Core architecture

• Multi-platform object-oriented API
  
• Fully multithreaded core
  
• Unified sampling system based on Schlick sampling
  
• Distributed rendering
  
• Efficient shading system specifically optimised for ray-tracing
  
• Modular architecture - many components of the system can be replaced with custom ones

Geometry

• Efficient geometry handling
  
• True instance rendering
  
• On-demand dynamic geometry creation
  
• On-demand geometry loading from disk files
  
• Displacement mapping
  
• Catmull-Clark and Loop subdivision surfaces
  
• Extensible with custom geometric primitives through the V-Ray SDK

Image sampling

• Three different image sampling methods
  
• Full-scene antialiasing
  
• Progressive path tracing
  
• Support for additional render elements (diffuse, reflection, GI etc)
  
• Advanced colour (tone) mapping controls
  
• Extensible with custom image samplers through the V-Ray SDK

Illumination

• Physically accurate full global illumination solutions
  
• Different GI algorithms: path tracing, irradiance cache, photon maps, light cache
  
• Reusable GI solutions for accelerated rendering of walk-through animations and animations with dynamic objects
  
• Physically accurate area lights
  
• Efficient illumination from HDR environments
  
• Procedural sun & sky models
  
• Extensible with custom lights through the V-Ray SDK
  
• IES photometric lights

Shaders

• Physically plausible materials
  
• Blurry reflections/refractions
  
• Accurate hilights
  
• Sub-surface scattering
  
• Support for efficient material layering
  
• Extensible with custom shaders through the V-Ray SDK

• Depth-of-field with bokeh effects
  
• Accurate motion blur
  
• Physical camera model
  
• Extensible with custom cameras through the V-Ray SDK

Extras

• Toon effect
  
• Fur generator/raytracer
  
• Extended matte/shadow capabilities
  
• Support for Render-to-Texture mode of 3ds Max
  
• VRaySphereFade to isolate only specific portions of the scene for compositing

Frame buffer

• V-Ray specific frame buffer with integrated colour corrections and display of multiple rendering elements
  
• Direct rendering to disk for extremely large images, either as OpenEXR files or as .vrimg files

System requirements-

• Microsoft Windows 7 Professional (32- or 64-bit)
• Microsoft Windows Vista Business (SP2 or higher) (32- or 64-bit)
• Microsoft Windows XP Professional (SP2 or higher) (32- or 64-bit)

Supported platforms-

Autodesk 3ds Max version 9.0 or later