The latest V-Ray update for Media & Entertainment is here — and it's a significant one. In this full breakdown, we cover every new feature across 3ds Max, Maya, Houdini, Blender, Vantage, and Arena, from real-time viewport rendering and Gaussian Splat relighting to virtual production enhancements.

✅ FULL FEATURE LIST

• Real-time viewport rendering: Render at final-frame quality in real-time, right from your DCC viewport with Vantage.

• Gaussian Splat relighting: Bring a real, scanned environment into your 3D scene and light it exactly the way you need to.

• Initial Native Bifrost Graph Support: Instantly render your procedural setups as V-Ray translates the Bifrost Graph nodes for you.

• V-Ray Parallax Texture: Add detail to the visible interior of buildings in your environments without extra geometry.

• Quick caustics: Create light refraction patterns without the setup required by the photon-based workflow.

• V-Ray Displacement Material: Craft intricate surfaces with ease by creating and mixing multiple displacement shaders.

• Latest host app version support: Autodesk 3ds Max 2027, Maya 2027, SideFX Houdini 21 (initial Houdini 22 support), and Blender 5.1 and 5.2.

• AMD GPU rendering: Enjoy greater flexibility when choosing your hardware with V-Ray GPU support for AMD graphics cards.

• Out-of-frustum displacement tessellation: Reduce memory use for complex surface geometry outside the camera view.

• Faster & smoother interactive rendering: V-Ray GPU IPR now starts up to 2x quicker, and you get cleaner previews faster.

• Distributed Rendering 2 (DR2): Scale rendering power for progressive and bucket modes—no machine limits, more control.

• LPEs for Volumes: Easily isolate light from smoke, clouds, or fog in your scene, or the self-illumination of a fire.

• New Volume Shader enhancements: Render stunning effects faster, adjusting the scale and sampling rate of velocity motion blur.

• AI-powered creative ideation with Veras: Speed up early concept exploration, refine renders, or generate video from an image.

• Virtual production with Arena: Blend real and virtual worlds for true cinematic realism with more creative control on set.

• More accessible than ever: Access the industry-standard rendering power of V-Ray for Blender for free.