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Geometry

Feature	Support
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
VDB primitives
Houdini Volume primitives
Packed geometry primitives
Packed disk primitives (.bgeo, bhclassic)
Packed fragment primitives
Packed crowd agent primitives
V-Ray proxy
Fur/hair
V-Ray fur
V-Ray clipper
Subdivision
Displacement¹
Houdini Instancer
OpenSubdiv

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Lights

Feature	Support
Lights textures
V-Ray Direct light
V-Ray Spot light
V-Ray IES light
V-Ray Sphere light
V-Ray Dome light
V-Ray Mesh light
V-Ray Sun
V-Ray Ambient light⁸
V-Ray Omni light
V-Ray Rectangle light
Image Based Lighting	(as V-Ray dome light)
Light linking

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Materials

Feature	Support
V-Ray BRDFLayered
V-Ray BRDFBump
V-Ray BRDFCarPaint
V-Ray BRDFHair
V-Ray BRDFHair3
V-Ray BRDFLight
V-Ray MtlMaterialID
V-Ray MtlMulti
V-Ray MtlOverride
V-Ray MtlRenderStats
V-Ray MtlRoundEdges
V-Ray MtlSingleBRDF
V-Ray BRDFSkinComplex
V-Ray BRDFSSS2Complex ²
V-Ray Mtl2Sided³
V-Ray BRDFAlSurface⁴
VRayMtl
V-Ray Material Builder
V-Ray Material Complex
V-Ray MaterialOutput
V-Ray MtlOSL
V-Ray BSDFPointParticle
V-Ray MtlVRayMesh (V-Ray Proxy Material)
V-Ray BRDFScatterVolume	PARTIAL⁷
V-Ray Stochastic Flakes
V-Ray BRDFToonMtl	PARTIAL⁷
V-Ray MtlVRmat
V-Ray BRDFScanned
V-Ray MtlWrapper
V-Ray GeomDisplacedMesh

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File Textures

Feature	Support
V-Ray TexICC
V-Ray MetaImageFile
V-Ray TexLut
V-Ray TexOCIO
V-Ray TexOSL
V-Ray TexPtex

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Utility Textures

Feature	Support
V-Ray TexBezierCurve
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
V-Ray TexColorToFloat
V-Ray ColorTextureToMono
V-Ray TexCombineColor
V-Ray TexCombineFloat
V-Ray TexCompMax
V-Ray TexCondition2
V-Ray TexDistanceBetween
V-Ray TexFloat
V-Ray TexFloatOp
V-Ray TexFloatToColor
V-Ray TexhairSampler
V-Ray TexHSVToRGB
V-Ray TexInt
V-Ray TexIntToFloat
V-Ray TexInvert
V-Ray TexInvertFloat
V-Ray TexLayeredMax
V-Ray TexLuminance
V-Ray TexMaskMax
V-Ray TexMeshVertexColorChannel
V-Ray TexMix
V-Ray TexNormalMapFlip
V-Ray TexOutput
V-Ray TexParticleSampler
V-Ray TexRaySwitch
V-Ray TexRemap
V-Ray TexRGBMultiplyMax
V-Ray TexRGBTintMax
V-Ray TexRGBToHSV
V-Ray TexRgbaCombine
V-Ray TexSampler
V-Ray TexSetRange
V-Ray TexTemperature
V-Ray TransformToTex
V-Ray TexUserColor
V-Ray TexUserScalar
V-Ray TexUserInteger
V-Ray TexVectorOp
V-Ray TexVectorProduct
V-Ray TexVectorToColor
V-Ray TexRandom
V-Ray TexPatternID

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Procedural Textures

Feature	Support
V-Ray TexBerconNoise
V-Ray TexBerconTile
V-Ray TexBerconWood
V-Ray TexBulge
V-Ray TexCellular
V-Ray TexChecker
V-Ray TexCurvature
V-Ray TexDirt
V-Ray TexDistance
V-Ray TexEdges
V-Ray TexFalloff
V-Ray TexFresnel
V-Ray TexGradRamp
V-Ray TexGrid
V-Ray TexMulti
V-Ray TexNoise
V-Ray TexRock
V-Ray TexSky
V-Ray TexSmoke
V-Ray TexSnow
V-Ray TexSoftbox
V-Ray TexSpeckle
V-Ray TexSplat
V-Ray TexStencil
V-Ray TexSurfaceLuminance
V-Ray TexSwirl
V-Ray TexThickness
V-Ray TexTiles
V-Ray TexTriPlanar
V-Ray TexUVW
V-Ray TexUVWGenToTexture
V-Ray TexWater

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Cameras

Feature	Support
Camera motion blur₅
Camera DoF
Perspective
VRayPhysicalCamera
Stereoscopic

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Environment

Feature	Support
Spherical Mapping
Mirror ball mapping
Angular mapping
Toon shading
SimpleFog
ScatterFog
EnvironmentFog

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Texture Baking

Feature	Support
Regular texture baking
Spherical Harmonics baking
Bake to vertex colors
Bake to Ptex

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Distributed Rendering

Feature	Support
Distributed Rendering
Automatic assets transfer
Don't use local machine
Asset cache

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Global Illumination Methods

Feature	Support
Brute Force
Light Cache
Irradiance Map⁶

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Mapping

Feature	Support
V-Ray UVWGenObjectBBox
V-Ray UVWGenChannel
V-Ray UVWGenMayaPlace2dTexture
V-Ray UVWGenEnvironment
V-Ray UVWGenExplicit
V-Ray UVWGenObject
V-Ray UVWGenProjection
V-Ray UVWGenPlanarWorld
V-Ray UVWGenRandomizer

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Other

Feature	Support
Additional object properties and attributes
Global overrides
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
VrayLightMeter
VrayExposureControl
Antialiasing
Color mapping
VFB
Embree
Render elements
UDIM texture tags
UVTILE texture tags
Anisotropy
UVWgen Projections	(UI issues)
Keep geometry cache
Keep bitmap cache
Dynamic bucket splitting
Progressive image sampler
V-Ray Lights Preview
V-Ray VolumeGrid

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7 – V-Ray Toon, V-Ray Skin, and V-Ray Scatter Volume materials are not supported for V-Ray GPU rendering.

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8 – V-Ray Ambient light is not supported for 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.

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Geometry

Lights

Materials

File Textures

Utility Textures

Procedural Textures

Cameras

Environment

Texture Baking

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Global Illumination Methods

Mapping

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