V-Ray 3.6 for 3ds Max Introduces Hybrid Rendering

Major update includes improved compositing output and 3ds Max 2018 support.

Harness your computer’s full power with V-Ray 3.6 for 3ds Max. With Chaos Group’s Hybrid Rendering Technology, you can render on NVIDIA CUDA GPUs, CPUs — or a combination of both.

Now compatible with 3ds Max 2018, this update is free for all V-Ray 3.x customers.

Other release highlights include:

Full Light Select Render Element – Render individual lights or groups of lights as separate render elements, with full support for global illumination, reflections and refractions for accurate light mixing in post Cryptomatte – Automatically generate ID mattes with support for transparency, depth of field and motion blur. This will speed up workflows for compositors working in NUKE or Fusion NVIDIA NVLink – Supports shared GPU memory across NVLink compatible graphics cards