Chaos
Products

Expand your creative universe.

Discover the Chaos Ecosystem

All in one

Cloud

Simulation

SolutionsEducationCommunity
Partners in Art Learn more
Support

Visit our Help Center

Get help

Chaos Help Center


LearnGallery

What are you looking for?

V-Ray 6 for Maya, update 1 is here.

See what’s new
product-page-v-ray-6-for-maya-official-release-1920x600.jpg
product-page-v-ray-6-for-maya-official-release-1920x600.jpg

V-Ray 6 for Maya

Create without limits.
Try freeBuy now

The world's most complete rendering software for animation and visual effects.

For 3D artists who need a fast and flexible renderer, Chaos® V-Ray® is built for speed, and designed for production. No matter the project, V-Ray delivers when it matters most.

Emmy and Academy Award-winning rendering technology.

V-Ray is production-proven. For more than a decade, the world’s leading studios have used V-Ray to render over 400 television series and feature films. In 2017, V-Ray’s ray tracing technology 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.

Digital Domain © 2019 MARVEL
Scanline VFX © 2019 HBO

High-powered rendering at any scale.

Take full advantage of your hardware with production rendering that scales on multiple CPUs, GPUs, or both. You can even render a single image across multiple machines with distributed rendering.

Seamless integration with your pipeline.

V-Ray works seamlessly with Maya and your studio pipeline. This includes support for MASH, Bifrost-USD, MayaUSD, as well as your favorite Maya plugins, including Golaem, Massive, Ornatrix, Chaos Phoenix, Yeti, and more. V-Ray for Maya is also compatible with ACEScg, Alembic, OpenVDB, and OpenColorIO industry standards.

Scanline VFX © 2019 Paramount Pictures
Scanline VFX © 2019 MARVEL

Easy to deploy and customize.

V-Ray is easy to deploy on any Windows, macOS, or Linux network, and offers flexible licensing options for you to choose from. The bundled V-Ray Standalone renders scenes directly with V-Ray, which is perfect for headless render-farm nodes. 

V-Ray for Maya also includes two software development kits to customize your rendering workflow. For example, you can write custom shaders with the V-Ray SDK (C++) or build custom pipeline tools with the V-Ray App SDK (Python).

See what's new.


Bring any idea to life, faster.

V-Ray 6, update 1 brings in powerful, new creative tools, and speeds up rendering.

Populate any scene with millions of objects in just a few clicks, and in the most memory-efficient way with Chaos Scatter. Get artistic with the new Custom Light Decay option. Easily generate the correct glossiness for your character’s skin. Speed up your workflow by getting to first pixel up to seven times faster, and up to three times faster rendering for previews and lookdev. Get even more data to optimize scenes. And so much more.

See all that's new >

release-thumb-maya-c4d-scatter-1410x800.jpg



Key features

To see all the versatile features you can access using V-Ray for Maya, take a look at our feature-by-feature list.

See all features >

© Daniel Bates
© Troll VFX

V-Ray Personal Learning Edition for Maya

New to V-Ray for Maya? Want to learn at your own pace?

V-Ray Personal Learning Edition (PLE) for Maya is a free, non-commercial version of V-Ray for Maya. You can use it for your personal projects and education or to explore it's features at a pace that suits you.

Showcase

Case studies









Add more render power.

Add render nodes.

Need more render power? See pricing for cost-effective V-Ray Render Nodes.

Render with Chaos Cloud.

Need a supercomputer?
Benefit from fast and simple rendering.
Try Chaos Cloud >

Find a render farm.

Tight deadline? Find an authorized V-Ray render farm.

Get your free 30 day trial.

Fully functional. Technical support included.
Get started
ChaosEnscapeCylindo
© 2023 Chaos Software EOOD. All Rights reserved. Chaos®, V-Ray® and Phoenix FD® are registered trademarks of Chaos Software EOOD in Bulgaria and/or other countries.