Sneak peek: Chaos Group's R&D work on V-Ray's VRayMtl

Video: see the new translucency in the standard V-Ray material, expected in V-Ray 5 Update 1.

Wednesday, January 20th, 2021

Golaem releases VRayGolaem for 3ds Max

Free plugin lets Max users render full-size crowd simulations created using Golaem Crowd for Maya.

Friday, July 10th, 2015

Damien Bataille releases DeeX VRay Arsenal 1.5

Updated: VFX Lighting TD's new plugin speeds up common tasks for rendering Maya scenes in V-Ray.

Friday, January 24th, 2014

AMD unveils two new Strix Halo Ryzen AI Max+ processors

See the key specs for the high-end APUs, and what we know about their likely price and performance in CG apps like Blender and V-Ray.

Wednesday, January 7th, 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 Vantage 3.1

Real-time ray tracing renderer is now available as a viewport renderer in Houdini, via a Hydra delegate. New smoke and fire simulator, too.

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 Vantage 3.0

Major update to the real-time ray tracing renderer adds initial support for USD, MaterialX, 3D Gaussian Splatting, and volumes.

Thursday, October 16th, 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 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