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
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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