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.

V-Ray for Maya also includes two software development kits to customize your rendering workflow. For example, you can write custom shaders with the V-Ray SDK (C++) or build custom pipeline tools with the V-Ray App SDK (Python).

Please make sure that your system meets the requirements listed below before installing V-Ray.

• Processor 1st Gen Intel® Core™ or compatible processor with SSE4.2 support (x64)
• RAM Minimum 8 GB RAM, recommended 64 GB RAM
• Operating system Microsoft® Windows® 8.1 or Windows 10 operating system
• Autodesk® 3ds Max 3ds Max® 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021 (64-bit)
• USB port Required for customers using legacy hardware lock, preferably USB 2.0
• TCP/IP Only IPv4 required for distributed rendering is supported. IPv6 is currently not supported.
• License Server 5.5.0 or later
• GPU Acceleration NVIDIA CUDA with the minimum required to compute capability 5.2*: Maxwell-, Pascal-, Volta- and Turing-based NVIDIA card(s) with latest video driver or at least version 442.54; NVIDIA RTX with compute capability 5.21: RTX cards with latest recommended video driver or version 442.54; 2GB VRAM
  V-Ray Production Denoiser: AMD or NVIDIA GPU supporting OpenCL 1.2; NVIDIA AI Denoiser: Maxwell, Pascal, Volta or Turing-based NVIDIA card with driver version 441.28