V-Ray GPU Supported Features

This page provides tables of features supported by V-Ray GPU in 3ds Max.

 

Overview

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These features are supported by V-Ray GPU in 3ds Max.

 

Supported Features

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Cameras

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Environment

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Geometry

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Global Illumination Methods

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Anti-Aliasing Filters

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Lights

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Materials

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Global switches

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Render Elements

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Textures

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Other

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3rd Party Plugins

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Footnotes

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1 – GPU rendering supports motion blurred frames on integer numbers only. For example, starting the render from frame 1 produces correct motion blur, but starting from frame 1.25, will produce incorrect motion blur. Shutter efficiency is not supported with GPU.

2 – 2D Displacement is not supported by V-Ray GPU. Displacement results between CPU and GPU rendering may differ slightly because of Pre-tessellation and Cache Normal settings.

3 – Using Light Cache (as a secondary GI engine) with V-Ray GPU is possible only when rendering in production mode, or with From file mode (already computed Light Cache .vrlmap) when using V-Ray GPU in IPR.

4 – Light Select modes always contain GI information in V-Ray GPU. The Raw and indirect modes are not supported in V-Ray GPU.

5 – The Sampler Info Render Element supports different UVW Coordinate types through its different pass types. For more details, please see the Sampler Info Render Element page.

6 – When rendering with V-Ray GPU CUDA, the VRayShadows Render Element is incompatible with Adaptive Lights and may render incorrectly if used together.

7 – Starting with V-Ray 3.6, the VRayColor2Bump texture is no longer needed for procedural textures in order to be supported by V-Ray GPU.

For earlier releases, all procedural textures are supported by V-Ray GPU when used for Bump mapping through a VRayColor2Bump texture attached to the Bump slot.

In V-Ray Next, the texture ensures that the procedural bump is fully consistent between V-Ray Next and V-Ray GPU. Without VRayColor2Bump there might be some difference in the rendered procedural bump amount related to the scene size and scale.

8 (8.1 / 8.2 / 8.3 / 8.4 / 8.5) – These plug-ins are only partially supported by V-Ray GPU.

9 (9.1 / 9.2 / 9.3 / 9.4 / 9.5 / 9.6 / 9.7 / 9.8)– The texture is baked for rendering on the GPU. This means that it will use more memory to render, than a fully supported procedural texture.

10 – V-Ray GPU supports VRayScannedMtl under few limitations. For more information, visit the VRayScannedMtl page.

11 – It is supported in V-Ray for 3ds Max 2019. Some OSL maps are not supported yet.

12 – V-Ray GPU supports all Bercon maps within the following limitations: Distortion map is not supported. BerconGradient Lighting, Random, Particle age, Particle speed and Particle size types are not supported. Normal and Distance types "To Object" and Object Z are not supported. BerconTile UV Mapping and Randomization are not supported. BerconMapping is supported via baking.

13 – Falloff map does not support Shadow/Light type.

14 – RPM Material works with V-Ray Next for 3ds Max up to version 2017.

15 (15.1) – VRayObjectID is always rendered with Integer (no Anti-Aliasing) mode in V-Ray GPU.

16 – The Node material name option is not supported with V-Ray GPU.

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

18 – There is a limit of 6 layers per Composite map when using the V-Ray GPU engine. 

19 – Particle shading set is not supported by V-Ray GPU. 

20 – Area shadows are not supported by V-Ray GPU.

21 – For detailed information on the V-Ray GPU support of VRayGLSLMtl and VRayGLSLTex, please refer to the GLSL Support page.

22 - VRayDRBucket Render Element works only in Production rendering mode using Bucket sampler.

23 - Fire Lights (Fire Rollout) and Use Light Cache (Smoke Color Rollout) options are not supported with V-Ray GPU. For more information, refer to their relevant pages.

24 - Skylight portals option is not supported with V-Ray GPU. It is not needed anymore due to the Adaptive Dome light.

25 – Substance 2 is supported.

26 – Include/Exclude lists are not supported with CUDA.

Additional Notes

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