What you immediately notice about V-Ray 6 for Houdini is how feature-rich it is. Faster rendering and more responsive IPR are extremely useful, but what I found even more interesting are the new Procedural Clouds system, anisotropic scattering for volumes, Thin Film Material, and the all-new ocean spectra rendering. Plus, since V-Ray 5 scenes render nearly identical to V-Ray 6, it's a lot easier to update to the latest version and take advantage of these great additions.
Houdini 19.5 and Solaris support
Make use of Houdini 19.5 features such as the Hydra Hair procedural, Solaris Render Region, and many more — now supported by V-Ray. Plus, a fully-featured V-Ray Hydra delegate for Solaris.
Ocean rendering
Create the perfect 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.
Generate more realistic volumetric effects such as clouds, smoke, and more, with support for anisotropic scattering also known as Phase Function for volumetric rendering. Easily create masks for volumetrics with the new option to export Cryptomatte elements without using the Volumetric Geometry mode.
Bring your scenes to life with Chaos Cosmos, our free library of high-quality V-Ray content. With its 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.
Customize just the right clouds for your environment without spending hours browsing through HDRI libraries. V-Ray Sun and Sky’s new procedural clouds system helps you achieve the perfect look and animate your clouds for impressive timelapses in a simple and memory-efficient way.
You can now use V-Ray Decal to add displacement to any surface for even more realistic cracked walls, rocks, scratched and rusty surfaces, embossed lettering, and more. You can also instance your Decals for an advanced material bombing workflow.
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 such as chain mail, car grilles, metal grids, panels, fences, fabrics, and so much more, as if geometry was a texture.
Elevate your HDRI environment renders with the new, more flexible ground projection capabilities of the V-Ray Dome Light. Set the scale of your light, and enjoy full control over blend settings with the new Finite Dome mode.
Bucket rendering is now faster than ever before with a clever new algorithm. Render bucket size is adapted for optimal utilization of your hardware and maximum memory-efficiency.
Now that V-Ray’s Interactive Production Renderer (IPR) output is identical to the production renderer’s, you can make better decisions while iterating designs.
V-Ray Environment Fog now renders up to 30% faster. Translucent material rendering is also up to two times faster thanks to V-Ray Material's brand-new SSS mode. Plus, shorter time to first pixel and quicker VRscene generation for studio workflows utilizing Alembic and VDB caches.
Receive 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.
Thin Film layer
Enhanced V-Ray Material energy preservation
Render even more physically accurate reflections. Give your metals and other reflective surfaces an even more realistic look with the new V-Ray Material energy preservation updates.Easily fine-tune your images with the new composition guides layer in the VFB. Experiment with the customizable overlays to enhance your compositions without using a separate application.
Now you can preview your spherical panorama renders while rendering, right from your V-Ray Frame Buffer.
