Our library of real-world scanned materials, Chaos Scans, is now part of Chaos Cosmos, giving you access to over 3,100 ultra-realistic materials, including metal, leather, paper, plastic, rubber, and more. Available through the Cosmos browser, these materials are easy to find, preview, and use in your scenes. V-Ray Premium users enjoy the added ability to edit and customize them to suit their needs. Explore the materials on Cosmos and create your most realistic work yet.
Place your characters and assets within real contexts, or create and render complex 3D environments with enhanced accuracy.
Experience seamlessly integrated reflections and refractions, thanks to added support for Gaussian splats' novel scene reconstruction.
Fill your scenes with splats of real-world environments or objects that are both memory-efficient and rich in detail.
Achieve consistent shading results across applications with OpenPBR, a new open standard developed by Autodesk and Adobe. A new OpenPBR mode in the V-Ray Material introduces this shading model, which promises to boost production efficiency by reducing the need for manual adjustments when switching between compatible renderers and applications.
Easily create effects like neon lights, dusty lacquered wood, peach fuzz, and more with the new OpenPBR-compliant layering scheme. The new hierarchy—placing Coat over Illumination, and Fuzz at the top—simplifies the creation of these complex effects.
Take complete creative control and create materials with unparalleled realism thanks to the updated Sheen layer’s soft reflections in the V-Ray Material OpenPBR mode. Easily create effects like velvet, satin, silk, dust coating on lacquered wood, and more.
The new algorithm automatically detects and eliminates overly bright pixels known as fireflies during rendering. This enhancement not only saves time by reducing the need for manual adjustments but also improves the overall rendering speed and look.
Achieve better denoising results with support for the latest Open Image Denoise version 2.3.0. Now with a prefilter pass, you can enhance denoising quality, allowing for improved detail retention while reducing noise. Experience sharper, more refined renders with greater efficiency.
Quickly refine and render specific parts of your scene by defining custom-shaped regions directly in the VFB. Create multiple regions in any shape and focus precisely on the areas you wish to fine-tune, enabling faster iterations and greater creative control without unnecessary re-rendering.
Give your renders a unique, artistic touch with the highly flexible Vignette Layer in the VFB. Easily apply the vignette camera effect, customize its shape, and apply it to any element of your render for precise, tailored results that enhance your creative vision.
Easily experiment with different looks to find the perfect one for your renders. Apply color corrections to your images directly in the VFB, without the need for third-party applications, using the new color-correction presets.
Achieve precise control over additional lighting components in your scene, allowing for greater creative freedom in compositing and smoother integration of CG assets into real-life backplates. Extended LPE capabilities now let you isolate shadows and break down how they interact with the scene.
Create more realistic still images and immersive animations with the improved PRG sky model, which now supports nautical twilight. Additionally, it allows you to render the sky at various observer altitudes of up to several kilometers.
Streamline the adjustment of scattered items' orientation, allowing them to easily face toward or away from a selected object. Choose an axis or tweak the Falloff curve for even more creative control. Whether it’s sunflowers turning to follow the sun or crowds facing performers on stage, the new Look At functionality in Chaos Scatter makes these effects easier to achieve.
Enhanced scattering options give you even greater control. Use splines as surfaces alongside traditional meshes as targets for scattering, and adjust the Falloff Curve to achieve natural altitude variance in vegetation.
Explore the Chaos Cosmos library and find the perfect asset variation for your scene. Selected 3D vegetation assets now offer seasonal options, such as summer or autumn leaves. More variations, including growth stages and additional asset types like people, are coming soon.
Streamline your workflow with the possibility to select multiple Chaos Cosmos assets and import them simultaneously, making it quicker and easier to populate your scenes with the elements you want.
With support for complex light fixture assets available in our ever-growing Chaos Cosmos library, you can now achieve more accurate lighting, faster and instantly enhance the atmosphere of your designs.
V-Ray GPU now supports Caustics, enabling realistic reflections and refractions in both production and interactive rendering. The new Caustics Solver, based on Photon Mapping, is optimized to fully leverage GPU hardware, delivering stunning results with impressive speed.
Experience powered-up interactive and animation rendering with faster time to first pixel, thanks to optimizations in the rendering of scenes that are instance and texture-heavy. Scene data upload to GPU and geometry compilation are also optimized for speed.
Render image sequences up to 50% faster in some cases. V-Ray 7 introduces an enhanced algorithm for more efficient caching of bitmaps between animation frames, further speeding up the rendering process.
Render texture-heavy scenes more efficiently with the Use System Memory for Textures mode. This new out-of-core texture implementation erases limitations, with textures now only constrained by available RAM.
Support for New Metal triples rendering performance when using both the GPU and CPU sides of Apple M4 processors while doubling performance on M3 processors.
V-Ray 7 for Maya supports the latest official version of MayaUSD 0.30.0. We’ve also extended our support to include V-Ray Clipper alongside other enhancements to ensure seamless data exchange between V-Ray integrations.
