Render anything and everything with award-winning, production-proven rendering that adapts to your project’s needs and empowers you to bring any idea to life.
Take your rendering to the next level with V-Ray, a raytracer built for quality, optimized for speed, and ready to scale. With powerful CPU, GPU, and hybrid rendering, you can take full advantage of your hardware and meet the demands of productions of all sizes.
V-Ray is your trusted tool for any creative endeavor, providing everything you need to bring your vision to life. From high-end, ultra-realistic rendering with lifelike caustics to stylized looks for animation and cartoons, V-Ray offers unparalleled versatility.
Enjoy noise-free viewport rendering with the NVIDIA AI Denoiser and Intel® Open Image Denoiser. Make use of the V-Ray Denoiser to quickly produce clean final images, and check V-Ray’s firefly removal rendering option to automatically detect and eliminate bright pixels.
Unlock ultimate creative control with an extensive set of render channels for advanced compositing, including multi-channel and deep EXR output, Cryptomatte, Light Path Expressions, and more.
Illuminate any scene with stunning photorealism or craft the artistic effect you envision—V-Ray lets you do it all.
Achieve realistic lighting for your scenes thanks to V-Ray’s Global Illumination (GI). Accurately simulate how light bounces and interacts with surfaces, creating natural-looking shadows, reflections, and ambient lighting. Choose from ray-traced and hybrid global illumination methods for the perfect balance of quality and speed.
Simulate any type of artificial lighting with V-Ray’s wide range of light types. Whether you're aiming for photorealistic accuracy or experimenting with creative, non-accurate lighting effects, V-Ray provides the flexibility and tools to achieve your vision.
Easily create stunning, realistic renders or dynamic time-lapses with the V-Ray Sun & Sky model. Capture the subtle beauty of twilight from varying altitudes or craft the perfect cloudy sky for your scene with the procedural clouds system. Enhance depth and atmosphere with Aerial Perspective and Environment Fog, bringing your scenes to life.
Replicate real-world lighting with precision using High Dynamic Range Images (HDRIs) that capture the authentic qualities of natural and artificial light. V-Ray Dome Light's finite mode enhances realism by allowing you to set the scale of the dome light and fine-tune blend settings, ensuring seamless integration of CGI into real-life environment footage.
Add cinematic quality to your renders with real-world camera controls. Render images with depth of field, motion blur, and more — just like a real photographer. Ensure perfect results quickly with Automatic Exposure and White Balance settings. Simulate realistic camera lens effects like bloom, glare, dust, and scratches effortlessly using the lens post effects in the V-Ray Frame Buffer.
With V-Ray’s extensive set of shaders and textures, you can create any look—from photorealistic precision to bold, stylized designs—meeting the demands of any project while keeping full creative control.
V-Ray’s extensive shader set empowers you to create a wide variety of looks for any scene. From lifelike hair and realistic metals to translucent, skin-like surfaces and intricate layered effects, V-Ray provides all the tools you need to craft true-to-life materials or achieve artistic effects.
Whether you’re crafting natural surfaces, intricate patterns, or complex layered materials, V-Ray’s powerful texture toolkit offers the flexibility to create environments and assets for any project. With versatile options such as procedural textures and texture utilities, you can achieve any look.
V-Ray supports OSL (Open Shading Language) and GLSL (OpenGL Shading Language) shaders, providing the flexibility to create custom procedural shaders that are easily transferable across platforms.
V-Ray also introduces powerful tools for effortlessly creating and managing complex geometry. Render massive scenes with efficiency using V-Ray Proxies, easily create intricate cutaways and sections with V-Ray Clipper using any mesh object, and achieve realistic hair and fur with support for Blender’s Hair solution.
Blender now fits into any V-Ray-based production pipeline thanks to the universal V-Ray Scene File format. Export scenes with geometry, lights, shaders, and textures, and import them as references into any other V-Ray-supported DCC. Minimize time spent on asset conversions and ensure consistent results across production stages, with accurate and render-ready asset and light transfers. Use custom scripts to transfer and match materials too.
The V-Ray Frame Buffer (VFB) goes far beyond image viewing and management — it’s a powerful post-processing tool integrated directly into V-Ray. Adjust the color and intensity of lights and light materials without re-rendering with Light Mix. Fine-tune your renders with VFB’s color correction, layered compositing, pixel-perfect masking, and more.
Populate your scenes in just a few clicks with Chaos Cosmos, our ever-growing asset library. Choose from 6,000+ free, high-quality, ready-to-render 3D assets, materials, and HDRIs from diverse categories that you can access directly from V-Ray’s interface.
V-Ray for Blender enables seamless cloud-based workflows for presenting, reviewing, and rendering. With Chaos Cloud, you can share your work with colleagues and clients, allowing them to review and annotate anytime, anywhere. When deadlines are tight, and local hardware falls short, easily submit and render projects directly from V-Ray’s interface with just a push of a button.
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