
While Chaos Group has put out several updates to V-Ray for Cinema 4D since the acquisition, they were largely to port the plugin to its own licensing system, and add support for Chaos Cloud rendering. However, the next update looks set to be the biggest since Chaos Group acquired the plugin from original developer LAUBlab last year, with the firm describing it as a “ground up” rewrite. Updated 6 July 2020: According to Chaos Group’s latest preview, the release will be V-Ray 5 for Cinema 4D.


They include key features from V-Ray Next, including bucket rendering within the V-Ray GPU engine, and the new adaptive dome light plus improvements to look development workflow and the Render Settings dialog.Ĭhaos Group hasn’t said which version of V-Ray for Cinema 4D the features will appear in – or indeed, if they will all come in the same release. Scroll down for news of the public beta.Ĭhaos Group has released a video preview of some of the new features coming up in V-Ray for Cinema 4D, the edition of its production renderer for Maxon’s 3D modelling and animation software.
