Upgrade to V-Ray 5 for Maya

Upgrade your V-Ray for Maya software from Next (v4) to V-Ray 5. V-Ray for Maya is a production-proven ray traced renderer with a full suite of tools to create professional photoreal 3D imagery, animations and visual effects. It’s extensible customization options and powerful lighting, look-development andquick post-processing features save users time, let them go beyond just rendering and help them explore their creative ideas without limits.

The world’s most complete 3D rendering software for animation and visual effects. 

Upgrade to V-Ray 5 for Maya. V-Ray 5 Workstation for Maya licenses work with V-Ray Next Render node licenses so those who use V-Ray 5 for Maya (or other platforms) can render with V-Ray 5 Render node licenses.

What Maya V-Ray Render is used for:

•      Automotive and product design

•      Creating Photorealistic images and animations

•      Industrial design

•      Product Marketing

•      Game cinematics

•      Visual effects in film and television

•      Virtual reality

Key Differentiators:

•      Render quality: Highest quality photorealistic images using multi-resolution tiled textures

•      Powerful CPU Rendering: Render superior images and animations fast with V-Ray’s highly-optimized and adaptive ray tracing technology.

•      Speed:  Harnesses the power of both CPU and GPU to accelerate rendering speeds.

•      Cross-industry adoption: V-Ray for Maya is used by architectural visualization studios, product designers and visual effects companies around the world to create photoreal imagery and animation

•      Ease of use: V-Ray runs straight out of the box with just a few clicks.

•      Full control: Three modes of GUI geared towards different types of users, from quick and easy set-up to full range of under the hood tweaks to personalize your experience.

•      Versatile: An all in one solution suitable for many industries.

•      Flexibility: A universal renderer. Almost every studio has a V-Ray integrated pipeline.

•      Technical support and community: Free technical support and knowledge resources, that goes far beyond installations and set-up. Chaos Group is famous for its quick response times and large community user base.

V-Ray 5 for Maya Upgrade New Features:

NEW — NVIDIA AI DENOISER IN VIEWPORT IPR The NVIDIA

AI denoiser is now available for interactive rendering with V-Ray IPR in the viewport.

NEW — DEBUG SHADING/ISOLATE SELECTED

Quickly isolate selected textures and materials to help debug large shading networks in IPR.

NEW — GPU BUCKET RENDERING

Adds support for Cryptomatte render elements.

NEW — V-RAY LAYERED TEXTURE

This powerful tool layers textures with blend modes and individual masking controls.

FASTER IPR

Redesigned IPR for faster feedback and continuous updates when moving the camera or working on animation.

ADAPTIVE DOME LIGHT

Faster and more accurate image-based environment lighting based on V-Ray Scene Intelligence.

PHYSICAL HAIR MATERIAL

Render more realistic-looking hair with accurate highlights and new glint and glitter controls.

2X FASTER GPU RENDERING

Fast new GPU rendering architecture that now supports more high-end production features.

GPU VOLUME RENDERING

V-Ray GPU now supports blazing fast rendering of volumetric effects like smoke, fire and fog.

LAYERED ALEMBIC SUPPORT

Now supporting Alembic 1.7 and layers for efficient handling and updating of Alembic data.

TOON SHADER

Create non-photorealistic cartoon and cel shading effects. Now with new advanced line controls.