-Ray provides the flexibility and tools to achieve your vision. Import IES files from light fixture manufacturers, or use Custom Light Decay to control how light intensity drops off.
Create stunning environment renders and dynamic timelapses with lifelike sunlight and sky lighting based on time, location, cloudiness, and altitude using V-Ray’s Sun & Sky model.
Craft perfect cloudy skies with the procedural clouds system, or add realistic depth and haze with Aerial Perspective and Environment Fog to enhance outdoor scene realism, without relying on computationally expensive volumetric effects.
Replicate real-world lighting with precision using HDRIs that capture the authentic qualities of natural and artificial light. V-Ray Dome Light's finite mode lets you restrict lighting to a defined region, enhancing how naturally light fits the ground and preventing background light spill. This ensures seamless integration of CGI into real-life environment footage.
Working on a project with a challenging lighting setup, including many light sources, or HDRI environment lighting? V-Ray’s Adaptive Lights intelligently prioritizes the most impactful lights using Light Cache data, cutting render times by up to six times while delivering cleaner, more accurate results.
V-Ray’s extensive shader set lets you create a wide range of looks for any type of scene. From advanced, lifelike hair and fur for groomed characters, to artist-friendly skin shaders, PBR-compatible materials with metalness, and surfaces with complex layered effects, V-Ray provides all the tools to craft realistic or artistic materials with ease.
Whether you’re crafting natural surfaces, intricate patterns, or complex layered materials, V-Ray’s powerful texture toolkit offers the flexibility to create environments and assets for any project. With versatile options such as procedural textures and texture utilities such as randomization and blending for tiling, you can achieve any look in the most memory-efficient way possible.
Refine your renders directly within V-Ray—no need for third-party apps. The V-Ray Frame Buffer (VFB) keeps your creative flow uninterrupted thanks to its post-processing capabilities. Instantly adjust the color and intensity of lights and light materials with Light Mix—no re-rendering needed. Fine-tune your renders using VFB’s color correction, layered compositing, pixel-perfect masking, and more.
Populate scenes in just a few clicks with Chaos Cosmos, our ever-growing, curated asset library. Access over 5,600 3D models, materials, and HDRIs from diverse categories, directly within V-Ray’s interface. Because all models come fully shaded, accurately scaled, and include multiple levels of detail (LODs), Cosmos saves you time by providing ready-to-render content, eliminating the need to model or search for assets online.
Under a tight deadline? Easily offload rendering to Chaos Cloud directly from V-Ray’s interface with just a push of a button—no need to set up virtual machines. Save system resources and keep working on other projects while Chaos Cloud handles the rendering. Plus, you can share your work anytime, anywhere with colleagues and clients through the cloud, eliminating file transfers and streamlining the review and feedback process.
Start using V-Ray right away with out-of-the-box support for rendering essential Cycles materials*. Re-render existing Blender projects with V-Ray to explore its capabilities and keep your work uninterrupted—no need to start from scratch or manually rebuild materials.
V-Ray integrates seamlessly with Blender, allowing you to render interactively right inside Blender’s 3D Viewport. See real-time updates as you adjust your scene, materials, and lighting, making look development and scene layout faster and more intuitive without leaving Blender’s interface. Pair with the Intel or NVIDIA denoiser for even better performance.
V-Ray’s Node Editor in Blender works just like Blender’s native nodes, letting you easily create, edit, and manage materials, textures, geometries, and render elements the same way you’re used to while leveraging V-Ray’s advanced features. It supports Shader, Object, and World node trees.
Render detailed, lifelike hair and fur with support for Blender’s procedural geometry Hair System, enabling flexibility with advanced controls for both realistic and stylized looks, making it ideal for complex scenes requiring speed and quality.
