V-Ray 6 for 3ds Max update 1 available!
V-Ray 6 for 3ds Max update 1 is officially available for download now and now contains masking for lens effects, light material post-processing, improvements to Chaos Cloud Collaboration and much more.
What's New
- Masking for Lens Effects & Denoiser — Choose specific lights and materials to apply lens effects to, or denoise the parts of your image that you'd like to smooth out.
- V-Ray Light Material post-processing — Edit self-illuminating objects in your scene — even after you’ve rendered.
- Decal cylindrical projection — Easily add anything from stickers and labels to different kinds of surface imperfections to bottles, jars, cups, cans, rockets, tanks, fire hydrants, or any other cylinder-like object.
- Decal additive bump — Take your product designs to new levels of realism with lifelike stickers, labels, embossed logos, lettering, and more. Or easily create effects such as spray or paint on a cracked wall, corroded metal, or any other bumpy surface.
- Custom resolution per camera — Quickly set custom aspect ratios for each of your V-Ray cameras, saving precious frame setup time.
- Initial USD export and USD Stage support — Export V-Ray lights, materials, modifiers, and more to USD file format.
- Faster heavy scene loading — Load scenes with lots of textures and geometry faster than before.
- Viewport composition guides — With composition guides inside the V-Ray Physical Camera, you can cut back on iterations and save render time.
- Faster fog rendering — V-Ray Environment Fog now renders up to 30% faster.
- Compressed textures mode — On average, V-Ray GPU uses 50% less GPU memory on assets with 4K textures.
- V-Ray Clipper Mesh mode — Render complex cut- aways and sections using any mesh object.
- New V-Ray Material Translucency — Thanks to a new algorithm, translucent objects now render up to 2x faster.
- Render Element support through refractive surfaces — V-Ray GPU now also supports Material ID, Cryptomatte, and Multimatte render elements through refractive surfaces.
- Visual annotations — Use visual annotations in Chaos Cloud Collaboration to easily communicate your ideas - add lines, arrows, and many more figures to illustrate what you mean.
- Versioning — Upload and share different versions of your files for review in Chaos Cloud Collaboration.
- V-Ray Light Custom Decay — Easily create artistic effects with V-Ray Light’s Custom Decay, which allows you to dictate how light transmits based on the source distance.
- NVIDIA AI Denoiser upscaling — Experiment with NVIDIA’s new AI Denoiser that promises to greatly speed-up rendering times.
- Enhanced procedural clouds — Customize how dark your clouds are, randomize them in countless combinations, and add the final touch with contrails.
Availability
If you are new to V-Ray for 3ds Max, you can download demo versions here. If you are already using V-Ray 6 for 3ds Max, you can go to your login page at Chaos Group's website to get your latest full version of V-Ray 6 for 3ds Max.
Buy / Upgrade
If you are convinced of the possibilities of V-Ray 6 for 3ds Max, you can purchase your (upgrade) license for the render plugin through our reseller channel.