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 6
Stereoscopic Rendering
Resumable Rendering
Viewport Interactive 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 Chaos Scatter 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 Special Object Feature V-Ray V-Ray GPU Cinema 4D Stage 4 PARTIAL Mograph Objects Feature V-Ray V-Ray GPU Cloner PARTIAL Matrix PARTIAL

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 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 Toon     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 Metalness 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 Toon Total Light Velocity Z Depth

Textures Feature Type V-Ray V-Ray GPU VRayBitmap Classic+Node VRayC4DBake Classic VRayCurvature Classic+Node VRayDirt Classic+Node PARTIAL VRayDistance Classic+Node VRayFalloff Classic+Node VRayFresnel Classic+Node VRayHairSampler Classic+Node VRayLayered Classic+Node VRayMix Classic+Node VRayMultiSubTex Classic+Node VRayNormalMap Classic+Node VRayOCIO Classic+Node VRayRamp Classic+Node VRaySamplerInfo Classic+Node VRaySky Classic VRaySoftbox Classic+Node VRayTriPlanar Classic+Node VRayUVWChannel Classic+Node VRayUVWRandomizer Classic+Node VRayUserColor Classic VRayUserScalar Classic VRayUserInteger Classic Cellular Node Checker Node Color Arithmetic Node Color Channel Node Color Correction Node Color Node Color Range Node Color to Float Node Color to UVW Node Combine Color Node Compose Color Node Bump to Glossiness Node Edges Node Float Arithmetic Node Float to Color Node Invert Float Node Invert Node Luminance Node Maxon Noise Node Noise Max Node Particle Sampler Node Remap Node RGB to HSV Node Smoke Node Splat Node Stucco Node Tiles Node UVW Object Node UVW Projection Node UVW to Color Node UVW Transform Node Value 5 Node Vector Product Node Vertex Color Node Overrides Feature V-Ray V-Ray GPU Material Override   Effectors Feature V-Ray V-Ray GPU MoGraph Shader 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

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.

V-Ray for Cinema 4D 2023 and newer supports native OCIO color management.

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. Currently, only the V-Ray Physical Camera and Python tags work with the Cinema 4D Stage environment.

5. Vector2d, Vector4d and TimeValue Data Type are not supported.

6. V-Ray Output System is not compatible with Cinema 4D Team Render. Performing single frame renders with enabled denoiser and lens effects can lead to unwanted results.