V-Ray for Houdini

V-Ray brings VFX to life. From heroes and creatures to vehicles and environments, V-Ray helps artists deliver invisible and blockbuster effects for Emmy-winning television and over 150 feature films. V-Ray for Houdini is a production-proven CPU & GPU rendering for high-end VFX and animation, built to handle users’ biggest scenes and most demanding projects. It comes with all the tools artists need to render amazing-looking procedural effects. Seamlessly integrated in Houdini, it enables smooth scene exchange and iterations between Houdini and other DCC applications.

WORKSTATION / RENDER NODE LICENSES

• PRODUCTION-PROVEN RENDERING

  Powerful CPU and GPU accelerated rendering built for the demands of high-end production.



• VOLUME RENDERING

  Fast and accurate rendering of native Houdini volumes and OpenVDB caches.



• V-RAY SCENE EXCHANGE

  Transfer and override the properties of V-Ray scenes from other apps like Maya and 3ds Max.



• INSTANCING

  Instance any object type (including volumes) using Packed Primitives, Instancer and “instancepath” attributes



• PHYSICAL HAIR

  Create realistic-looking hair* with accurate highlights using the V-Ray Physical Hair material.
  *Currently supports hair as SOP geometry



• PARTICLES

  Drive shader parameters such as color, alpha and particle size through custom per-point attributes.



• PACKED PRIMITIVES

  Efficient handling of Houdini’s native packed primitives for instancing at render time.