





Creating Photorealistic images and animations
Industrial design
Product Marketing
Game cinematics
Visual effects in film and television
Virtual reality
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.
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
Variance-Based Adaptive Sampling Get cleaner renders with better noise detecting creating cleaner, sharper images. |
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Fur & Hair Render realistic hair with support for maya hair and fur, XGen, Ornatrix and a Haircut, and Yeti. |
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Denoiser Automatically remove noise and cut render times by 50% letting you to work more efficiently and create your projects faster. |
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Accurate lights Render natural, artificial and image-based lighting with a wide range of light types, shapes. |
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Pipeline Compatibility and Support for Open Standards
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.
Processor |
1st Gen Intel® Core™ or compatible processor with SSE4.2 support (x64) |
RAM |
4 GB RAM and 4 GB swap minimum – recommended 8 GB or more RAM, 8 GB or more swap file; (Actual amount required will vary with scene requirements.) |
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 |
GPU Acceleration |
NVIDIA CUDA: Maxwell-, Pascal-, Volta- and Turing-based NVIDIA card(s) with with latest recommended video driver or at least version 441.28; NVIDIA RTX: RTX cards with latest recommended video driver or at least version 441.28; V-Ray Production Denoiser: AMD or NVIDIA GPU supporting OpenCL 1.2; NVIDIA AI Denoiser: Maxwell, Pascal, Volta or Turing-based NVIDIA card with latest recommended video driver or at least version 441.28 The minimum required compute capability is 5.21 |
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.
Version of Maya | Supported Operating System |
Maya 2016 | Windows ® 7 SP1, Windows ® 8.1 Professional, and Windows ® 10 Professional |
Maya 2017 | Windows ® 7 SP1, Windows ® 8.1 and Windows ® 10 Professional |
Maya 2018 | Windows ® 7 SP1, Windows ® 8.1 and Windows ® 10 Professional |
Maya 2019 | Windows ® 7 SP1, Windows ® 8.1 and Windows ® 10 Professional |
Maya 2020 | Windows ® 7 SP1, Windows ® 8.1 and Windows ® 10 Professional |
Please make sure that your system fulfills these requirements before installing V-Ray.
Processor |
1st Gen Intel® Core™ or compatible processor with SSE4.2 support (x64) |
RAM |
4 GB RAM and 4 GB swap minimum – recommended 8 GB or more RAM, 8 GB or more swap file |
USB Port | Required for hardware lock, preferably USB 2.0 |
TCP/IP | Only IPv4 is supported. IPv6 is currently not supported |
GPU Support |
NVIDIA CUDA: Maxwell-, Pascal-, Volta- and Turing-based NVIDIA card(s) with latest recommended video driver or at least 440.36; NVIDIA RTX: RTX cards with latest recommended video driver or at least version 440.36 V-Ray Production Denoiser: AMD or NVIDIA GPU supporting OpenCL 1.2; NVIDIA AI Denoiser: Maxwell, Pascal, Volta or Turing-based NVIDIA card with latest recommended video driver or at least 440.36 The minimum required compute capability is 5.21 |
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.
Version of Maya | Supported Operating System |
Maya 2016 | Red Hat ® Enterprise Linux® 6.5 WS, or CentOS 6.5 |
Maya 2017 | Red Hat ® Enterprise Linux® 6.5 and 7.2 WS, or CentOS 6.5 and 7.2 |
Maya 2018 | Red Hat ® Enterprise Linux® 6.5 and 7.2 WS, or CentOS 6.5 and 7.2 |
Maya 2019 | Red Hat ® Enterprise Linux® 6.5 and 7.2 WS, or CentOS 7.2 |
Maya 2020 | Red Hat ® Enterprise Linux® 6.5 and 7.2 WS, or CentOS 7.2 |
Please make sure that your system fulfills these requirements before installing V-Ray.
Processor |
1st Gen Intel® Core™ or compatible processor with SSE4.2 support (x64) |
RAM |
4 GB RAM and 4 GB swap minimum – recommended 8 GB or more RAM, 8 GB or more swap file |
USB Port | Required for hardware lock, preferably USB 2.0 |
TCP/IP | Only IPv4 is supported. IPv6 is currently not supported |
V-Ray GPU works only with C++/CPU devices under macOS. V-Ray GPU can still be used in distributed rendering where a macOS machine runs the CUDA engine on a CPU device together with Windows/Linux machine(s) running CUDA engine on GPU device(s).
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.
Version of Maya |
Supported Operating Systems |
Maya 2016.5 | Apple ® Mac OS ® X 10.14, 10.13, 10.12, 10.9.5, 10.10.x, and 10.11.3 |
Maya 2017 | Apple ® Mac OS ® X 10.14, 10.13, 10.12, 10.10.5 and 10.11.x |
Maya 2018 | Apple ® Mac OS ® X 10.14, 10.13, 10.12, 10.10.5 and 10.11.x |
Maya 2019 | Apple ® Mac OS ® X 10.14, 10.13, 10.12 and 10.11.x |
Maya 2020 | Apple ® Mac OS ® X 10.14, 10.13, 10.12 and 10.11.x |
* 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.