What's new in V-Ray 5 for Nuke
V-Ray 5 for Nuke brings you more control and efficiency in compositing, plus many workflow optimizations that save you time so you can maximize your creativity.
LIGHT PATH EXPRESSIONS
For better control in compositing, construct your own render passes with
Light Path Expressions. Output specific light contributions with time
saving presets or write your own custom expressions that can be combined
with Boolean operations
NEW SUN AND SKY MODEL
Bring golden hour lighting to a whole new level. The new Sun & Sky
model is more accurate and looks better at sunrise and sunset, even as
the sun dips below the horizon.
COAT & SHEEN LAYER
Easily create layered materials with reflective coatings and fabrics,
such as velvet, satin and silk, directly in the V-Ray Material.
METALNESS
Metalness reflections are now supported directly by the V-Ray Material making it fully compatible with PBR workflows.
V-Ray 5
The world's most complete rendering software for animation and visual effects.
For 3D artists who need a fast and flexible renderer, V-Ray is built
for speed, and designed for production. No matter the project, V-Ray
delivers when it matters most.
Academy Award-winning rendering technology.
V-Ray is production-proven. For more than a decade V-Ray has been used by the world’s leading studios to render over 300 television series and feature films. In 2017, V-Ray’s ray tracing technology received a Sci-Tech Academy Award for its contribution to photorealistic visual
effects.
High-powered rendering at any scale.
Take full advantage of your hardware with production rendering that scales on multiple CPUs, GPUs, or both. You can even render a single image across multiple machines with distributed rendering.
POWERFUL RAY TRACED RENDERING
V-Ray for Nuke brings powerful adaptive ray traced rendering to any compositing pipeline. It’s the most full-featured rendering solution for Nuke, NukeX and Nuke Studio.
Easy to deploy and customize.
V-Ray is easy to deploy on any Windows, macOS, or Linux network. V-Ray licenses are floating and can be centrally served and locally checked
out. And V-Ray Standalone allows for headless rendering across your render farm.
PHYSICAL MATERIALS
Create physically-based materials with multiple layers – now with GTR/GGX shading for great looking reflections.
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.
VIRTUAL REALITY
Render VR-ready content for popular headsets like Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and Samsung Gear VR.
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.
HAIR & FUR
Render realistic hair with support for Maya hair and fur, XGen, Ornatrix, Shave and a Haircut, and Yeti.
VOLUMES
Render optimized volumetric effects and import OpenVDB files from Realflow and Houdini.
RENDER ELEMENTS
Output a complete set of beauty, utility, and matte passes for total control in compositing.
V-RAY FRAME BUFFER
Track render history, fine tune colors, and match final output with advanced color management.
System requirements for Vray for Maya
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.
Windows
| 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. |
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| Version of Maya |
Supported Operating System |
Maya 2014 x64 |
Windows ® 7 Professional, Windows ® 8 Professional
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| Maya 2015 x64 |
Windows ® 7 SP1, Windows ® 8, and Windows ® 8.1 Professional
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| Maya 2016 x64 |
Windows ® 7 SP1, Windows ® 8.1 Professional, and Windows ® 10 Professional |
| Maya 2017 x64 |
Windows ® 7 SP1 and Windows ® 10 Professional |
Linux
| 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. |
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| Version of Maya | Supported Operating System |
Maya 2014 x64 | Red Hat® Enterprise Linux ® 6.2 WS, or Fedora™ 14 |
| 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 |
MAC OS X
| 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. |
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| Version of Maya | Supported Operating System |
Maya 2014 x64 | Apple® Mac OS® X 10.7.x and 10.8.x |
| 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 |