Enable the new, quick caustics in V-Ray to easily generate stunning light refraction patterns, bypassing the tedious, trial-and-error setup of the traditional photon-based workflow. Much simpler to control and significantly faster to render, a single depth toggle delivers believable underwater caustics without the high performance cost of full photon tracing. The result is realistic caustics with minimal effort, making complex light simulation accessible, predictable, and highly practical for every artist and project.

Take your shading networks to the next level with the new V-Ray Displacement Material. Designed to simplify the creation of complex surfaces, this material allows you to build and effortlessly blend displacement shaders, apply them to native geometry or V-Ray Proxy objects, and export fully shaded assets with displacement intact to seamlessly transfer them to other V-Ray integrations across your pipeline

Stuck at the ideation stage, or need to refine a scene before a presentation? Veras brings AI-powered ideation directly to V-Ray and Vantage. Start with a basic block-out render from the viewport, upload a drawing or a reference image. Using presets or custom prompts, instantly generate multiple concepts, styles, and camera variations for inspiration. You can also refine renders in post to try new artistic styles, or generate matching asset backgrounds for set extensions. Keep your entire creative process in one seamless workflow, without switching tools.

Explore and render your ideas in real-time at final-frame quality with а Chaos Vantage. Get immediate feedback, iterate faster, and make more confident creative decisions. Right from pre-production, you get instant, path-traced feedback as you work, delivering stunning realism in real time with physically accurate cameras, lights, materials, and global illumination. No rasterization, no approximations.

Blend Gaussian Splats beautifully and naturally into any environment with seamless real-world scan integration via splat asset relighting. Easily match a Gaussian Splat’s lighting to your scene, making it effortless to blend captured locations, especially those scanned under ambient lighting, directly into your 3D worlds. From early-stage previz to final production, you can freely adjust your scene lights at any time without wasting hours working around baked lighting.