V-Ray for Blender Community Edition
A new, free Community Edition of V-Ray for Blender has arrived. Get your license and start creating today.
Award-winning ray tracing technology designed for achieving first-class, photorealistic results with ease.
Achieve true-to-life lighting thanks to V-Ray’s Global Illumination and Caustics, delivering ultra-realistic reflections, refractions, shadows, and more.
Recreate any real-world material with just a single node using V-Ray’s PBR-ready shader set, including specialized nodes for hair, car paint, and other unique surface types.
Tweak your 3D camera settings as a photographer would and simulate realistic lens effects like bloom and glare.
Award-winning ray tracing technology designed for achieving first-class, photorealistic results with ease.
Achieve true-to-life lighting thanks to V-Ray’s Global Illumination and Caustics, delivering ultra-realistic reflections, refractions, shadows, and more.
Recreate any real-world material with just a single node using V-Ray’s PBR-ready shader set, including specialized nodes for hair, car paint, and other unique surface types.
Tweak your 3D camera settings as a photographer would and simulate realistic lens effects like bloom and glare.
The trusted choice of professionals across industries—and the go-to renderer for aspiring artists who want to create like pros.
V-Ray’s Emmy and Academy Award-winning technology helps artists around the world bring their ideas to life with state-of-the-art rendering.
Backed by 20+ years of production history powering blockbuster films, TV series, commercials, and world-class visualizations.
Used by top-tier studios for their most demanding productions, where visual quality and reliability are non-negotiable.
Ready to take on the biggest challenges in production, delivering the speed and reliability needed for any project, regardless of industry, scale, or style.
With powerful CPU, GPU, and hybrid rendering, V-Ray scales efficiently across any setup, taking full advantage of the available hardware.
Working on scenes with billions of polygons and complex lighting setups? No problem, V-Ray can handle it all thanks to Proxies and Adaptive Lights.
With Chaos Cloud’s one-click rendering, you can offload your local machine and keep creating, so your progress doesn't.
Work smarter and stay in Blender, without switching tools and breaking your creative flow. Keep your focus where it belongs—on creativity.
Populate scenes in just a few clicks with Chaos Cosmos, a library of ready-to-render models, materials, and HDRIs. No adjustments needed, just hit render.
Perfect your renders with Light Mix, color correction, compositing, and masking in the V-Ray Frame Buffer, no re-rendering, no third-party apps.
Easily share work with clients via Chaos Cloud, manage reviews, and simplify feedback cycles.
Continue working your way while harnessing production-proven rendering. Blender now fits seamlessly into any V-Ray-based production pipeline.
Render essential Cycles materials out of the box with V-Ray—no need to rebuild assets. Enjoy native-feeling integration with intuitive node-based editing, and more.
Available for all major DCCs, V-Ray connects you with other teams and tools via the universal V-Ray Scene file format for easy asset imports and exports.
With V-Ray for Blender, you can create scenes that are ready for virtual production shoots using Chaos Arena.
A new, free Community Edition of V-Ray for Blender has arrived. Get your license and start creating today.
This release introduces powerful new creative tools. Add complex, realistic surface details with V-Ray Decal and the V-Ray Displacement Material, or achieve stylized cartoon looks with the new V-Ray Toon Material.
V-Ray for Blender includes all the essential features you need to create stunning stills and animations — plus access to a library of over 8,800 free, high-quality, render-ready 3D assets.
Do your post-processing right where you render, offload local machines to meet tight deadlines with a one-click cloud rendering solution, and streamline collaboration and reviews with a cloud-based sharing and annotation tool.
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Perfect for anyone starting their V-Ray rendering journey. The Community Edition is your free license to learn, teach, and create content with V-Ray. It's designed for solo creators to build a standout portfolio and tackle small-scale personal and freelance projects, all at your own pace.
Get Community EditionIdeal for experienced artists, teams, and studios wanting to test the feature-complete version. This 30-day trial provides unrestricted access to every V-Ray for Blender feature, making it the best way to evaluate V-Ray's complete power within your production pipeline before committing to a paid plan.
Start free trialOur paid plan unlocks the complete, unrestricted V-Ray feature set with official support. It’s built for demanding commercial productions, team collaboration, and seamless pipeline integration, ensuring you have the power and reliability to deliver your best work every time.
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| Support & Licensing | |||
| License cost | Free | Free | Depends on the chosen plan |
| License duration | 3 months (90 days) | 1 month (30 days) | Monthly/annual |
| Peer & community support | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Official Chaos support | ✕ | ✕ | ✔ |
| Product documentation | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Learning resources | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Access to product updates | ✔ | ✕ | ✔ |
| Quality | |||
| Max resolution | 2K Square (2560x2560) | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Output image quality | 8-bit | 32-bit | 32-bit |
| Features | |||
| Cloud collaboration | ✕ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Cloud rendering | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| AI-powered tools | ✕ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Free 3D assets | 14,000+ assets | Based on the chosen trial | Based on the chosen plan |
| Rendering | |||
| Batch (headless) rendering | ✕ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Distributed rendering | ✕ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Data Exchange | |||
| Export to V-Ray formats and pipeline integration | ✕ | ✔ | ✔ |
Start rendering with V-Ray today.
with the purchase of any Chaos license.
V-Ray for Blender is also included in the V-Ray Premium and V-Ray Collection plans. See pricing>
with the purchase of any Chaos license.
with the purchase of any Chaos license.
V-Ray for Blender is also included in the V-Ray Premium and V-Ray Collection plans. See pricing>
with the purchase of any Chaos license.
See bold ideas become visual magic with V-Ray
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