V-Ray is a computer-generated imagery rendering software application developed by the Bulgarian company Chaos Group. V-Ray is a commercial plug-in for third-party 3D computer graphics software applications and is used for visualizations and computer graphics in industries such as media, entertainment, film and video game production, industrial design, product design and architecture.

PROFESSIONAL RENDERING FOR ARCHITECTS & DESIGNERS

V-Ray for Revit lets you render professional, high resolution images with realistic lights, materials, and cameras.

V-Ray for Revit is built to handle your biggest building models. V-Ray is fast. Render quickly and make design decisions faster.

V-Ray for Revit is made for designers. It’s fast to set up, with no complicated settings and no training required. V-Ray for Revit works right in Revit. No import or export needed.

92 of the top 100 architecture firms in the world render with V-Ray every day.

• DESIGN-FRIENDLY INTERFACE
  Quickly balance quality and speed with V-Ray for Revit’s render presets. Work in draft mode for early iterations and switch to high quality for presentations.
  
  
• INTERACTIVE RENDERING
  Render interactively while you design. Fine-tune lights and materials and see the results right away.
  
  
• PHYSICALLY-BASED LIGHTING
  Accurate options for IES and HDR image-based lighting, as well as support for Revit Sun and Sky.
  
  
• REAL-WORLD CAMERAS
  Simulate photographic cameras from Revit’s native camera views.
  
  
• PHYSICAL MATERIALS
  Automatically convert Revit materials to V-Ray’s physically-correct format. Fine-tune material properties using the V-Ray Material Editor.
  
  
• DIAGRAMMATIC MATERIALS
  Easily make scenes look diagrammatic or like a scale models with material presets such as basswood and foam core.
  
  
• SECTION BOXES
  Render sections easily with full support for Revit's native section boxes.
  
  
• DENOISER
  Automatically removes artifacts and noise, cutting render times with GPU-accelerated denoising.
  
  
• AERIAL PERSPECTIVE
  Add realistic atmospheric depth with aerial perspective and environment fog.
  
  
• V-RAY FRAME BUFFER
  Fine-tune your render’s color, exposure, and more directly in V-Ray’s frame buffer.
  
  
• VIRTUAL REALITY
  Verify designs at 1:1 scale in popular VR headsets like Google Cardboard, Samsung Gear VR, Oculus Rift and HTC Vive.
  
  
• V-RAY SWARM
  New web-based distributed rendering to speed up rendering by using the power of all available desktops and render nodes.
  
  
• EXPORT TO V-RAY STANDALONE
  Export a ready-to-render scene from Revit to V-Ray Standalone.

POWERFUL RENDERING FOR DESIGNERS

V-Ray for Rhino comes with all the lighting, shading, and rendering tools you need to create professional, photoreal imagery. Built to handle your biggest projects and your most detailed scenes. Render anything you can imagine with V-Ray for Rhino.

Spend less time waiting and more time being creative. Deliver your best work and never miss a deadline. V-Ray for Rhino puts you in control. Its versatile feature set lets you choose the best approach for your scene.

Work the way you want – without interruption. V-Ray is seamlessly integrated into Rhino so your workflow is fluid and smooth.

Top artists and designers choose V-Ray every day to create world-class images and designs.

• POWERFUL PROFESSIONAL RENDERING
  Render high-quality, photoreal imagery with V-Ray for Rhino's powerful lighting, shading, and rendering tools.
  
  
• INTERACTIVE GPU & CPU RENDERING
  Fine tune lights and materials interactively while you render.
  
  
• GLOBAL ILLUMINATION
  Create photoreal interiors with ray traced and hybrid global illumination methods.
  
  
• ACCURATE LIGHTS
  Render natural and artificial lighting with a wide range of light types, shapes and controls.
  
  
• ENVIRONMENT LIGHTING
  Light scenes using a single high-dynamic-range (HDR) environment image.
  
  
• PHYSICAL SUN & SKY
  Simulate realistic daylight scenarios for any time and any location.
  
  
• REAL-WORLD CAMERAS
  Work like a photographer with real-world camera controls for exposure, white balance, depth of field and more.
  
  
• PHYSICAL MATERIALS
  Create great looking materials that look exactly like the real thing.
  
  
• PROXY OBJECTS
  Add highly-detailed models like grass, trees and cars as V-Ray proxy objects.
  
  
• DISTRIBUTED RENDERING
  Use the full power of multiple computers working together to render a single image.

PROFESSIONAL RENDERING FOR ARCHITECTS & DESIGNERS

V-Ray for SketchUp comes with all the lighting, shading, and rendering tools you need to create professional, photoreal imagery and animations. Built to handle your toughest projects and biggest scenes, V-Ray gives you the power to render anything and everything in SketchUp.

Spend less time waiting and more time being creative, and deliver your best work without missing a deadline. V-Ray for SketchUp puts you in control. Its versatile feature set lets you pick the best approach for your scene. V-Ray is seamlessly integrated into SketchUp, so your workflow is fluid and smooth.

Top artists & designers use V-Ray for SketchUp every day to create world-class images and designs.

• POWERFUL PROFESSIONAL RENDERING
  Render high-quality, high-resolution images and animations.
  
  
• INTERACTIVE LIGHTING, MATERIALS & RENDERING
  Fine tune lights and materials interactively while you render.
  
  
• GLOBAL ILLUMINATION
  Create photoreal interiors with powerful and fast global illumination methods.
  
  
• ACCURATE LIGHTS
  Render natural and artificial lighting with a wide range of light types, shapes and controls.
  
  
• ENVIRONMENT LIGHTING
  Light scenes using a single high-dynamic-range (HDR) environment image.
  
  
• PHYSICAL SUN & SKY
  Simulate realistic daylight scenarios for any time and any location.
  
  
• REAL-WORLD CAMERAS
  Work like a photographer with real-world camera controls for exposure, white balance, depth of field and more.
  
  
• PHYSICAL MATERIALS
  Create great looking materials that look exactly like the real thing.
  
  
• PROXY OBJECTS
  Add highly-detailed models like grass, trees and cars as V-Ray proxy objects.
  
  
• DISTRIBUTED RENDERING
  Use the full power of multiple computers working together to render a single image.

POWERFUL RENDERING FOR ARTISTS

Production-proven ray traced rendering with a full suite of tools to create professional photoreal imagery and animations.
Built to handle the absolute toughest projects and largest scenes.

Multicore CPU and GPU-accelerated rendering engines for optimized speed and scalability.
Real-time look development with interactive lighting, shading and rendering.

Integrated seamlessly into Maya and designed to fit any production pipeline.
Top artists and studios rely on V-Ray for Maya to create award-winning animation & visual effects.

• POWERFUL CPU RENDERING
  Render superior images and animations fast with V-Ray’s highly-optimized and adaptive ray tracing technology.
  
  
• INCREDIBLY FAST GPU RENDERING
  Get an additional speed boost with GPU-accelerated look development and final frame rendering.
  
  
• GLOBAL ILLUMINATION
  Choose from ray traced and hybrid global illumination methods for the perfect balance of quality and speed.
  
  
• VRSCANS MATERIAL LIBRARY SUPPORT
  400+ scanned materials. Import and render directly in V-Ray. 
  
  
• ACCURATE LIGHTS
  Render natural, artificial and image-based lighting with a wide range of light types, shapes and controls.
  
  
• PHYSICAL MATERIALS
  Create physically-based materials with multiple layers – now with GTR/GGX shading for great looking reflections.
  
  
• UNIQUE SHADERS
  For specialized materials, choose from a collection of purpose-built shaders for subsurface scattering, skin, hair and more.
  
  
• PHYSICAL CAMERAS
  Simulate any camera and lens with controls for exposure, depth of field and motion blur.
  
  
• VIRTUAL REALITY
  Render VR-ready content for popular headsets like Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and Samsung Gear VR.
  
  
• PROXY OBJECTS
  Fit massive scenes into memory and cut render times using load-on-demand proxy objects.
  
  
• EFFICIENT TEXTURES
  Work with multi-resolution tiled textures from top applications MARI, Mudbox and Zbrush.
  
  
• HAIR & FUR
  Render realistic hair with support for Maya hair and fur, XGen, Ornatrix, Shave and a Haircut, and Yeti.
  
  
• VOLUMES
  Render optimized volumetric effects and import OpenVDB files from Realflow and Houdini.
  
  
• RENDER ELEMENTS
  Output a complete set of beauty, utility, and matte passes for total control in compositing.
  
  
• V-RAY FRAME BUFFER
  Track render history, fine tune colors, and match final output with advanced color management.

PROFESSIONAL RENDERING FOR ARTISTS & DESIGNERS

V-Ray comes with all the lighting, shading, and rendering tools you need to create professional, photoreal imagery and animation.
Built to handle your biggest projects and your toughest scenes. Render anything and everything with V-Ray. 

Spend less time waiting and more time being creative. Deliver your best work and never miss a deadline. V-Ray puts you in the driver seat. You’re in control. With V-Ray’s versatile features, you can choose the best approach for your scene.

Work the way you want – without interruption. V-Ray’s seamless 3ds Max integration keeps your workflow fluid and smooth.
Independent artists and top studios choose V-Ray every day to create world-class designs and visual effects.

• HIGHLY-OPTIMIZED CPU RENDERING
  Render high-quality, high-resolution images and animations with V-Ray’s adaptive ray tracing technology. V-Ray uses physically-correct methods to calculate photoreal lighting, materials, and cameras. V-Ray is optimized to use all CPU cores across multiple machines for the fastest renders possible.
  
  
• 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. Switch to Production Mode when you’re ready to render final images.
  
  
• VARIANCE-BASED ADAPTIVE SAMPLING
  Get cleaner renders with better noise detection.
  
  
• AUTOMATIC SAMPLING
  Save time with automatic sampling of lights and materials.
  
  
• GLOBAL ILLUMINATION
  Choose from several global illumination options – exact, approximate or a hybrid of both.
  
  
• V-RAY DENOISER
  Automatically remove noise and cut render times by up to 50%.

• 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.
  
  
• NEW SKY MODEL & AERIAL PERSPECTIVE
  Simulate natural looking skies with realistic atmospheric depth.
  
  
• PHOTOREAL CAMERAS
  Work like a photographer. Real-world camera controls let you capture images with detailed depth of field and cinematic motion blur.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• VRSCANS MATERIAL LIBRARY SUPPORT
  400+ scanned materials. Import and render directly in V-Ray.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• TRIPLANAR MAPPIING
  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.
  
  
• CLIPPER W/ RENDER-TIME BOOLEANS
  Create complex cutaways and sections using any mesh object.
  
  
• DYNAMIC GEOMETRY
  Render massive scenes with proxy objects. V-Ray proxies efficiently replace complex scene geometry and load only at render time.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• 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.