Production-proven rendering with a full suite of tools to create photoreal imagery and animation. Built to handle the absolute toughest projects and largest scenes. Highly optimized, adaptive ray tracing for exceptional speed and scalability. Full creative control over lighting and look development with a variety of shaders, textures, lights and render controls. Integrated seamlessly with The Foundry’s KATANA® and designed to fit any production pipeline. Top studios rely on V-Ray for KATANA to create award-winning animation & visual effects.
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V-Ray for Katana
Production-proven rendering with a full suite of tools to create photoreal imagery and animation. Built to handle the absolute toughest projects and largest scenes. Highly optimized, adaptive ray tracing for exceptional speed and scalability. Full creative control over lighting and look development with a variety of shaders, textures, lights and render controls. Integrated seamlessly with The Foundry’s KATANA® and designed to fit any production pipeline. Top studios rely on V-Ray for KATANA to create award-winning animation & visual effects.
POWERFUL PRODUCTION RENDERING
V-Ray for KATANA delivers highly-optimized, adaptive ray traced rendering to meet the demands of professional animation and VFX. Render true cinematic quality with global illumination, depth of field and motion blur.
MASSIVE SCENES
V-Ray for KATANA is built to handle huge workloads and massive scenes with heavy geometry and textures. V-Ray supports KATANA’s native workflows and adds optimized instancing for even more performance.
GLOBAL ILLUMINATION
Choose from ray traced (unbiased) and hybrid (biased) global illumination methods for the best balance of quality and speed.
PHYSICAL LIGHTS
Simulate realistic natural, artificial, and image-based lighting with a wide range of light types and shapes, including area lights, mesh lights and more.
PHYSICALLY-BASED MATERIALS
Create physically-based materials with multiple layers – now with GGX highlights. And choose from a variety of purpose-built shaders for specialized materials.
OUT-OF-CORE TILED TEXTURES
Work with production-ready, multiresolution tiled textures in memory-efficient TX and OpenEXR formats.
V-RAY SCENE WORKFLOW
Bring in complete shading networks for V-Ray materials built in Autodesk Maya and 3ds Max. Export and render V-Ray scene files with V-Ray Standalone.
CHARACTERS & CREATURES
Create photoreal characters and creatures with V-Ray’s optimized tools and shaders for skin, ray traced SSS, hair and fur.
VOLUME RENDERING
Import OpenVDB, Field 3D, and PhoenixFD files with the V-Ray Volume Grid, and fine-tune rendered output with V-Ray's versatile volume shader.
RENDER ELEMENTS
Select from over 30 built-in render elements for complete control in compositing.
System requirements for Vray for Katana
Supported platforms: KATANA® versions 1.5 – 2.5.
Supported on Linux 64-bit CentOS/RHEL 6 and Windows 7 64-bit.
V-Ray version |
Katana versions supported |
Supported |
| vray_adv_XXXX_katana_1_2_linux_x64_XXXX |
1.2, 1.4 |
no longer supported |
| vray_adv_XXXX_katana_1_5_linux_x64_XXXX |
1.5, 1.6 |
|
| vray_adv_XXXX_katana_2_0_linux_x64_XXXX |
2.0, 2.1 |
since rev 25794 |
| vray_adv_XXXX_katana_2_5_linux_x64_XXXX |
2.5 on Linux |
since rev 26829 |
vray_adv_XXXX_katana_2_5_x64_XXXX |
2.5 on Windows |
since rev 26830 |