V-Ray 6 for Maya, update 1 is here.

V-Ray 6 for Maya

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The world’s most complete rendering software for animation and visual effects.

For 3D artists who need a fast and flexible renderer, Chaos® V-Ray® is built for speed, and designed for production. No matter the project, V-Ray delivers when it matters most.

Emmy and Academy Award-winning rendering technology.

V-Ray is production-proven. For more than a decade, the world’s leading studios have used V-Ray to render over 400 television series and feature films. In 2017, V-Ray’s ray tracing technology received a Sci-Tech Academy Award for its contribution to photorealistic visual effects. In 2021, V-Ray was awarded with an Engineering Emmy for advancing the use of fully ray-traced rendering.

Digital Domain © 2019 MARVEL
Scanline VFX © 2019 HBO

High-powered rendering at any scale.

Take full advantage of your hardware with production rendering that scales on multiple CPUs, GPUs, or both. You can even render a single image across multiple machines with distributed rendering.

Seamless integration with your pipeline.

V-Ray works seamlessly with Maya and your studio pipeline. This includes support for MASH, Bifrost-USD, MayaUSD, as well as your favorite Maya plugins, including Golaem, Massive, Ornatrix, Chaos Phoenix, Yeti, and more. V-Ray for Maya is also compatible with ACEScg, Alembic, OpenVDB, and OpenColorIO industry standards.

Scanline VFX © 2019 Paramount Pictures
Scanline VFX © 2019 MARVEL

Easy to deploy and customize.

V-Ray is easy to deploy on any Windows, macOS, or Linux network, and offers flexible licensing options for you to choose from. The bundled V-Ray Standalone renders scenes directly with V-Ray, which is perfect for headless render-farm nodes. 

V-Ray for Maya also includes two software development kits to customize your rendering workflow. For example, you can write custom shaders with the V-Ray SDK (C++) or build custom pipeline tools with the V-Ray App SDK (Python).

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Real-time visualization Explore your designs in real-time and make decisions on the fly.

Easy cloud rendering and collaboration Render to the cloud with a push of a button.

Extra render power Get the most from your distributed and network rendering.

We’ve been really lucky to work on some prestigious projects with some amazing clients. They demand the best and V-Ray is the tool that will enable us to do this.

Dan Stone, Head of Operations, Archilime Visualizations & Archilime Academy

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Refine your designs. Work smarter.


V-Ray 6, update 1 is powered up to enable users to add even more realism to their designs, fine-tune their renders and collaborate better than ever. Designers and artists can enjoy an even better compatibility between V-Ray and Enscape, an improved V-Ray Decal for adding stickers and labels to even the most challenging surfaces, enhanced materials, new animations.

And much more.



Archilime renders eco-friendly oasis for Koto Design

Learn how Archilime’s creative team leveraged V-Ray 6 for SketchUp’s new features, using the rendering power of NVIDIA RTX GPUs and the flexibility of a Lenovo P1 laptop, to produce a gorgeous set of images and an animation showcasing a sustainable prefabricated home designed by renowned architects Koto Design.

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Key features

Check out the list of tools available in the V-Ray for SketchUp rendering plugin.

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