Chaos Group, which is the leading provider of the best rendering solutions for the design, entertainment, and media industries, recently announced the release of V-Ray 3.00.03 for 3D Studio Max. This software allows the users to easily and quickly create realistic images along with the full control for the production process of 3D. V-Ray 3.00.03 for 3D studio Max 2014 is the most complete rendering, shading and lighting toolkit in the market, making simplicity and speed accessible to all the artists. At the same time, this fast rendering solution combines all the power of well-known V-Ray rendering engine with unprecedented speed and flexibility of the (V-Ray RT) interactive rendering system, which is now running on the GPUs.

Features of V-Ray 3.00.03 for 3D studio Max 2014:

Simplified User Interface - The new V-Ray 3.00.03 brings in a simplified user interface with 3 modes: Expert, Advanced and Basic. In order to get additional controls, the modes can be easily toggled any point of time. The basic mode is sufficient to meet the requirements of the artists in day to day production work. New Skin Shader - An intuitive, dedicated Skin shader along with the layered specular highlights can make it easier for the artists to make complex layered skin. Probabilistic Lights –These lights increase the speed of the scenes, as the number of lights is high. The Probabilistic Light Sampling also reduces the number of lights which are evaluated at the render time. Progressive Rendering - The all new Progressive Production Renderer has been made on the same path tracing technology as V-Ray RT and it is an intuitive, simple solution for any scene. It is compatible with all the V-Ray production characteristics, such as Render elements, SSS, Light Cache and Irradiance. Faster Ray Tracing - V-Ray 3.00.03 for 3D studio Max has introduced a considerably optimized ray tracing core to speed up the calculations for Refractions, Reflections, Progressive Path Tracing, Brute Force GI, and more. Now depending on scene complexity the users are reporting that speed has increased up to 5X. Quick Settings – The quick Settings option is providing artists with the simple rendering quality controls and production-ready presets within a single compact interface. Advanced V-Ray Frame Buffer – As the consistent color output is very essential to artists’ workflows. V-Ray 3.00.03 for 3D studio Max has been expanded to utilize a variety of color definitions including OpenColorIO (.ocio), ICC Profiles (.icc), and LUTs (.cube). By default V-Ray 3.00.03 is set up for linear workflow, making it easier to ensure accurate and reliable colors. Faster Hair - V-Ray 3.00.03 has also introduced view-dependent tessellation that automatically smooths hair curves and faster hair rendering speeds which is up to 15 xs. Ray Traced SSS –This software has also offered improved Subsurface Scattering including options for ray traced illumination and object-based. Max Ray Intensity - Max Ray Intensity clamps secondary rays to remove noise generated by very bright sources and this further removes artifacts while retaining the dynamic range. VRmats – Vrmats, which was formerly known as Vismats are the universal V-Ray Shaders for use across the multiple applications. Hence, it can be said that this latest version of 3D studio Max delivers the most powerful support, technical advances and feature set for all the open source technologies.