V-Ray 6 for 3ds Max update 1 is officially available for download now and now contains masking for lens effects, light material post-processing, improvements to Chaos Cloud Collaboration and much more.
What’s New
Masking for Lens Effects & Denoiser
Choose specific lights and materials to apply lens effects to, or denoise the parts of your image that you’d like to smooth out.
V-Ray Light Material post-processing
Edit self-illuminating objects in your scene — even after you’ve rendered them.
Decal cylindrical projection
Easily add anything from stickers and labels to different kinds of surface imperfections to bottles, jars, cups, cans, rockets, tanks, fire hydrants, or any other cylinder-like object.
Decal additive bump
Take your product designs to new levels of realism with lifelike stickers, labels, embossed logos, lettering, and more. It can also easily create effects such as spray or paint on a cracked wall, corroded metal, or any other bumpy surface.
Custom resolution per camera
Quickly set custom aspect ratios for each of your V-Ray cameras, saving precious frame setup time.
Initial USD export and USD Stage support
Export V-Ray lights, materials, modifiers, and more to USD file format.
Faster heavy scene loading
Load scenes with lots of textures and geometry faster than before.
Viewport composition guides
With composition guides inside the V-Ray Physical Camera, you can cut back on iterations and save render time.
Faster fog rendering
V-Ray Environment Fog now renders up to 30% faster.
Compressed textures mode
On average, V-Ray GPU uses 50% less GPU memory on assets with 4K textures.
V-Ray Clipper Mesh mode
Render complex cutaways and sections using any mesh object.
New V-Ray Material Translucency
Thanks to a new algorithm, translucent objects render up to 2x faster.
Render Element support through refractive surfaces
V-Ray GPU now supports Material ID, Cryptomatte, and Multimatte render elements through refractive surfaces.
Visual annotations
Use visual annotations in Chaos Cloud Collaboration to easily communicate your ideas – add lines, arrows, and many more figures to illustrate what you mean.
Versioning
Upload and share different versions of your files for review in Chaos Cloud Collaboration.
V-Ray Light Custom Decay
Easily create artistic effects with V-Ray Light’s Custom Decay, which allows you to dictate how light transmits based on the source distance.
NVIDIA AI Denoiser upscaling
Experiment with NVIDIA’s new AI Denoiser that promises to greatly speed up rendering times.
Enhanced procedural clouds
Customize how dark your clouds are, randomize them in countless combinations, and add the final touch with contrails.
Availability
If you are new to V-Ray for 3ds Max, you can download demo versions here. If you are already using V-Ray 6 for 3ds Max, you can go to your login page at Chaos Group’s website to get your latest full version of V-Ray 6 for 3ds Max.
Buy / Upgrade
If you are convinced of the possibilities of V-Ray 6 for 3ds Max, you can purchase your (upgrade) license for the render plugin through our reseller channel.
Happy Rendering!
