Chaos releases V-Ray 7.4 for Blender

New features in the Blender edition of the renderer include a quick caustics system, UDIM support, and conversion of Cycles to V-Ray lights.

Tuesday, July 21st, 2026

Chaos releases V-Ray 7.4 for Houdini

Houdini edition of the renderer gets support for relighting Gaussian splats, better volume rendering, tighter integration with Solaris.

Sunday, July 12th, 2026

Chaos releases V-Ray 7.4 for Maya

Maya edition of the renderer gets support for AMD GPU rendering, and better support for Bifrost and rendering 3D Gaussian Splats.

Friday, July 10th, 2026

Chaos reinstates support for AMD GPUs in V-Ray

The V-Ray GPU render engine now supports AMD cards again via AMD's HIP framework - and they're actually faster than NVIDIA in some scenes.

Thursday, April 23rd, 2026

Chaos releases V-Ray 7 Update 3 for 3ds Max

Check out the new features in the 3ds Max renderer, including native parallax interiors, quick caustics, and relighting 3D Gaussian Splats.

Thursday, April 23rd, 2026

Chaos releases V-Ray 7.2 for Maya

Check out the changes to the Maya edition of the renderer, including a new displacement material, and a viewport live link to Vantage.

Saturday, December 13th, 2025

Chaos releases V-Ray 7.2 for Blender

Check out the latest features in the Blender edition of the renderer, including macOS support, and a new distributed rendering system.

Thursday, December 11th, 2025

Chaos releases V-Ray 7.2 for Houdini

Check out the changes to the Houdini edition of the renderer, including a 'completely re-imagined' volume shader for smoke and fire.

Thursday, December 11th, 2025

Chaos releases V-Ray 7.2 for SketchUp with new AI Upscaler

Major update to the SketchUp edition of the renderer adds new AI tool for upscaling renders to 16K. Check out all the other new features.

Thursday, October 9th, 2025

Chaos adopts HIP to unleash AMD acceleration in V-Ray GPU

[Sponsored] Discover how Chaos is porting the GPU functionality of its industry-leading V-Ray renderer to run on AMD Radeon PRO GPUs.

Wednesday, October 8th, 2025

Chaos adds AI Material Generator to V-Ray 7.1.2 for SketchUp

Experimental cloud-based tool generates PBR materials and texture maps from real-world reference photos. Find more details here.

Thursday, September 4th, 2025

Chaos releases V-Ray 7.1 for Blender

First big update to the new edition of V-Ray for Blender users adds support for Geometry Nodes and a Cycles-to-V-Ray material converter.

Tuesday, August 26th, 2025

Chaos adds new AI tools to V-Ray in V-Ray 7 for 3ds Max, Update 2

Check out the new AI Material Generator and image enhancer in this major update to Chaos's production renderer.

Thursday, August 7th, 2025