This page provides tables of features supported in CPU and GPU rendering with V-Ray in Rhino.
Overview
These features are supported by V-Ray in Rhino for Interactive and Non-Interactive rendering modes.
Both RTX and CUDA share the same V-Ray GPU engine supported features.
For more information on V-Ray GPU, see the GPU Rendering.
Supported Features
Main Render featuresFeature | V-Ray CPU | V-Ray GPU |
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Interactive rendering | | | Progressive image sampler | | | Bucket image sampler | | | Resumable rendering | | | V-Ray Denoiser | | | NVIDIA AI Denoiser1 | | | Intel Open Image Denoise | | (always calculated by CPU) | Viewport rendering (VPR) | | | Viewport region rendering | | | Batch rendering | | | Cloud rendering | | | Batch render in Cloud | | | Distributed rendering via Swarm | | | Rendering in Grasshopper | | | Unbacked Grasshopper geometry | | |
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Environment Background MappingFeature | V-Ray CPU | V-Ray GPU |
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Spherical mapping | | | Mirror ball mapping | | | Angular mapping | | | Cubic mapping | | | Screen mapping | | | Color/Texture Multipliers | | |
back to top Global Illumination MethodsFeature | V-Ray CPU | V-Ray GPU |
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Brute Force | | | Light Cache | | | Irradiance Map | | | GI Caustics | | |
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CameraFeature | V-Ray CPU | V-Ray GPU |
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VRayPhysicalCamera | | | Camera Depth of Field | | | Camera motion blur | | | Stereoscopic | | | VR Cubemap | | | VR Spherical Panorama | | | Automatic Exposure | | | Automatic White Balance | | | Film sensitivity (ISO) | | | Aperture (F-Number) | | | Shutter Speed (1/s) | | | Vignetting | | | Vertical Tilt | | | Bokeh | | |
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LightsFeature | V-Ray CPU | V-Ray GPU |
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SunLight | | PARTIAL (Affect Diffuse and Specular controls not supported) | Rectangle Light | | PARTIAL (Decay control not supported) | Sphere Light | | PARTIAL (Decay control not supported) | Spot Light | | PARTIAL (Affect Diffuse and Specular controls and Inverse cube decay not supported) | IES Light | | | Omni Light | | PARTIAL (Affect Diffuse/Specular controls and Inverse cube decay not supported) | Mesh Light | | PARTIAL (Texture map and Decay control not supported) | Dome Light | | | Directional Light | | PARTIAL (Affect Diffuse and Specular controls not supported) |
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MaterialsFeature | V-Ray CPU | V-Ray GPU |
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Blend | | | Car Paint | | | Emissive | | PARTIAL (without Emit on Back Side; Color*Opacity always on) | Generic (V-Ray Material) | | (without Roughness, Refraction Glossiness and Fog Scattering) | Override | | PARTIAL (without Environment) | Two Sided | | PARTIAL (without Multiply By Front diffuse; Force Single Sided always on) | Wrapper | | PARTIAL
(without Ignore Objects in Secondary, Caustics Affect) | Subsurface Scattering | | | Bump | | | VRscan | | | Hair | | | Outline Override | | | Multi Material | | |
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3rd-party pluginsFeature | V-Ray CPU | V-Ray GPU |
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Bongo 7 | | | Cloud support for Bongo | – | – | HDR Light Studio | | | Cloud support for HDR Light Studio | | | Archvision RPC | | | Cloud support for Archvision RPC | | | Rhino Nature | | |
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EnscapeFeature | V-Ray CPU | V-Ray GPU |
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Enscape materials | PARTIAL (except Grass and Carpet material types) | PARTIAL (except Grass and Carpet material types) | Enscape geometry assets | PARTIAL (Enscape assets provided by 3D PEOPLE are currently not supported) | PARTIAL (Enscape assets provided by 3D PEOPLE are currently not supported) | Enscape material keywords | PARTIAL (except Grass and Carpet material keywords) | PARTIAL (except Grass and Carpet material keywords) |
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Footnotes
1 – Displacement results between CPU and GPU rendering may differ slightly because of Pre-tessellation and Cache Normal settings.
2 – Only some procedural textures are supported by V-Ray GPU renderer when used for Bump mapping (f.e. noise and mix maps are supported).
3 – These plug-ins are only partially supported on GPU.
4 – For now only Lighting, GI, Reflection, Refraction, Bump Normals, Self Illumination, Diffuse Filter, Reflection Filter, Refraction Filter, Specular, ZDepth, Normals, Multi Matte and Light Select (GI, reflection, and refraction included) are supported.
5 – RPC are not supported in Interactive rendering mode. Changes done to the RPC model will not be visible in Interactive mode. Please note, that loading RPC models may take substantial time.
6 – The playback options are currently not supported.
7 – Bongo animation is exported as a series of still frames instead of animation frames. Due to this behavior, Motion Blur effect is not supported.
8 – The Water texture is used only for displacement.
- CUDA engine supports map channels from 0 to 15.
- CUDA engine only supports normal maps in tangent space.
- Difference between V-Ray and V-Ray GPU are expected when rendering objects with opacity/translucency modifications.
- When a material is not directly applied to an object or layer but instead only referenced by another asset, e.g. a Proxy Mesh material, and it is introduced through a worksession import, it will not be imported if a naming conflict occurs with a pre-existing material. This is due to a Rhino SDK limitation.
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