Chaos Group releases V-Ray for Nuke

Chaos Group has released V-Ray for Nuke, a new version of the renderer for Nuke, NukeX and Nuke Studio, enabling artists to use V-Ray‘s lighting, shading and rendering tools inside the software.

The workflow enables Nuke compositors to match 2D footage and 3D renders simultaneously, cutting down iterations on a shot.

Features in V-Ray for Nuke (list taken from Chaos Group’s news release)

Rendering

Multithreaded CPU rendering
Highly optimized, adaptive ray tracing
Precise path traced global illumination

Geometry

NUKE ReadGeo – Alembic, FBX, & OBJ
V-Ray proxy objects – Alembic & vrmesh
V-Ray scene files – vrscene

Lights

HDR image-based environment lights
Rectangular & spherical area lights
Mesh lights
Photometric IES lights
Ambient light
NUKE lights – Direct, Point, Spot

Cameras

NUKE projection cameras – Project3D node
Depth of field
3D motion blur
Spherical, cylindrical, cube & fish eye camera types

Materials

Physically-based materials
Multi-layered materials
Subsurface scattering & skin material
Car paint material
Material overrides
NUKE shaders – Diffuse, Emission, Displacement, UVTILE

Textures

Memory efficient tiled EXR and TX files
Displacement & subdivision
Dirt & occlusion
Fresnel
Ptex
Utility & override textures

Render elements

36 beauty, matte, and utility render elements

Pricing and availability
V-Ray for Nuke is available now for Nuke 7 and above on 64-bit Windows and Linux. A workstation licence, which includes one floating user licence and one floating render node, costs $1,040.

The software can render using existing V-Ray 3.0 for 3ds Max and Maya render node licenses.

Download the demo of V-Ray for Nuke

Credits (sci-fi city image used on homepage): Tim Holleyman, Shahin Toosi, Tilman Paulin, Scott Pritchard, George Zwier, Stephen Bennett.

Chaos Group releases V-Ray for Nuke

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