V-Ray For Revit — Key Features

Create without limits.

Rendering​

Enscape compatibility

Transfer your Enscape materials, compatible 3D models, and cloud settings to V-Ray. Build on designers’ work and take your model to the highest level of photorealism.

Render-ready 3D assets

Our integrated asset library, Chaos Cosmos, enables you to search and add render-ready objects, materials, and HDRI skies to your model directly in Revit. With accurate scale, automatic LODs and interoperability across 3ds Max, SketchUp and Rhino, Chaos Cosmos assets are an essential addition to any Revit pipeline.

CPU, GPU & Hybrid rendering

V-Ray comes with two powerful rendering engines. You can choose between super-fast GPU and CPU or Hybrid rendering to best suit your project needs and requirements.

Real-time preview

With V-Ray Vision, you receive real-time high-quality visual feedback of your model as set up materials, lights, and cameras. Alternatively, you can take your design to the next level with Chaos Vantage Live Link, and explore even the most complex model in pure ray-traced real-time.

Denoiser

The NVIDIA AI Denoiser uses artificial intelligence to remove noise in an instant. And the V-Ray Denoiser supports denoising individual render channels to simplify compositing.

Interactive rendering

Render interactively while you design. Fine-tune lights, materials and cameras and see the results right away.

Chaos Cloud Rendering

Rendering on the Cloud is just one click away.

V-Ray Swarm

Powerful and scalable distributed rendering system that's simple and fast. Get an extra speed boost with V-Ray Render nodes.

Render Channels

Choose from many unique beauty, utility and matte passes to give you more control over your rendered images in compositing.

Scene Intelligence

Automatically analyzes your scene to optimize rendering so you get the best quality in less time.

Settings management

Set up individual lighting, mood, and composition per view in the same Revit model. Easily share render settings across teams and projects.

Batch rendering

Leave V-Ray to render your project images while you are away. Batch rendering helps you schedule multiple views for rendering with a click of a button.

Sun animation

V-Ray adds extra realism to Revit’s Solar Study. Explore and visualize the impact of natural light and shadows on your designs across a variety of timespans.

User interface

Seamless integration

V-Ray naturally fits into Revit's UI and complements your Revit workflow without altering your BIM database.

Asset Editor

Create, edit, save and manage your V-Ray materials all in one place with the Asset Editor. Assign materials to a new proxy object, save it in the Editor and reuse this configuration in any project.

Appearance Manager

Take your Revit renders to the next level. With the Appearance Manager, you can set basic Revit assets to automatically switch to more realistic V-Ray assets at render time.

Frame Buffer

Track history of your rendered images, fine-tune their color parameters and save them directly to your Revit project. Use the new layer-based compositor to do color corrections of final renders and save your presets for future projects.

Chaos Cloud Collaboration

Upload images and image panoramas to Chaos Cloud directly from the VFB, and collaborate with colleagues and clients.

Asset tags

Add tags to families and materials, and manage complex projects more easily.

Lighting

Accurate lighting

Simulate any type of natural, artificial, or image-based lighting.V-Ray automatically converts all Revit lights to V-Ray ones and further extends Revit's lighting capabilities.

Light Gen

Study your model in different lighting scenarios without the need for lengthy manual setup. Automatically trigger hundreds of natural lighting scenarios, choose the ones you like best and render.

Light mixing

Experiment and adjust your model’s lighting after you have rendered. Tweak the brightness and color of individual or groups of light sources to find the best rendition for your space.

Adaptive lights

This lighting algorithm dramatically speeds up rendering in scenes containing many lights. And you can render image-based lighting much faster with the new Adaptive Dome Light. It’s exceptionally quick for interiors and substantially speeds up your rendering.

Lighting analysis

Easily visualize real-world illumination values (lux) with the new Lighting Analysis render element.

Sun & Sky

Take advantage of our improved sky model to present your design in its best light when the sun is at the horizon. Alternatively, use the sky generation parameters for full creative control.

Procedural clouds

Add clouds to your V-Ray sky and animate them when exporting solar studies.

Global Illumination

Render photorealistic rooms and interiors with powerful and fast global illumination.

Camera

Real-world cameras

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

Automatic exposure & white balance

Capture the perfect exposure every time. The new Auto Exposure and Auto White Balance camera controls make rendering as simple as point and shoot.

Lens effects

Add that extra touch of photorealism with real-world camera lens effects such as bloom and glare.

Virtual Reality

Experience your designs at 1:1 scale. Create content for popular VR headsets with 6x1 cubic and spherical stereo camera types.

Materials and textures

Physical materials

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

V-Ray Decal

Add decals using V-Ray’s flexible system — place them onto any surface, across multiple objects, and even stack them one over the other.

Native materials support

Render an enhanced version of your Revit material automatically. Alternatively, convert it to .vrmat and customize it to represent the actual complex material you’ll put in your design.

Decals

Add images to paintings, signs, screens and more. V-Ray for Revit has full support for Revit Decals.

Contours

Give your model a sketch-like look. Use the global contour settings to create every outline automatically or the Contour material attribute to highlight a certain region.

Coat & Sheen materials

Use these two new layers to add distinct effects to V-Ray materials. The Coat layer creates polished surfaces while the Sheen layer is perfect for realistic fabrics such as silk or velvet.

Randomizer

Use the UVW Randomization asset to create realistic materials by randomizing patterns and colors. The Stochastic Tiling functionality removes texture tiling seams.

Weathering and dirt

Easily add weathering effects to any surface of your model with the V-Ray Dirt texture. Control its position, amount, and the objects it affects.

Metalness

The V-Ray Material adds native support for metallic reflections (Metalness) for greater compatibility with PBR materials from applications like Substance Designer.

Texture maps

Create realistic and unique shaders using any texture map or one of V-Ray’s many built-in procedural textures - Gradient, Temperature, Tri-Planar, etc.

Material overrides

Make the most out of your early designs and get a feel of your project by quickly rendering cardboard models.

Chaos Scans

2,500+ scanned materials. Import and render directly in V-Ray.

Atmospheric effects

Environment Fog

Quickly add realistic atmospheric depth and haze and use true 3D fog with realistic light scattering.

Aerial perspective

Simulate natural looking skies with realistic atmospheric depth.

Volumetric materials

Realistic material light scattering and translucency.

Geometry management

Geometry replacements

Work smart without altering your BIM database. Use your Revit families as stand-ins for all V-Ray objects.

V-Ray Proxies

Use your Revit families as stand-ins for V-Ray proxy objects. These are memory efficient models of highly detailed objects like trees and cars.

V-Ray Grass & Fur

Render realistic grass, carpets or fabric.

Randomize proxy objects

Add variety to your V-Ray entourage such as plants and trees by randomizing their scale and rotation.

V-Ray Scene

Link and render V-Ray scenes from other applications such as 3ds Max, Rhino, and SketchUp. Share complete ready-to-render V-Ray for Revit files.

Displacement

Quickly add surface detail without extra modeling when creating materials such as brick and stone. The displacement asset can be applied to both V-Ray materials and Revit materials.

Object scattering

Scatter Revit families and Chaos Cosmos assets to create detailed terrain in a memory-efficient way. Use essential randomization parameters such as density, size, and orientation for maximum realism.

Section Box

Render sections easily with full support for Revit's native section box.

Infinite Ground Plane

Create context for your project in a click of a button.

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