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V-Ray supports per object control of motion blur, indirect illumination, and shadow/matte properties. On the left is a list of all objects in the scene and on the right are the properties. You can select multiple objects. If there are any 3ds Max selection sets in the scene, they appear in a list to make the interface more convenient and efficient.

Use default moblur samples – When enabled, the Geometry Samples value is taken from the global Motion blur rollout. When disabled, the number of geometry samples is taken from the Motion blur samples parameter below.

Motion blur samples – Sets the number of geometry samples for the selected objects, if Use default moblur samples is off. See the Motion Blur Samples example below.

Moblur duration – When enabled, allows you to control the strength of the motion blur effect on a per object basis. Larger values mean that the camera shutter is open for a longer time and smaller values mean the camera shutter is opened for a shorter time.

Velocity channel – Allows you to manually specify a map channel to be used as a velocity channel

Velocity chan mult – Allows you to control the velocity information on a per-object basis by multiplying the original velocity with the value specified here.

Generate GI – Controls whether the object(s) generates indirect illumination. You can supply a multiplier for the generated indirect illumination.

Receive GI – Controls whether the object(s) receives indirect illumination. You can supply a multiplier for the received indirect illumination.

GI surface ID – Prevents the blending of light cache samples across different surfaces. If two objects have different GI surface IDs, the light cache samples of the two objects will not be blended. This can be useful to prevent light leaks between objects of vastly different illumination.

Raytraced SSS ID – Used to tell VRayFastSSS2 that objects with the same ID need to share the same illumination samples when using raytraced multiple scattering. This avoids illumination seams between those objects.

Subdivs multiplier – A multiplier for the subdivisions of all secondary ray tracing done for the particular surface.

Generate caustics – When enabled, the selected objects refract the light coming from light sources that are caustics generators, so that caustics are produced. Note that in order to generate caustics, an object must have a reflective or refractive material.

Receive caustics – When enabled, the selected objects become caustic receivers. When light is refracted by objects that generate caustics the resulting caustics are only visible when they are projected on caustics receivers.

Caustics multiplier – A multiplier for the caustics received by the selected object(s). Note that this value has no effect unless Receive caustics is checked. See the Caustics Multiplier of an Object example below.

Visible in reflections – When disabled, the object appears perfectly transparent to reflection rays. See the Visibility example below.

Visible in refractions – When disabled, the object appears perfectly transparent to refraction rays. See the Visibility example below.

Gen render elements – When disabled, the object does not appear in some render elements. The full list of the render elements affected is listed below.

Raw Lighting (VRayRawLighting)
Raw Total Lighting (VRayRawTotalLighting)
Raw Shadow (VRayRawShadow)
Lighting (VRayLighting)
Total Lighting (VRayTotalLighting)
Specular (VRaySpecular)
Shadow (VRayShadows)
Velocity (VRayVelocity)
Normals (VRayNormals)
Z-Depth (VRayZDepth) 

VRayToon outlines – Allows you to explicitly exclude an object from VRayToon. This parameter is ignored in V-Ray GPU.

LPE labels – Allows you to add an object labels for the object in order to use Light Path Expressions. See the Light Path Expressions page for more information.

Geometry – Allows you to override the Default Geometry parameter in the System rollout on a per object level.

Static – The geometry is pre-compiled into an acceleration structure at the beginning of the rendering and remains there until the end of the frame. The static raycasters are not limited in any way and consume as much memory as necessary.
Dynamic – The geometry is loaded and unloaded on the fly depending on which part of the scene is being rendered. The total memory taken up by the dynamic raycasters can be controlled by the Dynamic memory limit parameter.
Default – The option set in the Default Geometry parameter is used.