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.

Collaborate more efficiently with our fully-featured V-Ray Hydra delegate. With V-Ray 6, we've added support for the latest Solaris lookdev, layout, and lighting features in Houdini 19.5.

Bring your scenes to life with Chaos Cosmos, our free library of high-quality V-Ray content. With a collection of high-resolution materials, beautiful HDR environments, and render-ready 3D models such as plants, trees, bushes, and more, Chaos Cosmos is a great resource for your next project.

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Create the perfect-looking ocean waves with native support for Houdini’s ocean tools. With more control than ever before, you can render Houdini’s Oceans faster, and without the need for texture baking.

For color-accurate workflows, ACEScg has become the new standard for professional production. When ACEScg is enabled, V-Ray automatically converts the colors of textures, light temperatures, sun and sky, etc. to the correct color space.

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.

Get reports on the time spent calculating shaders and volumes in your scenes. Locate all hot spots in your scene and optimize pipelines for even faster rendering. Pair V-Ray Profiler with the Memory Tracker, and you now have everything you need to monitor and optimize your projects.

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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Create realistic soap bubbles, oil spills, and more with the new Thin Film option in the V-Ray Material.

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.

Apply decals to any surface without altering the underlying material or adding UVs. The new V-Ray Decal makes it easy to add stickers, labels, cracks, stains, scratches, and more. Add displacement for even more realistic results.

Repeat geometry across the surface of an object in the most memory-efficient way possible. In just a few clicks, you can create complex surfaces with lots of detail like intricate chain mail, car grilles, metal grids, panels, fences, fabrics, and so much more, as if geometry was a texture.

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.

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.