With V-Ray 7s faster rendering, photorealistic materials, and powerful GPUs, the technical hurdles fade away, empowering you to build scenes faster, experiment freely, and push your creative boundaries.Effortlessly capture real-world locations in 3D as easily as snapping a photo with Gaussian splats, dropping highly detailed environments straight into your scene. Enjoy a new algorithm that eliminates fireflies automatically as you render, plus an updated Intel Open Image Denoiser, resulting in sharper and cleaner final images with less effort.V-Ray GPU for Maya and Houdini now supports Caustics, so you can render realistic lighting effects fast. Performance-wise, V-Ray GPU has also seen many improvements. This includes faster time to first pixel, even faster animation rendering, more efficient rendering of texture-heavy scenes, and a boost in performance thanks to new Metal support for Mac users. With enhanced V-Ray Sun and Sky and Light Path Expressions for shadows, V-Ray 7 gives you so much control over lighting and compositing. You can now render even more realistic natural daylight transitions, including nautical twilight. Plus, you also get even more control in compositing with LPEs for shadows.And this is just the beginning! Lets dive into the platform-specific features.V-Ray 7 for Maya: Key features and updatesOpen PBR supportWorking on a project that transitions between different applications like Autodesk Maya and Adobe Substance Painter? In the past, you might have had to tweak shaders repeatedly to maintain consistency between programs. With OpenPBR support, V-Ray 7 eliminates this hassle, ensuring your shaders maintain the same standard across platformsno rework required.Weve also ensured you can effortlessly create sophisticated effects within this shading standard. With a new layering scheme and an enhanced Sheen layer, you can easily craft complex, lifelike materials. From neon lights, dusty lacquered wood, and peach fuzz to velvet, satin, silk, and more, achieving realistic and intricate details has never been easier.Even more powerful VFBVFB enhancements in V-Ray 7 now offer even more creative control. You can create custom-shaped regions now, so you can isolate and render specific parts of your scene without re-rendering the whole thing. For example, you could just render a character's face to tweak the skin without rendering the entire environment, saving you a lot of time.To add to that, there's a new Vignette Layer for more artistic control, and new color correction presets built right in.More control with Chaos ScatterPopulating your scenes and art-directing your scatters just got easier with new, even more powerful Chaos Scatter controls. Objects can now automatically orient themselves towards a target, like palm trees leaning towards the sun thanks to the new Look at option. With Chaos Scatter, you can use splines as surfaces for scattering, so even more control over placement. The Falloff curve option gives you really precise control over things like altitude variance in vegetation, so you could create a super realistic landscape with just a few clicks.Chaos CosmosThe biggest new Chaos Cosmos feature is asset variants, which allows you to easily switch between different asset versions. For instance, if you're working with a tree model, you can instantly switch between a summer version with vibrant leaves and an autumn version to where they are beautifully falling. Additionally, there's multi-asset selection which lets you import tons of assets from Chaos Cosmos at the same time.V-Ray LuminairesWith support for V-Ray Luminaires complex light fixture assets available in our ever-growing Chaos Cosmos library, you can now achieve more physically accurate lighting faster and instantly elevate the quality and realism of artificial lights in your scenes.Extended USD supportV-Ray 7 for Maya supports the latest official version of MayaUSD 0.30.0. Weve also extended our support to include V-Ray Clipper alongside other enhancements to ensure seamless data exchange between V-Ray integrations.Learn moreV-Ray 7 for Houdini Davide ValvonaNew Volume ShaderV-Ray 7 for Houdini introduces powerful shading updates, starting with the new volume shaderan initial implementation that enables you to easily create amazing volumetric effects like clouds, smoke, and captivating atmospheres with magical effects that add depth and powerful storytelling to your scenes. You can build shading graphs to craft complex shaders and customize your effects, and enjoy greater control over your volumetrics in compositing thanks to light select support. Plus, the new volume shader renders up to x6 times faster.MaterialX support extendedYou can now create and render most MtlX procedural textures, including noises, patterns, and randomization options.Easier toon shadingWeve completely redesigned the toon shading workflow in V-Ray for Solaris to make it way more intuitive. If you want that classic look with the bold outlines and flat colors, it's easier than ever to achieve that. That's great news for anyone doing non-photorealistic, stylized work.Chaos Cosmos support in SolarisChaos Cosmos is fully integrated with V-Ray for Solaris now, so you have access to a massive library of assets including stones, vegetation, and other essential props. Users can populate their scenes with all those amazing models, materials, and HDRIs from Chaos Cosmos and make their stunning, immersive scenes with ease.VFB enhancementsV-Ray 7 also offers Houdini users some nice VFB enhancements, custom-shaped render regions, and color correction presets.Yeti cache support & Copernicus supportWith the new V-Ray yeti node, you can render Yeti cache files right in Solaris. So if you've created super detailed fur or hair grooms in another program like Maya, you can bring them straight into Houdini and render them without breaking a sweat. Plus, V-Ray for Solaris now supports Copernicus, a powerful procedural texturing tool, enabling more third-party plugin options and greater flexibility when working with V-Ray.Learn moreA whole new world of creative freedomWe've talked about a ton of new features in V-Ray 7 for both Maya and Houdini, but if we zoom out a bit and look at the bigger picture it's not just about the individual features themselves, but what becomes possible creatively when you combine them together.Artists can now create faster, experiment more freely, and really push their creative boundaries. V-Ray 7 is all about creative freedom. So what are you waiting for? Unleash your creativity and let the art, the story, and the fun of creation take center stage, while the technical fades away.Try nowGet started with V-Ray 7 for Maya & HoudiniTransform how you create.Get started