What’s new in V-Ray Collection

Explore and render your ideas in real-time at final-frame quality, right in your DCC viewport with Chaos Vantage. Get immediate feedback - no extra windows or tools, just a smooth, unified workflow for faster iteration and more confident creative decisions. Right from pre-production, you get instant, path-traced feedback as you work, delivering stunning realism in real time with physically accurate cameras, lights, materials, and global illumination. No rasterization, no approximations.

Available for: Maya, Houdini, 3ds Max / Coming for: Blender

Disclaimer: This feature is available to Vantage and V-Ray Collection customers.

Blend Gaussian Splats beautifully and naturally into any environment with seamless real-world scan integration via splat asset relighting. Easily match a Gaussian Splat’s lighting to your scene, making it effortless to blend captured locations, especially those scanned under ambient lighting, directly into your 3D worlds. From early-stage previz to final production, you can freely adjust your scene lights at any time without wasting hours working around baked lighting.

Available for: V-Ray for 3ds Max, Maya, Houdini, and Chaos Vantage / Coming for: Blender

Render real-time volumetric effects faster. Vantage now also supports exporting VDB cache files, allowing you to seamlessly reuse and integrate existing fluid simulations from early-stage previz all the way through to final production.

Available for: Chaos Vantage

Available for: Chaos Arena

Make on-set, real-time creative decisions with absolute control over shaders in your 3D scene during live LED wall shoots directly from Arena's material editor. Accommodate changes as a natural part of the creative process, quickly and without costly delays. There is no need to go back to the DCC to change an object's material in the middle of a shoot. The director can request a change and see it reflected instantly on the volume without ever stopping the cameras.

Available for: Chaos Arena

Achieve true cinematic realism by simply enabling a natural, real-time depth of field that seamlessly merges live-action talent and props with the virtual world. When paired with lens encoders, changes you make to the physical camera lens will be reflected on the LED wall, ensuring your virtual and real-world cameras are always in perfect sync.

Available for: Chaos Arena

Gain precise, region-specific control over your scene's look with decal color corrections. By creating and placing a Decal object in your scene to cover the desired region, you can instantly color-correct all objects in that area covered by the decal live on set. This lets you seamlessly match the colors of physical on-set props and ground set pieces with the digital background on the LED volume, eliminating the need to go back to the DCC or do the color corrections in post later.

Available for: Chaos Arena

Perfectly synchronize your physical camera on set with the virtual camera in the 3D scene. When you make manual changes to the focal length and focus of your physical camera lens, those changes will be dynamically reflected in the 3D scene's virtual camera rendered on the LED wall.

Breathe life into massive cityscapes and background buildings while saving time on modeling and keeping your scenes light and fast to render. The V-Ray Parallax Texture lets you create the perfect illusion of fully furnished, beautifully lit rooms behind your windows using just textures instead of heavy 3D geometry. As your camera moves through the scene, the interiors shift dynamically to preserve a convincing sense of depth from every angle, letting you effortlessly dress vast environments so you can focus on the bigger creative picture.

Available for: V-Ray for 3ds Max, Maya, Houdini and Blender

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Enable the new, quick caustics in V-Ray to easily generate stunning light refraction patterns, bypassing the tedious, trial-and-error setup of the traditional photon-based workflow. Much simpler to control and significantly faster to render, a single depth toggle delivers believable underwater caustics without the high performance cost of full photon tracing. The result is realistic caustics with minimal effort, making complex light simulation accessible, predictable, and highly practical for every artist and project.

Available for: V-Ray for 3ds Max, Maya, Houdini, and Blender

Take your shading networks to the next level with the new V-Ray Displacement Material. Designed to simplify the creation of complex surfaces, this material allows you to build and effortlessly blend displacement shaders, apply them to native geometry or V-Ray Proxy objects, and export fully shaded assets with displacement intact to seamlessly transfer them to other V-Ray integrations across your pipeline.

Available for: V-Ray for 3ds Max, Maya, Blender

Optimize and speed up V-Ray volume rendering further with powerful, new parameters. Gain control over velocity motion blur, dynamically scale the motion blur effect and sampling rate to balance quality and performance, making it faster to render complex effects, all while enjoying an updated user interface that delivers a more intuitive experience and a streamlined workflow.

Available for: V-Ray for Houdini

Turn any photo of a real-world surface into a render-ready PBR material with all the necessary maps in just a few clicks. Part of Chaos Cosmos, the AI Material Generator is ideal for creating secondary materials that don’t require extensive art direction, letting you quickly shade your scenes without time-consuming setups or extra tools.

Available for: V-Ray for 3ds Max, Maya, Houdini and Blender*

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Your live-action compositing workflow just got easier. You can now easily integrate CG elements with live footage using advanced Light Path Expression (LPE), which allows you to isolate reflections and Global Illumination (GI) from holdouts. This workflow gives you the tools and control to perfectly blend digital assets into real-world plates, eliminating the need for manual tracking and complex masking in post.

Available for: V-Ray for Houdini

Working with volumes in compositing just got a lot easier thanks to Light Path Expressions (LPEs) for Volumes. Now you can easily isolate the light cast by smoke, clouds, or fog in your scene, or extract the self-illumination of a fire into a separate render channel, simplifying post-production for scenes with effects.

Available for: V-Ray for 3ds Max, Maya, Houdini, Blender

Save hours of rendering time and still get crisp, photoreal results with the AI Upscaler. Available in Chaos Cloud Collaboration, it lets you turn low-resolution images into high-quality, presentation-ready visuals up to 16K in a single click. Boost resolution while also sharpening textures and enhancing fine details.

Available for: V-Ray for 3ds Max, Maya, and Blender*

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