Chaos Group V-Ray for Houdini

Multi-GPU production rendering.

GPU bucket rendering with fast multi-GPU performance and support for Cryptomattes.

Unified Workflow for Custom Attributes.

Control custom attributes of geometry (including splines and particles) with the User Color node.

Texture Baking.

Bake lighting and textures for game assets and real-time environments.

Chaos Cloud rendering

Simple, one-click solution to submit jobs to render on the Chaos Cloud.

Lighting

Adaptive Dome Light.

Exceptionally fast image-based environment lighting using V-Ray Scene Intelligence.

Adaptive Lights.

Unique method for ultrafast rendering of scenes with hundreds or even thousands of lights.

Global illumination.

Highly optimized indirect lighting with V-Ray’s proprietary Light Cache and brute force GI methods.

Light instances.

Instance lights with full control over per-instance light parameters, without affecting light link settings.

Materials

Material stylesheets.

Support for material overrides* based on groups, bundles and attributes.

V-Ray scene material overrides.

Automatically import material node hierarchies from V-Ray scene files and make changes in Houdini.

Physical hair.

Create realistic-looking hair* with accurate highlights using the V-Ray Physical Hair material.
*Currently supports hair as SOP geometry

PBR materials.

The standard V-Ray Material supports Metalness reflection values for PBR shader workflows.

ALSurface material.

Physically-based shader with built-in SSS controls, popular for rendering realistic skin.

GPU material assignments.

Per-Primitive Material Assignment is now supported on the GPU, allowing artists to utilize Stylesheets and the Material SOP.

VRscans material library support.

1000+ ultra-realistic physically scanned materials ready to import and render.

Geometry

V-Ray Scene exchange.

Transfer and override the properties of V-Ray scenes from other apps like Maya and 3ds Max.

Instancing.

Instance any object type (including volumes) using Packed Primitives, Instancer and “instancepath” attributes.

Packed primitives.

Efficient handling of Houdini’s native packed primitives for instancing at render time.

Alembic support.

Support for Houdini’s native Alembic layering, transformations, instancing and per-object material overrides.

Particles.

Drive shader parameters such as color, alpha and particle size through custom per-point attributes.

V-Ray Fur.

Fast rendering of realistic fur and hair with V-Ray Fur.

Atmospheric & volumetric effects

Render elements

Environment fog
Quickly simulate the effects of participating media such as fog and atmospheric dust.

Aerial perspective
Create natural-looking atmospheric depth as objects fade into the distance.

Render Elements
Render any set of lights (including wildcard selections) as separate render elements.

Light Select Render Element
Render a wide variety of beauty, utility and matte passes for complete control in compositing.

LICENSING POLICY

V-Ray for Houdini is offered as a rental license only (annual and monthly). V-Ray for Houdini supports only the Online Licensing System (OLS) and does not support the USB dongle.

Online licensing requires a stable, uninterrupted internet connection. It is possible to borrow licenses and use them completely offline for a limited time – 14 days. When this period is over, an internet connection is required to renew offline usage of the licenses.