V-Ray for Rhino Features

Rhino users in all fields—from engineering and architecture to design and animation—need a robust ray-tracing engine that enables them to bring their ideas to life quickly, easily, and cost-effectively.

With V-Ray for Rhino, ASGVIS offers these visualization professionals a state-of-the-art solution that generates high-quality images of unparalleled realism. Developed with the Chaos Group, V-Ray for Rhino works with Robert McNeel & Associates’ Rhinoceros, which is one of the most popular Windows-based NURBS modeling tools available today.

• True raytraced reflections and refractions
• Glossy reflections and refractions
• Indirect Illumination (global illumination, global lighting). Different approaches include direct computation (brute force), and irradiance maps.
• Area shadows (soft shadows). Includes box and sphere emitters
• True HDRI support. Includes support of proper texture coordinate handling for both cubic and angular maps. Map your images directly without distortions or cropping.
• Fully multithreaded raytracing engine
• Antialiasing. Includes fixed, simple 2-level and adaptive approaches.
• Reusable irradiance maps (save and load support). Incremental sampling for fly-through animations.
• Displacement
• V-Ray Material Editor with Material Preview
• V-Ray Sun and Sky
• V-Ray Physical Camera
• Depth-Of-Field camera effect.
• Distributed Rendering allowing a single image to be process over up to 10 machines
• Per Material GI, Background, Reflection, and Refraction
• V-Ray Two-Sided Material for easy creation of thin translucency
• Caustics
• Animation Support for Bongo as well as Rhino's built in animation tools

System Requirements

Hardware:

• Pentium, Celeron, or higher processor.
• 200 MB disk space.
• 512 MB RAM minimum. 2-3 GB or more recommended.

Operating systems:

• V-Ray for Rhino runs only on:
  • Windows 2000 including server
  • Windows XP Pro
  • Windows XP Home
  • Windows Vista*
  • Windows 7*
• V-Ray for Rhino will not run on:
  • Windows NT
  • Windows 95
  • Windows 98
  • Windows ME
  • OS X or lower.
  • Linux
• V-Ray for Rhino does run as a 32-bit application on Windows x64.
• Virtualization systems such as VMWare and Parallels are not recommended.
• The use of imaged machines is not recommended due to the fact that the licensing is hardware dependent.

*Running on Windows Vista or 7 requires a user to right click on the installation file and select the option to "Run as administrator" at the start of installation.

Rhino 3 and Rhino 5 are not supported.