For 3D artists who need a fast and flexible renderer, Chaos® V-Ray® is built for speed, and designed for production. No matter the project, V-Ray delivers when it matters most.
V-Ray is production-proven. For more than a decade, the world’s leading studios have used V-Ray to render over 400 television series and feature films. In 2017, V-Ray’s ray tracing technology received a Sci-Tech Academy Award for its contribution to photorealistic visual effects. In 2021, V-Ray was awarded with an Engineering Emmy for advancing the use of fully ray-traced rendering.
Take full advantage of your hardware with production rendering that scales on multiple CPUs, GPUs, or both. You can even render a single image across multiple machines with distributed rendering.
V-Ray works seamlessly with Maya and your studio pipeline. This includes support for MASH, Bifrost-USD, MayaUSD, and MaterialX, as well as your favorite Maya plugins, including Golaem, Massive, Ornatrix, Chaos Phoenix, Yeti, and more. V-Ray for Maya is also compatible with ACEScg, Alembic, OpenVDB, OpenColorIO, and OpenPBR industry standards.
V-Ray is easy to deploy on any Windows, macOS, or Linux network, and offers flexible licensing options for you to choose from. The bundled V-Ray Standalone renders scenes directly with V-Ray, which is perfect for headless render-farm nodes.
V-Ray for Maya also includes two software development kits to customize your rendering workflow. For example, you can write custom shaders with the V-Ray SDK (C++) or build custom pipeline tools with the V-Ray App SDK (Python).
This update lets you seamlessly match real-world scans to your 3D scenes with Gaussian Splat relighting, and accelerates your creative process with AI-powered ideation, enhancement, image-to-video generation, and more via a new integration with Veras . Designed to fit any pipeline or hardware configuration, update 4 empowers you to deliver pixel-perfect final frames with maximum efficiency and optimized rendering performance for both CPU and GPU. Complex looks and stunning effects are within effortless reach thanks to intuitive, artist-friendly workflows and tools, including initial native Bifrost Graph support.
To see all the versatile features you can access using V-Ray for Maya, take a look at our feature-by-feature list.
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V-Ray Personal Learning Edition (PLE) for Maya is a free, non-commercial version of V-Ray for Maya. You can use it for your personal projects and education or to explore it's features at a pace that suits you.
V-Ray is rock solid, no matter what you apply it to. We've used it on everything from Thanos to Terminator and we get a consistent output back every time. As we continue to push the boundaries of CG characters, we need tools that can keep up. V-Ray has been there for us every step of the way.
Bob White, Lighting Department Supervisor, Digital Domain
V-Ray has enabled us to render to a high quality, whilst still being fast and easy to work with. It's quickly become a key part of our pipeline.
David Deacon, Technical Director, Lunar Animation
V-Ray is the only rendering solution that is all together easy to learn, visually flexible, stable and scalable. That's why we've been using it for over 10 years.
Doug Wilkinson, Global Head of 3D, Buck
with the purchase of any Chaos license.
