V-Ray is one of the highest quality and fastest renderers available to the 3d market. It supports advanced features such as global illumination, caustics, depth of field, 3d motion blur, and much more.

Features:

Architecture

• Object-oriented API
• Fully multithreaded
• Unified quasi-Monte Carlo sampling system
• Distributed rendering
• Efficient shading system specifically optimized for ray-tracing

Geometry

• Efficient geometry handling
• On-demand 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

• Different sampling methods.
• Full-scene antialiasing.
• Progressive path tracing.
• Support for additional render elements (diffuse, reflection, GI etc).

Illumination

• Physically accurate full global illumination solutions
• Different GI algorithms: path tracing, irradiance cache, photon maps, light cache.
• Reusable GI solutins for accelerated rendering of walk-through animations.
• Physically accurate area lights.
• Extensible with custom lights through the V-Ray SDK.

Shaders

• Advanced material
• Blurry reflections/refractions
• Accurate hilights
• Sub-surface scattering
• Extensible with custom shaders through the V-Ray SDK

Camera effects

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

Extras

• Toon effect
• Fur generator
• Extended matte/shadow capabilities
• Support for Render-to-Texture mode of 3dsmax

Frame buffer

• V-Ray specific frame buffer with integrated color corrections and display of multiple rendering elements.
• Direct rendering to disk for extremely large images. Rendered images can be converted to OpenEXR files or imported back into 3dsmax.