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The world's most complete Maya rendering software for animation and visual effects.

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.

Why choose V-Ray for rendering in Maya?

Emmy and Academy Award-winning rendering technology.

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.

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High-powered rendering at any scale.

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.

Seamless integration with your pipeline.

V-Ray works seamlessly with Maya and your studio pipeline. This includes support for MASH, Bifrost-USD, MayaUSD, 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, and OpenColorIO  industry standards.

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Easy to deploy and customize.

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).

The complete 3D visualization and simulation toolset.

Get the full collection of Chaos® software that includes Chaos V-Ray®, Chaos Cosmos, Chaos Phoenix, Chaos Player, and Chaos Scans. Plus cloud rendering and collaboration in Chaos Cloud.

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Award-winning quality

Photoreal rendering, raytraced real-time, flawless materials, powerful simulations—the results speak for themselves.

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Complete creative freedom

You’ll find everything you need to visualize anything you can imagine—in every way possible.

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Everything is connected

A connected ecosystem of creative tools that work well together so you can create faster and better than ever.

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