Vision Supported Features

This page provides information on the supported features of V-Ray Vision.

How V-Ray and Vision differ?

To understand better Vision's strengths and limitations, let's first see how V-Ray renderer and Vision differ. The technology used in Vision (rasterization) is fast but limited in quality and in the number of effects that can be supported. Vision's primary goal is to give you a real-time experience keeping a high framerate.

Vision is in active development, so the supported features are subject to change.

Most of the common material parameters used in V-Ray are supported in Vision. Some are still unsupported and thus see some differences in the way surfaces appear.

Vision is also still not capable of evaluating the global illumination in the scene. As a result closed interior spaces would be illuminated incorrectly in most cases. Calculating many light bounces is required for better results.

Read more about Vision at the V-Ray Vision page.

Supported Features

Main Render Features

V-Ray Feature

Vision Support

Interactive (real-time) rendering

Live Link locally/remote

Viewport rendering

Distributed rendering ¹

Camera

V-Ray Feature	Vision Support
Ortho/Parallel projection
2-point perspective projection
VR projection	Export only
EV and auto-EV
White Balance
Depth of Field
Stereo Auto White Balance Bokeh Vignetting Vertical lens tilt

Options

V-Ray Feature	Vision Support
Quality presets	Shadow quality; Cosmos assets
Image (AA) filtering	Temporal Anti-aliasing
Post-effect color corrections (VFB)	ACES Tonemapping; Exposure; Contrast; Saturation; Temperature; Tint
Global Switches(Displacement, Lights, Hidden lights, Shadows)
File formats	PARTIAL (png, jpg, tga, exr only)
VR formats	VR Spherical, Cubemap
Stereo output
Environment background projection types	PARTIAL (Spherical only)
GI Color mapping
Denoiser	(temporal AA used instead)
Render Elements

Materials

V-Ray Feature	Vision Support
Generic
Emissive
Multi Material
Hair VRscan Bump Outline Override Wrapper
Two-Sided	PARTIAL (Only front color/map slot is displayed, translucency is currently not supported)
Car Paint	PARTIAL ( Except Flakes )
Subsurface Scattering	PARTIAL (Only subsurface color/map slot is displayed)
Blend	PARTIAL (Except: Blend color, Blend Texture Multiplier; Additive Mode cannot be disabled)
Override	PARTIAL (Only base color/map slot is displayed)

Material Properties

V-Ray Feature	Vision Support
Diffuse
Reflection Color
Reflection Glossiness
Fresnel
Reflection IOR
Metalness
Surface Control
Refraction Color
Fog Multiplier
RefractionGlossiness
Multipliers
Binding
Diffuse Roughness Fog Color IOR Sheen Opacity Bump
Coat	PARTIAL (Only Coat Amount Color Toggle and Map slot is supported)

Textures

Bitmap

V-Ray Feature	Vision Support
Color Space
Color Manipulation
Crop/Place
Filter
UV Noise
Texture Placement	PARTIAL (except: 2D (UV Channel): UV Channel/Set, Tile UV cannot be disabled; except: Environment)

V-Ray Feature	Vision Support	Notes
Color
Temperature
Gradient
Sky	PARTIAL	Only Custom Orientation, Intensity Multiplier and Clouds (except Ground Shadows and Dynamic Clouds) are supported.
Color Correction
Spline Curve
Bezier Curve
Simple Mix
Mix (Value)
Mix (Operator)
Mix (Map)
Multi-Sub	PARTIAL	Only: Random by Render ID, Random by Instance ID
TriPlanar	PARTIAL	Except: Texture Transforms, Randomization Mode is One Texture only
Checker
Grid
Tiles
Cloth
Leather
Bulge
Water
Noise A
Noise B
Cellular
Marble
Splat
Smoke
Stucco
Rock
Granite
Speckle
UVW Placement	PARTIAL	Except: 2D: UV Channel/Set and Tile UV; except: 3D and Environment;
UVW
Ray-Traced Textures		Edges, Falloff, Fresnel, Dirt, Curvature, Distance are not supported.

Lights

V-Ray Feature	Vision Support
Sun	PARTIAL Only Custom Orientation, Intensity Multiplier and Clouds (except Ground Shadows and Dynamic Clouds) are supported.
Directional Light	PARTIAL (Except: Affect Atmospherics; Affect Diffuse and Affect Specular are always enabled)
Dome Light	PARTIAL (Except: Decay, Caustic Photons)
Mesh Light
Omni Light	PARTIAL (Except: Shadow Radius)
Point Light	PARTIAL (Except: Decay, Caustic Photons)
Spot Light	PARTIAL (Except: Decay, Caustic Photons, Shadow Radius)
Sphere Light	PARTIAL (Except: Decay, Caustic Photons)
Rectangle Light	PARTIAL (Except: Directionality, Caustic Photons)
IES Light	PARTIAL (Except: Diameter, Caustic Photons; Shape only from IES file, Affect Diffuse and Affect Specular are always enabled)

Geometry

V-Ray Feature	Vision Support
Proxy mesh
Cosmos assets
Infinite plane
V-Ray Instancer
V-Ray Scatter
Proxy scene	PARTIAL (Except : Lights)
Section Clipper	PARTIAL (Except: Materials, Affect Lights, Camera Rays only, Affect Light Geometry)
Fur ²	PARTIAL (Length and Material only)
Decal	PARTIAL (Except: Z Order, Normal Angle, Fade Out, Fade Out Angle and Backside Projection)
V-Ray Mesh Clipper Displacement

Other

V-Ray Feature	Vision Support
Material Override
Aerial Perspective	PARTIAL (Except: Affect Environment; Affect Background cannot be disabled)
Environment fog	PARTIAL (Except: Emission, Scatter GI, Affect Secondary rays; Affect Camera rays and Affect Background cannot be disabled)
Outlines
Cloud animation

Notes

1. – By default, Vision is a lightweight viewer, so distributing the scene load is mostly unnecessary. Instead, Vision offers support for Live Link. This allows loading a heavy scene to V-Ray in one machine and streaming the view with Vision launched on another.

2. – If a diffuse texture is used in a material applied to the fur (or its host object), it is downscaled to allow a smoother color variation between the individual tufts of grass. Fur is only applied on the top surface of the object (+Z axis).

Sun and camera animations from Grasshopper can be rendered in V-Ray Vision both through Live Link or from manually exported .vrscene files. Note that object animations are currently unsupported.

Content

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