Chaos Group V-Ray for Unreal
INTRODUCING V-RAY FOR UNREAL
With V-Ray for Unreal you get the best of both worlds —
real-time & ray tracing
The fastest, simplest way for you to:
1. Bring V-Ray scenes into real-time
2. Render ray traced images directly from Unreal
We’re excited to introduce V-Ray for Unreal. Now you can bring V-Ray scenes from 3ds Max, Maya, SketchUp and Rhino directly into the Unreal Editor.
And for the first time, you can render ray traced, photorealistic images with V-Ray directly from Unreal.
OVERVIEW
USE THE WORKFLOW YOU ALREADY KNOW
To bring a V-Ray scene into Unreal is simple.
Create the scene the same way you normally do using V-Ray for 3ds Max, Maya and SketchUp. Then, export a V-Ray scene from your host application and import it using V-Ray for Unreal.
That’s it, you’re in — without needing to be a game engine expert.
SMART TRANSLATION OF MATERIALS AND LIGHTS
When you import your scene, V-Ray for Unreal automatically converts your materials and lights into real-time equivalents for UE workflows.
At the same time, your original materials from V-Ray for 3ds Max, Maya and SketchUp remain connected to their real-time versions and are called up when you’re ready to render.
TRUE PHOTOREALISTIC RENDERING DIRECTLY FROM UNREAL
When you render with V-Ray for Unreal, you get the exact same photorealistic quality that V-Ray is known for.
V-Ray taps into the full combined power of your GPUs and CPUs for ultrafast ray tracing.
YOUR GATEWAY TO VIRTUAL REALITY
Once your V-Ray scene is imported, you’ll be ready to take full advantage of the VR capabilities in the Unreal Editor.
V-Ray for Unreal makes it fast and easy to create high quality, immersive VR.
GREAT LOOKING REAL-TIME, GREAT LOOKING RENDERS
Now you can build great looking real-time experiences and ray traced renders all from a single, shared workflow using V-Ray for Unreal.
WHAT’S NEW
Significant usability improvements. New, smart functionality. Now compatible with Unreal Engine 4.24
VIEWPORT RENDERING
Render interactively while you design. Fine-tune lights and materials and instantly view results directly in the Unreal viewport. In addition, you could see Unreal post-process operations like the filmic tone-mapping in the final V-Ray result.
SUPPORT FOR NATIVE MATERIALS
Render and bake any scenes created with V-Ray and/or Unreal native materials. No matter whether you use Datasmith or V-Ray to import your content assets to Unreal you can enjoy the fully ray-traced quality of V-Ray in Unreal.
MEMORY AND SPEED OPTIMIZATIONS
This update features efficient memory handling allowing you to work with large data sets, and heavy scenes comprised of millions of polygons. Take advantage of a much faster light baking, without compromising on V-Ray’s superior quality.
KEY FEATURES
PHYSICAL MATERIALS & TRANSLATION
Automatically converts V-Ray materials to approximate Unreal materials. Original V-Ray materials are used when rendering.
V-RAY LIGHT BAKING
Bake your ray-traced lighting with V-Ray for the highest quality real-time illumination.
Supports static objects.
ACCURATE LIGHTING
Render your Unreal scenes with physically accurate, ray-traced lighting from V-Ray.
GLOBAL ILLUMINATION
Render realistic bounced light using V-Ray’s Brute force and proprietary Light cache global illumination.
GPU+CPU RENDERING
Render on all your hardware — with support for CPUs, NVIDIA GPUs, or a combination of both.
RENDERING ANIMATION
Render sequences from the Unreal Sequence Editor to create V-Ray-quality, ray-traced animated cinematics.
To render deforming objects, use animated V-Ray Proxy objects.
DISTRIBUTED RENDERING
Leverage the power of multiple machines working together to speed up rendering and light baking.
RENDER ELEMENTS
Supports a wide range of render elements for better control in compositing.
V-RAY PROXY SUPPORT
Load high-resolution assets at render time using memory-efficient V-Ray Proxy objects.
UNREAL FOLIAGE SUPPORT
Compatible with Unreal’s native foliage system for rendering large environments and landscapes.
Currently supports static foliage.
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