Upgrade V-Ray 2.0 to 3.0 for Rhino

Upgrade V-Ray 2.0 to 3.0 for Rhino to take advantage of all of the new features added to V-Ray 3.0. V-Ray 3.0's user interface has been rebuilt and remodeled from the ground up. The new user interface features quick render presets and intuitive controls that allow you to focus more on your creative ideas and less on the technical details of designing. Its twin-engine rendering  architecture utilizes the latest CPU or GPU hardware. V-Ray’s full suite of tools creates a versatile experience that lets you render anything and everything - from quick conceptual designs to your most detailed 3D renders.

Options available to upgrade 5 or 10 render nodes with V-Ray 3 upgrade.

What it's Used For:

• Architecture
• Engineering
• Product Design
• 3D Animation

Key Differentiators:

• Easy to use: Easy to learn and easy to use, V-Ray works seamlessly with Rhino’s versatile 3D modeling tools.
• Quality: V-Ray lets you render the highest quality images possible – right in Rhino.
• Power: V-Ray gives you the power to render anything and everything – from quick concepts to your largest and most detailed 3D models.
• Speed: Render fast, design faster. V-Ray for Rhino lets you spend more time being creative and less time waiting. 
• Creative control: Focus on design, with a full set of creative tools for lights, materials and rendering.
• The industry standard: Top designers rely on V-Ray every day to visualize world-class products, buildings and more

Online Licensing

With the release of V-Ray for Rhino, Chaos Group now offers 2 licensing options: Dongle Licensing and Online Licensing.

With online licensing there is no wait to receive a physical dongle, and licenses can be activated in real-time once an order is processed. Online licensing is fast and secure, and your customers will be able to access their new software much faster – without the back and forth of WBC and RTU files.

 Please note that for now online licensing is available only for purchases of new licenses.  

Major Features

Twin-engine performance V-Ray comes with two powerful rendering engines. With CPU or GPU acceleration, you can choose the fastest one for your hardware.
Interactive rendering Render while you design. See results right away as you adjust lights, materials and cameras.
Global illumination Render realistic rooms and interiors with V-Ray’s powerful and fast global illumination.
Accurate lights Render natural and artificial lighting with a wide range of built-in light types.

Other Key Features

• Environment lighting: Light your scenes with a single high-dynamic-range image (HDRI) of its environment.
• Sun & sky: Render realistic daylight for any time and any location.
• Real-world cameras: Work like a photographer with controls for exposure, white balance and depth of field.
• Physical materials: Create great looking materials that look exactly like the real thing.
• Detailed textures: Create detailed and unique materials using texture maps or one of V-Ray’s built-in procedural textures.
• Proxy objects: Add highly detailed and complex objects like grass, trees, and cars with memory-efficient proxy models.
• Render elements: Render separate layers for more artistic control in your image-editing software.
• Frame buffer: Track your render history and fine-tune colors, exposure, and more directly in the V-Ray Frame Buffer.
• Render nodes: Give V-Ray Swarm an added speed boost with cost-effective render node licenses. Render nodes are compatible across V-Ray 3.x applications.
• V-Ray Scene export: Share complete, ready-to-render V-Ray 3 for Rhino files with any V-Ray 3.4 or higher application

What's New:

Update 3.40.02 is here!

Update Highlights

• License Server updated to version 4.4.

• Match Viewport mode added to Render Output/Aspect Ratio drop-down menu. This matches the rendered image to the viewport’s aspect ratio.

• Geometry Type icons added to the Asset Editors Geometry list. The icons identify the geometry type even if a custom name has been used.

• Light Type icons added to the Asset Editors Light list. These icons identify the light source type, and enable or disable the light.

• Side-by-side stereo output layout implemented.

• Directionality parameter added to the Light Rectangle light source. This allows you to narrow the light and focus its direction.

• Object as Clipper allows you to clip with a custom geometry (nurbs or mesh).