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Built to meet the creative demands of CG artists and modern production pipelines, V-Ray Next for Maya is a full suite of physically-based lighting, shading and rendering tools tightly integrated into Autodesk ® Maya.
V-Ray for Maya focuses on artist productivity and delivers a powerful new set of features and improvements to speed up lighting, look development and rendering workflows.
V-Ray
Next
Production-proven ray traced rendering with a full suite of tools to create professional photoreal imagery and animations. Built to handle the absolute toughest projects and largest scenes. Multicore CPU and GPU-accelerated rendering engines for optimized speed and scalability. Real-time look development with interactive lighting, shading and rendering. Integrated seamlessly into Maya and designed to fit any production pipeline. Top artists and studios rely on V-Ray for Maya to create award-winning animation & visual effects.
POWERFUL CPU RENDERING
Render superior images and animations fast with V-Ray’s highly-optimized and adaptive ray tracing technology.
INCREDIBLY FAST GPU RENDERING
Get an additional speed boost with GPU-accelerated look development and final frame rendering.
GLOBAL ILLUMINATION
Choose from ray traced and hybrid global illumination methods for the perfect balance of quality and speed.
ACCURATE LIGHTS
Render natural, artificial and image-based lighting with a wide range of light types, shapes and controls.
PHYSICAL MATERIALS
Create physically-based materials with multiple layers – now with GTR/GGX shading for great looking reflections.
UNIQUE SHADERS
For specialized materials, choose from a collection of purpose-built shaders for subsurface scattering, skin, hair and more.
PHYSICAL CAMERAS
Simulate any camera and lens with controls for exposure, depth of field and motion blur.
VIRTUAL REALITY
Render VR-ready content for popular headsets like Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and Samsung Gear VR.
PROXY OBJECTS
Fit massive scenes into memory and cut render times using load-on-demand proxy objects.
EFFICIENT TEXTURES
Work with multi-resolution tiled textures from top applications MARI, Mudbox and Zbrush.
HAIR & FUR
Render realistic hair with support for Maya hair and fur, XGen, Ornatrix, Shave and a Haircut, and Yeti.
VOLUMES
Render optimized volumetric effects and import OpenVDB files from Realflow and Houdini.
RENDER ELEMENTS
Output a complete set of beauty, utility, and matte passes for total control in compositing.
V-RAY FRAME BUFFER
Track render history, fine tune colors, and match final output with advanced color management.
System requirements for Vray for Maya
Please make sure that your system fulfills these requirements before installing V-Ray. Note that V-Ray is only supported for 64 bit operating systems and 64 bit versions of Maya.
Windows
| Processor |
Intel® Pentium ® IV or compatible processor with SSE3 support. |
| RAM |
4 GB RAM and 4 GB swap minimum – recommended 8 GB or more RAM, 8 GB or more swap file |
| USB port |
Required for hardware lock, preferably USB 2.0 |
| TCP/IP |
Only IPv4 is supported. IPv6 is currently not supported. |
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| Version of Maya |
Supported Operating System |
Maya 2014 x64 |
Windows ® 7 Professional, Windows ® 8 Professional
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| Maya 2015 x64 |
Windows ® 7 SP1, Windows ® 8, and Windows ® 8.1 Professional
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| Maya 2016 x64 |
Windows ® 7 SP1, Windows ® 8.1 Professional, and Windows ® 10 Professional |
| Maya 2017 x64 |
Windows ® 7 SP1 and Windows ® 10 Professional |
Linux
| Processor | Intel® Pentium ® IV or compatible processor with SSE3 support. |
| RAM | 4 GB RAM and 4 GB swap minimum – recommended 8 GB or more RAM, 8 GB or more swap file |
| USB port | Required for hardware lock, preferably USB 2.0 |
| TCP/IP | Only IPv4 is supported. IPv6 is currently not supported. |
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| Version of Maya | Supported Operating System |
Maya 2014 x64 | Red Hat® Enterprise Linux ® 6.2 WS, or Fedora™ 14 |
| Maya 2015 x64 | Red Hat ® Enterprise Linux® 6.2 WS, Fedora™ 14, or CentOS 6.2 |
| Maya 2016 x64 | Red Hat ® Enterprise Linux® 6.5 WS, or CentOS 6.5 |
| Maya 2017 x64 | Red Hat ® Enterprise Linux® 6.5 and 7.2 WS, or CentOS 6.5 and 7.2 |
MAC OS X
| Processor | Intel® Pentium ® IV or compatible processor with SSE3 support. |
| RAM | 4 GB RAM and 4 GB swap minimum – recommended 8 GB or more RAM, 8 GB or more swap file |
| USB port | Required for hardware lock, preferably USB 2.0 |
| TCP/IP | Only IPv4 is supported. IPv6 is currently not supported. |
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| Version of Maya | Supported Operating System |
Maya 2014 x64 | Apple® Mac OS® X 10.7.x and 10.8.x |
| Maya 2015 x64 | Apple® Mac OS® X 10.8.5 and 10.9.x |
| Maya 2016 x64 | Apple ® Mac OS ® X 10.9.5, 10.10.x, and 10.11.3 |
| Maya 2017 x64 | Apple ® Mac OS ® X 10.10.5 and 10.11.x |