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After its enormous success on the market VRay has become the renderer of choice in big production studios across the world. Feature film productions, multi-million dollar game productions, huge and small architectural visualizations have trusted their visuals to VRay.

V-Ray 1.50.SP3 Now Available!
V-Ray 1.5 Service Pack 3 is compatible with Autodesk® 3ds Max 2009® and Autodesk® 3ds Max Design 2009.

New features:

• Linear Workflow
• Mesh-based lights
• V-Ray light material as direct light
• V-Ray Fog environmental effect
• Vector Displacement
• Import Proxy as mesh
• Support for Max Arch & Design materials
• Region Rendering directly in VFB

Improved features:

• Irradiance map - further reduction in flicker in animations
• Camera Overrides now work with Physical Cam
• Render Elements - MultiMatte, VRayExtraTex and VRayZDepth work with transperancy
• DR Improvements - support for the incremental modes of the irradiance map
• New SSS material for better and faster rendering – V-Ray Fast SSS2

Core Architecture

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• Multi-platform object-oriented API
• Fully multithreaded core
• Unified sampling system based on Schlick sampling
• Distributed rendering
• Efficient shading system specifically optimized for ray-tracing
• Modular architecture - many components of the system can be replaced with custom ones



Geometry

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• Efficient geometry handling
• True instance rendering
• On-demand dynamic geometry creation
• On-demand geometry loading from disk files
• Displacement mapping
• Catmull-Clark and Loop subdivision surfaces
• Extensible with custom geometric primitives through the V-Ray SDK



Image sampling

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• Three different image sampling methods
• Full-scene anti-aliasing
• Progressive path tracing
• Support for additional render elements (diffuse, reflection, GI etc)
• Advanced color (tone) mapping controls
• Extensible with custom image samplers through the V-Ray SDK



Illumination

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• Physically accurate full global illumination solutions
• Different GI algorithms: path tracing, irradiance cache, photon maps, light cache
• Reusable GI solutions for accelerated rendering of walk-through animations and animations with dynamic objects
• Physically accurate area lights
• Efficient illumination from HDR environments
• Procedural sun & sky models
• Extensible with custom lights through the V-Ray SDK



Shaders

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• Physically plausible materials
• Blurry reflections/refractions
• Accurate highlights
• Sub-surface scattering
• Support for efficient material layering
• Extensible with custom shaders through the V-Ray SDK



Camera effects

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• Depth-of-field with bokeh effects
• Accurate motion blur
• Physical camera model
• Extensible with custom cameras through the V-Ray SDK



Extras

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• Toon effect
• Fur generator/raytracer
• Extended matte/shadow capabilities
• Support for Render-to-Texture mode of 3ds Max
• VRaySphereFade to isolate only specific portions of the scene for compositing



Frame buffer

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• V-Ray specific frame buffer with integrated color corrections and display of multiple rendering elements
• Direct rendering to disk for extremely large images, either as OpenEXR files or as .vrimg files



*all the features are subject to change without special notice.