This page provides a table of features supported by Chaos Cloud rendering in 3ds Max.
Overview
These features are supported by Chaos Cloud in 3ds Max.
Supported Features
Cameras
| Feature | Chaos Cloud |
|---|---|
Motion blur (transformation+deformation) 5 | ✓ |
Camera motion blur 5 | ✓ |
| Camera DoF | ✓ |
| Perspective | ✓ |
| VRayPhysicalCamera | ✓ |
| Stereoscopic | ✓ |
| Distortion for Physical Camera | ✓ |
Environment
| Feature | Chaos Cloud |
|---|---|
| Spherical Mapping | ✓ |
| Mirror ball mapping | ✓ |
| Angular mapping | ✓ |
| VRayToon | ✓ |
| VRayEnvironmentFog | ✓ |
| VRayAerialPerspective | ✓ |
| VRaySphereFade | – |
Geometry
| Feature | Chaos Cloud |
|---|---|
| Triangle meshes | ✓ |
| VRayProxy | ✓ |
| Alembic via proxy | ✓ |
| NURBS | ✓ |
| Subdivisions | ✓ |
✓ | |
| VRayFur | ✓ |
| Hair&Fur | – |
| VRayPlane | ✓ |
| VRaySphere | – |
| Particles (with Particle Flow) | ✓ |
| X-Ref Scene | ✓ |
| VRayInstancer | ✓ |
| VRayClipper | ✓ |
Global Illumination Methods
| Feature | Chaos Cloud |
|---|---|
| Brute Force | ✓ |
✓ | |
✓ |
Lights
| Feature | Chaos Cloud CPU |
|---|---|
| Lights textures | ✓ |
| Skylight portals | ✓ |
✓ | |
| Standard Lights | ✓ |
| Photometric Lights | ✓ |
| Ambient Light | ✓ |
| Image based lighting | ✓ |
Materials
Global switches
| Feature | Chaos Cloud CPU |
|---|---|
| Displacement | ✓ |
| Lights | – |
Hidden lights | ✓ |
| Don't render final image | ✓ |
| Override depth | – |
| Override material | ✓ |
| Override material exclude list | ✓ |
| Force back face culling | – |
| Shadows | ✓ |
| Show GI only | – |
| Reflection/Refraction | ✓ |
| Maps | ✓ |
| Glossy effects | ✓ |
| Max ray intensity | ✓ |
| Filter maps | ✓ |
| Secondary rays | ✓ |
| Max transp. levels | ✓ |
| Transp. cutoff | ✓ |
| Light tree and adaptive lights | ✓ |
Render Elements
Textures
Feature | Chaos Cloud CPU |
|---|---|
Bitmap | ✓ |
Cellular | ✓ |
Checker | ✓ |
Color Correction | ✓ |
Composite | ✓ |
Dent | ✓ |
Falloff | ✓ |
Forest Color | ✓ |
Gradient | ✓ |
Gradient ramp | ✓ |
| Marble | ✓ |
| Mask | ✓ |
| Mix | ✓ |
| Noise | ✓ |
| Output | ✓ |
| OSL Map | PARTIAL2 |
| Particle Age | – |
| Particle MBlur | – |
| Perlin Marble | – |
| RGB Multiply | ✓ |
| RGB Tint | ✓ |
| Smoke | ✓ |
| Speckle | ✓ |
| Splat | ✓ |
| Stucco | ✓ |
| Substance | ✓ 4 |
| Swirl | ✓ |
| Tiles | ✓ |
| Vertex Color | ✓ |
| Waves | ✓ |
| Wood | – |
| Advanced Wood | – |
| VRayBump2Normal | – |
| VRayColor | ✓ |
| VRayColor2Bump | ✓ |
| VRayCompTex | ✓ |
| VRayCurvature | ✓ |
| VRayDirt | ✓ |
| VRayDistanceTex | ✓ |
| VRayEdgesTex | ✓ |
| VRayFakeFresnelTex | – |
| VRayGLSLTex | ✓ |
| VRayHDRI | ✓ |
| VRayHairInfoTex | ✓ |
| VRayICC | ✓ |
| VRayLUT | ✓ |
| VRayMap | – (deprecated) |
| VRayMultiSubTex | ✓ |
| VRayNormalMap | ✓ |
| VRayOCIO | ✓ |
| VRayOSLTex | ✓ |
| VRayParticleTex | ✓ |
| VRayPluginNodeTex | ✓ |
| VRayPTex | – |
| VRaySky | ✓ |
| VRaySamplerInfoTex | – |
| VRaySoftBox | ✓ |
| VRayTriplanarTex | ✓ |
| VRayUserColor | ✓ |
| VRayUserScalar | ✓ |
| PhoenixFDOceanTex | ✓ |
Other
| Feature | Chaos Cloud CPU |
|---|---|
| VRayShadow | ✓ |
| VRayShadowMap | – |
| VRayStereoRig | – |
| VRayLensEffects (VFB) | ✓ |
| VRayLightMeter | – |
| VRayExposureControl | ✓ |
| VRayVolumeGrid | ✓ |
| Antialiasing | ✓ |
| Color Mapping | ✓ |
| Render Mask (see Image Sampler) | ✓ |
| VFB | ✓ |
| G-Buffer | ✓ |
| VRayMetaballs | – |
| UDIM/UVtile texture tags | ✓ |
| Anisotropy | ✓ |
| Matte objects (with VRayMtlWrapper and object properties) | ✓ |
| Include/Exclude Lists for Materials | ✓ |
| Include/Exclude Lists for Lights | ✓ |
3rd Party Plugins
| Feature | Chaos Cloud CPU |
|---|---|
| ForestPro instancing | ✓ |
| RailClone instancing | ✓ |
| MultiScatter instancing | ✓ |
| ColorCorrect | ✓ |
| Carbon Scatter | ✓ |
| Ornatrix | ✓ |
| HairFarm | ✓ |
| MultiTexture | ✓ |
| Bercon Maps | ✓ |
| Forest Color | ✓ |
| Anima | ✓ |
| GrowFX | ✓ |
Footnotes
1 – The Sampler Info Render Element supports different UVW Coordinate types through its different pass types. For more details, please see the Sampler Info Render Element page.
2 – It is supported in V-Ray for 3ds Max 2019. Some OSL maps are not supported yet.
3 – Falloff map does not support Shadow/Light type.
4 – Substance2 is supported.
5 – Shutter efficiency is not supported.
6 – VRayCryptomatte RE is supported when rendering with Bucket Image Sampler.