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    This page provides information on supported features in V-Ray for Cinema 4D, based on the rendering type and hardware architecture.


    Rendering

    FeatureV-RayV-Ray GPU
    Cinema 4D Team Render 6(tick)(tick)
    Stereoscopic Rendering(tick)(tick)
    Resumable Rendering(tick)(tick)
    Viewport Interactive Rendering(tick)(tick)


    Geometry

    FeatureV-RayV-Ray GPU
    V-Ray Proxy(tick)(tick)
    V-Ray Scene 3(tick)(tick)
    Geometry tag(tick)(tick)
    Object Properties tag(tick)(tick)
    V-Ray Fur(tick)(tick)
    V-Ray Clipper(tick)(tick)
    (without Mesh mode)
    Cinema 4D Floor(tick)(tick)
    Renderable Spline tag

    (tick)

    		(tick)
    Perfect Sphere(tick)(tick)
    V-Ray Enmesh(tick)(tick)
    V-Ray Decal(tick)(tick)
    V-Ray Particles

    (tick)

    		(tick)
    Chaos Scatter

    (tick)

    		(tick)


    Render Elements

    FeatureV-RayV-Ray GPU
    Preset: Back to Beauty(tick)(tick)
    Atmospheric Effects(tick)(tick)
    Background

    (tick)

    (tick)

    Bump Normals
    (tick)
    (tick)
    Caustics
    (tick)
    (Production mode)
    (error)
    Coat Specular(tick)(tick)
    Coat Filter(tick)(error)
    Coat Glossiness(tick)(error)
    Coat Reflection(tick)(tick)
    Coverage

    (tick)


     (error)

    Cryptomatte

    (tick)

    		(tick)
    Denoiser
    (tick)
    (tick)
    Diffuse

    (tick)

    (tick)
    Extra Tex(ture)

    (tick)

    		(tick)
    GI
    (tick)
    		(tick)
    LightMix(tick)(tick)

    Light Select

    (tick)

    (tick)

    Lighting
    (tick)
    		(tick)
    Material ID(tick)(tick)
    Material Select(tick)(error)
    Matte Shadow(tick)(error)
    Metalness(tick)(error)
    Multi Matte(tick)(error)
    Multi Matte ID(tick)(error)
    Normals(tick)(tick)
    Object ID(tick)(tick)
    Object Select(tick)(error)
    Raw Coat Filter(tick)(tick)
    Raw Coat Reflection(tick)(tick)
    Raw Sheen Filter(tick)(tick)
    Raw Sheen Reflection(tick)(tick)
    Raw GI(tick)(error)
    Raw Light(tick)(error)
    Raw Reflection(tick)(error)
    Raw Refraction(tick)(error)
    Raw Shadow(tick)(error)
    Raw Total Light(tick)(error)
    Reflect IOR(tick)(error)
    Reflection(tick)(tick)
    Reflection Filter(tick)(tick)
    Reflection Glossiness(tick)(error)
    Reflection Highlight Glossiness(tick)(error)
    Refraction(tick)(tick)
    Refraction Filter(tick)(tick)
    Refraction glossiness(tick)(error)
    Render ID

    (tick)

    		(tick)
    Sheen

    (tick)

    		(tick)
    Sheen Glossiness

    (tick)

    		(tick)
    Sheen Filter

    (tick)

    		(tick)
    SSS(tick)(tick)
    Sample Rate(tick)(tick)
    Sampler Info(tick)PARTIAL8
    Self Illumination(tick)(tick)
    Shadow(tick)(tick)
    Specular(tick)(tick)
    Toon(tick)(error)
    Total Light(tick)(error)
    Velocity(tick)(tick)
    Z Depth(tick)(tick)


    Textures 10

    FeatureTypeV-RayV-Ray GPU
    VRayAColorOPClassic(tick)(tick)
    VRayBitmapClassic+Node(tick)(tick)
    VRayC4DBakeClassic(tick)(tick)
    VRayCurvatureClassic+Node(tick)(tick)
    VRayDirtClassic+Node(tick)PARTIAL
    VRayDistanceClassic+Node(tick)(tick)
    VRayFalloffClassic+Node(tick)(tick)
    VRayFresnelClassic+Node

    (tick)

    		(tick)
    VRayHairSamplerClassic+Node

    (tick)

    (tick)

    VRayLayeredClassic+Node(tick)(tick)
    VRayMixClassic+Node

    (tick)

    (tick)

    VRayMultiSubTexClassic+Node

    (tick)

    (tick)

    VRayNormalMapClassic+Node

    (tick)

    (tick)

    VRayOCIOClassic+Node

    (tick)

    (tick)

    VRayRampClassic+Node

    (tick)

    (tick)

    VRaySamplerInfoClassic+Node

    (tick)

    (tick)

    VRaySkyClassic(tick)(tick)
    VRaySoftboxClassic+Node(tick)(tick)
    VRayTriPlanarClassic+Node

    (tick)

    		(tick)
    VRayUVWChannelClassic+Node

    (tick)

    (tick)

    VRayUVWRandomizerClassic+Node(tick)

    PATIAL
    (Except TriPlanar texture)

    VRayUserColorClassic

    (tick)

    		(tick)
    VRayUserScalarClassic(tick)(tick)
    VRayUserIntegerClassic(tick)(tick)
    CellularNode(tick)(tick)
    CheckerNode(tick)(tick)
    Color ArithmeticNode(tick)

    (tick)

    Color ChannelNode(tick)(tick)
    Color CorrectionNode(tick)(tick)
    ColorNode(tick)(tick)
    Color RangeNode(tick)(tick)
    Color to FloatNode(tick)(tick)
    Color to UVWNode(tick)(tick)
    Combine ColorNode(tick)(tick)
    Compose ColorNode(tick)(tick)
    Bump to GlossinessNode(tick)(minus)
    EdgesNode(tick)(tick)
    Float ArithmeticNode(tick)(tick)
    Float to ColorNode(tick)(tick)
    Invert FloatNode(tick)(tick)
    InvertNode(tick)(tick)
    LuminanceNode(tick)(tick)
    Maxon NoiseNode(tick)(tick)
    Noise MaxNode(tick)(tick)
    Particle SamplerNode(tick)PARTIAL
    RemapNode(tick)(tick)
    RGB to HSVNode(tick)(tick)
    SmokeNode(tick)(tick)
    SplatNode(tick)

    BAKED

    StuccoNode(tick)

    BAKED

    TilesNode(tick)

    BAKED

    UVW ObjectNode(tick)(tick)
    UVW Place 2DNode(tick)(tick)
    UVW ProjectionNode(tick)(tick)
    UVW to ColorNode(tick)(tick)
    UVW TransformNode(tick)(tick)
    Value 5Node(tick)(tick)
    Vector ProductNode(tick)(tick)
    Vertex ColorNode(tick)(tick)

    Overrides

    FeatureV-RayV-Ray GPU
    Material Override(tick)(tick)


    Effectors

    FeatureV-RayV-Ray GPU
    MoGraph Shader(tick)(tick)

    Camera

    Feature

    V-Ray

    V-Ray GPU

    Cinema 4D Camera

    PARTIAL
    (Except: Dimetric, Military, Gentleman, Frog, Bird)

    PARTIAL
    (Except: Dimetric, Military, Gentleman, Frog, Bird)

    V-Ray Camera

    (tick)

    (tick)


    Special Object

    FeatureV-RayV-Ray GPU
    Cinema 4D Stage 4(tick)PARTIAL


    Mograph Objects

    FeatureV-RayV-Ray GPU
    Cloner(tick)PARTIAL
    Matrix(tick)PARTIAL


    Cinema 4D Shaders

    FeatureV-RayV-Ray GPU
    Standard Material 11

    PARTIAL

    PARTIAL

    Color

    (tick)

    (tick)

    Fresnel

    PARTIAL

    		PARTIAL
    Gradient

    PARTIAL
    (Except Turbulence)

    		PARTIAL
    (Except Turbulence)
    Noise(tick)(tick)
    Colorizer

    (tick)

    (tick)

    FilterPARTIALPARTIAL 2
    Fusion

    PARTIAL
    (Except: Soft Light, Dodge, Burn,
    Darken, Levr blend modes)

    PARTIAL
    (Except: Soft Light, Dodge, Burn,
    Darken, Levr blend modes)

    LayerPARTIALPARTIAL
    Posterizer

    BAKED

    BAKED

    Effects

    Ambient Occlusion

    (error)

    (error)

    Backlight

    (error)

    (error)

    ChanLum

    (error)

    (error)

    Distorter

    (error)

    (error)

    Falloff

    (tick)

    		(tick)
    Lens Distortion

    (error)

    (error)

    Lumas

    (error)

    (error)

    Normal Direction

    (error)

    (error)

    Normalizer

    (error)

    (error)

    Pixel

    (error)

    (error)

    Projector

    PARTIAL
    (Except: Flat, Cubic, Frontal, Spatial,
    Shrink Wrapping)

    PARTIAL
    (Except: Flat, Cubic, Frontal, Spatial,
    Shrink Wrapping)

    Proximal

    (error)

    (error)

    Ripple

    (error)

    (error)

    Spectral

    (error)

    (error)

    Spline

    (error)

    (error)

    Subsurface Scattering

    (error)

    (error)

    Terrain Mask

    (error)

    (error)

    Thin Film

    (error)

    (error)

    Variation

    (error)

    (error)

    Vertex Map(tick)(tick)
    Weathering

    (error)

    (error)

    MoGraph
    Beat Shader

    BAKED

    BAKED

    Camera Shader

    BAKED

    BAKED

    Color Shader

    BAKED

    BAKED

    Multi Shader

    BAKED

    BAKED

    Sketch and Toon
    Art

    BAKED

    BAKED

    Cel

    BAKED

    BAKED

    Hatch

    BAKED

    BAKED

    Spots

    BAKED

    BAKED

    Surfaces
    Brick

    BAKED

    BAKED

    Checkerboard(tick)(tick)
    Cloud

    BAKED

    BAKED

    Cyclone

    BAKED

    BAKED

    Display Color

    BAKED

    BAKED

    Earth

    BAKED

    BAKED

    Fire

    BAKED

    BAKED

    Flame

    BAKED

    BAKED

    Formula

    BAKED

    BAKED

    Galaxy

    BAKED

    BAKED

    Marble

    BAKED

    BAKED

    Metal

    BAKED

    BAKED

    Pavement

    BAKED

    BAKED

    Planet

    BAKED

    BAKED

    Rust

    BAKED

    BAKED

    Simple Noise(tick)(tick)
    Simple Turbulence

    BAKED

    BAKED

    Starfield

    BAKED

    BAKED

    Stars

    BAKED

    BAKED

    Sunburst

    BAKED

    BAKED

    Tiles

    BAKED

    BAKED

    Venus

    BAKED

    BAKED

    Water

    BAKED

    BAKED

    Wood

    BAKED

    BAKED

    Moves Face Shader

    BAKED

    BAKED

    Polygon Hair

    BAKED

    BAKED

    Substance Shader

    BAKED

    BAKED

    Particle Systems Channels

    Particle TypeChannel
    Thinking Particles GroupParticle ID
    Position
    Velocity
    Radius
    Color
    Age
    Transformation
    X-ParticlesParticle ID
    Position
    Velocity
    Radius
    Color
    Age
    Lifespan
    Transformation
    Cinema 4D EmitterParticle ID
    Position
    Velocity
    Radius
    Age
    Transformation
    MoGraph Generators (Matrix, Cloner)Particle ID
    Position
    Radius
    Color
    Transformation



    Redshift Shaders 9

    FeatureV-RayV-Ray GPU
    Texture(tick)(tick)
    Wireframe(tick)(tick)
    Maxon Noise(tick)(tick)
    Curvature(tick)(tick)
    Fresnel(tick)(tick)
    Ramp(tick)(tick)

    Bump Blender

    		(tick)(tick)
    Material (Legacy)(tick)(tick)
    Ambient Occlusion(tick)(tick)
    Scalar Ramp(tick)(tick)
    Color Constant(tick)(tick)
    Color Maker(tick)(tick)
    Color Splitter(tick)(tick)
    Incandescent(tick)(tick)
    Color Layer(tick)(tick)
    Material Layer(tick)(tick)
    Material Blender(tick)(tick)


    MoGraph Shaders 12

    Feature

    V-Ray

    V-Ray GPU

    Multi Shader(tick)(tick)
    Color Shader(tick)(tick)


    Tags

    FeatureV-RayV-Ray GPU
    Compositing(tick)(tick)


    Footnotes

    Cinema 4D shaders marked as BAKED are supported by V-Ray via the Bake Cinema 4D Shaders option available in Render Settings > Overrides > Textures or via the VRayC4DBake texture.

    V-Ray for Cinema 4D 2023 and newer supports native OCIO color management.

    1. The new Progressive Caustics method works only with the Progressive Image Sampler and on CPU.

    2. The Spline Interpolation is currently not supported. The Colorize option is not supported at the moment. Positive values for Lightness in the native Filter shader do not currently produce the expected results.

    3. Currently, V-Ray Scene does not import V-Ray Sky in Cinema 4D. V-Ray Scene does not refresh when working with Interactive rendering.

    4. Currently, only the V-Ray Physical Camera and Python tags work with the Cinema 4D Stage environment.

    5. Vector2d, Vector4d and TimeValue Data Type are not supported.

    6. V-Ray Output System is not compatible with Cinema 4D Team Render. Performing single frame renders with enabled denoiser and lens effects can lead to unwanted results.

    7. Fire Lights and Volume Light Cache options, as well as isosurface rendering and meshing, are not supported with V-Ray GPU.

    8. Not all render elements produced by the Sampler Info render element are supported or produce the same results both in CPU and GPU. For a full list of the produced render elements and their support, see the Sampler Info Re page.

    9. Redshift shaders are supported by V-Ray provided the Convert Materials tool is used to convert the Redshift nodes first.

    10. V-Ray Node textures are also supported on both CPU and GPU when converted to Classic materials using the Convert Materials tools.

    11. Only Color (except Model Oren-Nayar), Brightness, Diffusion, Transparency are supported.

    12. The MoGraph Shader are only available for the V-Ray Classic Materials; however, note that classic materials can be converted into nodes using the Convert Materials tools.