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What is new in V-Ray 7 Update 4

One asset. Real-time to final frame.

For Maya, Houdini, 3ds Max, and Blender — move seamlessly from pre- to post-production on the same scene, with real-time, final-frame quality rendering built in.

Overview

This release eliminates pipeline friction by bringing Chaos Vantage’s real-time, final-frame rendering directly to the artist’s DCC viewport. In a unified “one asset” workflow, artists can now work with the same V-Ray scene from early concept and look development through virtual production and final rendering — with instant, path-traced feedback and no need to switch tools or convert assets for game engines.

The release also introduces Gaussian Splat relighting, giving artists a seamless way to integrate real-world scanned environments into 3D scenes and light them precisely to match the shot. Update 4 expands Chaos Arena’s real-time toolset for virtual production on LED walls, and accelerates delivery with faster CPU and GPU rendering, new artist-friendly workflows, and broader platform support — including AMD GPU rendering, Windows on ARM, and V-Ray for Blender on Linux.

Key Themes

  • Unified “one asset” end-to-end workflow from pre- to post-production
  • Real-time rendering
  • Blending virtual and real-world environments
  • Faster CPU & GPU rendering
  • Artist-friendly workflows for production & compositing
  • Rendering that fits into any studio's setup
1 – Pre-production

Create worlds in real time. Light them perfectly.

Available in: Maya, Houdini, 3ds Max (Blender Live Link coming soon
  • Explore and render ideas at final-frame quality directly in the DCC viewport with Chaos Vantage — instant, path-traced feedback with physically accurate cameras, lights, materials, and global illumination. No rasterization, no approximations.

Available in: 3ds Max, Maya, Houdini, Chaos Vantage (Blender coming soon)

  • Blend real-world scanned environments naturally into any scene. Match a splat's lighting to your scene and adjust lights freely at any time, without baked-lighting workarounds.

Available in: 3ds Max, Maya, Blender, Vantage

  • Generate multiple concepts, styles, and camera variations from a basic block-out render, a sketch, or a reference image — all without leaving V-Ray or Vantage.

Available in: Chaos Vantage

  • Render real-time volumetric effects faster, with VDB cache export support so existing fluid simulations carry through from previz to final production.

2 – Virtual production

Blend real with virtual. Creative control on and off set.​

Available in: Chaos Arena

  • Make live, on-set shader changes during LED wall shoots directly from Arena's material editor — no trips back to the DCC, no stopping the cameras.

Available in: Chaos Arena

  • Merge live-action talent and props with the virtual world using natural, real-time DOF. Paired with lens encoders, physical and virtual cameras stay perfectly in sync.

Available in: Chaos Arena

  • Place a decal over any region of the scene to instantly color-correct it live on set, matching physical props and set pieces to the digital background.

Available in: Chaos Arena

  • Manual changes to a physical lens's focal length and focus are dynamically reflected in the virtual camera rendered on the LED wall.

3 – Production

Fast rendering that fits any setup, with artist-first workflows

Available in: V-Ray GPU (all integrations)

  • V-Ray GPU IPR starts significantly quicker thanks to accelerated asset uploads to VRAM and faster texture compression.

Available in: 3ds Max, Maya, Houdini, Blender

  • Profile-Guided Optimizations via the Intel® ICX Compiler, with Hardware PGO support on Intel® Core™ Ultra processors.

Available in: 3ds Max, Maya, Houdini, Blender

  • A next-generation distributed rendering system with no machine limits — scale rendering power infinitely, with a dedicated dispatcher, intelligent bucket splitting, and asset caching.

Available in: 3ds Max, Maya, Houdini, Blender

  • Cleaner, smoother interactive previews — denoising applied directly to the Light Cache, enabled by default for the NVIDIA Denoiser.

Available in: Houdini, Maya

  • Dial down tessellation detail for geometry outside the camera's view frustum, reducing memory usage and accelerating geometry compilation without compromising visual quality.

Available in: 3ds Max, Maya, Houdini, Blender

  • Fake fully-furnished, lit interiors behind windows using textures instead of heavy geometry — depth holds up as the camera moves through the scene.

Available in: 3ds Max, Maya, Houdini, Blender

  • A single depth toggle delivers believable underwater caustics without the cost of full photon tracing.

Available in: 3ds Max, Maya, Blender

  • Build and blend displacement shaders, apply to native geometry or V-Ray Proxy objects, and export fully shaded assets with displacement intact across integrations.

Available in: 3ds Max, Maya, Houdini, Blender (Chaos Credits required)

  • Turn a photo of a real-world surface into a render-ready PBR material with all maps, in a few clicks. Part of Chaos Cosmos.

Broader platform support

Rendering that fits into any studio’s pipeline.
  • AMD GPU rendering (HIP) — 3ds Max, Blender
  • V-Ray for Blender on Linux
  • 3ds Max 2027 & Maya 2027 support
  • Blender 5.1 & 5.2 support
  • Initial Bifrost Graph support — Maya
  • Windows on ARM — V-Ray Standalone
  • V-Ray for Blender Community Edition — free
  • Houdini 21 (initial Houdini 22 support)
  • Hydra 2 support — Houdini
  • OpenUSD Hydra Delegates — coming soon
4 – Post-production

More control in compositing and AI-powered upscaling.

Available in: Houdini

  • Integrate CG elements with live footage using advanced Light Path Expressions to isolate reflections and GI from holdouts — no manual tracking or complex masking.

Available in: 3ds Max, Maya, Houdini

  • Isolate the light cast by smoke, clouds, or fog, or extract fire's self-illumination into its own render channel.

Available in: 3ds Max, Maya, Blender (Chaos Credits required)

  • Turn low-resolution images into presentation-ready visuals up to 16K in a single click, via Chaos Cloud Collaboration.

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    Run the installer and follow the on-screen instructions to install and activate your trial.
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With V-Ray, artists and designers can explore and share their projects with real-time ray tracing and render high-quality 3D visualizations. It is widely used in architectural visualization, advertising, and visual effects for film and television.
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