Chaos Group V-Ray for Maya

V-Ray 3.0 is designed to give artists more control and flexibility. New tools include Max Ray Intensity, Probabilistic Light Sampling, and Render Mask to specify exact render regions with an object selection or image mask. Improvements to character and creature workflows include faster hair rendering, Ray-Traced Subsurface Scattering, and a new VRaySkinMtl shader. The Foundry MARI and Autodesk Mudbox support have also been added. V-Ray 3.0 includes PhoenixFD volume shaders to render volumetric effects including fluids, fire, smoke, and heat haze. Support for open source tools and formats include OpenSubdiv, Alembic 1.5, Deep Images and OpenEXR 2.0, and programmable shaders using Open Shading Language (OSL). Version for Maya.

V-Ray for Maya
V-Ray for Maya is one of the latest developments by Chaos Group. Developed to meet the needs of the most demanding VFX & Film studios around the world, the rendering engine delivers uncompromised stability, interactivity, ease of use and unprecedented speed. Now, V-Ray for Maya enables the rendering of even larger scenes with greater complexity and artists can rely on a faster rendering process. The comprehensive list of features provided by V-Ray for Maya includes CarPaint Material, V-Ray Light Select Render Element, PText texture, true 3D Motion Blur, Sun & Sky procedural lighting system, Physical camera for matching live footage, and many others. V-Ray for Maya became a renderer of choice of numerous renowned studios such as Method Studio, Zoic Studio, Lux VFX, The LAB NYC and many others. For less than two years since its official release V-Ray has been used as a major rendering tool in the latest award winning films and productions.



Enhanced Rendering
V-Ray 3.0 introduces a new Progressive Image Sampler. Fast to set up and easy to control, the Progressive Image Sampler generates fast feedback even with complex features such as Environment Fog, Depth of Field, and Motion Blur. Probabilistic Light Sampling reduces the number of lights evaluated at render time. This optimizes rendering scenes with many lights. The new version also features a VRayMetaball object for ray-traced isosurfaces based on particles; a new VRayClipper helper for creating cutaway and section renders using a simple plane; a Render Mask tool that uses an object selection, include and exclude list, or texture map to control the exact pixels to be rendered; or Distributed Rendering giving artists the ability to use multiple computers working in parallel to render a single image.

Faster Ray Tracing
V-Ray 3.0 introduces significant optimizations to the ray tracing core. This speeds up calculations for Brute Force GI, Progressive Path Tracing, Reflections, Refractions, and more. Testers have reported speed increases of up to 5x! The new V-Ray 3.0 also includes the Intel Embree raycaster, specifically designed to increase the performance of photorealistic rendering on a compatible hardware. Another rendering optimization is the dynamic bucket splitting that automatically reduces the size of render buckets to maximize the use of all CPU threads.