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Geometry

Support

Feature

V-Ray CPU

V-Ray GPU

V-Ray Clipper (VRayClipper)

(tick)

(tick)

V-Ray Decal (VRayDecal)

(tick)

(tick)

V-Ray Enmesh (GeomEnmesh)

(tick)

Image Added

V-Ray Fur (GeomHair)

(tick)

(tick)

V-Ray Plane (GeomPlane)

(tick)

(tick)

V-Ray Proxy

(tick)

(tick)

Displacement1

(tick)

PARTIAL

Subdivision

(tick)

(tick)

Fur/hair

Image Added

PARTIAL

Poly primitives as triangle mesh

(tick)

Image Added

Polysoup primitives as triangle mesh

(tick)

Image Added

Triangle fan primitives as triangle mesh

(error)

(error)

Triangle strip primitives as triangle mesh

(error)

(error)

Perfect circle

(error)

(error)

Perfect sphere

(error)

(error)

Perfect tube primitives

(error)

V-Ray infinite plane

(tick)

(error)

Metaball primitives

(error)

(error)

MetaSQuad primitives

(error)

(error)

Particles

(tick)

PARTIAL

VDB primitives

Image Added

Image Added

(tick)

Houdini Volume primitives

(tick)

Image Added

Packed geometry primitives2

(tick)

Image Added

Packed disk primitives (.bgeo, bhclassic)

(tick)

Image Added

Packed fragment primitives

(tick)

Image Added

Packed crowd agent primitives

(tick)

V-Ray proxy

(tick)

Fur/hair

(tick)

V-Ray fur

(tick)

V-Ray clipper

(tick)

Subdivision

(tick)

Displacement1

(tick)

Image Added

Houdini Instancer

(tick)

PARTIAL

OpenSubdiv

(tick)

Image Added

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Lights

Feature
Support
V-Ray CPUV-Ray GPU
Lights textures3
(tick)
(tick)

V-Ray Direct light

(tick)PARTIAL

V-Ray Spot light

(tick)PARTIAL

V-Ray IES light

(tick)PARTIAL

V-Ray Sphere light

(tick)PARTIAL

V-Ray Dome light

(tick)PARTIAL

V-Ray Mesh light

(tick)PARTIAL

V-Ray Sun

(tick)PARTIAL

V-Ray Ambient light

8

(tick)(error)
V-Ray Omni light(tick)PARTIAL
V-Ray Rectangle light(tick)PARTIAL

Image Based Lighting

(tick)
(as V-Ray dome light)

(tick)
(as V-Ray dome light)

Light linking

(tick)(tick)
Procedural Clouds(tick)(tick)

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Materials

Feature

Support

V-Ray CPU

V-Ray GPU

V-Ray BRDFAlSurface4 (V-Ray alSurface)

Image Added

(tick)

V-Ray BRDFLayered (V-Ray Blend)

(tick)

PARTIAL

V-Ray BRDFBump (V-Ray Bump)

(tick)

PARTIAL
(without Compute Bump for Shadows
and Bump Delta Scale)

V-Ray BRDFCarPaint (V-Ray Car Paint)

(tick)

PARTIAL11

V-Ray BRDFCarPaint2 (V-Ray Car Paint 2)

(tick)

PARTIAL11

V-Ray BRDFScanned (V-Ray Chaos Scans)

(tick)

(tick)

V-Ray MtlGLSL (V-Ray GLSL)

(tick)

(error)

V-Ray BRDFHair4 (V-Ray

BRDFHair

Hair)

(tick)

PARTIAL

V-Ray BRDFHair3 (V-Ray Hair 3)

(tick)

(tick)
(no Light Multiplier)

V-Ray BRDFLight (V-Ray Light)

(tick)

PARTIAL
(without Emit on Back Side
and Multiply By Opacity)

VRayMtl (V-Ray Material)

(tick)

PARTIAL12

V-Ray MtlMaterialID (V-Ray Material ID)

(tick)

PARTIAL

V-Ray MtlMulti (V-Ray Multi ID Material)

(tick)

PARTIAL

V-Ray MtlOSL (V-Ray OSL)

(tick)

(error)

V-Ray MtlOverride (V-Ray Override)

(tick)

PARTIAL
(without Environment
and Environment Priority)

V-Ray BSDFPointParticle (V-Ray Point Particle)

(tick)

(error)

V-Ray MtlVRayMesh (V-Ray Proxy Material)

(tick)

(tick)

V-Ray MtlRenderStats (V-Ray Render Stats)

(tick)

(tick)
(no Receive Shadows)

V-Ray MtlRoundEdges (V-Ray Round Edges)

(tick)

(tick)
(no Radius Mode and Raytraced)

V-Ray BRDFScatterVolume (V-Ray Scatter Volume)

(tick)

(error)

V-Ray MtlSingleBRDF (V-Ray Single)

(tick)

PARTIAL

V-Ray BRDFSkinComplex (V-Ray Skin)

(tick)

(error)

V-Ray BRDFSSS2Complex

2

5 (V-Ray SSS)

(tick)

PARTIAL

V-Ray BRDFStochasticFlakes (V-Ray Stochastic Flakes)

(tick)

(tick)
(no Tex Subdivs)

V-Ray BRDFToonMtl (V-Ray Toon Material)

Image Added

(error)

(tick)

V-Ray Mtl2Sided 

3 

6 (V-Ray Two Sided)

(tick)

(tick)
(no Multiply by Front Diffuse)

V-Ray MtlVRmat (V-Ray VRMat)

Image Added

(tick)

V-Ray MtlWrapper (V-Ray Wrapper)

(tick)

PARTIAL
(shadows only, no GI on mattes)

(tick)
V-Ray BRDFAlSurface4(tick)
VRayMtl

V-Ray Material Builder

(tick)

 (tick)

V-Ray Material Complex

(tick)

 (tick)

V-Ray

MaterialOutput

Material Output

(tick)

(tick)

V-Ray GeomDisplacedMesh (V-Ray

MtlOSL

Displacement)

(tick)

(tick)

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File Textures

FeatureV-Ray CPUV-Ray
BSDFPointParticle
GPU
V-RayTexGLSL

Image Added

Image Added

V-Ray TexICC

Image Added

(error)
(tick)
V-Ray
MtlVRayMesh
MetaImageFile(tick)(tick)
(
V-Ray
Proxy Material)
TexLut(tick)(error)
V-Ray
BRDFScatterVolumePARTIAL7
TexOceanSpectra(tick)(error)
V-Ray
Stochastic Flakes
TexOCIO(tick)(tick)
V-Ray
BRDFToonMtl
TexOSL(tick)PARTIAL
7
V-Ray
MtlVRmat
TexPtex(tick)(error)

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Cameras

Feature
V-Ray
BRDFScanned
CPU
V-Ray GPU

Camera motion blur7

(tick)

PARTIAL
Camera DoF
(tick)
(tick)
Perspective(tick)(tick)
V-Ray
MtlWrapper
Physical Camera
(tick)
PARTIAL
Stereoscopic
(tick)
PARTIAL
V-Ray
GeomDisplacedMesh
Dome Camera(tick)(tick)

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File Textures

Environment

Feature
Support
V-Ray CPU
V-Ray
TexICC
GPU
Spherical Mapping
(tick)
(tick)
Mirror ball mapping
(tick)
(tick)
Angular mapping
(tick)
(tick)
Toon shading
(tick)
(error)
SimpleFog
(error)
(error)
ScatterFog
(error)
(error)
EnvironmentFog
(tick)
PARTIAL
(tick)
V-Ray
MetaImageFile
SphereFade Gizmo(tick)(error)

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Texture Baking

Feature
V-Ray CPU
V-Ray
TexLut
GPU

Regular texture baking

(tick)

Image Added

Spherical Harmonics baking

(error)(error)
V-Ray TexOCIO(tick)
V-Ray TexOSL(tick)
V-Ray TexPtex(tick)

Bake to vertex colors

(error)(error)

Bake to Ptex

(error)(error)

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Distributed Rendering

Feature
V-Ray CPU
V-Ray GPU
Distributed Rendering
(tick)
(error)
Automatic assets transfer
(tick)
(error)
Don't use local machine
(tick)
(error)
Asset cache
(error)
(error)

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Global Illumination Methods

Feature
V-Ray CPU
V-Ray GPU
Brute Force
(tick)
(tick)
Light Cache
(tick)
(tick)
Irradiance Map8
(tick)
(error)

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Utility Textures

TexhairSampler(tick) TexVectorToColor TexRandom TexPatternID
FeatureSupportV-Ray CPUV-Ray GPU
V-Ray AovBind(tick)(tick)
V-Ray AovExtraTex(tick)(tick)
V-Ray TexBezierCurve(tick)(tick)
V-Ray TexBezierCurveColor(tick)(tick)
V-Ray TexBlend(tick)(tick)
V-Ray TexBlendBumpNormal(tick)(error)
V-Ray TexClamp(tick)(tick)
V-Ray TexAColor(tick)(tick)
V-Ray TexColorAndAlpha(tick)(error)
V-Ray TexAColorChannel(tick)(tick)
V-Ray ColorCorrect(tick)(error)
V-Ray TexColorCorrect(tick)(error)
V-Ray ColorCorrection(tick)(tick)
V-Ray TexAColorOp(tick)PARTIAL
V-Ray TexColorToFloat(tick)(tick)
V-Ray ColorTextureToMono(tick)(error)
V-Ray TexMaxGamma(tick)(tick)
V-Ray TexCombineColor(tick)(tick)
V-Ray TexCombineFloat(tick)PARTIAL
V-Ray TexCompMax(tick)PARTIAL
V-Ray TexCondition2(tick)(tick)
V-Ray TexDistanceBetween(tick)(error)
V-Ray TexFloat(tick)(error)
V-Ray TexFloatOp(tick)PARTIAL
V-Ray TexFloatToColor(tick)(tick)
V-Ray TexHairSampler(tick)PARTIAL
V-Ray TexHSVToRGB(tick)(tick)
V-Ray TexInt(tick)(error)
V-Ray TexIntToFloat(tick)(tick)
V-Ray TexInvert(tick)(tick)
V-Ray TexInvertFloat(tick)(tick)
V-Ray TexLayeredMax(tick)PARTIAL
V-Ray TexLuminance(tick)(tick)
V-Ray TexMaskMax(tick)(tick)
V-Ray TexMeshVertexColorChannel(tick)(error)
V-Ray TexMix(tick)PARTIAL
V-Ray TexNormalMapFlip(tick)PARTIAL
V-Ray TexOutput(tick)PARTIAL
V-Ray TexPatternID(tick)

(error)Image Added

V-Ray TexRandom(tick)(tick)
V-Ray TexParticleSampler(tick)

(error)Image Added

V-Ray TexRaySwitch(tick)

(error)Image Added

V-Ray RefShader(tick)(tick)
V-Ray TexRemap(tick)PARTIAL
V-Ray TexRGBMultiplyMax(tick)(tick)
V-Ray TexRGBTintMax(tick)

(error)Image Added

V-Ray TexRGBToHSV(tick)(tick)
V-Ray TexRgbaCombine(tick)(tick)
V-Ray TexSampler(tick)

PARTIAL

V-Ray TexSetRange(tick)(tick)
V-Ray TexTemperature(tick)(tick)
V-Ray TransformToTexTransformMatrix(tick)(tick)
V-Ray TexUserColorTransformToTex(tick)(tick)
(no Gamma Correction)
V-Ray TexUserScalarTexUserColor(tick)

(tick)
(no alpha attribute)

V-Ray TexUserIntegerTexUserScalar(tick)(tick)
(no alpha attribute)
V-Ray TexVectorOpTexUserInteger(tick)V-Ray TexVectorProduct

(tick)
(no default value)

V-Ray UserShader(tick)(error)
V-Ray TexVectorOp(tick)(error)
V-Ray TexVectorProduct(tick)(error)

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Procedural Textures

Feature
Support
V-Ray CPU
V-Ray GPU
V-Ray TexBerconDistortion(tick)(tick)
V-Ray TexBerconGrad(tick)PARTIAL
V-Ray TexBerconNoise(tick)PARTIAL
V-Ray TexBerconTile(tick)PARTIAL
V-Ray TexBerconWood(tick)PARTIAL
V-Ray TexBulge(tick)(tick)
V-Ray TexCellular(tick)PARTIAL
V-Ray TexChecker(tick)

(tick)
(no Contrast)

V-Ray TexCurvature(tick)(tick)

V-Ray TexDirt

(tick)PARTIAL

V-Ray TexDistance

(tick)(tick)
V-Ray TexEdges(tick)PARTIAL
V-Ray TexFalloff(tick)PARTIAL
V-Ray TexFresnel(tick)PARTIAL
V-Ray TexGradRamp(tick)PARTIAL
V-Ray TexGrid(tick)(tick)
V-Ray TexMulti(tick)(tick)
V-Ray TexNoise(tick)

(tick)
(without Time)

V-Ray TexRock(tick)(tick)
V-Ray TexSky(tick)PARTIAL
V-Ray TexSmoke(tick)(tick)
V-Ray TexSnow(tick)(tick)
V-Ray TexSoftbox(tick)(tick)
V-Ray TexSpeckle(tick)PARTIAL
V-Ray TexSplat(tick)PARTIAL
V-Ray TexStencil(tick)(error)
V-Ray TexSurfaceLuminance(tick)(error)
V-Ray TexSwirl(tick)PARTIAL

V-Ray TexThickness

(tick)(error)
V-Ray TexTiles(tick)PARTIAL
V-Ray TexTriPlanar(tick)(tick)
V-Ray TexUVW(tick)(tick)
V-Ray TexUVWGenToTexture(tick)(tick)
V-Ray TexWater(tick)

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Support

Spherical


Mapping

ScatterFog

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Texture Baking

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Cameras

(tick)
Feature
Support
Camera motion blur 5

(tick)

Camera DoF
(tick)
Perspective(tick)
VRayPhysicalCamera
(tick)
Stereoscopic

(error)Image Added

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Environment

Feature
(tick)
Mirror ball mapping
(tick)
Angular mapping
(tick)
Toon shading
(tick)
SimpleFog
(error)
(error)
EnvironmentFog
(tick)
Feature
Support

Regular texture baking

(tick)

Spherical Harmonics baking

(error)

Bake to vertex colors

(error)

Bake to Ptex

(error)

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Distributed Rendering

Feature
Support
Distributed Rendering
(tick)
Automatic assets transfer
(tick)
Don't use local machine
(tick)
Asset cache
(error)

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Global Illumination Methods

Feature
Support
Brute Force
(tick)
Light Cache
(tick)
Irradiance Map6
(tick)
V-ray CPU
V-Ray GPU

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Mapping

Feature
Support
V-Ray UVWGenObjectBBox(tick)

(error)Image Added

V-Ray UVWGenChannel(tick)(tick)
(no Use Double Sided Mode)
V-Ray UVWGenMayaPlace2dTexture(tick)PARTIAL
V-Ray UVWGenEnvironment(tick)(tick)
(no DUWA Scale)
V-Ray UVWGenExplicit(tick)

PARTIAL

V-Ray UVWGenObject(tick)PARTIAL
V-Ray UVWGenProjection(tick)PARTIAL
V-Ray UVWGenPlanarWorld(tick)PARTIAL
V-Ray UVWGenRandomizer(tick)(tick)

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Other

Support
Feature
V-Ray CPU
V-Ray GPU
Additional object properties and attributes

(tick)

(tick)
Global overrides
(tick)

Image Added13

Add V-Ray image output to Houdini Render View
panel Instead of using custom Qt widget
(error)
(error)
Add background rendering to Houdini Render Scheduler
(error)
(error)
VrayStereoRig(tick)(error)
VrayLensEffects (VFB)(tick)(tick)
VrayLightMeter(error)(error)

VrayExposureControl

(tick)(tick)
Antialiasing(tick)(tick)

Color mapping

(tick)PARTIAL
VFB(tick)(tick)
Embree(tick)(tick)

Render elements

(tick)PARTIAL9
UDIM texture tags(tick)(tick)
UVTILE texture tags(error)(error)
Anisotropy(tick)(tick)

UVWgen Projections

(tick)
(UI issues)

(tick)
(perspective & planar modes)
Keep geometry cache(error)(error)

Keep bitmap cache

(tick)(tick)

Dynamic bucket splitting

(tick)(tick)

Progressive image sampler

(tick)

PARTIAL
V-Ray Lights Preview(tick)(tick)
V-Ray VolumeGrid(tick)PARTIAL10

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Footnotes

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1 – Displacement results between CPU and GPU rendering may differ slightly because of Pre-tessellation and Cache Normal settings.

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2 – It is recommended to use Alembic files instead.

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3 – V-Ray GPU does not support V-Ray Mesh Light textures.

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4 – IPR rendering does not support BRDFAlSurface shader.

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– GPU – GPU always uses raytraced multiple scattering for VRayFastSSS2V-Ray SSS. V-Ray GPU Single Scatter is supported only in None and Simple modes.in None and Simple modes. GPU also does not support the following V-Ray SSS parameters: Color Mode, Surface Offset, Prepass Rate, Prepass ID, Interpolation Accuracy, Prepass Mode, and Prepass File.

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6 – IPR 3 – IPR GPU does not support the "the Multiply by front diffuse"  option of the 2SidedMtl.

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4 IPR rendering does not support BRDFAlSurface shader. Anchor555 – IPR rendering supports motion blurred frames on integer numbers only. For example, starting the render from frame 1 will produce correct motion blur, but starting from frame 1.25 will produce incorrect motion blur.

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6 – Irradiance map loaded from a file is supported in GPU only in Production rendering mode. In IPR mode, Brute Force is used as the primary and secondary engines for both GPU and CPU.

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7 – V-Ray Toon, V-Ray Skin, and V-Ray Scatter Volume materials are not supported for V-Ray GPU rendering.

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– The following render channels are not supported in GPU: Caustics, Coverage, Material ID, Matte Shadow, Raw Diffuse Filter, Raw GI, Raw Lighting, Raw Reflection, Raw Reflection Filter, Raw Refraction, Raw Refraction Filter, Raw Shadow, Raw Total Lighting, Reflection IOR, Reflection Glossiness, Refraction Glossiness, V-Ray Toon.

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10 – Fire Lights (Fire Lights tab) and Volume Light Cache (Smoke tab) options are not supported with V-Ray GPU. For more information, refer to their relevant pages.

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11 – V-Ray GPU does not support the following V-Ray CarPaint and V-Ray CarPaint 2 parameters: Trace Base Reflections, Bump Type, Trace Coat Reflections, Trace Depth, Use Environment Override, Environment Override, Environment Priority. For CarPaint it also does not support Filtering Mode and Trace Flakes Reflections.

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12 – The following V-Ray Material parameters are not supported with V-Ray GPU: Roughness, Roughness Model, Opacity Mode, Dim Fall-off, Soften, Cutoff, Use Irradiance Map, Energy Preservation, Use Environment Override, Environment Override, and Environment Priority.

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13 – Support through the Renderer ROP > Objects tab > Material Overrides.

  Anchor888 – V-Ray Ambient light is not supported for GPU rendering.

Notes

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Fancy Bullets
typecircle
  • GPU supports up to 16 UV sets per material.
  • GPU supports map channels from 0 to 15.
  • GPU only supports normal maps in tangent space.
  • Integer attributes for points are supported.