V-Ray

classroom with a security camera designed with SketchUp and rendered with V-Ray drawing rendered using V-Ray, demonstrating shading and global illumination , demonstrating the advanced effects V-Ray is capable of, such as reflection, depth of field, and the shape of the aperture (in this case, a hexagon) V-Ray is a biased computer-generated imagery rendering software application developed by Bulgarian software company Chaos. V-Ray is a commercial plug-in for third-party 3D computer graphics software applications and is used for visualizations and computer graphics in industries such as media, entertainment, film and video game production, industrial design, product design and architecture.

classroom with a security camera designed with SketchUp and rendered with V-Ray]] drawing rendered using V-Ray, demonstrating shading and global illumination]] , demonstrating the advanced effects V-Ray is capable of, such as reflection, depth of field, and the shape of the aperture (in this case, a hexagon)]] V-Ray is a biased computer-generated imagery rendering software application developed by Bulgarian software company Chaos. V-Ray is a commercial plug-in for third-party 3D computer graphics software applications and is used for visualizations and computer graphics in industries such as media, entertainment, film and video game production, industrial design, product design and architecture.

Overview

V-Ray is a rendering engine that uses global illumination algorithms, including path tracing, photon mapping, irradiance maps and directly computed global illumination. The desktop 3D applications that are supported by V-Ray are: Autodesk 3ds Max Autodesk Revit Cinema 4D Autodesk Maya Nuke Rhinoceros SketchUp Katana Unreal Engine Houdini Blender Academic and stand-alone versions of V-Ray are also available. Modo support was discontinued at the end of 2021. In 2021, V-Ray received an Engineering Emmy Award from the Television Academy.

Notable studios using V-Ray

North America

United States

Method Studios Digital Domain Blur Studio Zoic Studios Apple Inc. Hogarth Worldwide

Canada

Bardel Entertainment

Europe

France

ZAG Entertainment

Netherlands

PostOffice Amsterdam

Germany

Scanline VFX

Asia

South Korea

SAMG Entertainment

See also

List of 3D rendering software

References

V-Ray at rhino3d.com A Closer Look At VRAY Architectural Review of V-Ray VRay Material Downloads and Resource Library VRAYforC4D - the website of V-Ray for Cinema4d, made by LAUBlab KG Free Material Library

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