Chaos Group ships V-Ray Next for Houdini Update 1

First update to the Houdini edition of the renderer adds support for custom AOVs and debug shading.

Thursday, May 21st, 2020

Chaos Group releases V-Ray Next for SketchUp Update 2

Update adds hardware-accelerated rendering on Nvidia RTX GPUs, and improves material editing workflow.

Wednesday, February 19th, 2020

Chaos Group ships V-Ray Next for Maya Update 2

Update adds RTX-accelerated GPU ray tracing, new animation-friendly light cache and deep EXR output.

Wednesday, November 27th, 2019

Chaos Group ships V-Ray Next for 3ds Max Update 3

Rendering on current Nvidia GPUs now 'about 40%' faster, thanks to new support for RTX acceleration.

Wednesday, November 20th, 2019

Chaos Group releases V-Ray Next for Rhino Update 1

Rhino edition of the renderer gets new Cryptomatte render element, expanded support for Grasshopper.

Friday, September 27th, 2019

Chaos Group ships V-Ray Next for 3ds Max Update 2

Renderer gets new toon shader, debug shading, memory tracking tools, and updates to V-Ray GPU.

Wednesday, June 5th, 2019

Chaos Group ships V-Ray Next for Maya Update 1

Renderer gets V-Ray GPU updates, Cryptomatte support for VRayProxy, and new memory tracking system.

Monday, May 13th, 2019

Chaos Group releases V-Ray Next for Modo

Modo edition of the renderer gets new scene intelligence features, faster GPU rendering, new rolling shutter effect.

Thursday, April 25th, 2019

Sneak peek: V-Ray Next for 3ds Max Update 2

See the renderer's improved light cache GI engine in action on a scene with 5,000 light sources.

Friday, February 15th, 2019

Chaos Group ships V-Ray Next for 3ds Max Update 1

Update improves IPR performance in the 3ds Max renderer, and adds support for GPU bucket rendering.

Friday, November 30th, 2018

Chaos Group releases V-Ray Next for Maya

Now shipping: see videos of the new GPU rendering features and the new hair and toon shaders.

Friday, October 26th, 2018

Chaos Group releases Beta 3 of V-Ray Next for Maya

Open beta of next big update to renderer gets new layered texture node, in-viewport OptiX denoising.

Monday, September 17th, 2018

Chaos Group releases Beta 2 of V-Ray Next for Maya

Update improves the IPR and GPU rendering architectures, extends the new toon and hair shaders.

Saturday, August 11th, 2018