V-Ray for Rhino
Overview
V-Ray Next for Rhino
Updates from V-Ray 3.6 for Rhino are available, please contact us for pricing
V-Ray for Rhino is a highly accurate renderer for McNeel Rhinoceros, enabling designers to predict and present their designs with the highest level of realism and reduce the need of physical prototypes. V-Ray greatly increases Rhino’s ability to handle large scenes and can be used directly within Grasshopper.
V-Ray Next for Rhino is much more than a do-it-all renderer that creates gorgeous images of your designs. It’s also a full suite of tools to help you accomplish more in Rhino than ever before. V-Ray Next makes it easier to manage everything in your scene — even the crazy complex ones.
V-Ray Next is smart, too. It learns from your scene to make lighting faster. And it can set your camera exposure and white balance automatically. It’s fast. V-Ray Next for Rhino is 50% faster overall. GPU rendering is 2x faster. And it’s up to 7x faster with the new Adaptive Dome Light. V-Ray Next for Rhino extends what is possible in Grasshopper even further - now you can animate Grasshopper definitions as well as cameras and sunlight, and measure real-world illumination values — all right in Grasshopper.
V-Ray Next for Rhino is compatible with Rhino 5 and Rhino 6. V-Ray for Rhino is supported on Windows only.
What’s New
- Do more in Rhino than ever before: Easy to resize lights. More accurate viewport previews. Updated V-Ray Batch. Simple new UI for creating and editing objects like lights, section clipper and fur
- Superior Grasshopper Support: Animated Sun and Cameras. Familiar Grasshopper workflow. Measure illumination. Real-world cameras plus animated definitions
- Powerful Asset Manager: Manage all your assets like lights, materials, textures, geometry all in one place. Preview your assets in a single viewer. Map multiple material parameters with the same source texture to simplify the shader structure and management
- Simplified Render Controls: New Intuitive layout for camera controls. A refined UI makes render setup easier than ever. Specify custom pixel resolutions without referencing aspect ratio
- Enhanced Lighting Workflows: Automatic exposure and white balance, capture the perfect exposure every time. Adaptive Dome Light, faster, cleaner and more accurate, up to 7 x faster. New Lighting analysis render element makes it easy to visualise real-world illumination (Lux) values of any scene.
- Next Level Performance: V-Ray Next has been optimized to Render 50% faster overall – and up to 7 x faster with the new Adaptive Dome Light. 2 x Faster GPU Render times (compared to v3.6)
- New Denoiser: With the new NVIDIA AI Denoiser,V-Ray Next delivers instant feedback, cleaner images while you design
We offer V-Ray for Rhino training throughout the year, this can be tailored and delivered on-site either at our classroom or on-site at your offices
There are many Rhino3d software bundles that include V-Ray for Rhino, please contact us for details.
Chaos Group are the developers of V-Ray, visit their site here.
Key Features
V-Ray for Rhino Key Features
- Twin-engine performance: V-Ray comes with two powerful rendering engines. With CPU or GPU acceleration, you can choose the fastest one for your hardware
- Interactive rendering: Render while you design. See results right away as you adjust lights, materials and cameras
- Denoiser: Automatically remove noise and cut render times by up to 50%
- Global illumination: Render realistic rooms and interiors with V-Ray’s powerful and fast global illumination
- Accurate lights: Render natural and artificial lighting with a wide range of built-in light types
- Environment lighting: Light your scenes with a single high-dynamic-range image (HDRI) of its environment
- Sun & sky: Render realistic daylight for any time and any location
- Aerial perspective: Add depth to your images with realistic atmospheric effects
- Real-world cameras: Work like a photographer with controls for exposure, white balance and depth of field
- Virtual reality: Render VR content for popular virtual reality headsets
- Physical materials: Create great looking materials that look exactly like the real thing
- Material library: Select from over 500 drag and drop materials to speed up your next project
- Detailed textures: Create detailed and unique materials using texture maps or one of V-Ray’s built-in procedural textures
- Frame buffer: Track your render history and fine-tune colors, exposure, and more directly in the V-Ray Frame Buffer
- Render elements: Render separate layers for more artistic control in your image-editing software
- V-Ray swarm: ender with maximum power using V-Ray’s new simple and scalable distributed rendering
- Proxy objects: Add highly detailed and complex objects like grass, trees, and cars with memory-efficient proxy models
- Grass and fur: Create realistic grass, fabrics and carpet with V-Ray Fur
- Section cuts: Render quick cutaways and cross sections with V-Ray Clipper
- V-Ray Scene Export: Share complete, ready-to-render V-Ray Next for Rhino files
Technical Details
Technical Details / System Requirements:
V-Ray for Rhino is a plug-in for Rhino3d, we would suggest referring to the standard hardware advice for Rhino 6:
There are also some sample build Rhino3d Workstations suitable for rendering here:
Rhino3d & V-Ray Rendering Workstations
Basic Specification Requirements:
Rhino 6 for Windows runs on Windows desktop and laptop computers, with:
Hardware:
- 8 GB or more is recommended
- Internet connection for installation
- 600 MB disk space
- OpenGL 4.1 capable video card is recommended
- Note: Apple hardware is supported only with Bootcamp
Operating systems:
Windows 8.1 or 10 - recommended