V-Ray 7, update 2 brings real-time rendering right in the Houdini viewport, volume shader enhancements, and more.

V-Ray for Houdini

Super-fast production rendering for VFX artists.

Emmy and Academy Award-winning ray tracing technology.

V-Ray’s performance is production-proven. It’s been used by the world’s leading studios to render over 300 television series and feature films. In 2017, V-Ray received a Sci-Tech Academy Award for its contribution to photorealistic visual effects. In 2021, V-Ray was awarded with an Engineering Emmy for advancing the use of fully ray-traced rendering.

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Fast and scalable to help you meet tight deadlines.

V-Ray’s adaptive ray tracing is highly optimized for superior speed and scalability. You can take full advantage of your hardware rendering on multiple CPUs, & GPUs, or both. With V-Ray’s distributed rendering, you can render a single image across multiple machines.

Smart integration for a smooth workflow.

V-Ray works seamlessly with Houdini and enables smooth scene exchange with other DCC applications. V-Ray for Houdini is compatible with industry standards, including USD and MaterialX, ACEScg, Alembic, OpenVDB, and OpenColorIO.

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Creative control to render anything imaginable.

Bring your projects to life with the right tools for the job. V-Ray equips you with a complete set of lighting, shading, and rendering tools. It's the most full-featured 3D rendering software available.

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V-Ray 7 for Houdini, update 2 now available.

Chaos Vantage’s real-time, fully path-traced rendering now arrives directly in the Houdini viewport for faster pre-production workflows, thanks to the new Vantage Hydra Delegate plugin.

The update also brings Pyro-ready volume shading, advanced volumetric compositing, and noticeably faster volume rendering, along with support for Houdini 21 and full compatibility with Houdini’s procedural feather solution. New Gaussian splats clipping, Night Sky, and AI-powered material generation give you more creative flexibility while keeping you focused on the work that truly drives the story. And more.

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