Try V-Ray For Blender In Beta For Free

As Chaos has officially introduced a new generation of the V-Ray product family, starting with V-Ray 7 for 3ds Max, the new V-Ray for Blender is now also available in beta for free, with a stable release expected in early 2025.

This version of the tool offers everything you need to create stunning stills and animations, featuring a raytracer designed for high quality, optimized for speed, and ready to scale. With robust CPU, GPU, and hybrid rendering capabilities, you can fully leverage your hardware to meet the needs of projects of any size. Enjoy noise-free viewport rendering, make use of the V-Ray Denoiser to quickly produce clean final images, and check V-Ray's firefly removal rendering option to automatically detect and eliminate bright pixels.

It also delivers compositing-ready content with a comprehensive set of render channels, including multi-channel and deep EXR output, Cryptomatte, Light Path Expressions, and more. Illuminate any scene with stunning photorealism or create the artistic effect you envision, V-Ray lets you do it all: Global Illumination, artificial lighting options, the natural V-Ray Sun & Sky model, and image-based lighting. Add cinematic quality to your renders with real-world camera controls, including depth of field and motion blur, fine-tune with Automatic Exposure and White Balance, and add lens effects like bloom, glare, and dust using V-Ray's Frame Buffer.

V-Ray introduces powerful tools for handling complex geometry with ease. Render large scenes efficiently with V-Ray Proxies, create detailed cutaways and sections using V-Ray Clipper on any mesh, and generate realistic hair and fur with full support for Blender's Hair solution. Blender now also fits into any V-Ray-based production pipeline thanks to the universal V-Ray Scene File format, meaning you can export scenes with geometry, lights, shaders, and textures and import them as references into any other V-Ray-supported DCC.

You can also populate your scenes in just a few clicks with Chaos Cosmos, choosing from over 6,000 free, high-quality, ready-to-render 3D assets, materials, and HDRIs from diverse categories that you can access directly from V-Ray's interface. And with Chaos Cloud, V-Ray for Blender enables cloud-based workflows for presentation, review, and rendering.

V-Ray for Blender is compatible with Windows and Blender 4.2. Learn more and join the beta here.

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