V-Ray NEXT for Softimage Workstation

An advanced rendering solution for the VFX and animation industries.

V-Ray® for Softimage includes ICE support, efficient Global Illumination, versatile shaders, and much more. V-Ray for Softimage offers a rich set of functionalities for fast and efficient rendering and an intuitive approach towards shading and lighting. 

Features:

Here are some of the key features of the new V-Ray for Softimage.

Shading with V-Ray for Softimage – Create materials quickly and efficiently using V-Ray Materials, and simplify the creation of complex, layered materials with the V-Ray Blend and V-Ray Car Paint Materials.

Render Elements – Take control of your compositing workflow using the expansive list of Render Elements.

V-Ray Proxy – Manage scene memory and efficiently render massive amounts of geometry using V-Ray Proxy objects.

Hair & Fur Shading – Render hair and fur with unprecedented quality, control, and speed with the VRayHairMtl shader.

RENDERING CORE

Efficient Multicore Ray-Tracing Engine – V-Ray is an optimized, multicore ray tracing solution, rendering complex geometry, shading, illumination, and optical effects with unprecedented speed and accuracy.

GEOMETRY

ICE Support – Render particles, strands, hair, and geometry produced by Softimage’s award-winning ICE system.

Proxy Objects – V-Ray Proxy objects are an indispensable tool for managing scene memory and efficiently rendering massive amounts of geometry. V-Ray Proxy objects are dynamically loaded and unloaded at render-time, saving vital RAM resources. V-Ray Proxy supports ICE positions and kinematic properties.

Dynamic Geometry – V-Ray is fully optimized for rendering dynamic geometry such as displacement, proxy objects, fur, hair.

Animated Parameters – V-Ray for Softimage supports all geometry animation and deformations applied through animated parameters and key frames, the Animation Mixer, and ICE-based simulations. All geometry modifications, rigging, and Softimage operator stack levels are supported.

Incremental Exporting – Once a model is tessellated, V-Ray for Softimage incrementally caches the results, significantly reducing export times.

MATERIALS & SHADING

Physically-based Materials – Create materials based on physical properties using VRay’s versatile shaders.

Render Tree – V-Ray for Softimage supports many built-in Render Tree procedural shaders, computational, and logic nodes; and new ones are added regularly.

Layered Materials – V-Ray Blend materials quickly render complex materials using the V-Ray Blend material, or use built-in Softimage texture layers for additional flexibility.

Ptex – Ptex greatly simplifies the texturing process by efficiently storing textures and eliminating the need to assign UVs.

Weightmaps – Apply per-vertex transformations to geometry and color attributes using Weightmaps.

Hair and Fur – Render hair and fur with unprecedented control, quality, and speed using the VRayHairMtl shader

Car Paint Material – VRayCarPaintMtl offers controls for base paint, clear coat, and metallic flakes within a single, optimized shader. The VrayCarPaintMtl simplifies the creation of complex, multi-layered automotive paints.

Toon Shader – Create simple cartoon outlines using the V-Ray Toon shader.

Dispersion – Add realism using dispersion to trace and refract light based on its wavelength.

LIGHTS & ILLUMINATION

Physically-based Lights – Create realistic illumination using physically-based lights, including IES lights and texture-mapped area lights.

V-Ray Sun and Sky – Emulate real-world atmospheric lighting conditions sing the V-Ray Sun and Sky system.

Dome Light – Create simple, artifact-free image-based lighting using the Dome Light. Its powerful importance sampling analyzes HDR images and optimizes light tracing and GI precision.

CAMERAS & OPTICS

Motion Blur – Render true 3D motion blur using the V-Ray Physical Camera. Additional settings provide complete control over camera motion blur and shutter efficiency.

Depth of Field and Bokeh Effects – Create fast and accurate depth of field with bokeh effects using the V-Ray Physical Camera.

Lens Distortion using Nuke Displacement Maps – Import displacement maps from Nuke to match lens distortion.

RENDER OUTPUT

Render Elements -An extensive list of render elements allows for complete control in compositing.

Multi-channel Scanline OpenEXR Files – Produce scanline-based OpenEXR files for efficient processing in compositing applications.

SCENE OUTPUT

Support for .vrscene Output – Using V-Ray’s native .vrscene file format, scenes can be scripted for post processing and easily distributed in a render farm environment.

Import Material Properties – Basic material properties created in 3ds Max or Maya can be imported to V-Ray for Softimage.