V-Ray 6 for 3ds Max available!
V-Ray 6 for 3ds Max is officially available for download now and now contains Chaos Scatter, Enmesh, Cloud Collaboration and several other improvements to V-Ray.
What's New
- New license model — Render with V-Ray in any host application and benefit from the powerful suite of Chaos products and services with just a single license. More info here.
- Chaos Scatter — Create forests, fields, crowds, and more using the new scatter tool. It’s fast and easy, and it lets the user add lots of detail to the scene without using lots of memory. Free Scatter presets are also available in Chaos Cosmos.
- V-Ray Enmesh — With Enmesh, the user can think of geometry like a texture — but rather than repeating an image over a surface, it uses tileable geometry. Enmesh is ideal for creating patterns such as fences and fabrics, and it uses much less memory than displacement or copying by hand.
- V-Ray Proxy Object Hierarchy — Easily turn on or off an individual object’s visibility or material override with the new V-Ray Proxy hierarchical view. Set custom order by name, and streamline the geometry exchange and custom library workflows.
- V-Ray Decal with Displacement — The user can now use V-Ray Decal to add displacement to any surface for even more realistic cracked walls, rocks, embossed lettering, and more.
- Chaos Cloud Collaboration — Get rapid, consolidated feedback on the work’s progress. Upload renders to Chaos Cloud Collaboration right from V-Ray’s Frame Buffer, and share work with colleagues and clients to add comments and annotations.
- Procedural clouds — Craft just the right cloudy sky for the environment in just a few clicks with V-Ray’s new procedural clouds system.
- New ground projection — Elevate HDRI environment renders with the new, more flexible ground projection capabilities of the V-Ray Dome Light.
- Texture batch load — Add variety to scenes even faster than before and create shader variations in no time with the new texture batch load option inside VRayMultiSubTex.
- Light Mix light selection — Easily access scene lights with the option to select them directly from the Light Mix interface.
- V-Ray Material Faster SSS — Render translucent materials even faster with a brand-new V-Ray Material SSS mode.
- Enhanced V-Ray Material energy preservation — Render even more physically accurate rough metals and other reflective surfaces with enhanced V-Ray Material energy preservation.
- Thin Film layer — Create realistic soap bubbles, oil spills, and more with the new Thin Film option in the V-Ray Material.
- Faster UI draw times — Get a smoother experience when working with shading networks. V-Ray’s materials and textures interface now comes with much faster load times.
- Composition Guides Layer in VFB — Fine-tune scenes’ compositions without a separate application. With customizable overlays, the new composition guides layer in the VFB allows the user to easily experiment and enhance image compositions.
- VFB Panorama Viewer — Preview spherical panorama renders while rendering, right from the V-Ray Frame Buffer.
Availability
If you are new to V-Ray for 3ds Max, you can request a demo version here. If you are convinced by the possibilities of V-Ray 6 for 3ds Max, you can order your (upgrade) license through one of our dedicated resellers.