V-Ray 5 For Maya Student/Teacher License

Students and Teachers have the option to get V-Ray 5 for Maya at a discounted price with the V-Ray 5 for Maya Student or Teacher License. Gain access to V-Ray for Maya for a full year. Harness the power of V-Ray 5 at a discounted price for a full year. Create professional grade, photoreal imagery and animations while operating at high rendering speeds. V-Ray provides a complete suite of all of the tools you need for physically-based lighting, shading, and rendering, tightly integrated into Maya from Autodesk. Focusing on artist productivity V-Ray delivers new more powerful features and improvements to take your projects to the next level.

Students must provide proof of current enrollment at an academic institution to qualify for academic pricing.

What it’s used for:

•      Creating Photorealistic images and animations

•      Industrial design

•      Product Marketing

•      Game cinematics

•      Visual effects in film and television

•      Virtual reality

Key Differentiators:

•      Render quality: Highest quality photorealistic images using multi-resolution tiled textures

•      Powerful CPU Rendering: Render superior images and animations fast with V-Ray’s highly-optimized and adaptive ray tracing technology.

•      Speed:  Harnesses the power of both CPU and GPU to accelerate rendering speeds.

•      Cross-industry adoption: V-Ray for Maya is used by architectural visualization studios, product designers and visual effects companies around the world to create photoreal imagery and animation

•      Ease of use: V-Ray runs straight out of the box with just a few clicks.

•      Full control: Three modes of GUI geared towards different types of users, from quick and easy set-up to full range of under the hood tweaks to personalize your experience.

•      Versatile: An all in one solution suitable for many industries.

•      Flexibility: A universal renderer. Almost every studio has a V-Ray integrated pipeline.

•      Technical support and community: Free technical support and knowledge resources, that goes far beyond installations and set-up. Chaos Group is famous for its quick response times and large community user base.

New Features:

•      Adaptive Lights: Fast new lighting algorithm that speeds up rendering in scenes with many lights.

•       Alsurface Material: General purpose shader by Andres Langlands with layered SSS and Glossy Fresnel reflections - popular for skin

•      V-Ray IPR: New in-process IPR starts instantly, updates faster and uses less memory. Changes to materials in the Hypershade Material Viewer are made in real time.

•      Resumable Rendering: Stop your render at any point and continue where you left off.

•      V-Ray Frame Buffering Tools: Speeds up look development on individual objects with the new Render Mask: Isolate select tool. Select objects, materials and camera focus directly in the frame buffer.

•     New Sun and Sky model

•     Native ACEScg support

•     Material presets, Coat and Sheen layers, New Car pain material, Texture randomization, Stochastic texture tiling, Extended V-Ray Dirt

Major Features

Variance-Based Adaptive Sampling Get cleaner renders with better noise detecting creating cleaner, sharper images.
Fur & Hair   Render realistic hair with support for maya hair and fur, XGen, Ornatrix and a Haircut, and Yeti.
Denoiser Automatically remove noise and cut render times by 50% letting you to work more efficiently and create your projects faster.
Accurate lights Render natural, artificial and image-based lighting with a wide range of light types, shapes.

Pipeline Compatibility and Support for Open Standards

• Alembic 1.5 for data interchange
• GLSL for OpenGL shaders
• OpenColorIO for accurate color management
• OpenEXR 2.2 and Deep Images
• OpenSubdiv including support for creases 
• OpenVDB and Field3D for volumes 
• OSL for programmable shaders
• Ptex for UV-less workflows
• UDIM and UVTILE for advanced texture workflows

System Requirements

Windows

Please make sure that your system fulfills these requirements before installing V-Ray. Note that V-Ray is only supported for 64 bit operating systems and 64 bit versions of Maya.

The following table shows the versions of Autodesk Maya and operating systems on which V-Ray is supported. Note that V-Ray is only supported for 64 bit operating systems and 64 bit versions of Maya.

Linux

Please make sure that your system fulfills these requirements before installing V-Ray.

The following table shows the versions of Autodesk Maya and operating systems on which V-Ray is supported. Note that V-Ray is only supported for 64 bit operating systems and 64 bit versions of Maya.

Mac OS X

Please make sure that your system fulfills these requirements before installing V-Ray.

The following table shows the versions of Autodesk Maya and operating systems on which V-Ray is supported. Note that V-Ray is only supported for 64 bit operating systems and 64 bit versions of Maya. 

* The Autodesk Maya system requirements can be found here page: http://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/maya/troubleshooting/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/System-requirements-for-Autodesk-Maya.html

For additional information on hardware, see the Hardware Recommendations article.