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Description

V-Ray for 3ds Max provides a rendering solution for the Film, Broadcast, Gaming, Architecture, Automotive Design, Product Design and other industries. The V-Ray rendering engine is acknowledged for its ability to deliver high quality photorealistic images in the shortest time possible. This Raytracing technology is capable of reducing costs in every production pipeline due to the doubled rendering power and saving in terms of human time and CPU resources.

Shaders can be transferred between 3ds Max and Maya with identical results.

 

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V-Ray 2.0 for 3ds Max New Features

V-Ray 2.0 for 3ds Max is a complete rendering solution, which combines the power of the distinguished V-Ray rendering engine with the flexibility and unprecedented speed of the interactive rendering system V-Ray RT, now running on GPUs.

• V-Ray RT and V-Ray RT GPU interactive renderers are included as part of the V-Ray installation.  V-Ray RT is a fully functional interactive rendering engine matching the production renderer results. With GPU acceleration, you can rely on a significantly faster interactive rendering process.  incorporate VRayProxy objects, texture-mapped area and mesh lights, Simple Skylight portals, and the VRayBlendMtl into an ultra-fast V-RayRT GPU workflow.

Shading

• VRayCarPaintMtl material.  Create stunning car paint shaders complete with base, flake and coat layers.
• VRayDistanceTex texture that measures distances to arbitrary mesh objects
• Dispersion in the VRayMtl material, utilizing the new support for wavelength-dependent ray tracing

Lights

• V-Ray specific light lister
• Directionality parameter for rectangle V-Ray lights to turn them into (textured) spot lights

Render Elements

• VRayLightSelect- allows user to extract the contribution of each light to the scene or compose all the lights back together and change their intensity in real time in any compositing software.
• VRayDRBucket render element to show which machine rendered a given bucket in DR mode

Hair

• VRayHairMtl - is a new shader, allowing hair and fur to be rendered with unprecedented control, quality, and speed.

Effects

• VRayLensEffects render effect for producing glow and glare with support for obstacle images and diffraction
• VRayExposureControl plugin for proper exposure of regular viewport and camera views

Optimizations

• VRayStereoRig controller for easy stereoscopic setup
• Shade Maps for faster rendering of stereo images, DOF and motion blur through the VRayStereoscopic helper
• Retrace threshold for the light cache
• Dynamic loading of tiled OpenEXR textures through the VRayHDRI texture
• Integration of the vartious V-Ray components in the 3ds Max "Create" menu
• Tools for calculating and rendering accurate camera distortion through .lens files
• Faster rendering of VRayProxy objects
• Support for proper motion blur of Thinking Particles
• Proper blending of gizmos for VRayEnvironmentFog
• Improved raytracing precision in certain cases
• Render history for the V-Ray VFB
• Load and compare images directly in the V-Ray fram buffer
• Support for rendering of VRayProxy objects as point clouds
• Better representation of V-Ray lights in the new hardware viewport for 3ds Max 2010 and later
• Support for bidirectional path tracing for accurate unbiased lighting solutions
• VRayMultiSubTex - use this V-Ray specific texture to assign different textures based on object ID

  

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Features

Core architecture

• Multi-platform object-oriented API
• Fully multithreaded core
• Unified sampling system based on Schlick sampling
• Distributed rendering - Unlimited Nodes
• Efficient shading system specifically optimized for ray-tracing
• Modular architecture - many components of the system can be replaced with custom ones

Geometry

• Efficient geometry handling
• True instance rendering
• On-demand dynamic geometry creation
• On-demand geometry loading from disk files
• Displacement mapping
• Catmull-Clark and Loop subdivision surfaces
• Extensible with custom geometric primitives through the V-Ray SDK

Image sampling

• Three different image sampling methods
• Full-scene anti-aliasing
• Progressive path tracing
• Support for additional render elements (diffuse, reflection, GI etc)
• Advanced color (tone) mapping controls
• Extensible with custom image samplers through the V-Ray SDK

Illumination

• Physically accurate full global illumination solutions
• Different GI algorithms: path tracing, irradiance cache, photon maps, light cache
• Reusable GI solutions for accelerated rendering of walk-through animations and animations with
• Dynamic Objects
• Physically accurate lights
• Efficient Illumination from HDR Environments
• Procedural Sun & Sky models
• Extensible with custom lights through the V-Ray SDK
• IES Photometric Lights

Shaders

• Physically plausible materials
• Blurry reflections/refractions
• Accurate highlights
• Sub-surface scattering
• Support for efficient material layering
• Extensible with custom shaders through the V-Ray SDK

Camera effects

• Depth-of-field with bokeh effects
• Accurate motion blur
• Physical camera model
• Extensible with custom cameras through the V-Ray SDK

Extras

• Toon effect
• Fur generator/raytracer
• Extended matte/shadow capabilities
• Support for Render-to-Texture mode of 3ds Max
• VRaySphereFade to isolate only specific portions of the scene for compositing

Frame buffer

• V-Ray specific frame buffer with integrated color corrections and display of multiple rendering elements
• Direct rendering to disk for extremely large images, either as OpenEXR files or as .vrimg files

  

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Rendering

Distributed Rendering:

• V-Ray supports DR. It divides the frame into regions and spreads them across the participants in the distributed rendering. This is done completely through TCP/IP protocol which is the standard protocol of the Internet and thus the most common protocol that is supported by the hardware. V-Ray itself does not need additional file or directory sharing (note that you may actually need some file/directory sharing for the bitmaps or other additional files used during rendering). The distribution management is divided into Render Clients and Render Servers.

Render Clients

• The render client is the computer that the user is currently using and from which the rendering is started. It divides the frame into rendering regions and spreads it across the Render Servers. It distributes data to the render servers for processing and collects the results.

Render Servers

• A render server is a computer that is part of the so-called render farm - it requests render data from the render client, processes it and sends the result back.

Notes:

• Every render server must have all the plugins and texture maps in their proper directories loaded so that the scene you are sending will not cause them to abort. For example having a PHOENIX plugin used in the scene will cause a server failure in any of the servers that do not have the PHOENIX plugin installed. If you have mapped your object with a file named JUNGLEMAP.JPG and you do not have that map in the BITMAPS directories of the render server installation - you will get bucket rendered at that machine as if the map was turned off, unless you also turned on the Check for missing files option in the V-Ray System rollout, in which case the render server will refuse to render the scene.

• When you cancel a DR rendering, it may take some time for the render servers to finish working and they may not be immediately available for another render.

Default lights are not supported in DR mode and will not render. If you need any lighting in the scene, you should add it explicitly.

 

 

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Version / Release Updates

V-Ray 2.4 for 3ds Max is now available!

Click here to download the full list of updates & features for V-Ray 3ds Max Build 2.40.01

 

 

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Additional Documentation

V-Ray 2.0 for 3ds Max Leaflet

V-Ray 2.0 for 3ds Max Product Brochure

 

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