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This page provides information on rendering with V-Ray for Rhino.


V-Ray in Rhino

V-Ray is a rendering plugin for Rhino that offers two render engines: V-Ray and V-Ray GPU, which runs on both CUDA and RTX enabled devices.

After V-Ray is assigned as the renderer, all V-Ray options become available within the Rhino user interface. While V-Ray renders standard Rhino features, the V-Ray options are designed to work with the V-Ray render engine, and in that way improve both image quality and render times.

V-Ray renderings display in the V-Ray Virtual Frame Buffer (VFB), which has a multitude of V-Ray specific tools for saving and comparing renderings, adding lens effects, and viewing render elements.


GPU Rendering

GPU rendering allows V-Ray to perform raytracing calculations on the GPUs installed in the system.

Interactive Rendering

V-Ray Interactive Rendering (IR) provides interactive rendering using the V-Ray and V-Ray GPU renderers.

Viewport Rendering

Viewport Rendering (VPR) is a render output overlay on top of Rhino's viewport. With Viewport Rendering, the scene is rendered interactively and if changes are made, the rendered result is updated.

V-Ray Vision

V-Ray Vision is a real-time viewer introduced with the release of V-Ray for Rhino.

V-Ray Batch Render

V-Ray Batch Rendering allows for scenes to be set with tabs and rendered with one button.

Chaos Cloud Rendering

V-Ray for Rhino provides in-built integration with Chaos Cloud, allowing you to submit render jobs to the cloud directly from Rhino.

Chaos Cloud Collaboration

Upload images from the VFB to the Chaos Cloud Collaboration where other users can add comments and annotations.

V-Ray Swarm Rendering

V-Ray Swarm controls V-Ray Distributed Rendering on each render node machine; the actual rendering is handled by V-Ray Standalone.

Supported Rendering Features

This page provides tables of features supported in CPU and GPU rendering with V-Ray in Rhino.

Resumable Rendering

Resumable Rendering is the ability to have incomplete renders resume where they left off from the previous session. 






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