Powerful CPU and GPU-accelerated rendering built for the demands of high-end production.

Fast and accurate rendering of native Houdini volumes and OpenVDB caches.

GPU bucket rendering with fast multi-GPU performance and support for Cryptomattes.

Control custom attributes of geometry (including splines and particles) with the User Color node.

Interactive look development supported in the Houdini render view.

Isolate selected textures and materials to help debug large shading networks in IPR.

Simple, one-click solution to submit jobs to render on the Chaos Cloud.

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Simulate how light interacts with reflective and refractive surfaces, and add a new level of realism to your renders with Progressive Caustics. It’s easy to set up and no longer requires a prepass.

Enable ACEScg so V-Ray 5 can automatically convert the colors of textures, light temperatures, etc. to the correct color space, without the need of additional nodes.

Efficiently browse from a library of over 500 render-ready materials including metals, glass, wood and more.

Support for material overrides* based on groups, bundles and attributes.

*VEX and per-primitive string overrides such as texture randomization are not yet supported.

Automatically import material node hierarchies from V-Ray® scene files and make changes in Houdini.

Create realistic-looking hair with accurate highlights using the V-Ray Physical Hair material.

*Currently supports hair as SOP geometry

The standard V-Ray Material supports Metalness reflection values for PBR shader workflows.

Physically-based shader with built-in SSS controls, popular for rendering realistic skin.

Per-Primitive Material Assignment is now supported on the GPU, allowing artists to utilize Stylesheets and the Material SOP.

1000+ ultra-realistic physically scanned materials ready to import and render.

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Add reflective coatings directly in V-Ray Material so you can render faster and more efficiently.

Render soft microfiber fabrics like velvet, satin, and silk with new V-Ray Material sheen options.

The V-Ray Material has been upgraded by adding new translucency controls and built-in volumetric random walk subsurface scattering.

Transfer and override the properties of V-Ray scenes from other apps like Maya and 3ds Max.

Instance any object type (including volumes) using Packed Primitives, Instancer and "instancepath" attributes.

Efficient handling of Houdini's native packed primitives for instancing at render time.

Support for Houdini's native Alembic layering, transformations, instancing and per-object material overrides.

Drive shader parameters such as color, alpha and particle size through custom per-point attributes.

Fast rendering of realistic fur and hair with V-Ray Fur.

Directly import assets from other DCC tools without the need to rebuild materials.

Faster geometry export for quick render startup.

Memory efficient instancing of large hierarchies of objects.

Render any set of lights (including wildcard selections) as separate render elements.

Render a wide variety of beauty, utility and matte passes for complete control in compositing.

Smoother export of textures and procedural maps to custom render elements.

For better control in compositing, construct your own render passes. Output specific light contributions with timesaving presets or by writing custom expressions.