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These features are supported by CPU and GPU rendering in Houdini for Production and IPR modes. In Houdini, IPR on the CPU is the same as Production rendering on the CPU when using the Progressive image sampler. Note that IPR uses Brute Force for GI by default. To use Light Cache in IPR, use the Engine > Light Cache option.

Limitations

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GPU in Production mode does not support Distributed Rendering.

Supported Features

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Section
Column
width 30%45%
Geometry
SupportV-Ray proxyFur/hairOpenSubdiv
Feature
V-Ray CPU
V-Ray GPU
V-Ray Clipper (VRayClipper)
V-Ray Decal (VRayDecal)
V-Ray Enmesh (GeomEnmesh)
V-Ray Fur (GeomHair)
V-Ray Plane (GeomPlane)
V-Ray Proxy
Displacement¹
PARTIAL
Subdivision
Fur/hair
PARTIAL
Poly primitives as triangle mesh
Polysoup primitives as triangle mesh
Triangle fan primitives as triangle mesh
Triangle strip primitives as triangle mesh
Perfect circle
Perfect sphere
Perfect tube primitives
V-Ray infinite plane
Metaball primitives
MetaSQuad primitives
Particles
PARTIAL
VDB primitives
Houdini Volume primitives
Packed geometry primitives²
Packed disk primitives (.bgeo, bhclassic)
Packed fragment primitives
Packed crowd agent primitives
Houdini Instancer
V-Ray fur
V-Ray clipper
Subdivision
Displacement¹
Houdini Instancer
PARTIAL
OpenSubdiv
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Lights
Feature
Support
V-Ray CPU V-Ray GPU
Lights textures³
V-Ray Direct light
PARTIAL
V-Ray Spot light
PARTIAL
V-Ray IES light
PARTIAL
V-Ray Sphere light
PARTIAL
V-Ray Dome light
PARTIAL
V-Ray Mesh light
PARTIAL
V-Ray Sun
PARTIAL
V-Ray Ambient light
V-Ray Omni light PARTIAL
V-Ray Rectangle light PARTIAL
Image Based Lighting

(as V-Ray dome light)

(as V-Ray dome light)
Light linking
Procedural Clouds
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Materials
Feature
Support
V-Ray CPU
V-Ray GPU
V-Ray BRDFAlSurface⁴ (V-Ray alSurface)
V-Ray BRDFLayered (V-Ray Blend)
PARTIAL
V-Ray BRDFBump (V-Ray Bump)
PARTIAL
(without Compute Bump for Shadows
and Bump Delta Scale)
V-Ray BRDFCarPaint (V-Ray Car Paint)
PARTIAL¹¹
V-Ray BRDFCarPaint2 (V-Ray
BRDFHair
Car Paint 2)
PARTIAL¹¹
V-Ray BRDFScanned (V-Ray Chaos Scans)
V-Ray MtlGLSL (V-Ray GLSL)
V-Ray BRDFHair4 (V-Ray Hair)
PARTIAL
V-Ray BRDFHair3 (V-Ray Hair 3)

(no Light Multiplier)
V-Ray BRDFLight (V-Ray Light)
PARTIAL
(without Emit on Back Side
and Multiply By Opacity)
VRayMtl (V-Ray Material)
PARTIAL¹²
V-Ray MtlMaterialID (V-Ray Material ID)
PARTIAL
V-Ray MtlMulti (V-Ray Multi ID Material)
PARTIAL
V-Ray MtlOSL (V-Ray OSL)
V-Ray MtlOverride (V-Ray Override)
PARTIAL
(without Environment
and Environment Priority)
V-Ray BSDFPointParticle (V-Ray Point Particle)
V-Ray MtlVRayMesh (V-Ray Proxy Material)
V-Ray MtlRenderStats (V-Ray Render Stats)

(no Receive Shadows)
V-Ray MtlRoundEdges (V-Ray Round Edges)

(no Radius Mode and Raytraced)
V-Ray BRDFScatterVolume (V-Ray Scatter Volume)
V-Ray MtlSingleBRDF (V-Ray Single)
PARTIAL
V-Ray BRDFSkinComplex (V-Ray Skin)
V-Ray BRDFSSS2Complex
²
V-Ray Mtl2Sided³
V-Ray BRDFAlSurface⁴
⁵(V-Ray SSS)
PARTIAL
V-Ray BRDFStochasticFlakes (V-Ray Stochastic Flakes)

(no Tex Subdivs)
V-Ray BRDFToonMtl (V-Ray Toon Material)
V-Ray Mtl2Sided⁶(V-Ray Two Sided)

(no Multiply by Front Diffuse)
V-Ray MtlVRmat (V-Ray VRMat)
V-Ray MtlWrapper (V-Ray Wrapper)
PARTIAL
(shadows only, no GI on mattes)
VRayMtl
V-Ray Material Builder

V-Ray Material Complex

V-Ray Material Output
V-Ray GeomDisplacedMesh (V-Ray Displacement)

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File Textures

Feature	V-Ray CPU

MaterialOutput

	V-Ray

MtlOSL

GPU
V-RayTexGLSL
V-Ray

BSDFPointParticle

TexICC
V-Ray

MtlVRayMesh

MetaImageFile

(

V-Ray

Proxy Material)

TexLut
V-Ray

BRDFScatterVolume

TexOceanSpectra
V-Ray

Stochastic Flakes

TexOCIO
V-Ray

BRDFToonMtl

TexOSL

PARTIAL

⁷

V-Ray

MtlVRmat

TexPtex

Cameras

Feature	V-Ray

BRDFScanned

CPU	V-Ray GPU
Camera motion blur⁷		PARTIAL
Camera DoF
Perspective
V-Ray

MtlWrapper

Physical Camera		PARTIAL
Stereoscopic		PARTIAL
V-Ray

GeomDisplacedMesh

Dome Camera

File Textures

Environment

Feature

Support

V-Ray CPU	V-Ray

TexICC

GPU
Spherical Mapping
Mirror ball mapping
Angular mapping
Toon shading
SimpleFog
ScatterFog
EnvironmentFog		PARTIAL

V-Ray

MetaImageFile

SphereFade Gizmo

Texture Baking

Feature	V-Ray CPU	V-Ray

TexLut

GPU
Regular texture baking
Spherical Harmonics baking
Bake to vertex colors
Bake to Ptex

Distributed Rendering

Feature	V-Ray CPU	V-Ray GPU
Distributed Rendering
Automatic assets transfer
Don't use local machine
Asset cache

Global Illumination Methods

Feature

V-Ray TexOCIO

	V-Ray

TexOSL

CPU	V-Ray

TexPtex

GPU
Brute Force
Light Cache
Irradiance Map⁸

Column

width	5%

10%

Support

Column

width	30%45%

Utility Textures

TexhairSampler TexVectorOp TexVectorProduct TexVectorToColor

FeatureSupport	V-Ray CPU	V-Ray GPU
V-Ray AovBind
V-Ray AovExtraTex
V-Ray TexBezierCurve
V-Ray TexBezierCurveColor
V-Ray TexBlend
V-Ray TexBlendBumpNormal
V-Ray TexClamp
V-Ray TexAColor
V-Ray TexColorAndAlpha
V-Ray TexAColorChannel
V-Ray ColorCorrect
V-Ray TexColorCorrect
V-Ray ColorCorrection
V-Ray TexAColorOp		PARTIAL
V-Ray TexColorToFloat
V-Ray ColorTextureToMono
V-Ray TexMaxGamma
V-Ray TexCombineColor
V-Ray TexCombineFloat		PARTIAL
V-Ray TexCompMax		PARTIAL
V-Ray TexCondition2
V-Ray TexDistanceBetween
V-Ray TexFloat
V-Ray TexFloatOp		PARTIAL
V-Ray TexFloatToColor
V-Ray	TexHairSampler		PARTIAL
V-Ray TexHSVToRGB
V-Ray TexInt
V-Ray TexIntToFloat
V-Ray TexInvert
V-Ray TexInvertFloat
V-Ray TexLayeredMax		PARTIAL
V-Ray TexLuminance
V-Ray TexMaskMax
V-Ray TexMeshVertexColorChannel
V-Ray TexMix		PARTIAL
V-Ray TexNormalMapFlip		PARTIAL
V-Ray TexOutput		PARTIAL
V-Ray TexPatternID
V-Ray TexRandom
V-Ray TexParticleSampler
V-Ray TexRaySwitch
V-Ray RefShader
V-Ray TexRemap		PARTIAL
V-Ray TexRGBMultiplyMax
V-Ray TexRGBTintMax
V-Ray TexRGBToHSV
V-Ray TexRgbaCombine
V-Ray TexSampler		PARTIAL
V-Ray TexSetRange
V-Ray TexTemperature
V-Ray TransformMatrix
V-Ray TransformToTex		(no Gamma Correction)
V-Ray TexUserColor		(no alpha attribute)
V-Ray TexUserScalar		(no alpha attribute)
V-Ray TexUserInteger		(no default value)
V-Ray	UserShader
V-Ray	TexVectorOp
V-Ray	TexVectorProduct

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Procedural Textures

TexRandom

Feature	V-Ray
CPU	V-Ray GPU

V-Ray TexPatternIDTexBerconDistortion

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Procedural Textures


V-Ray TexBerconGrad		PARTIAL

Feature


V-Ray TexBerconNoise		PARTIAL
V-Ray TexBerconTile		PARTIAL
V-Ray TexBerconWood		PARTIAL
V-Ray TexBulge
V-Ray TexCellular		PARTIAL
V-Ray TexChecker		(no Contrast)
V-Ray TexCurvature
V-Ray TexDirt		PARTIAL
V-Ray TexDistance
V-Ray TexEdges		PARTIAL
V-Ray TexFalloff		PARTIAL
V-Ray TexFresnel		PARTIAL
V-Ray TexGradRamp		PARTIAL
V-Ray TexGrid
V-Ray TexMulti
V-Ray TexNoise		(without Time)
V-Ray TexRock
V-Ray TexSky		PARTIAL
V-Ray TexSmoke
V-Ray TexSnow
V-Ray TexSoftbox
V-Ray TexSpeckle		PARTIAL
V-Ray TexSplat		PARTIAL
V-Ray TexStencil
V-Ray TexSurfaceLuminance
V-Ray TexSwirl		PARTIAL
V-Ray TexThickness
V-Ray TexTiles		PARTIAL
V-Ray TexTriPlanar
V-Ray TexUVW
V-Ray TexUVWGenToTexture
V-Ray TexWater

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Column

width	5%

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Environment

Spherical

Mapping

Angular mapping

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Texture Baking

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Distributed Rendering

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Global Illumination Methods

Column

width	30%

Cameras

Feature

Support

Camera motion blur₅

Camera DoF

Perspective

VRayPhysicalCamera

Stereoscopic

Feature

Support

Mirror ball mapping

Toon shading

SimpleFog

ScatterFog

EnvironmentFog

Feature

Support

Regular texture baking

Spherical Harmonics baking

Bake to vertex colors

Bake to Ptex

Feature

Support

Distributed Rendering

Automatic assets transfer

Don't use local machine

Asset cache

Feature

Support

Brute Force

Light Cache

Irradiance Map⁶

Feature	V-ray CPU	V-Ray GPU

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Mapping

Feature	Support
V-Ray UVWGenObjectBBox
V-Ray UVWGenChannel		(no Use Double Sided Mode)
V-Ray UVWGenMayaPlace2dTexture		PARTIAL
V-Ray UVWGenEnvironment		(no DUWA Scale)
V-Ray UVWGenExplicit		PARTIAL
V-Ray UVWGenObject		PARTIAL
V-Ray UVWGenProjection		PARTIAL
V-Ray UVWGenPlanarWorld		PARTIAL
V-Ray UVWGenRandomizer

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Other

Support

Feature		V-Ray CPU
Additional object properties and attributes
Global overrides		¹³
Add V-Ray image output to Houdini Render View panel Instead of using custom Qt widget
Add background rendering to Houdini Render Scheduler
VrayStereoRig
VrayLensEffects (VFB)
VrayLightMeter
VrayExposureControl
Antialiasing
Color mapping		PARTIAL
VFB
Embree
Render elements		PARTIAL⁹
UDIM texture tags
UVTILE texture tags
Anisotropy
UVWgen Projections	(UI issues)	(perspective & planar modes)
Keep geometry cache
Keep bitmap cache
Dynamic bucket splitting
Progressive image sampler		PARTIAL
V-Ray Lights Preview
V-Ray VolumeGrid		PARTIAL¹⁰

Footnotes

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

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2 – It is recommended to use Alembic files instead.

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3 – V-Ray GPU does not support V-Ray Mesh Light textures.

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4 – IPR rendering does not support BRDFAlSurface shader.

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5 – GPU – GPU always uses raytraced multiple scattering for VRayFastSSS2V-Ray SSS. V-Ray GPU Single Scatter is supported only in None and Simple modesin None and Simple modes. GPU also does not support the following V-Ray SSS parameters: Color Mode, Surface Offset, Prepass Rate, Prepass ID, Interpolation Accuracy, Prepass Mode, and Prepass File.

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6 – IPR 3 – IPR GPU does not support the "the Multiply by front diffuse" option of the 2SidedMtl.

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4 7 – IPR rendering does not support BRDFAlSurface shader. Anchor555 – IPR rendering supports motion blurred frames on integer numbers only. For example, starting the render from frame 1 will produce correct motion blur, but starting from frame 1.25 will produce incorrect motion blur.

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6 8 – Irradiance map loaded from a file is supported in GPU only in Production rendering mode. In IPR mode, Brute Force is used as the primary and secondary engines for both GPU and CPU.

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9 – The following render channels are not supported in GPU: Caustics, Coverage, Material ID, Matte Shadow, Raw Diffuse Filter, Raw GI, Raw Lighting, Raw Reflection, Raw Reflection Filter, Raw Refraction, Raw Refraction Filter, Raw Shadow, Raw Total Lighting, Reflection IOR, Reflection Glossiness, Refraction Glossiness, V-Ray Toon.

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10 – Fire Lights (Fire Lights tab) and Volume Light Cache (Smoke tab) options are not supported with V-Ray GPU. For more information, refer to their relevant pages.

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11 – V-Ray GPU does not support the following V-Ray CarPaint and V-Ray CarPaint 2 parameters: Trace Base Reflections, Bump Type, Trace Coat Reflections, Trace Depth, Use Environment Override, Environment Override, Environment Priority. For CarPaint it also does not support Filtering Mode and Trace Flakes Reflections.

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12 – The following V-Ray Material parameters are not supported with V-Ray GPU: Roughness, Roughness Model, Opacity Mode, Dim Fall-off, Soften, Cutoff, Use Irradiance Map, Energy Preservation, Use Environment Override, Environment Override, and Environment Priority.

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13 – Support through the Renderer ROP > Objects tab > Material Overrides7 – V-Ray Toon material is not supported for V-Ray GPU rendering.

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Fancy Bullets

type	circle

GPU supports up to 16 UV sets per material.
GPU supports map channels from 0 to 15.
GPU only supports normal maps in tangent space.
Integer attributes for points are supported.

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Limitations

Supported Features

Geometry

Lights

Materials

File Textures

Cameras

Environment

Texture Baking

Distributed Rendering

Global Illumination Methods

Utility Textures

Procedural Textures

Procedural Textures

Mapping

Texture Baking

Distributed Rendering

Global Illumination Methods

Cameras

Mapping

Other

Footnotes

Notes


V-Ray Material Builder
V-Ray Material Complex
V-Ray Material Output
V-Ray GeomDisplacedMesh (V-Ray Displacement)