V-RAY NEXT FOR MAYA
Smarter, faster and more powerful rendering than ever before
Introducing the next generation of rendering.
With powerful V-Ray Scene Intelligence, fully redesigned IPR, and 2X faster GPU production rendering, V-Ray Next is smarter, faster, and more powerful than ever.
QUALITY
Production-proven ray traced rendering with a full suite of tools to create professional photoreal imagery and animations.
POWER
Built to handle the absolute toughest projects and largest scenes.
SPEED
Multicore CPU and GPU-accelerated rendering engines for optimized speed and scalability.
CREATIVE CONTROL
Real-time look development with interactive lighting, shading and rendering.
SMART INTEGRATION
Integrated seamlessly into Maya and designed to fit any production pipeline.
AN INDUSTRY STANDARD
Top artists and studios rely on V-Ray for Maya to create award-winning animation & visual effects.
WHAT'S NEW
V-Ray Next for Maya — Now compatible with Maya 2019
Overview
V-RAY NEXT FOR MAYA
V-Ray Next for Maya features V-Ray Scene Intelligence, accelerated IPR workflows — and supercharged, now-twice-as-fast GPU production rendering. The net result is the smartest, most powerful version of V-Ray that's up to 7x faster.
V-RAY NEXT FOR MAYA, UPDATE 1
This update includes support for Maya 2019, Memory tracking, Cryptomatte masks for VRayProxy sub-objects, Faster geometry export for quick render startup plus a number of important refinements.
Features
NEW — MEMORY TRACKING
Easier to optimize your scene with new memory usage report for textures and objects.
ADAPTIVE DOME LIGHT
Faster, cleaner and more accurate image-based environment lighting based on V-Ray Scene Intelligence.
FASTER IPR
Redesigned IPR for faster feedback and continuous updates.
AI DENOISER IN VIEWPORT IPR
The NVIDIA AI denoiser is now available for interactive rendering with V-Ray IPR in the viewport.
DEBUG SHADING/ISOLATE SELECTED
Quickly isolate selected textures and materials to help debug large shading networks in IPR.
PLAYBLASTS WITH VIEWPORT IPR
Create high-quality previz and animation tests via Playblasts with Viewport IPR.
2X FASTER GPU RENDERING
Fast new GPU rendering architecture that now supports more high-end production features.
GPU VOLUME RENDERING
V-Ray GPU now supports blazing fast rendering of volumetric effects like smoke, fire and fog.
GPU BUCKET RENDERING
Adds support for Cryptomatte render elements.
PHYSICAL HAIR MATERIAL
Render more realistic-looking hair with accurate highlights and new glint and glitter controls.
METALNESS
The V-Ray Material adds support for PBR shaders with new Metalness reflection controls.
TOON SHADER
Easily create non-photorealistic, cartoon and cel-shading effects. Now with new options for advanced line control.
KEY FEATURES
Rendering
POWERFUL CPU RENDERING
Highly-optimized, adaptive ray tracing for the best combination of fast rendering and superior image quality.
INCREDIBLY FAST GPU RENDERING
Get an added speed boost with GPU-accelerated look development and final frame rendering.
HYBRID RENDERING
V-Ray GPU CUDA now renders on CPUs as well as GPUs, to take full advantage of all available hardware.
RESUMABLE RENDERING
Stop your render at any point and continue where you left off.
DENOISER
Automatically remove noise and cut render times by up to 50%.
CHAOS CLOUD
Render scenes directly to the cloud with a push of a button.
Lighting
ADAPTIVE LIGHTS
Fast new lighting algorithm that speeds up rendering in scenes with many lights.
ACCURATE LIGHTING
Render natural, artificial and image-based lighting with a wide range of light types, shapes and controls.
GLOBAL ILLUMINATION
Choose from ray traced and hybrid global illumination methods for the perfect balance of quality and speed.
Materials
PHYSICAL MATERIALS
Create any type of physically-based material with multiple layers.
UNIQUE SHADERS
Choose from a collection of specialty and purpose-built shaders for SSS, skin, hair and more.
ALSURFACE MATERIAL
General-purpose shader with layered SSS and glossy fresnel reflections — popular for skin.
MDL MATERIALS
Now supporting NVIDIA’s universal Material Definition Language format.
VRSCANS LIBRARY SUPPORT
Compatible with 1000+ ultra-realistic scanned materials.
Textures
ROUNDED CORNERS
Generate perfectly smooth edges at render-time with no extra modeling.
TRIPLANAR MAPPING
Quickly apply seamless textures without UVs.
EFFICIENT TEXTURES
Work with multi-resolution tiled textures from top applications MARI, Mudbox and Zbrush.
V-RAY LAYERED TEXTURE
This powerful tool layers textures with blend modes and individual masking controls.
Geometry
LAYERED ALEMBIC SUPPORT
Now supporting Alembic 1.7 and layers for efficient handling and updating of Alembic data.
PROXY OBJECTS
Fit massive scenes into memory and cut render times using load-on-demand proxy objects.
HAIR & FUR
Render realistic hair with support for Maya hair and fur, XGen, Ornatrix, Shave and a Haircut, and Yeti.
Volumetric effects
VOLUMES
Render optimized volumetric effects and import OpenVDB files from Realflow and Houdini.
Render elements
RENDER ELEMENTS
Output a complete set of beauty, utility, and matte passes for total control in compositing.
FULL LIGHT SELECT RENDER ELEMENT
Render individual lights or groups of lights as separate render elements for accurate light mixing in post.
CRYPTOMATTE
Automatically generate ID mattes with support for transparency, depth of field and motion blur.
PRICING
RENTAL
NEW
UPGRADE
Upgrade from V-Ray 3.x to V-Ray Next
EDUCATIONAL
Abuot Chaos Group https://www.chaosgroup.com/
Chaos Group is a worldwide leader in computer graphics. We create the technology that helps artists and designers create photoreal imagery and animation for design, television, and feature films. Our physically-based rendering and simulation software is used daily by top design studios, architectural firms, advertising agencies, and visual effects companies around the globe. Our research and development in cloud rendering, material scanning, and virtual reality is shaping the future of creative storytelling and digital design.
