Professional 3D rendering software for Cinema 4D artists and designers
V-Ray for Cinema 4D puts industry-standard technology for photorealistic 3D rendering into the hands of Cinema 4D artists and designers. With smart tools and powerful rendering capabilities, V-Ray’s combination of speed and creative control is perfect for any project.
Bring ideas to life
With V-Ray’s complete set of lighting, shading, and award-winning rendering tools, you can bring any idea to life.
Built to handle it all
Built to handle your biggest projects, including scenes with massive amounts of geometry and thousands of lights.
Get the job done with ease
Artist-friendly tools and an intuitive interface help you work smarter, making it easy to get the job done.
Render fast
V-Ray’s GPU and CPU rendering capabilities bring a speed boost to any production. With fast interactive rendering, you’ll see the changes to your scene rendered on the fly.
Ready to scale
Harness the power of multiple computers to render high-resolution images with V-Ray’s distributed rendering. Or take your rendering to the cloud with direct access to Chaos Cloud.
Go beyond rendering
V-Ray 5 is more than a renderer. Built-in compositing and interactive light mixing let you fine-tune and finish your renders in the V-Ray Frame Buffer without going to a separate app.
V-Ray 5 for Cinema 4D — Placing Chaos Cosmos assets in your scene
New in V-Ray 5.10, Chaos Cosmos is now also available as part of V-Ray for Cinema 4D.
Key Features
It’s all-new in V-Ray 5 for Cinema 4D
V-Ray 5 brings a whole new rendering experience to Cinema 4D. With new smart tools and workflows, plus an intuitive interface, it’s faster and easier than ever.
V-Ray 5 for Cinema 4D goes beyond rendering with built-in compositing and interactive light mixing.
Go beyond rendering
Interactive post-processing right in the new V-Ray Frame Buffer.
Light Mix
Now from a single render, you can create dozens of lighting scenarios. Change the color and intensity of lights instantly without having to render again.
Built-in compositing
The new layer-based compositor allows you to combine render passes, set blending modes and adjust colors without going to a separate app.
Unleash the power of V-Ray
Faster rendering than ever before
GPU + CPU rendering
Take full advantage of your hardware. With V-Ray, you can render on GPUs, CPUs, or a combination of both.
GPU production rendering
Get a powerful speed boost with the GPU-accelerated performance of V-Ray GPU. Now even faster with an NVIDIA RTX card.
Fast interactive rendering
Create the look you want without the wait. To explain, interactive rendering lets you see the changes to your scene rendered on the fly.
Distributed rendering
Easily harness the power of multiple machines working together to render images even faster.
Chaos Cloud
Render stills and animations alike in the cloud, at the push of a button. Not to mention, V-ray now comes with full support for Chaos Cloud, our cloud rendering service.
Volume rendering
Render realistic fog, smoke, and atmospheric effects. In the same fashion, bring in volume grid caches from Houdini, FumeFX, and Phoenix FD.
Work smart
Let V-Ray do the work for you.
Auto Exposure and White Balance
The V-Ray Camera can automatically set exposure and white balance for you, so you don’t have to do it manually.
AI Denoising
The NVIDIA AI Denoiser uses artificial intelligence that instantly reduces noise while you render.
Get creative
Expand your creative toolkit with all the right tools for the job.
Coat Layer
Easily create layered materials with reflective coatings directly in the V-Ray Material. It’s faster to set up and renders more quickly than a blend material.
Sheen Layer
Easily create materials for fabrics like velvet, satin, and, of course, silk with the new Sheen layer added to the V-Ray Material.
Metalness
Metalness reflections are now supported directly by the V-Ray Material. In other words, you get full compatible with PBR workflows.
Car Paint 2 Material
Take your automotive renders to the next level with a new car paint material. To emphasize, it includes more realistic flakes and uses less memory.
Improved V-Ray Dirt
Give surfaces a weathered look. To explain, with the improved V-Ray Dirt texture, you can add dirt to cracks and crevices, create procedural streaks, or cover an entire surface.
Physical Hair Material
Achieve more realistic results with the new physically accurate V-Ray Hair Material.
New Sun and Sky Model
Capture the light of magic hour. The new Sun & Sky model is more accurate and looks better at sunrise and sunset. Markedly, even as the sun dips below the horizon.
Texture randomization
Add variety to your scenes by, for example, randomizing colors and textures with V-Ray MultiSub Texture.
VRscans Material Library Support
Get access to a library of over 1,000 unbelievably real materials. Significantly, it’s a great asset to help you with your V-Ray visualizations.
And more
Native Support for Cinema 4D Noises
Enhance your renderings with different noise patterns and detailed surfaces. To emphasize, V-Ray now uses less memory consumption.
Light Path Expressions
For the ultimate control in compositing, by all means, you can create your own render passes with Light Path Expressions.
Blue-noise Sampling
See a cleaner render faster. With blue-noise sampling, you’ll see less noise in your renders using the same amount of samples.
Out-of-core GPU Rendering
This initial implementation of out-of-core rendering can help you render scenes that are larger than the memory of your GPU.
Processor: 1st Gen Intel® Core™ or compatible processor with SSE4.2 support (x64)
8 GB RAM or 8 GB swap minimum – recommended 64 GB RAM or more;
(Actual amount required will vary with scene requirements.)
Operating System: Microsoft® Windows® 8.1 or Windows 10 operating system
GPU Accelleration:
NVIDIA CUDA: Maxwell-, Pascal-, Volta- and Turing-based NVIDIA card(s) with with latest recommended video driver or at least version 441.20;
V-Ray Production Denoiser: AMD or NVIDIA GPU supporting OpenCL 1.2;
NVIDIA AI Denoiser: Maxwell, Pascal, Volta or Turing-based NVIDIA card with latest recommended video driver or at least version 441.20
The minimum required to compute capability is 5.21 NVIDIA RTX: RTX cards with latest recommended video driver or at least version 441.28;
TCP/IP: Only IPv4 required for distributed rendering is supported. IPv6 is currently not supported
License server: 5.5.0 or later
Mac OS
Processor: 1st Gen Intel® Core™ or compatible processor with SSE4.2 support (x64)
RAM: 8 GB RAM or 8 GB swap minimum – recommended 64 GB RAM or more;
(Actual amount required will vary with scene requirements.)
Operating System: Apple ® macOS ® X 10.14 or later
TCP/IP: Only IPv4 required for distributed rendering is supported. IPv6 is currently not supported
Network Capability: Ethernet card or WiFi
License server: 5.5.0 or later
OpenCL with both AMD and Nvidia cards is not supported with V-Ray for Cinema 4D on macOS.
Cinema 4D versions
MAXON Cinema 4D R20 – R23
Reviews & Comments
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100% of reviewers recommend this product
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Vray does not need no introduction, if your reading this your know how often this render engine is used in big productions, and is known for its quality output. Vray for C4D fits the balance between its blistering speed, and flexibility for small studios thanks to the extra render node choices. Thanks to the hard working team Vray for C4D has been taken to a new level along side other platforms such as Max. You can go as deep as you wish into its settings, or simply use its finely tuned render presets to get set up rather fast. Like any professional renderer it has a learning curve if you wish to get into the deeper areas, but the user manual has improved a great deal since v1.9. I would like to see a pdf version as at times there can be delays online. The IPR (Interactive Preview Renderer) is very fast, and providing you know its current limitations such as SDS tags removing all material previews unless you apply it to a null, multiple material tags can not be used, and rigged characters can cause odd artefacts, your get very fast feedback with the IPR, in fact im often taken back how fast I can preview thousands upon thousands of hairs in real time along with the SSS options. The team behind this version of Vray are very hard working, and are quick to help, so any limitations as mentioned im sure will get addressed, however some limitations are native to Vray across all platforms in which rely on a good collaboration with Chaos Group, Vray core developer. Other things worth mentioning is due to the way C4D works, currently you wont get much of a preview in the view-port, but hope in due time the r18-r19 view port abilities will be used to better this area in future updates.
Vray 3.4 is polished like never before for the C4D platform, and after a short while your be at home with it producing high quality stills, and animations. Its not the cheapest solution out there up front, but you get them extra render nodes that certain other reneder engines dont, hence Vray fits the bill for freelancers, small studios to large production studios.
With Vrays fast speeds, high quality realistic lighting and materials its hard not to recommend Vray for C4D v3.4. Id like to see Vray for C4D community gel more, and interact better as often is the case that troubleshooting works best with a good community such as found on C4D Cafe.
Would you recommend this product to a colleague? Yes
By: Daniel Ripley Date: January 05, 2017
Change Log
Build 5.10.22
Official release, update 1.2
Date – Sept 02, 2021
New features
V-Ray
Support for Chaos Cosmos
VRayTextures
Implemented V-Ray Normal Map texture
TexMix as classic shader and node added in the V-Ray node space
Modified features
VRayMaterials
Material viewport previews are slow even for constant colors
VRayTextures
Scenes load slowly with enabled material previews
V-Ray
Considers disabled motion blur from Cinema 4D tag
VRayProxy
Flip proxy z-axis to improve compatibility with other host applications with the right-handed coordinate system
VRayLights
Ozone and Turbidity parameters in VRay Sky should be inactive when Sky Model is set to Improved
Bug fixes
V-Ray
Fixed wrong shadows cast by V-Ray Sun to Volumetric objects
Moving the VFB window causes the image inside to flicker
The Vertical Shift parameter in the Physical Camera does not work in Production rendering
Build 5.10.21
Official release, update 1.1
Date – Jul 27 2021
Modified features
V-Ray
Support for the VertexMap tag
Bug fixes
V-Ray
V-Ray doesn’t render in the same color space as the Node materials
Geometry dissapears with V-Ray GPU Interactive rendering when using the CUDA engine
Opacity mask doesn’t work if the “Tile” option is disabled
V-Ray doesn’t render motion blur when using command line rendering with frame overrides
Node preview updates may not be triggered for ports of Layered and Blend nodes
Aborted update of texture node preview
Different animated visibility in V-Ray for Cinema 4D and Standalone
Animated visibility of objects does not work when exported and rendered with V-Ray Standalone
Fix artifacts with animated boolean geometry
Crash with animated boolean geometry when using default scene material
VRayProxy
Adding a scene containing proxy from the content browser doesn’t keep the materials applied
Rendering alembics is more than 3 times slower than rendering unpacked geometry on CPUs with many cores
Build 5.10.20
Official release, update 1
Date – Jun 23, 2021
New features
V-Ray
Add V-Ray node space for node materials
Add V-Ray Clipper as scene object
Add V-Ray Fur as scene object
Cryptomatte in progressive
Progressive caustics mode
VRayVolumeGrid
Add Slice and Mesh preview options
VRayEnvironmentFog
Environment Fog colored transparency
VRayMtl
New translucency modes for VRayMtl (based on VRayScatterVolume)
Thin-walled refraction option
VFB
Now possible to change or remove VFB2 shortcuts
Layers masking based on Cryptomatte, integer and color render elements data
Added stamp layer support
Custom White Balance support for color picker and tint
Support for animated sequences for Background layer using <frameNum> tag
Added an option to bake the RGB primaries conversion
Added horizontal/vertical offset for Background layer
Image Info for the history images
Added the frame number to the VFB History image info overlay
Save color corrections to a LUT file
Added an option to switch between world units and pixels as photon lookup radius for the caustics photon map
VRayDomeLight
Support for multiple Dome lights for Light Mixing
V-Ray/vdenoise
Integrated Intel Open Image Denoiser
VRayRectLight, VRayLightSphere
Added “Occlude other lights” option for V-Ray lights
VRaySun/V-Ray GPU
Added support for blending the sun with the horizon with the Improved sky model
Added support for tiled textures with large amount of tiles on V-Ray GPU
Rounded corners, VRayDirt, VRayCurvature, VRayFastSSS2, VRayAlSurfaceMtl, VRayClipper support with Out-Of-Core geometry
V-Ray GPU
Added support for normal maps in world space
Modified features
V-Ray
Improve include/exclude object lists usage with hierarchies
Consider MotionBlur tag for disabling motion blur on objects
Faster initialization of meshes with static 3D displacement in Standalone
Mixed filtering option for ZDepth
VRayTriplanar
Replaced the “scale” parameter of the VRayTriplanar texture with “size” dependent on the scene units
V-Ray GPU
Optimized CUDA CPU performance
Optimized interactive scene updates with OptiX
Implemented displacement in world space
V-Ray/V-Ray GPU
Improved volume intersection & shading
V-Ray GPU/VRayDirt
Add support for dirt and curvature attached to extra tex when OOC geometry is enabled
Bug fixes
V-Ray Proxy
Fixed export of animated proxy
V-Ray
Fixed VFB History loading very slowly when OCIO configuration is used for display
Fixed Dark coat over refractive VRayMtl
Fixed slow CarPaint2 preview rendering
Fixed difference between glossy and mirror caustic reflections from metallic surfaces
Fixed VRayCarPaintMtl2 coat IOR <1 not consistent in V-Ray and V-Ray GPU
V-Ray GPU/VRayBlendMtl
Fixed fireflies in additive mode with multiple coat layers
V-Ray GPU
Fixed GPU Memory leaks after interactive updates when there is CarPaint2 material in the scene
Fixed texture on objects with normal displacement appearing smudged in GPU production renders with on-demand mipmapping
Fixed crash when using vrmesh file with more than 16 material and UV maps
Build 5.00.45
Official release, Hotfix 3
Date – Apr 28, 2021
Improvements
Instances and Multi-instance support
Support blending of multiple material assignment tags
Motion blur samples override for objects
Support Cinema 4D S24
Bug fixes
Hair is rendered without motion blur
Crash when switching projects with Volume Grid preview in Cinema 4D
The MultiMatte render element renders different result in V-Ray GPU compared to V-Ray
V-Ray GPU production crashes if there is applied material with a missing texture
Build 5.00.43
Official release
Date – Feb 11, 2021
Improvements
LegacySceneConverter: Support of converting object layers
LegacySceneConverter: Support for more converted types (Materials and Composite Tag)
Render Elements: Prevent drag and drop of non-render element objects in the render elements list
Exported lights should consider visibility and layers flags
VRayVolumeGrid: VolumeGrid Preview Rollout for Cinema 4D – Container and Voxel Preview
Ability to convert scenes via script with python (c4dpy)
Add an option to disable the automatic conversion pop-up window when opening V-Ray 3.7 scene
Bug fixes
Animated visibility of objects does not work
V-Ray doesn’t respect the “Render” option in the Cinema 4D layers
Wrong texture projection of child objects
Native C4D noise shader doesn’t render correctly when rendering with DR
Missing Phong tags may cause different buckets from slaves with DR
Distributed rendering doesn’t work correctly when rendering animations
Wrong UVW coordinates when generated with V-Ray Material
VRayProxy: Copying Proxy objects doesn’t copy the assigned materials
Displacement is wrongly applied when geometry is cloned
The “Use mtl ID” parameter in the ObjectSelect RE doesn’t work
Objects saved in the content browser do not show the materials applied to them
Interactive: Starting Interactive with unsupported camera makes the render buttons inactive
Interactive: VFB settings and layers are reset when changing material preview scene or creating material
Exported animation does not have second frame values in vrscene
Applying material to a poly selection should happen only in “Polygon” mode
VRayVolumeGrid: When two or more VolumeGrids in Cinema 4D load the same cache, their previews are not updated correctly when scrolling the timeline
Improve Interactive and UI responsiveness when tweaking materials and textures
V-Ray GPU: Normal displacement has wrong normals
V-Ray GPU: Incorrect GPU LPE REs with Light Cache
Build 5.00.42
Official release
Date – Dec 10, 2020
New Features
Implement Chaos Cloud Submit dialog and initial integration with Cloud client
Add support for VRScans (V-Ray Scanned Material)
Implement MultiSubTex shader
Improvements
VolumeGrid voxel and bounding box preview for loaded caches
Support for Cinema 4D noises with V-Ray GPU
Add Object Select Render Element
Add MultimatteID Render Element
Support for the Cinema 4D “Background” object
Implement V-Ray image output options
Keep the FOV when Film Gate is changed and Specify FOV is checked
V-Ray Light previews should hide when the Viewport filter for lights is off
Make the Auto White Balance option a checkbox
Set the default Mix Type for some float textures to “Normal”
Change the size step for several real parameters to be more intuitive
Improve user interface for V-Ray FastSSS2 and Light material
Improve user interface for V-Ray Dirt and Distance shaders
Improve user interface for V-Ray Sun
Menu command for triggering V-Ray 3.7 scene conversion
Bug Fixes
Drag and Dropping a material to a polygon selection doesn’t create a selection tag
Polygon selections are not working correctly with correction deformer attached to objects
Polygon selections are not working when the name of the poly select tag is the same as the texture tag name
Region rendering with production does not work on the first render
Exporting a vrscene with single non-zero frame does not render the same frame
Textures loaded with V-Ray bitmap are not saved correctly in the content browser
VFB spin controls delimiter does not match the one in Cinema 4D
Textures are not mapped in Environment fog and VolumeGrid
Build 5.00.41
Beta Release
Date – Nov 04, 2020
New Features
V-Ray VolumeGrid (WIP)
About dialog with automatic version update checks
Support for Cinema 4D noise shader without baking (CPU only)
Improvements
Improvements on V-Ray Proxy export and import including animations and material assignments
Support for Filter shader without baking
Add multiplication mix mode for distance parameters and shaders
Support the basic material override options – without channel overrides
Rearrange the GPU engine selection and the rendering devices button
Expand the glossiness texture and Mix by default for VRayMtl
Add presets for Light Path Expressions
Adding the Beauty render elements now automatically sets up composite layers
User interface of Bump material
User interface of VRayBitmap
Bug Fixes
Materials in parent objects do not work with polygon selections in child objects
Normal bump maps do not work on V-Ray GPU
Velocity render element does not work without enabling motion blur
V-Ray does not respect the final image size output units
V-Ray has wrong verbose level for the Console log
GPU Production rendering does not respect the Noise threshold from the Production settings
Canceling the Cinema 4D quit dialog makes V-Ray unusable
Broken help page anchors for V-Ray lights
VFB layers are preserved on new scenes
ZDepth render element has additional gamma applied in Picture Viewer and output
Build 5.00.40
Beta Release
Date – Sep 28, 2020New features
Installation
Integrate the new installer design in V-Ray for Cinema 4D
Embed the License Server installation in the V-Ray for Cinema 4D installer
User Interface
Overhauled UI for V-Ray Render Settings
Overhauled UI for the V-Ray Render Elements manager
Overhauled UI for the V-Ray Material
Implement V-Ray Lights as separate objects
Redesigned icons and menu
Integrate V-Ray VFB as a native Cinema 4D window
New V-Ray Virtual Frame Buffer with light mix and compositing capabilities
V-Ray
V-Ray is now based on V-Ray 5 Core
Implemented V-Ray Geometry tag for Displacing and Subdividing geometry
Implemented V-Ray Environment Fog as separate object
Implemented new V-Ray Proxy
Hash map based light cache
Adaptive Dome Light
Implemented blue-noise optimization for the DMC sampler
Implemented “Improved” sky model for V-Ray Sun
Added new Coat and Sheen render elements
Added new LightMix render element
Automatic Exposure Control and White Balance
V-Ray GPU
Implement V-Ray GPU as a separate Production rendering engine
Added support for RT cores of NVIDIA RTX cards (RTX Engine)
Support for Bucket rendering
Ability to select devices directly inside Cinema 4D
Initial support for Out-of-Core rendering
Materials
Added additional Coat and Sheen layers to V-Ray Material
Added Metalness parameter to V-Ray Material to support PBR workflowsAdded V-Ray Hair Next – new physically based hair material
V-Ray Denioser
Added Nvidia AI Denoiser
What’s new in v5
New Features
Implement Chaos Cloud Submit dialog and initial integration with Cloud client
Add support for VRScans (V-Ray Scanned Material)
Implement MultiSubTex shader
Improvements
VolumeGrid voxel and bounding box preview for loaded caches
Support for Cinema 4D noises with V-Ray GPU
Add Object Select Render Element
Add MultimatteID Render Element
Support for the Cinema 4D “Background” object
Implement V-Ray image output options
Keep the FOV when Film Gate is changed and Specify FOV is checked
V-Ray Light previews should hide when the Viewport filter for lights is off
Make the Auto White Balance option a checkbox
Set the default Mix Type for some float textures to “Normal”
Change the size step for several real parameters to be more intuitive
Improve user interface for V-Ray FastSSS2 and Light material
Improve user interface for V-Ray Dirt and Distance shaders
Improve user interface for V-Ray Sun
Menu command for triggering V-Ray 3.7 scene conversion
Bug Fixes
Drag and Dropping a material to a polygon selection doesn’t create a selection tag
Polygon selections are not working correctly with correction deformer attached to objects
Polygon selections are not working when the name of the poly select tag is the same as the texture tag name
Region rendering with production does not work on the first render
Exporting a vrscene with single non-zero frame does not render the same frame
Textures loaded with V-Ray bitmap are not saved correctly in the content browser
VFB spin controls delimiter does not match the one in Cinema 4D
Textures are not mapped in Environment fog and VolumeGrid
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Light Mix
Built-in compositing
GPU + CPU rendering
GPU production rendering
Distributed rendering
Chaos Cloud
Volume rendering
Auto Exposure and White Balance
AI Denoising
Coat Layer
Sheen Layer
Metalness
Car Paint 2 Material
Improved V-Ray Dirt
Physical Hair Material
New Sun and Sky Model
Texture randomization
VRscans Material Library Support
