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.
What's new in V-Ray 5 for May
Composite renders, incorporate Light Path Expressions and
interactively relight your scene in the new V-Ray Frame Buffer.
Randomize your textures for seamless tiling and get a massive speed
boost with the all-new
V-Ray Proxy node. V-Ray 5 helps you save time and make your renders look even better — both on the CPU or GPU.
V-Ray 5
The world's most complete rendering software for animation and visual effects.
For 3D artists who need a fast and flexible renderer, V-Ray is built
for speed, and designed for production. No matter the project, V-Ray
delivers when it matters most.
Academy Award-winning rendering technology.
V-Ray is production-proven. For more than a decade V-Ray has been used by the world’s leading studios to render over 300 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.
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. ACEScg support is new in V-Ray 5, joining other industry standards like Alembic, OpenVDB, and OpenColorIO. Your favorite Maya plugins are also compatible, including Golaem, Massive, Ornatrix, Phoenix FD, and Yeti.
Easy to deploy and customize.
V-Ray is easy to deploy on any Windows, macOS, or Linux network. V-Ray licenses are floating and can be centrally served and locally checked
out. And V-Ray Standalone allows for headless rendering across your render farm.
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 |