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V-Ray 7, update 2 brings real-time to the Maya viewport, easier displacement blending, AI tools, and more.

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Rendering in Maya with V-Ray.

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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.

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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, and MaterialX, 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, OpenColorIO, and OpenPBR industry standards.

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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).

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


This update brings Chaos Vantage’s real-time, fully path-traced rendering straight into the Maya viewport for faster pre-production workflows. 

You also get smarter shading tools and new creative controls for customizing Gaussian splats and crafting realistic night skies. Plus, AI-powered tools help handle background and non-hero asset work, so you can stay focused on the work that truly drives the story. And more.

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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.

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V-Ray Personal Learning Edition for Maya

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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.

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