V-Ray

Speed counts
With its fast performance VRay unveils a whole new world of possibilities to the artists. Speed is what has always been a problem for most of the raytracers. Some have poor optimizations. Others don't utilize all of your systems processors properly. That is why Chaosgroup have worked hard on the optimizations routines in their product bringing you one of the fastest renderers in the field.

Quality
VRay brings high quality on demand. It gives you the possibility to adjust the quality of rendering hence the speed and the looks starting from dazzlingly fast coarse renders to fineart images.

Features
VRay offers its users a set of features that you would expect from a quality renderer. With its fast fully-multithreaded raytracing engine it takes the advantage of all the CPUs supported by your system throughout its pipeline - preparation and rendering. Capable of making accurate reflections and refractions clean or glossy and blurred it helps achieve astonishing realism in the computer generated realm. Simulation of focusing (Depth-of-Field) helps in simulating real-life cameras. Different methods of illumination simulation, caustics calculations help with per-object based property adjustments help artists achieve great rendering performance or fineart photorealistic images. Adaptive antialiasing based on color difference as well as G-Buffer channels is one of its advanced features. It includes sophisticated multipass methods as well as simple approaches.

VRay supports translucency which gives you the power to create true photorealistic materials like wax, smoked glass, jelly etc.

VRay supports network distributed rendering which gives incredible power to the studios with many computer boxes to use all the CPU power connected to the network for rendering within a single frame.

And all of these features packed into their fast raytracer engine that supports all the standard 3D Studio MAX materials, environments, atmospheres, effects etc.