Supported Rendering Features

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

Overview

These features are supported by V-Ray in Rhino for Interactive and Non-Interactive rendering modes.

Both RTX and CUDA share the same V-Ray GPU engine supported features.

For more information on V-Ray GPU, see the GPU Rendering.  

Supported Features

Main Render features

Feature	V-Ray CPU	V-Ray GPU
Interactive rendering
Progressive image sampler
Bucket image sampler
Resumable rendering
V-Ray Denoiser
NVIDIA AI Denoiser1
Intel Open Image Denoise		(always calculated by CPU)
Viewport rendering (VPR)
Viewport region rendering
Batch rendering
Cloud rendering
Batch render in Cloud
Distributed rendering via Swarm
Rendering in Grasshopper
Unbacked Grasshopper geometry

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Other Render features

Feature	V-Ray CPU	V-Ray GPU
VRayLensEffects (VFB)
Antialiasing
Adaptive Lights
VFB
Render Elements 4
Anisotropy
Aerial Perspective
Environment Fog
Outlines
Photon Mapped Caustics
Post Effect Color Corrections
GPU Memory Management
RPC 5

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Environment Background Mapping

Feature	V-Ray CPU	V-Ray GPU
Spherical mapping
Mirror ball mapping
Angular mapping
Cubic mapping
Screen mapping
Color/Texture Multipliers

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Global Illumination Methods

Feature	V-Ray CPU	V-Ray GPU
Brute Force
Light Cache
Irradiance Map
GI Caustics

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Camera

Feature	V-Ray CPU	V-Ray GPU
VRayPhysicalCamera
Camera Depth of Field
Camera motion blur
Stereoscopic
VR Cubemap
VR Spherical Panorama
Automatic Exposure
Automatic White Balance
Film sensitivity (ISO)
Aperture (F-Number)
Shutter Speed (1/s)
Vignetting
Vertical Tilt
Bokeh

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Geometry

Feature	V-Ray CPU	V-Ray GPU
Triangle meshes
VRayProxy
Alembic via proxy
Subdivisions
Displacement
VRayFur
Infinite plane
VRayClipper		PARTIAL (Only Section Plane)
V-Ray Scene
V-Ray Scatter
V-Ray Decal
V-Ray Enmesh

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Lights

Feature	V-Ray CPU	V-Ray GPU
SunLight		PARTIAL (Affect Diffuse and Specular controls not supported)
Rectangle Light		PARTIAL (Decay control not supported)
Sphere Light		PARTIAL (Decay control not supported)
Spot Light		PARTIAL (Affect Diffuse and Specular controls and Inverse cube decay not supported)
IES Light
Omni Light		PARTIAL (Affect Diffuse/Specular controls and Inverse cube decay not supported)
Mesh Light		PARTIAL (Texture map and Decay control not supported)
Dome Light
Directional Light		PARTIAL (Affect Diffuse and Specular controls not supported)

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Materials

Feature	V-Ray CPU	V-Ray GPU
Blend
Car Paint
Emissive		PARTIAL (without Emit on Back Side; Color*Opacity always on)
Generic (V-Ray Material)		(without Roughness, Refraction Glossiness and Fog Scattering)
Override		PARTIAL (without Environment)
Two Sided		PARTIAL (without Multiply By Front diffuse; Force Single Sided always on)
Wrapper		PARTIAL (without Ignore Objects in Secondary, Caustics Affect)
Subsurface Scattering
Bump
VRscan
Hair
Outline Override
Multi Material

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Textures

Feature	V-Ray CPU	V-Ray GPU
Bitmap6		(without filtering and Environment texture placement)
Color
Temperature
Gradient		(without Environment texture placement)
Sky		(without Caustics)
Color Correction
Spline Curve
Bezier Curve
Simple Mix
Mix (Value)
Mix (Operator)
Mix (Map)		(except Mix Curve)
Multi-Sub3
Tri-Planar
Checker		(except Environment texture placement)
Grid		(except Environment texture placement)
Tiles		(except Environment texture placement)
Cloth		(except Environment texture placement)
Leather		(except Environment texture placement)
Bulge		(except Environment texture placement)
UVW		(without Environment)
Water 8		(without Environment)
Noise A		(except Environment texture placement)
Noise B		(except Environment texture placement)
Cellular		(except Environment texture placement)
Marble		(except Environment and 3D World texture placement)
Splat		(except Environment and 3D World texture placement)
Smoke		(except Environment texture placement)
Stucco		(except Environment and 3D World texture placement)
Rock		(except Environment and 3D World texture placement)
Granite		(except Environment and 3D World texture placement)
Speckle		(except Environment and 3D World texture placement)
Edges
Falloff 2
Fresnel
VRayDirt 3	(without Ignore Self Occlusion)	(without Ignore Self Occlusion)
Curvature
UVW Placement		PARTIAL (except Environment and partial support of bitmap textures)

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Render Elements

Feature	V-Ray CPU	V-Ray GPU
Atmosphere
Background
Bump Normals
Caustics	(without Filtering control)
Outlines
Cryptomatte	(without Filtering control)
Denoiser
Diffuse
DR Bucket
ExtraTex
Geometry Normals
Global Illumination
Lighting
Lighting Analysis		PARTIAL (Luminance only)
Light Mix
Material ID Color
Material ID Number
Material Random Color
Matte Shadow
MultiMatte
Object ID
Raw GI
Raw Light
Raw Reflection
Raw Refraction
Raw Shadows
Raw Total Light
Reflection
Reflection Filter
Refraction
Refraction Filter
Render ID
Sample Rate
Self Illumination
Shadows
Specular
Subsurface Scattering
Total Light
Z-Depth

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Footnotes

1 – Displacement results between CPU and GPU rendering may differ slightly because of Pre-tessellation and Cache Normal settings.

2 – Only some procedural textures are supported by V-Ray GPU renderer when used for Bump mapping (f.e. noise and mix maps are supported).

3 – These plug-ins are only partially supported on GPU.

4 – For now only Lighting, GI, Reflection, Refraction, Bump Normals, Self Illumination, Diffuse Filter, Reflection Filter, Refraction Filter, Specular, ZDepth, Normals, Multi Matte and Light Select (GI, reflection, and refraction included) are supported.

5 – RPC are not supported in Interactive rendering mode. Changes done to the RPC model will not be visible in Interactive mode. Please note, that loading RPC models may take substantial time.

6 – The playback options are currently not supported.

7 – Bongo animation is exported as a series of still frames instead of animation frames. Due to this behavior, Motion Blur effect is not supported.

8 – The Water texture is used only for displacement.