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This new version brings in powerful tools that will enable you to create faster and render better than ever before. Explore all that’s new, and help us make V-Ray 6 our best version yet.

 

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Procedural Clouds

Craft just the right cloudy sky for your environment in just a few clicks with V-Ray’s new procedural clouds system.

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Thin Film Layer

Create realistic soap bubbles, oil spills, and more with the new Thin Film option in the V-Ray Material.

 

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Enhanced V-Ray Material energy preservation

Render even more physically accurate rough metals and other reflective surfaces with enhanced V-Ray Material energy preservation.

 

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V-Ray Decal with Displacement

You can now use V-Ray Decal to add displacement to any surface for even more realistic cracked walls, rocks, embossed lettering, and more.

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Streamlined USD Support

Experience a USD workflow that’s smoother than ever. Export V-Ray Materials as USD Preview Surfaces and have V-Ray assets displayed in various non-V-Ray viewports. Plus more.

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V-Ray Material Faster Translucency

Render translucent materials even faster with a brand-new V-Ray Material SSS mode.

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Light Cache in IPR

IPR can now use the Light Cache GI, making IPR and production renders identical.

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VFB Panorama Viewer

You can now preview your spherical panorama renders while rendering, right from your V-Ray Frame Buffer.

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Composition Guides Layer in VFB

Submit your work to Chaos Cloud without any interruptions. You can continue working on your projects, while V-Ray exports your scene for cloud renderingFine-tune your scenes’ compositions without a separate application. With customizable overlays, the new composition guides layer in the VFB allows you to easily experiment and enhance your image compositions. Find out more at V-Ray Frame Buffer Layers. Find out more at V-Ray Frame Buffer Layers.

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Enhanced Chaos Cloud Experience

Submitting to the Chaos Cloud now happens in a separate process, which leaves the Maya interface free so that users can continue working. See the Chaos Cloud page.

 

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Portable Installation

The V-Ray installation file can be unpacked and used as a portable version, instead of the old archive versions.

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V-Ray Profiler

Get reports on the time spent calculating materials in your scenes. Paired with the memory tracker, you now have a complete toolset for monitoring and managing rendering performance.

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