• Highly-optimized CPU Rendering
  Render high-quality, high-resolution images and animations with V-Ray’s adaptive ray tracing technology.
• Incredibly Fast GPU Rendering
  Fine tune the look of your scenes in real time with the power of GPUs. Build materials, dial in cameras, and adjust lights interactively in the viewport.
• Accurate Lights
  Simulate any type of natural, artificial, or image- based lighting. With area lights, sun & sky and IES lights, you can render artistically – and accurately.
• Global Illumination
  Choose from several global illumination options – exact, approximate or a hybrid of both.
• Photoreal Cameras
  Work like a photographer. Real-world camera controls let you capture images with detailed depth of field and cinematic motion blur.
• Physically-Based Materials
  Create any type of physical material. From multilayered car paint to accurate subsurface scattering, you can make any material imaginable.
• Memory-Efficient Textures
  Work with production-ready, multiresolution tiled textures from your favorite applications, like MARI, Mudbox and Zbrush.
• Dynamic Geometry
  Render massive scenes with proxy objects. V-Ray proxies efficiently replace complex scene geometry and load only at render time.
• V-Ray Frame Buffer
  Review, analyze and post process your renders directly in V-Ray’s advanced frame buffer. You can be sure your images will match your final output.
• VRscans
  400+ scanned materials. Import and render directly in V-Ray.
• Hair & Fur
  Render realistic hair efficiently and flicker-free. V-Ray includes procedural fur, optimized hair shaders, and supports 3ds Max Hair&Fur, HairFarm and Ornatrix.
• Volumes
  Render fog, smoke and atmospheric effects that respond correctly to light. Bring in volume grid caches from Houdini, FumeFX and PhoenixFD.
• Render Elements
  37 Unique beauty, utility and matte passes give you more control over your rendered images for compositing.
• Variance-Based Adaptive Sampling
  Get cleaner renders with better noise detection.
• Automatic Sampling
  Save time with automatic sampling of lights and materials.
• V-Ray Denoiser
  Automatically remove noise and cut render times by up to 50%.
• Aerial Perspective
  Simulate natural looking skies with realistic atmospheric depth.
• VR & Specialty Cameras
  Experience your project in virtual reality. Create content for popular VR headsets, like Samsung Gear VR, with 6x1 and spherical stereo camera types.
• Triplanar Mapping
  Quickly apply seamless textures without UVs.
• Rounded Corners
  Generate perfectly smooth edges at render-time with no extra modeling..
• Specialty Geometry
  Create unique geometry like infinite planes, metaballs and isosurfaces, particles and object cutaways with render-time booleans.

1 - The Education Collection offers access to V-Ray for 3ds Max, V-Ray for Maya, V-Ray for SketchUp, V-Ray for Rhino, V-Ray for Revit, V-Ray for Modo, V-Ray for Unreal, V-Ray for Houdini, V-Ray for Cinema 4D, Phoenix for 3ds Max and Phoenix for Maya with one single license.

• Light Mixing
  Explore lighting possibilities interactively in real-time. Use LightMix in the new V-Ray Frame Buffer to freely experiment with lighting changes after you render, save out permutations, and push back improvements you’d like to have in your scene.
• Layered Compositing
  The new Layer compositor lets you fine-tune and finish your images directly in the new V-Ray Frame Buffer — without the need for a separate post-processing app.
• Material Manager
  Efficiently browse from a library of over 500 render-ready materials including metals, glass, wood and more.
• Material Presets
  Save time creating common materials with presets for aluminum, chrome, glass and more.
• Material Previews
  New rendered material swatches show you exactly what your materials will look like.
• Coat Layer
  Add reflective coatings directly in the updated V-Ray Material, saving you both material creation and rendering time vs. using Blend material.
• Sheen Layer
  Create soft microfiber fabrics like velvet, satin and silk with the new Sheen options in the updated V-Ray Material.
• Texture Randomization
  Add variety to your scene with the new VRayUVWRandomizer map and enhanced VRayMultiSubTex controls.
• Stochastic Texture Tiling
  Automatically remove texture tiling artifacts with the new Stochastic tiling option on the VRayUVWRandomizer.
• Extended V-Ray Dirt
  Weathered streaks and dirt in crevices are now easy with the enhanced V-Ray Dirt, which now employs both ambient and inner occlusion.
• New Sun and Sky Model
  Reproduce the subtleties of twilight when the sun is below the horizon with the new Sun and Sky model.
• Light Path Expressions
  Use the behavior of light, rather than just geometry, to produce flexible masks for very efficient compositing. Built-in presets make getting started easy, while scripting is there for ultimate control.
• Blue-Noise Sampling
  Achieve better noise distribution with fewer samples.
• Native ACEScg Support
  Select industry-standard ACEScg for rendering with automatic color space adjustment for textures, dispersion, sun & sky, and light temperature colors.
• Initial Out-of-Core
  Initial out-of-core implementation to handle your largest scenes.

• Powerful Scene Intelligence
  Automatically analyzes your scene to optimize rendering — so you get the best quality in less time.
• Adaptive Dome Light
  Faster, cleaner and more accurate image-based environment lighting. Up to 7x faster than before.
• Point & Shoot Camera
  Perfect renders are as easy as taking a snapshot with new Automatic Exposure & White Balance.
• 2x Faster GPU Rendering
  Fast new GPU rendering architecture with support for more of your favorite high-end production features.
• GPU Volume Rendering
  V-Ray GPU now supports blazing fast rendering of volumetric effects like smoke, fire and fog.
• NVIDIA AI Denoiser
  Instantly remove noise while rendering. Based on AI-accelerated denoising technology by NVIDIA.
• Lighting Analysis
  Accurately measure the light levels in your scene using new lighting analysis tools.
• Physical Hair Material
  Render more realistic-looking hair with accurate highlights and melanin color controls.
• V-Ray Switch Material
  Apply several materials to the same object and select the one you want at render time.
• V-Ray Plugin Material & Texture
  Load any texture or material that’s available in V-Ray Standalone and render it in V-Ray Next.
• Denoised Render Elements
  Denoise individual render elements for added control in compositing. Supports animation.
• Layered Alembic workflows
  Supports Alembic 1.7 and layers for efficient handling and updating of Alembic data.

• 3ds Max 2018 support
• Hybrid Rendering - V-Ray GPU CUDA now renders on CPUs as well as GPUs, to take full advantage of all available hardware.
• NVIDIA NVLINK - Supports shared GPU memory across NVLink compatible graphics cards..
• Full Light Select Render Element - Now with full support for GI, reflections and refractions for accurate light mixing in post.
• Cryptomatte - Automatically create ID mattes with support for transparency, depth of field, and motion blur.

• Online Licensing - With online licensing, licenses can be activated in real-time once an order is processed. Only available for new licenses.
• Interactive Production Rendering - Fully interactive production rendering with immediate feedback on both V-Ray CPU and GPU.
• V-Ray Scene node - Import and render complete scene files created in any V-Ray application.
• Glossy Fresnel - New, physically-accurate reflection model adds realism to any scene.
• Resumable Rendering - Ability to stop and continue rendering at any point, preserving work and saving time. Supports both progressive and bucket rendering.
• Live VR Rendering - Render directly to Oculus Rift or HTC Vive with full GPU acceleration. Visualize changes within the headset as they are made in 3ds Max.
• Interactive Lens Effects - GPU-accelerated glare and bloom effects that can be enabled and adjusted while rendering. Compatible with V-Ray Denoiser.
• Forest Color Support - Color variation support in Forest Pack by iToo Software. Available for V-Ray CPU and GPU.
• alSurface material - General-purpose shader by Anders Langlands includes built-in SSS controls; popular for skin.
• MDL Materials - NVIDIA’s universal material format is now supported by V-Ray, allowing designers to apply MDL materials authored in programs like Substance Designer to their assets and scenes.

• Compatibility with 3ds Max 2017;
• A new V-Ray Denoiser cutting render times by up to 50%;
• GPU rendering improvements;
• Control over the color of atmospheric haze;
• Support for top/bottom VR output;
• V-Ray Light Cache calculations are up to 15% faster;
• V-Ray RT improvements;
• Improved usage of GTR / GGX materials;
• V-Ray Frame buffer updates.

• Render most scenes up to 20-50% faster;
• A new variance-based adaptive sampler – a new algorithm that makes renders quicker to setup and removes the need to set subdivisions for lights and materials;
• Ray Traced Rounded Corners – for perfectly smooth edges at render time;
• New Sky Model and Aerial Perspective – for realistic natural-looking environments;
• Triplanar Mapping – for simple, UV-less textures;
• Improved V-Ray Clipper with Render-time Booleans – for cutaways using any arbitrary mesh;
• Stochastic Flakes – for more realistic materials like snow, sand, and car paints.

• 3ds Max 2016 support
• Two new VR cameras with output to Oculus Rift and Samsungs Gear VR
• New V-Ray RT GPU features, including QMC sampling with nVidia CUDA, displacement and Texture baking
• Add or remove distributed rendering nodes on the fly
• Improved Global Illumination
• New preview types of proxy objects
• Faster rendering of hair and fur

• Artist-Friendly Controls
  Designed with new and experienced users in mind, V-Ray 3.0 offers a simplified user interface with fast access to common settings. Render set up is now faster and easier with V-Ray 3.0’s Quick Settings. Artists can choose from a variety of production presets and fine tune quality with slider controls. And a new V-Ray Toolbar puts all popular V-Ray tools in one place
• Faster Ray Tracing and Rendering Performance
  Optimizations to V-Ray’s ray tracing core make rendering in V-Ray 3.0 significantly faster. Depending on scene complexity beta users are reporting speed increases up to 5X.
• Faster Feedback
  Using a powerful path-tracing engine, V-Ray 3.0’s new Progressive Image Sampler delivers instant feedback to artists and makes look development faster and more intuitive. An improved V-Ray Frame Buffer adds Lens Effects and advanced color corrections for Contrast, HSL, and Color Balance.
• Production-Focused Tools
  New tools designed to give artists more control and flexibility include Max Ray Intensity, Probabilistic Light Sampling, Reflection/Refraction Trace Sets, and Render Mask to specify exact render regions with an object selection or image mask.
• Advanced Characters and Creatures
  Improvements to character and creature workflows include Faster Hair Rendering, Ray Traced Subsurface Scattering, and a new VraySkinMtl shader. MARI UDIM and Autodesk Mudbox UVTILE support have also been added.