Explore V-Ray 7, Update 5.
Work smarter with an AI Assistant built directly into V-Ray. Get context-aware guidance, match scene lighting to reference images with Sky Match, discover relevant Cosmos assets, and receive actionable feedback on your renders with Render Critique. Make creative decisions faster without interrupting your workflow.
Available in: V-Ray for 3ds Max, SketchUp, Rhino
Connect compatible AI assistants like ChatGPT and Claude to V-Ray, Chaos Cosmos, and Anima. Use natural-language prompts to inspect scenes, adjust supported settings, find and place assets, and automate repetitive tasks. Get more done with fewer manual steps while staying in control of the result.
V-Ray MCP is available for SketchUp and Rhino. Third-party MCPs for 3ds Max are compatible with V-Ray. An MCP server for Vantage is coming soon.
Available in: V-Ray for 3ds Max, SketchUp, Rhino
Find and create 3D assets faster with new AI capabilities in Chaos Cosmos. Upload a reference image to discover visually similar models and materials, or turn an image into a usable 3D model directly in Cosmos. Both features are designed to reduce the time spent creating, searching for, and preparing assets for your scenes.
Available in: V-Ray for 3ds Max, SketchUp, Rhino
Easily refine realistic smoke, fire, and explosions with new Volume Objects, Volume Shaders, and native TyFlow Inferno support. Fine-tune volumetric effects with greater control and render simulation changes directly without exporting and importing VDB files.
Available in: V-Ray for 3ds Max
Create precise, atmospheric lighting with the new native V-Ray Spotlight in 3ds Max and improved Spotlights with integrated barn doors in SketchUp and Rhino, giving you greater control over light direction, beam shape, and cutoffs.
Available in: V-Ray for 3ds Max, SketchUp, Rhino
Create realistic neon signs and linear lighting with the new Cylinder Light, offering precise control over length and radius, physically accurate light falloff, and natural highlights and shadows without complex setups.
Available in: V-Ray for 3ds Max, SketchUp, Rhino
Render more realistic materials in real time with native support for dispersion, anisotropy, thin film, and sheen. Capture the subtle behavior of light across glass, metals, fabrics, and other complex surfaces.
Add intricate surface detail with procedural bump maps, parallax textures, and triplanar mapping. Create realistic depth and natural-looking surfaces while keeping your real-time scenes memory-efficient.
Blend 3D models into captured environments more naturally by adjusting the lighting of Gaussian Splats to match your scene, including different lighting conditions and times of day.
Bring AI-assisted ideation and realistic crowds and traffic into Vantage. Explore visual styles directly from your viewport with Veras, and import Anima projects to populate real-time environments with animated people and render your simulations in real-time.
Create natural crowd movement with less manual setup. Anima intelligently analyzes scene geometry and automatically generates navigation routes that account for slopes, obstacles, and crowd flow.
Guide characters through your scenes by placing a few strategic waypoints. Anima's AI pathfinding handles the movement between them, making it easier to create realistic pedestrian flows.
Bring greater variety and realism to your scenes with 240 new animated characters, ready to use in your visualization projects.
Generate videos in up to 4K with native audio using advanced AI models, including Veo 3.1, Grok Imagine, and Gemini Omni. Guide motion with existing clips, extend your shots, and refine still images with updated OpenAI models before bringing them to life.
Build custom image, video, and 3D workflows with the new node-based interface in Veras. Connect AI capabilities, automate repetitive operations, and save reusable workflows for future projects.
Available in the Veras standalone application.
Turn sketches, photographs, and reference images into native 3D models with the new Veras agent. The agent builds scene elements step by step, compares the results with your references, and refines the model as it works.
Available in the Veras standalone application.
Create and refine materials more intuitively with improved previews, easier node editing, and direct displacement connections in the V-Ray Node Material Editor.
Available in: V-Ray for SketchUp, Rhino
Enjoy improved viewport rendering, grass and water presets, and cluster painting support in SketchUp and Rhino. Across all V-Ray integrations, more of your materials, geometry, and lights now carry over.
Available in: V-Ray for SketchUp, Rhino, 3ds Max
Enjoy greater flexibility when choosing rendering hardware with V-Ray GPU support for AMD graphics cards through the HIP platform.
Available in: V-Ray for 3ds Max, SketchUp, Rhino
Work in your preferred language with the new Spanish-language interface, making V-Ray more accessible and intuitive for Spanish-speaking artists and designers.