V-Ray Collection

With significant workflow optimizations & faster rendering, V-Ray Collection is smarter, faster, and more powerful than ever. The app is designed to get you up and running in no time.

Note: V-Ray Collection is now Chaos Ecosystem.

It lets you create the highest quality renders possible – directly in SketchUp. It gives you the power to render anything and everything – from quick design models to your most detailed 3D scenes. Render fast, design faster. It lets you spend more time being creative and less time waiting. Focus on design, with a full suite of creative tools for lighting, shading, and rendering.



Streamline your workflow and keep track of your entire scene quickly and easily with the new and improved asset management tools in V-Ray Renderer. You can now search, select, and preview assets — including full material setups — all from one location.

In addition to rendering, It adds new and improved tools to help you manage your scene, customize your viewport styles, and import scenes from other 3D applications. And to expand your toolkit further, it includes improved network rendering and a new toolbar to make it easy to access all your favorite tools.

The new intuitive camera settings make it easy to render your next masterpiece with the app. The updated layout for the camera controls let you manipulate the quick and advanced parameters at the same time. You can now specify custom pixel resolutions without bothering with the aspect ratio.

Now in the program, the standard Material is compatible with PBR metallic reflections that are popular in game engines and other tools such as Substance Designer. And for even greater control, you can also remap the RGB or HSV values of any texture.

With the new Automatic Exposure option, V-Ray now uses adaptive learning techniques to help you render a perfectly exposed image each time. You can also rely on the new Automatic White Balance feature to automatically remove any warm or cold light tint coming from the sun or skylight.

Adaptive Dome Light can automatically increase your render speed up to 7x faster depending on the scene. The ADL is exceptionally fast when working with interiors, and removes the need to add Portal Lights at windows and openings.

Render twice as fast with V-Ray Next for SketchUp. Speed and performance optimizations mean faster rendering. Plus, enjoy quicker-than-ever renders with additional GPU-ready features and improved Cloud compatibility.

With the new NVIDIA AI Denoiser, you can instantly remove noise while you render. And with the improved V-Ray Denoiser, you can denoise each render element for even more control in post-production.

With new features including Debug Shading, Toon Shader, GPU support for alSurface material, and memory tracking, it's never been quicker and easier to create your best work.

V-Ray for Unreal just got better! With support for Unreal native materials, significant workflow optimizations, and faster baking & rendering, It lets you accomplish more than ever before!

Now you can bring scenes from 3ds Max, Maya, SketchUp, and Rhino directly into Unreal Editor. And for the first time, you can render ray traced, photorealistic images with V-Ray from Unreal.

V-Ray Collection (Chaos V-Ray Ecosystem) Products

V-RAY FOR 3DS MAX
The #1 renderer for Autodesk 3ds Max. Fast photoreal CPU & GPU rendering for artists and designers in architecture, games, VFX, and VR.

V-RAY FOR MAYA
Production-proven CPU & GPU rendering for animation and visual effects for film, television, and virtual reality.

V-RAY FOR SKETCHUP
Fast and easy-to-use rendering plugin for architects and designers.

V-RAY FOR RHINO
Professional rendering software for architecture, automotive, and product design.

V-RAY FOR REVIT
Professional rendering for architects, seamlessly integrated with the world’s top BIM application.

V-RAY FOR MODO
Full-featured CPU & GPU production rendering for MODO artists and designers.

V-RAY FOR NUKE
Powerful ray-traced rendering for the VFX industry’s #1 compositing application.

V-RAY FOR KATANA
Powerful production rendering for Katana, Foundry’s high-end lighting, and look development application.

V-RAY FOR UNREAL
The fastest, simplest way to bring scenes into real-time and render ray-traced images directly from Unreal.

V-RAY FOR CINEMA 4D
Speedy production rendering for high-end visual effects and motion graphics.

V-RAY STANDALONE
Full-featured and programmable command-line renderer.

V-RAY FOR BLENDER
Advanced ray-traced rendering plugin for the Blender community.

V-RAY APPLICATION SDK
High-level software development kit designed to integrate V-Ray rendering technology into any application.

Pricing

V-Ray Premium Plan - €52.90/month (annual plan)

• Floating license on any computer
• Includes all V-Ray integrations
• Includes support
• Chaos Cosmos content library
• 20 Chaos Cloud rendering credits
• Chaos Phoenix
• Chaos Player
• Chaos Scans
• Chaos Vantage

PROS

• High-quality photorealistic rendering
• Extensive material library
• Real-time ray tracing
• Versatile for various industries (architecture, gaming, etc.)
• Realistic fluid dynamics simulations (fire, smoke, water)

CONS

• Steep learning curve
• Expensive licensing
• Resource-intensive

Conclusion

The Chaos ecosystem offers powerful tools for realistic rendering and simulation but comes with high costs and resource demands. Each app serves specific needs, and their effectiveness can be limited by hardware and budget constraints.

Note: 30 days trial version.