V-Ray 6 for Houdini released

V-Ray 6 is here to empower you to create anything imaginable with new features including:

Tighter integration for an even smoother workflow.

• Support for Houdini 19.5, plus a fully-featured V-Ray Hydra delegate for Solaris. 
• Native support for Houdini’s ocean tools, letting you create the perfect ocean waves faster and without any texture baking. 

Smart tools to unleash your creativity.

• Generate more realistic volumetric effects such as clouds, smoke, and more  with Phase Function. Easily create masks for your volumetrics. 
• Bring scenes to life with Chaos Cosmos, our free library of high-quality V-Ray content. 
• Customize just the right clouds for your environment without spending hours browsing through HDRI libraries and animating. 
• Use V-Ray Decal to add displacement to any surface for even more realistic cracked walls, rocks, scratched and rusty surfaces, embossed lettering, and more. 
• Repeat geometry across the surface of an object in the most memory-efficient way possible. Create complex surfaces with lots of detail such as chain mail, car grilles, metal grids, panels, fences, fabrics, and so much more in just a few clicks. 

Enhanced performance. 

• Faster bucket rendering thanks to a clever new algorithm. 
• Identical V-Ray IPR and production renderer output help you make better decisions while iterating designs. 
• Faster rendering, plus a tool to give you the data needed to locate shaders and volumes in your scene for optimization, so you can render even faster. 

And much more.