Chaos Group presented V-Ray 3.3 for Maya, next update to the Maya version of its well-known renderer, bringing along the feature

Chaos Group presented V-Ray 3.3 for Maya, next update to the Maya version of its well-known renderer, bringing along the feature set in line with the 3ds Max edition of the software. Tons of new features, speed boosts of 20-50% on most scenes.

V-Ray 3.3 for Maya boosts performance across the board – by “20-50% on most scenes”. Next version also adds Chaos Group’s Variance-based Adaptive Sampler (VBAS), used for better noise detection for cleaner, higher quality images.

In addition, GPU support has been added for rendering hair – subsurface scattering, displacements, tiled textures, and light cache GI.

Below you look at most of the new features.

New features in V-Ray 3.3 for Maya

• Ray Traced Rounded Corners: generate smooth edges between different objects at render time with no extra modeling
• Blended Triplanar Mapping Texture: quickly apply seamless textures without UVs
• Stochastic Flakes Material: create ultra-realistic materials with sparkle effects like snow, sand, and car paints
• V-Ray Falloff Texture: add falloff and Fresnel effects based on viewing direction
• New Sky Model and Aerial Perspective: simulate more natural looking skies with the new Hosek sky model, and add realistic atmospheric depth with the aerial perspective volume shader
• V-Ray Clipper with Render-Time Booleans: create sections and cutaways using any mesh objects

Updated features

• Faster Volume Rendering
  Faster volume rendering with probabilistic sampling
  Supports OpenVDB caches from Houdini 15 and FumeFX
  Preview volume grid objects in the Maya viewport
• Improved Global Illumination
  More robust reflective GI caustics for better light propagation, and more natural illumination of interior scenes
• Look Development
  Now supports look development nodes introduced in Maya 2016 Extension 1
• OpenSubdiv 3.0
  Now supports the latest version of OpenSubdiv
  Up to 2X faster performance when calculating the subdivided meshes
  Added support for color sets
• XGen
  Cache XGen collections to V-Ray scene files for better performance
  Added support for displacement, subdivision, and custom attributes through VRayUserColor texture
  Added support for frame animation from archive
• User Interface
  Optimized user interface and default render settings

V-Ray 3.1 for Maya is available for Maya 2013+, running on 64-bit Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. Licence will cost a developer $1,040. Render nodes, which also work with other versions of V-Ray got a price of  $350.

It is worth mentioning that the update is free to registered users. You can read more about the new update here.

Source: v-ray.com