© Taichi Kobayashi
© Taichi KobayashiV-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 HBOTake 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.
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.
Scanline VFX © 2019 Paramount Pictures
Scanline VFX © 2019 MARVELV-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).
To see all the versatile features you can access using V-Ray for Maya, take a look at our feature-by-feature list.
© Daniel Bates
© Troll VFXV-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.
V-Ray is the only rendering solution that is all together easy to learn, visually flexible, stable and scalable. That's why we've been using it for over 10 years.
We love using V-Ray for Maya in our daily pursuit of creating the most realistic images and pushing the boundaries of computer graphics.
V-Ray is rock solid, no matter what you apply it to. We've used it on everything from Thanos to Terminator and we get a consistent output back every time. As we continue to push the boundaries of CG characters, we need tools that can keep up. V-Ray has been there for us every step of the way.
V-Ray has enabled us to render to a high quality, whilst still being fast and easy to work with. It's quickly become a key part of our pipeline.
V-Ray is the only rendering solution that is all together easy to learn, visually flexible, stable and scalable. That's why we've been using it for over 10 years.
We love using V-Ray for Maya in our daily pursuit of creating the most realistic images and pushing the boundaries of computer graphics.
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From individual creators to the biggest enterprises, we have a plan for you.
1 license – billed annually US $514.80
For use by a single user with a single login and password. Use your personal single license on multiple devices with your My Chaos login.
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A floating license can be shared and used on any computer.
1 license – billed annually US $1 149.60
A floating license can be shared and used on any computer.
Find the plan that's right for you.
For use by a single user with a single login and password. Use your personal single license on multiple devices with your My Chaos login.
V-Ray integrate with your favourite design applications
Reliable, high-end customer assistance
Stay current with latest innovations
Free access to expert training
Share licenses across multiple machines and users
Industry leading offline renderer
Total control for the expert users who need it
Color correct, composite, or adjust lights without re-rendering
One license for all your modelling platforms
Rendering that scales across CPUs, GPUs, or both
USD, MaterialX, support, and more for smooth data exchange
Scripting, APIs, and pipeline-friendly configurations
High-quality playblasts, 3D previz, and real-time references
Style frames, shader tests, and lighting and rendering exploration
Production ready shaders
Simulate real-world lighting or go artistic
Your fastest route from render to playback
Easy presets & template scenes, powerful enough for complex effects
Create any type of fire and smoke effects
Create realistic liquid simulations
Create ocean surfaces, waves with foam, splashes, and mist
Control over floating objects
Share your work, gather feedback, and manage approvals
Render on our servers without time or hardware limits
Thousands of ready-to-render models
5,000+ scanned & CG photoreal materials
HDRI skies for lighting any day, night, or studio scene
Ability to edit & customize Chaos Scans materials
Quickly add realistic crowds and traffic to your scenes
Find the plan that's right for you.
For use by a single user with a single login and password. Use your personal single license on multiple devices with your My Chaos login.
V-Ray integrate with your favourite design applications
Reliable, high-end customer assistance
Stay current with latest innovations
Free access to expert training
Share licenses across multiple machines and users
Industry leading offline renderer
Total control for the expert users who need it
Color correct, composite, or adjust lights without re-rendering
One license for all your modelling platforms
Rendering that scales across CPUs, GPUs, or both
USD, MaterialX, support, and more for smooth data exchange
Scripting, APIs, and pipeline-friendly configurations
High-quality playblasts, 3D previz, and real-time references
Style frames, shader tests, and lighting and rendering exploration
Production ready shaders
Simulate real-world lighting or go artistic
Your fastest route from render to playback
Easy presets & template scenes, powerful enough for complex effects
Create any type of fire and smoke effects
Create realistic liquid simulations
Create ocean surfaces, waves with foam, splashes, and mist
Control over floating objects
Share your work, gather feedback, and manage approvals
Render on our servers without time or hardware limits
Thousands of ready-to-render models
5,000+ scanned & CG photoreal materials
HDRI skies for lighting any day, night, or studio scene
Ability to edit & customize Chaos Scans materials
Quickly add realistic crowds and traffic to your scenes
A floating license can be shared and used on any computer.
V-Ray integrate with your favourite design applications
Reliable, high-end customer assistance
Stay current with latest innovations
Free access to expert training
Share licenses across multiple machines and users
Industry leading offline renderer
Total control for the expert users who need it
Color correct, composite, or adjust lights without re-rendering
One license for all your modelling platforms
Rendering that scales across CPUs, GPUs, or both
USD, MaterialX, support, and more for smooth data exchange
Scripting, APIs, and pipeline-friendly configurations
High-quality playblasts, 3D previz, and real-time references
Style frames, shader tests, and lighting and rendering exploration
Production ready shaders
Simulate real-world lighting or go artistic
Your fastest route from render to playback
Easy presets & template scenes, powerful enough for complex effects
Create any type of fire and smoke effects
Create realistic liquid simulations
Create ocean surfaces, waves with foam, splashes, and mist
Control over floating objects
Share your work, gather feedback, and manage approvals
Render on our servers without time or hardware limits
Thousands of ready-to-render models
5,000+ scanned & CG photoreal materials
HDRI skies for lighting any day, night, or studio scene
Ability to edit & customize Chaos Scans materials
Quickly add realistic crowds and traffic to your scenes
A floating license can be shared and used on any computer.
V-Ray integrate with your favourite design applications
Reliable, high-end customer assistance
Stay current with latest innovations
Free access to expert training
Share licenses across multiple machines and users
Industry leading offline renderer
Total control for the expert users who need it
Color correct, composite, or adjust lights without re-rendering
One license for all your modelling platforms
Rendering that scales across CPUs, GPUs, or both
USD, MaterialX, support, and more for smooth data exchange
Scripting, APIs, and pipeline-friendly configurations
High-quality playblasts, 3D previz, and real-time references
Style frames, shader tests, and lighting and rendering exploration
Production ready shaders
Simulate real-world lighting or go artistic
Your fastest route from render to playback
Easy presets & template scenes, powerful enough for complex effects
Create any type of fire and smoke effects
Create realistic liquid simulations
Create ocean surfaces, waves with foam, splashes, and mist
Control over floating objects
Share your work, gather feedback, and manage approvals
Render on our servers without time or hardware limits
Thousands of ready-to-render models
5,000+ scanned & CG photoreal materials
HDRI skies for lighting any day, night, or studio scene
Ability to edit & customize Chaos Scans materials
Quickly add realistic crowds and traffic to your scenes
