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

V-Ray 6 for Houdini

Super-fast production rendering for VFX artists.

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The ultimate 3D rendering software for procedural effects.

V-Ray® for Houdini is a production-proven CPU & GPU rendering software for high-end VFX and animation. It comes with all the tools artists need to render amazing-looking procedural effects. Seamlessly integrated in Houdini, it enables smooth scene exchange and iterations between Houdini and other DCC applications.

Emmy and Academy Award-winning ray tracing technology.

V-Ray’s performance is production-proven. It’s been used by the world’s leading studios to render over 300 television series and feature films. In 2017, V-Ray 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.

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Fast and scalable to help you meet tight deadlines.

V-Ray’s adaptive ray tracing is highly optimized for superior speed and scalability. You can take full advantage of your hardware rendering on multiple CPUs, & GPUs, or both. With V-Ray’s distributed rendering, you can render a single image across multiple machines.

Smart integration for a smooth workflow.

V-Ray works seamlessly with Houdini and enables smooth scene exchange with other DCC applications. V-Ray for Houdini is compatible with industry standards including USD, ACEScg, Alembic, OpenVDB, and OpenColorIO.

Travis Scott – HIGHEST IN THE ROOM: Ingenuity Studios ©Sony Music
Camila Cabello – Liar: Ingenuity Studios ©Sony Music

Creative control to render anything imaginable.

Bring your projects to life with the right tools for the job. V-Ray equips you with a complete set of lighting, shading, and rendering tools. It’s the most full-featured 3D rendering software available.

See what’s new.

V-Ray 6, update 1 now also available for Houdini.

Accelerate beyond creative limitations.

Breathe life into any idea with powerful, new tools. Elevate your skin shading. Gain artistic control over lighting. Effortlessly project decals onto any cylindrical object and add surface effects. Create even more breathtaking skies with new procedural cloud options. Boost cross-team collaboration with seamless USD data exchange between applications, accelerate rendering, and more.

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Key features

Check out the list of versatile features available in
V-Ray for Houdini.

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Case studies

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Going bananas with V-Ray for Houdini

Artjail’s Lexus spot features bendy fruit falling from the sky. Head of 3D Ross Denner tells us how V-Ray for Houdini was instrumental in this imaginative ad.

Adding V-Ray for Houdini streamlines so many aspects of our pipeline. Combined with V-Ray for Maya and Nuke we have a complete rendering solution that allows look-dev on individual assets to be packaged and easily transferred between applications.

Grant Miller, Creative Director, Ingenuity Studios

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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.

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