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V-Ray for 3ds Max

V-Ray® for 3ds Max is a production-proven rendering software. Known for its versatility and ability to handle any type of project — from massive, dynamic scenes having thousands of lights to a sublime still life — it is the go-to solution for artists and designers across 3D industries.

Overview

Summary

Accelerate creation through cutting-edge technology and deliver immersive experiences to your clients with greater ease than ever before. Explore new options for complete creative control while minimising the need for re-touching and instancing in third-party applications. Bringing your scenes to life is now effortless with enhanced render-ready assets and new options for more realistic artificial and natural lighting. Render faster and more efficiently without sacrificing quality—and much more.

System requirements:
Bring your designs to life with photorealistic rendering

Bring your designs to life with photorealistic rendering.

Achieve stunning visuals, meet project deadlines, and impress clients with V-Ray for 3ds Max.

Start creating today!

Highlights

From beginner to pro, Chaos® V-Ray has all the tools you need to visualize your 3ds Max projects from start to finish.

Emmy and Academy Award-winning rendering technology for any project

For truly photorealistic renders, you want a raytracer that’s built for quality, optimized for speed, and ready to scale. V-Ray gives you the power to work with lightning-fast interactive and heavyweight production rendering—all while getting the most from your CPU and GPU hardware.

Built to handle your toughest scenes

When you’re working with the biggest scene you’ve ever seen, you need a renderer that won’t let you down. Billions of polygons? Thousands of lights? V-Ray can handle it all. Render anything and everything with V-Ray. Adaptive Lights, Proxy Objects, Distributed Rendering — an arsenal of production-proven features when you need them.

Post-process your renders without the need of a separate tool

V-Ray equips you with a complete set of lighting, shading, and rendering tools—all integrated with 3ds Max. The redesigned V-Ray Frame buffer with light mixing and layered compositing means you only need to use one tool for more than just rendering — no need to go back and forth between different apps.

Create interactive experiences in real-time - in a 100% raytraced environment.

Present your ideas in 100% ray-traced quality without the need of extra optimizations and conversions. Make project changes directly in 3ds Max and validate your designs on the spot.

Work seamlessly with other software

V-Ray is compatible with all the most popular 3ds Max plugins — Substance, Forest Pack, Railclone, Ornatrix, Tyflow, Phoenix, and more. V-Ray is also the perfect fit for any pipeline with support for open standards such as Alembic, OSL, OpenColorIO, and now ACEScg. Plus, it works seamlessly with data from other Chaos products like Enscape.

The Micrographics Advantage

We don’t just sell software, we are technical experts who understand your industry. We can help you:

Integrate Business Systems

We develop data sharing solutions to improve and speed up the communication between CAD & business management technologies.

Optimize Business Processes

We do unique assessments of our clients, enabling them to address workflow challenges, identify opportunities & achieve objectives.

Leverage the Power of BIM

By understanding BIM philosophies we can develop & implement BIM solutions for any project or establish BIM standards for any company.

Have Questions About Complex Applications?

Speak to us about your operational requirements or outcomes and we'll tailor a solution best suited to your business.

V-Ray for 3ds Max

System Requirements

Operating System

Microsoft® Windows® 8.1, Windows 10 or Windows 11 operating system

Processor

Intel 64, AMD64 or compatible processor with SSE4.2 support

Memory

Minimum 8 GB RAM, recommended 64 GB RAM

Autodesk® 3ds Max

3ds Max® 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023 (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

6.0.0 or later
GPU Acceleration
  • NVIDIA CUDA with minimum required compute capability 5.2: Maxwell-, Pascal-, Volta-, Turing- and Ampere-based NVIDIA card(s)
  • NVIDIA RTX with compute capability 5.2: RTX cards with latest recommended video driver; 
  • 2GB VRAM
  • V-Ray Production Denoiser: AMD or NVIDIA GPU supporting OpenCL 1.2
  • NVIDIA AI Denoiser: Maxwell, Pascal, Volta, Turing- and Ampere-based NVIDIA card with latest recommended video driver