This page provides information on supported features in V-Ray for Cinema 4D, based on the rendering type and hardware architecture.

Rendering

Feature	V-Ray	V-Ray GPU
Cinema 4D Team Render 4
Stereoscopic Rendering

Geometry Feature V-Ray V-Ray GPU V-Ray Proxy V-Ray Scene 3 Displacement V-Ray Fur V-Ray Clipper (without Mesh mode) Cinema 4D Floor Renderable Spline tag Perfect Sphere V-Ray Enmesh V-Ray Decal V-Ray Particles Camera Feature V-Ray V-Ray GPU Cinema 4D Camera PARTIAL (Except: Dimetric, Military, Gentleman, Frog, Bird) PARTIAL (Except: Dimetric, Military, Gentleman, Frog, Bird) V-Ray Camera

Lighting

Feature	V-Ray	V-Ray GPU
V-Ray Lights
Light instancing
Image-based lighting
Light and shadow linking
Cinema 4D Omni Light	PARTIAL	PARTIAL
Cinema 4D Spot Light	PARTIAL	PARTIAL
Cinema 4D Infinite Light	PARTIAL	PARTIAL
Cinema 4D Area Light	PARTIAL	PARTIAL
Cinema 4D IES Light	PARTIAL	PARTIAL
Cinema 4D Sun Light	PARTIAL	PARTIAL
Cinema 4D PBR Light	PARTIAL	PARTIAL

Global Illumination Methods

Feature	V-Ray	V-Ray GPU
Brute Force
Light Cache
Caustics		PARTIAL 1

Render Elements

Feature	V-Ray	V-Ray GPU
Preset: Back to Beauty
Atmospheric Effects
Background
Bump Normals
Caustics	(Production mode)
Coat Specular
Coat Filter
Coat Glossiness
Coat Reflection
Coverage
Cryptomatte
Denoiser
Diffuse
Extra Tex(ture)
GI
LightMix
Light Select
Lighting
Material ID
Material Select
Matte Shadow
Multi Matte
Multi Matte ID
Normals
Object ID
Object Select
Raw Coat Filter
Raw Coat Reflection
Raw Sheen Filter
Raw Sheen Reflection
Raw GI
Raw Light
Raw Reflection
Raw Refraction
Raw Shadow
Raw Total Light
Reflect IOR
Reflection
Reflection Filter
Reflection Glossiness
Reflection Highlight Glossiness
Refraction
Refraction Filter
Refraction glossiness
Render ID
Sheen
Sheen Glossiness
Sheen Filter
SSS
Sample Rate
Self Illumination
Shadow
Specular
Total Light
Velocity
Z Depth

Materials

Feature	V-Ray	V-Ray GPU
Al Surface
Blend
Car Paint 2
Light		(without Opacity)
V-Ray Material		(without Translucency, Diffuse Roughness)
Fast SSS2		PARTIAL (without raytraced (solid) and raytraced (refractive))
Hair Next
Bump
2 Sided
Scanned

Textures Feature V-Ray V-Ray GPU VRayBitmap VRayC4DBake VRayCurvature VRayDirt PARTIAL VRayDistance VRayFalloff VRayFresnel VRayLayered VRaySky VRayTriPlanar VRayMultiSubTex VRayRamp VRayMix VRayNormalMap VRayUVWRandomizer VRayOCIO VRaySamplerInfo Cinema 4D Shaders Feature V-Ray V-Ray GPU Color Fresnel PARTIAL PARTIAL Gradient PARTIAL (Except: Turbulence) PARTIAL (Except: Turbulence) Noise Colorizer Filter PARTIAL PARTIAL 2 Fusion PARTIAL (Except: Soft Light, Dodge, Burn, Darken, Levr blend modes) PARTIAL (Except: Soft Light, Dodge, Burn, Darken, Levr blend modes) Layer PARTIAL PARTIAL Posterizer Effects Ambient Occlusion Backlight ChanLum Distorter Falloff Lens Distortion Lumas Normal Direction Normalizer Pixel Projector PARTIAL (Except: Flat, Cubic, Frontal, Spatial, Shrink Wrapping) PARTIAL (Except: Flat, Cubic, Frontal, Spatial, Shrink Wrapping) Proximal Ripple Spectral Spline Subsurface Scattering Terrain Mask Thin Film Variation Vertex Map Weathering MoGraph Beat Shader Camera Shader Color Shader Multi Shader Sketch and Toon Art Cel Hatch Spots Surfaces Brick Checkerboard Cloud Cyclone Display Color Earth Fire Flame Formula Galaxy Marble Metal Pavement Planet Rust Simple Noise Simple Turbulence Starfield Stars Sunburst Tiles Venus Water Wood Moves Face Shader Polygon Hair Substance Shader

Overrides

Feature	V-Ray	V-Ray GPU
Material Override

Footnotes

Cinema 4D shaders marked as are supported by V-Ray via the Bake Cinema 4D Shaders option available in Render Settings > Overrides > Textures or via the VRayC4DBake texture.

1. The new Progressive Caustics method works only with the Progressive Image Sampler and on CPU.

2. The Spline Interpolation is currently not supported. The Colorize option is not supported at the moment. Positive values for Lightness in the native Filter shader do not currently produce the expected results.

3. Currently, V-Ray Scene does not import V-Ray Sky in Cinema 4D. V-Ray Scene does not refresh when working with Interactive rendering.

4. V-Ray Output System is not compatible with Cinema 4D Team Render. Use of single frame render, denoiser and lens effects can lead to unwanted results.