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V-Ray 5 for 3ds Max, update 2

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Introducing V-Ray 5 for SketchUp
- Update 2 -

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Use the new V-Ray Decal to rapidly place materials anywhere on surfaces and other materials without additional UVW mapping work. V-Ray 5’s new VFB gets even more capable with a new Sharpen & Blur layer and Batch Image processing. Materials can now be easily assigned from Chaos Cosmos, with 200 new materials to start. New creative lighting possibilities unfold as light sources can now be used within the VRayInstancer. And much more...

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See what's new

Use the new V-Ray Decal to rapidly place materials anywhere on surfaces and other materials without additional UVW mapping work. V-Ray 5’s new VFB gets even more capable with a new Sharpen & Blur layer and Batch Image processing. Materials can now be easily assigned from Chaos Cosmos, with 200 new materials to start. New creative lighting possibilities unfold as light sources can now be used within the VRayInstancer. And much more...

See what's new >>>

Optimize your resources, focus on your designs and save time.

V-Ray Decal

Project V-Ray Decals onto surfaces at any angle without extra UVW work or disturbing any underlying materials for quickly making anything from IndyCars and container labels to cracks, stains and scratches.

Sharpen/Blur layer in V-Ray Frame Buffer

V-Ray 5’s extensive post-processing capabilities are bolstered with batch image processing and a new Sharpen/Blur layer for even more artistic control without leaving 3ds Max.

Achieve ultimate creative control in just a few simple steps.

Chaos Cosmos materials

More than 200 free, high-quality materials have been added to Chaos Cosmos. Just drag & drop onto surfaces for immediate use and adjust them as you’d like.

Atmospheric light contribution control

Improved control to speed up your lighting setup. Easily tweak how much an individual light illuminates the environment fog around it.

V-Ray Instancer lights distribution

More versatile ways of distributing lights in the scene. Instance your lights based on any kind of particle system.

Supercharge your workflow and boost your performance.

Extended material override

In addition to update 1's extensive global override functions, you can now preserve a scene's materials' original reflection, coat, sheen, and displacement.

Chaos Cloud updates

An improved cloud rendering experience to speed up project delivery. Displacement is now consistent with V-Ray for 3ds Max, and we've added initial support for SiNi scatter and Anima 4D.

Extended V-Ray Dirt

New advanced options in VRayDirt ensure precise and agile control over weathering effects.

And more...

GPU updates

New V-Ray Material translucency and support for Sparse Volumes using Nvidia's NanoVDB library are now available on V-Ray GPU.

Initial support for Pixar's USD format

With USD, you can smoothly exchange large amounts of data between DCC tools. And you can reference and render USD files in VRay for 3ds Max.

Rendering animations with Vantage

Render 3ds Max animations with Chaos Vantage via live link.

Improved UI draw times

Faster UI loading time for most commonly used materials

Optimize your resources, focus on your designs and save time.

Scatter

Building terrain for your models is significantly streamlined thanks to the new scattering tool. Create detailed scenes by adding hundreds, thousands, or millions of objects and Chaos Cosmos models on any surface in an intuitive and memory-efficient way. Control their size, orientation, and density for maximum realism.

Chaos Cosmos materials

Our curated collection of render-ready 3D content adds an important new category: materials. Take advantage of 200 new assets for your next project, including terrain, tiles, wooden floors, and more. Use them out-ofthe-box or edit their color, bump, and gloss to fit your vision.

Decals

With the new V-Ray Decal, you can easily project unique materials onto objects of any shape and create effects like graffiti on a wall, markings on a road, or logos on a product.

Chaos Vantage Live Link

Take your design to the next level with Chaos Vantage. With Live Link, you can explore even your most complex scenes in pure raytraced real-time with zero setup. Navigate and interact with your model’s true lighting and materials, and create animations and images with ease.

V-Ray Material improvements

Complex realism for transparent and translucent materials is made simple with the updated V-Ray Material. Easily create glass material for single-sided objects with the thinwalled option. Set up translucent materials like plastic or wax with a few clicks through the SSS and Volumetric translucency modes.

More artistic control in post

Add popular camera effects sharpen and blur in the V-Ray Frame Buffer when polishing your final renders.

New capabilities in V-Ray Vision

Share your scene with reviewers

Now you can share your scene with others to experience in real-time 3D on their own machine without the need for any additional software or license. Just hit export and reviewers can experience your full scene, with the full functionality of V-Ray Vision including navigation controls, color correction parameters, and more.

Sun animation support

Load sun animations from SketchUp into Vision for quick and easy lighting studies.

IES lights support

IES light profiles can now be used for more realistic presentations in Vision

Еxport video recordings

Animations can be exported directly from Vision as a video in a WebM format, saving you time manually combining image sequences.

Grass support

Add preset grass to any surface to build realistic terrain in an efficient way.