Rendering
Real-time rendering
With V-Ray Vision, you get real-time high-quality visual feedback of your model as you build it. Additionally, you can easily export images or 360 panoramas. Materials, cameras and lighting set up in V-Ray Vision can easily be scaled to photorealism.
Render-ready 3D assets
Our integrated asset library, Chaos Cosmos, enables you to search and add render-ready objects to your model directly in Revit. With accurate scale, automatic LODs and interoperability across 3ds Max, SketchUp and Rhino, Chaos Cosmos assets are an essential addition to any Revit pipeline.
CPU, GPU & Hybrid rendering
V-Ray comes with two powerful rendering engines. You can choose between super-fast GPU and CPU or Hybrid rendering to best suit your project needs and requirements.
Denoiser
A new NVIDIA AI Denoiser uses artificial intelligence to remove noise in an instant. And the V-Ray Denoiser supports denoising individual render channels to simplify compositing.
Interactive rendering
Render interactively while you design. Fine-tune lights, materials and cameras and see the results right away.
Chaos Cloud
Rendering on the Cloud is just one click away.
V-Ray Swarm
Powerful and scalable distributed rendering system that's simple and fast. Get an extra speed boost with V-Ray Render nodes.
Render Channels
Choose from many unique beauty, utility and matte passes to give you more control over your rendered images in compositing.
Scene Intelligence
Automatically analyzes your scene to optimize rendering so you get the best quality in less time.
Settings management
Easy to share render settings across teams and projects.
Batch rendering
Leave V-Ray to render your project images while you are away. Batch rendering helps you schedule multiple views for rendering with a click of a button.
Sun animation
V-Ray adds extra realism to Revit’s Solar Study. Explore and visualize the impact of natural light and shadows on your designs across a variety of timespans.
User interface
Seamless integration
V-Ray naturally fits into Revit's UI and complements your Revit workflow without altering your BIM database.
Asset Editor
Create, edit, save and manage your V-Ray materials all in one place with the new Asset Editor. Various advanced materials give designers even more control to fine-tune their designs.
Appearance Manager
Take your Revit renders to the next level. With the Appearance Manager, you can set basic Revit assets to automatically switch to more realistic V-Ray assets at render time.
Frame Buffer
Track history of your rendered images, fine-tune their color parameters and save them directly to your Revit project.
Lighting
Accurate lighting
Simulate any type of natural, artificial, or image-based lighting.V-Ray automatically converts all Revit lights to V-Ray ones and further extends Revit's lighting capabilities.
Light mixing
This lighting algorithm dramatically speeds up rendering in scenes containing many lights.
Adaptive lights
Render image-based lighting much faster with the new Adaptive Dome Light. It’s exceptionally quick for interiors and substantially speeds up your rendering.
Lighting analysis
Easily visualize real-world illumination values (lux) with the new Lighting Analysis render element.
Sun & Sky
Take advantage of our improved sky model to present your design in its best light when the sun is at the horizon. Alternatively, use the sky generation parameters for full creative control.
Global Illumination
Render photorealistic rooms and interiors with powerful and fast global illumination.
Camera
Real-world cameras
Work like a photographer, with controls for exposure, white balance, depth of field and more.
Automatic exposure & white balance
Capture the perfect exposure every time. The new Auto Exposure and Auto White Balance camera controls make rendering as simple as point and shoot.
Lens effects
Add that extra touch of photorealism with real-world camera lens effects such as bloom and glare.
Virtual Reality
Experience your designs at 1:1 scale. Create content for popular VR headsets with 6x1 cubic and spherical stereo camera types.
Materials and textures
Physical materials
Create great looking materials that look exactly like the real thing.
Material library
Download over 500 4K-quality architectural materials from our library on demand. Glass, metal, wood — any texture you need for your model is available and render-ready.
Native materials support
Render an enhanced version of your Revit materials automatically.
Decals
Add images to paintings, signs, screens and more. V-Ray for Revit has full support for Revit Decals.
Contours
Give your model a sketch-like look. Use the global contour settings to create every outline automatically or the Contour material attribute to highlight a certain region.
Coat & Sheen materials
Use these two new layers to add distinct effects to V-Ray materials. The Coat layer creates polished surfaces while the Sheen layer is perfect for realistic fabrics such as silk or velvet.
Randomizer
Use the UVW Randomization asset to create realistic materials by randomizing patterns and colors. The Stochastic Tiling functionality removes texture tiling seams.
Weathering and dirt
Easily add weathering effects to any surface of your model with the V-Ray Dirt texture with complete control over its position and amount.
Metalness
The V-Ray Material adds native support for metallic reflections (Metalness) for greater compatibility with PBR materials from applications like Substance Designer.
Texture maps
Create realistic and unique shaders using any texture map or one of V-Ray’s many built-in procedural textures - Gradient, Temperature, Tri-Planar, etc.
Material overrides
Make the most out of your early designs and get a feel of your project by quickly rendering cardboard models.
Chaos Scans
1000+ scanned materials. Import and render directly in V-Ray.
Atmospheric effects
Environment Fog
Quickly add realistic atmospheric depth and haze and use true 3D fog with realistic light scattering.
Aerial perspective
Simulate natural looking skies with realistic atmospheric depth.
Volumetric materials
Realistic material light scattering and translucency.
Geometry management
Geometry replacements
Work smart without altering your BIM database. Use your Revit families as stand-ins for all V-Ray objects.
V-Ray Proxies
Use your Revit families as stand-ins for V-Ray proxy objects. These are memory efficient models of highly detailed objects like trees and cars.
V-Ray Grass & Fur
Render realistic grass, carpets or fabric.
Randomize proxy objects
Add variety to your V-Ray entourage such as plants and trees by randomizing their scale and rotation.
V-Ray Scene
Link and render V-Ray scenes from other applications such as 3ds Max, Rhino, and SketchUp. Share complete ready-to-render V-Ray for Revit files.
Displacement
Quickly add surface detail without extra modeling when creating materials such as brick and stone. The displacement asset can be applied to both V-Ray materials and Revit materials.
Section Box
Render sections easily with full support for Revit's native section box.
Infinite Ground Plane
Create context for your project in a click of a button.