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V-Ray

'Project Lavina' demo shows 300 billion triangles rendering at over 25fps on a single commercial GPU.

Tuesday, August 14th, 2018

Now in open beta: push-button cloud render service lets you launch jobs directly inside 3ds Max or Maya. Free for a limited time.

Monday, August 13th, 2018

Update improves the IPR and GPU rendering architectures, extends the new toon and hair shaders.

Saturday, August 11th, 2018

Free plugin for editing Substance materials in 3ds Max now supports animation and network rendering.

Friday, August 10th, 2018

Utility toolkit IgNite gets updates to Sculpt, Scribe and Illumi; other plugins now support V-Ray Next.

Monday, August 6th, 2018

Powerful Maya fur and feathers plugin gets new Braids geometry type, support for layered grooms, option to scatter points on fibres.

Friday, July 20th, 2018

New features include OpenVDB, FumeFX and Phoenix FD support, better interoperability with V-Ray.

Tuesday, June 26th, 2018

Upcoming V-Ray Next hotfix to let users render Corona materials directly and convert common Corona textures.

Tuesday, June 12th, 2018

Promising new crowd-simulation tool for Maya and Houdini gets support for cloth and dynamic fur.

Wednesday, May 16th, 2018

Check out all the new features of the upcoming release, plus a demo of volume rendering on the GPU.

Friday, May 4th, 2018

Updated: new service aims to let users run a full VFX studio via a web browser. Pricing now revealed.

Monday, April 30th, 2018

Nuke edition of V-Ray gets support for progressive rendering and the V-Ray hair shader and sampler.

Friday, April 27th, 2018

Framework for converting Max scenes into browser-based apps adds support for V-Ray materials.

Tuesday, April 17th, 2018