That’s everything – all ray tracing calculations are going to speed up,” says Grohs, adding that this is down to optimised code. “It’s about 25% faster just as a baseline. The new version is very much focused on performance. And, as Chaos Group CCO Lon Grohs admits, “V-Ray 4 for 3ds Max didn’t sound right.” In other words, the number ‘4’ followed by the word ‘for’ would have been a bit of a mouthful. It’s a break from the traditional numerical naming conventions, but the company justifies this by saying that the new branding signifies a significant leap forward in terms of both technology and capability. The software is primarily used alongside the tools of choice for viz artists, such as 3ds Max, Maya, Cinema4D, but in recent years, it has spread its wings into 3D CAD, with versions for Rhino, Revit and SketchUp, as well as other 3D modelling tools.Ĭhaos Group has now launched a brand-new version, V-Ray NEXT, which will be made available first for 3ds Max. V-Ray has become the industry-standard renderer for architectural design visualisation.

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V-Ray NEXT offers GPU-accelerated support for environment fog and volumetric effects.

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