Tutorial: Creating a High-Fidelity Hero Building
Discover how to create environment assets for VFX or games cinematics in The Gnomon Workshop's detailed new tutorial.
Saturday, March 2nd, 2024
V-Ray for Maya
Chaos releases V-Ray 6 for Maya Update 2
Maya edition of the renderer gets support for MaterialX, initial support for LookdevX, and the option to scatter lights with Chaos Scatter.
Monday, February 19th, 2024
Sneak peek: Chaos Scatter in V-Ray for Maya
Chaos's versatile object scattering tool is coming to the Maya edition of the renderer. See a demo here.
Thursday, April 6th, 2023
Master grooming CG hair with Ornatrix for Maya
Create facial hair for an animatable 3D character with The Gnomon Workshop's introductory tutorial.
Saturday, September 11th, 2021
Get the free V-Ray for Maya Personal Learning Edition
New PLE edition of the renderer can be used for free indefinitely, unlike the existing trial version.
Thursday, April 16th, 2020
Chaos Group launches the V-Ray Education Collection
New licence gives students and educators nine versions of V-Ray plus Phoenix FD for $149/year.
Thursday, April 2nd, 2020
Chaos Group releases V-Ray 3.6 for SketchUp
Big update to the SketchUp edition of the renderer adds support for viewport rendering and hybrid CPU/GPU renders.
Thursday, November 16th, 2017
Chaos Group releases V-Ray 3.5 for Maya
Sizeable update to renderer adds interactive lights, better interactive look dev, resumable rendering.
Thursday, March 30th, 2017
Chaos Group releases Phoenix FD 3.0 for Maya
Now shipping: fluid simulator gets new FLIP solver for liquids, updated gaseous fluid solver, new forces.
Friday, March 10th, 2017
Chaos Group puts Arnold's alSurface shader in V-Ray
Download the free V-Ray version of the VFX industry-standard shader. Works with both Max and Maya.
Sunday, October 9th, 2016
Chaos Group releases V-Ray 3.3 for Maya
Maya edition of the renderer gets feature parity with 3ds Max; speed boosts of 20-50% on 'most scenes'.
Wednesday, March 2nd, 2016
Chaos Group ships V-Ray 3.1 for Maya
Sizeable update adds two new VR camera types, extends V-Ray RT GPU, boosts performance all round.
Friday, July 31st, 2015