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V-Ray 7 now for Maya, Houdini

New features promise to accelerate tasks from fast 3D environment creation to production shading.

By Staff

Chaos V-Ray 7 is now available for Houdini and Maya and includes additions to improve Gassian Splats, faster animation, and better worldbuilding features.

Chaos has been incrementally releasing V-Ray 7 for various 3D software, with the latest launch of the updated rendering tool for Maya and Houdini users. With the release comes native support for ray-traced Gaussian Splats, faster animation rendering times, and other new features that speed up worldbuilding.

V-Ray for Maya features include OpenPBR support, a new OpenPBR-compliant layering scheme, enhanced sheen layer support while in V-Ray Material OpenPBR mode, extended USD support, V-Ray Frame Buffer (VFB) upgrades, and Chaos Cosmos library Luminaires.  

V-Ray 7 for Houdini features include a new Volume Shader preview, extended MaterialX support, easier toon shading, Chaos Cosmos access in Solaris, Copernicus procedural texturing tool support, and Yeti 3D hair/fur cache support.

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Fireflies
A new firefly removal algorithm in V-Ray 7 automatically detects and finishes unresolved pixels, known as “fireflies,” during bucket rendering. (Left) Fireflies present in the area around the headlight; (right) without fireflies. (Source: Chaos)