V-Ray for Rhino: Overview

V-Ray for Rhino offers visualization professionals a state-of-the-art solution that generates high-quality images of unparalleled realism. The plug-in works with Robert McNeel & Associates’ Rhinoceros, which is one of the most popular Windows-based NURBS modeling tools available today. Rhino users in all fields - from engineering and product design to 3D animation - rely on V-Ray as a quick, easy and cost-efficient way to render their most cutting-edge images.

EASY TO USE

Easy to learn and easy to use, V-Ray works seamlessly with Rhino’s versatile 3D modeling tools.

QUALITY

V-Ray lets you render the highest quality images possible – right in Rhino.

POWER

V-Ray gives you the power to render anything and everything – from quick concepts to your largest and most detailed 3D models.

SPEED

Render fast, design faster. V-Ray for Rhino lets you spend more time being creative and less time waiting.

CREATIVE CONTROL

Focus on design, with a full set of creative tools for lights, materials and rendering.

THE INDUSTRY STANDARD

Top designers rely on V-Ray every day to visualize world-class products, buildings and more.

V-Ray for Rhino: Quick Start

Introduction for architects

Introduction for designers

What’s new in V-Ray Next for Rhino

DO MORE

V-Ray Next lets you accomplish more in Rhino than before with an array of new tools to make it much easier to manage and render your scenes.

SUPERIOR GRASSHOPPER SUPPORT

Do more in Grasshopper than ever before and get advantage of powerful capabilities.

NEXT LEVEL PERFORMANCE

Increase render speed with up to 50%, GPU becomes 2x faster.

NEW DENOISER

Instantly remove noise while you render using the new NVIDIA AI Denoiser.

POWERFUL ASSET MANAGEMENT

New asset management system helps you keep track of everything in your scene and streamlines your entire workflow.

SIMPLIFIED RENDER CONTROLS

Redesigned interface that is more intuitive and easy to use.

ENHANCED LIGHTING WORKFLOWS

Save time and efforts with the improved lighting workflows to perform automatic analysis of your scene.

NEW MATERIALS AND TEXTURES

Added new textures and materials to give you more control over the look of your scenes.

V-Ray for Rhino: Key Features

TWIN-ENGINE PERFORMANCE

V-Ray comes with two powerful rendering engines. With CPU or GPU acceleration, you can choose the fastest one for your hardware.

INTERACTIVE RENDERING

Render while you design. See results right away as you adjust lights, materials and cameras.

GLOBAL ILLUMINATION

Render realistic rooms and interiors with V-Ray’s powerful and fast global illumination.

ACCURATE LIGHTS

Render natural and artificial lighting with a wide range of built-in light types.

ENVIRONMENT LIGHTING

Light your scenes with a single high-dynamic-range image (HDRI) of its environment.

SUN & SKY

Render realistic daylight for any time and any location.

REAL-WORLD CAMERAS

Work like a photographer with controls for exposure, white balance and depth of field.

PHYSICAL MATERIALS

Create great looking materials that look exactly like the real thing.

DETAILED TEXTURES

Create detailed and unique materials using texture maps or one of V-Ray’s built-in procedural textures.

PROXY OBJECTS

Add highly detailed and complex objects like grass, trees, and cars with memory-efficient proxy models.

RENDER ELEMENTS

Render separate layers for more artistic control in image-editing software.

FRAME BUFFER

Track your render history and fine-tune colors, exposure, and more directly in the V-Ray Frame Buffer.

V-RAY SCENE EXPORT

Share complete, ready-to-render V-Ray 3 for Rhino files with any V-Ray 3.4 or higher application.

GRASSHOPPER SUPPORT

Render your parametric designs directly in Grasshopper.