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Currently, Chaos offers three different types of free and discounted licenses to address various testing, learning, and development requirements. The table below displays the characteristics of these three types of licenses.

 

Characteristics for:

V-Ray PLE

V-Ray Trial

V-Ray Educational

Best suited for

Artists starting out in CG and rendering.

Self-taught artists who need more time to improve their skills.

All artists who want to test V-Ray for Maya’s full capabilities and feature set for a limited time.

Students and educators who need unlimited access to V-Ray’s features and capabilities, as well as all product updates.

Expiration period

90 days (renewable)

30 days

1 year

Availability

Free

Free

Paid (at discount prices)

License eligibility

Anyone

Anyone

Students, educators

Technical support

Not included

Included

Included

Number of licenses per user

1 per user

1 per user

1 per student or as many as needed for institutions

Render nodes

1

1

As many as needed for educational institutions

Features

Limitations apply

  • Resolution limited to 4K (3840 x 2160)

  • No distributed rendering

  • No export of render-ready VRScene files

  • No V-Ray Standalone

  • No batch rendering

  • No background Chaos Cloud submission

  • No V-Ray SDK

  • No V-Ray AppSDK

  • No VRscans support

  • Scene pollution (stamping saved scenes)

 

Fully featured

Fully featured