Features

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Core architecture

  • 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

  • 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

  • Three different image sampling methods
  • Full-scene antialiasing
  • 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

  • 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

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

Camera effects

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

Extras

  • 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

  • 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
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