As you probably already know, Vray is a render plugin. It's a plugin, which means that it adds functionality to an existing program. Vray's features mainly aim at creating photorealistic images, together with improving rendering speed. Currently V-Ray is available for the following software products:
There is a standalone version available aswell.
Most of Vray's features can be found in the render setup dialog (F10), but many other additions are distributed across the complete program. For example Vray adds its own materials and textures, light types, a fur generator, a toon style effect, displacement modifier, frame buffer, effects, etc.
Vray is created by Chaosgroup, a European company based in Sofia, Bulgaria.
QUALITY
Production-proven ray traced rendering with a full suite of tools to create professional photoreal imagery and animations.
POWER
Built to handle the absolute toughest projects and largest scenes.
SPEED
Multicore CPU and GPU-accelerated rendering engines for optimized speed and scalability.
CREATIVE CONTROL
Real-time look development with interactive lighting, shading and rendering.
SMART INTEGRATION
Integrated seamlessly into Maya and designed to fit any production pipeline.
AN INDUSTRY STANDARD
Top artists and studios rely on V-Ray for Maya to create award-winning animation & visual effects.
Powerful CPU Rendering
Render superior images and animations fast with V-Ray’s highly-optimized and adaptive ray tracing technology.
Incredibly fast GPU rendering
Get an additional speed boost with GPU-accelerated look development and final frame rendering.
Accurate lights
Render natural, artificial and image-based lighting with a wide range of light types, shapes and controls.
Unique shaders
For specialized materials, choose from a collection of purpose-built shaders for subsurface scattering, skin, hair and more.
Physical cameras
Simulate any camera and lens with controls for exposure, depth of field and motion blur.
Proxy objects
Fit massive scenes into memory and cut render times using load-on-demand proxy objects.
Efficient textures
Work with multi-resolution tiled textures from top applications MARI, Mudbox and Zbrush.
Render Elements
Output a complete set of beauty, utility, and matte passes for total control in compositing.
For more information visit the Chaos Group website
Please make sure that your system fulfills these requirements before installing V-Ray. Note that V-Ray is only supported for 64 bit operating systems and 64 bit versions of Maya.
System requirements for Windows version of V-Ray for Maya | |
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Processor |
Intel® Pentium® IV or compatible processor with SSE3 support. |
RAM |
4 GB RAM and 4 GB swap minimum – recommended 8 GB or more RAM, 8 GB or more swap file |
USB Port | Required for hardware lock, preferably USB 2.0 |
TCP/IP | Only IPv4 is supported. IPv6 is currently not supported |
The following table shows the versions of Autodesk Maya and operating systems on which V-Ray is supported. Note that V-Ray is only supported for 64 bit operating systems and 64 bit versions of Maya.
Version of Maya | Supported Operating System |
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Maya 2015 x64 |
Windows ® 7 SP1, Windows ® 8, and Windows ® 8.1 Professional |
Maya 2016 x64 |
Windows ® 7 SP1, Windows ® 8.1 Professional, and Windows ® 10 Professional |
Maya 2017 x64 | Windows ® 7 SP1 and Windows ® 10 Professional |
Maya 2018 x64 | Windows ® 7 SP1 and Windows ® 10 Professional |
Please make sure that your system fulfills these requirements before installing V-Ray.
System requirements for Linux version of V-Ray for Maya | |
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Processor |
Intel® Pentium® IV or compatible processor with SSE3 support. |
RAM |
4 GB RAM and 4 GB swap minimum – recommended 8 GB or more RAM, 8 GB or more swap file |
USB Port | Required for hardware lock, preferably USB 2.0 |
TCP/IP | Only IPv4 is supported. IPv6 is currently not supported |
The following table shows the versions of Autodesk Maya and operating systems on which V-Ray is supported. Note that V-Ray is only supported for 64 bit operating systems and 64 bit versions of Maya.
Version of Maya | Supported Operating System |
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Maya 2015 x64 |
Red Hat ® Enterprise Linux® 6.2 WS, Fedora™ 14, or CentOS 6.2 |
Maya 2016 x64 |
Red Hat ® Enterprise Linux® 6.5 WS, or CentOS 6.5 |
Maya 2017 x64 |
Red Hat ® Enterprise Linux® 6.5 and 7.2 WS, or CentOS 6.5 and 7.2 |
Maya 2018 x64 | Red Hat ® Enterprise Linux® 6.5 and 7.2 WS, or CentOS 6.5 and 7.2 |
Please make sure that your system fulfills these requirements before installing V-Ray. Note that V-Ray is only supported for 64 bit operating systems and 64 bit versions of Maya.
System requirements for Mac OS X version of V-Ray for Maya | |
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Processor |
Intel® Pentium® IV or compatible processor with SSE3 support. |
RAM |
4 GB RAM and 4 GB swap minimum – recommended 8 GB or more RAM, 8 GB or more swap file |
USB Port | Required for hardware lock, preferably USB 2.0 |
TCP/IP | Only IPv4 is supported. IPv6 is currently not supported |
The following table shows the versions of Autodesk Maya and operating systems on which V-Ray is supported. Note that V-Ray is only supported for 64 bit operating systems and 64 bit versions of Maya.
Version of Maya | Supported Operating System |
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Maya 2015 x64 |
Apple® Mac OS® X 10.8.5 and 10.9.x |
Maya 2016 x64 |
Apple ® Mac OS ® X 10.9.5, 10.10.x, and 10.11.3 |
Maya 2017 x64 |
Apple ® Mac OS ® X 10.10.5 and 10.11.x |
Maya 2018 x64 | Apple ® Mac OS ® X 10.10.5 and 10.11.x |
*Check also the Maya system requirements page: https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/maya/troubleshooting/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/System-requirements-for-Autodesk-Maya.html