The world’s most complete rendering software for animation and visual effects.
For 3D artists who need a fast and flexible renderer, Chaos® V-Ray® is built for speed, and designed for production. No matter the project, V-Ray delivers when it matters most.

Emmy and Academy Award-winning rendering technology.
V-Ray is production-proven. For more than a decade, the world’s leading studios have used V-Ray to render over 400 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. In 2021, V-Ray was awarded with an Engineering Emmy for advancing the use of fully ray-traced rendering.
Digital Domain © 2019 MARVEL
Scanline VFX © 2019 HBO
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. This includes support for MASH, Bifrost-USD, MayaUSD, as well as your favorite Maya plugins, including Golaem, Massive, Ornatrix, Chaos Phoenix, Yeti, and more. V-Ray for Maya is also compatible with ACEScg, Alembic, OpenVDB, and OpenColorIO industry standards.
Scanline VFX © 2019 Paramount Pictures
Scanline VFX © 2019 MARVEL
Easy to deploy and customize.
V-Ray is easy to deploy on any Windows, macOS, or Linux network, and offers flexible licensing options for you to choose from. The bundled V-Ray Standalone renders scenes directly with V-Ray, which is perfect for headless render-farm nodes.

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).
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See what’s new.

Bring any idea to life, faster.

V-Ray 6, update 1 brings in powerful, new creative tools, and speeds up rendering.

Populate any scene with millions of objects in just a few clicks, and in the most memory-efficient way with Chaos Scatter. Get artistic with the new Custom Light Decay option. Easily generate the correct glossiness for your character’s skin. Speed up your workflow by getting to first pixel up to seven times faster, and up to three times faster rendering for previews and lookdev. Get even more data to optimize scenes. And so much more.