This page provides information on supported features in V-Ray for Cinema 4D based on the rendering type and hardware architecture.
Rendering
| Feature | V-Ray | V-Ray GPU |
|---|---|---|
| Cinema 4D Team Render |  | |
Geometry
| Feature | V-Ray | V-Ray GPU |
|---|---|---|
| V-Ray Proxy |  | |
| Displacement | | |
| V-Ray Fur | | |
| V-Ray Clipper | | (without Mesh mode) |
Lighting
Feature | V-Ray | V-Ray GPU |
|---|---|---|
V-Ray Lights | | |
| Image-based lighting | | |
| Light and shadow linking | | |
| Cinema 4D Omni Light | PARTIAL | PARTIAL |
| Cinema 4D Spot Light | PARTIAL | PARTIAL |
| Cinema 4D Infinite Light | PARTIAL | PARTIAL |
| Cinema 4D Area Light | PARTIAL | PARTIAL |
| Cinema 4D IES Light | PARTIAL | PARTIAL |
| Cinema 4D Sun Light | PARTIAL | PARTIAL |
| Cinema 4D PBR Light | PARTIAL | PARTIAL |
Global Illumination Methods
| Feature | V-Ray | V-Ray GPU |
|---|---|---|
Brute Force | | |
| Light Cache |
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| Caustics | | PARTIAL 1 |
Render Elements
| Feature | V-Ray | V-Ray GPU |
|---|---|---|
| Preset: Back to Beauty | | |
| Atmospheric Effects | | |
| Background |
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| Bump Normals | | |
| Caustics | (Production mode) | |
| Coat Specular | | |
| Coat Filter | | |
| Coat Glossiness | | |
| Coat Reflection | | |
| Coverage |
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| Cryptomatte |
| PARTIAL |
| Denoiser | | |
| Diffuse | | |
| GI | | |
| LightMix | | |
Light Select | |
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| Lighting | | |
| Material ID | | |
| Material Select | | |
| Matte Shadow | | |
| Normals | | |
| Object ID | | |
| Object Select | | |
| Raw GI | | |
| Raw Light | | |
| Raw Reflection | | |
| Raw Refraction | | |
| Raw Shadow | | |
| Raw Total Light | | |
| Reflect IOR | | |
| Reflection | | |
| Reflection Filter | | |
| Reflection Glossiness | | |
| Reflection Highlight Glossiness | | |
| Refraction | | |
| Refraction Filter | | |
| Refraction glossiness | | |
| Render ID | | |
| SSS | | |
| Sample Rate | | |
| Self Illumination | | |
| Shadow | | |
| Specular | | |
| Total Light | | |
| Velocity | | |
| Z Depth | | |
Materials
| Feature | V-Ray | V-Ray GPU |
|---|---|---|
| Al Surface | | |
| Blend | |
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| Car Paint 2 | | |
| Light | |
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| V-Ray Material | |
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| Fast SSS2 | | PARTIAL (without raytraced (solid) and raytraced (refractive)) |
| Hair Next | | |
| Bump | | |
| 2 Sided | | |
| Scanned | | |
Textures
| Feature | V-Ray | V-Ray GPU |
|---|---|---|
| VRayBitmap | | |
| VRayC4DBake | | |
| VRayCurvature | | |
| VRayDirt | | PARTIAL |
| VRayDistance | | |
| VRayFalloff | | |
| VRayFresnel | | |
| VRayLayered | | |
| VRaySky | | |
| VRayTriPlanar | | |
Cinema 4D Shaders
| Feature | V-Ray | V-Ray GPU |
|---|---|---|
| Color |
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| Fresnel |
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| Gradient | | |
| Noise | | |
| Colorizer | BAKED | BAKED |
| Filter | | |
| Fusion | BAKED | BAKED |
| Layer | PARTIAL | PARTIAL |
| Posterizer | BAKED | BAKED |
Effects | ||
| Ambient Occlusion |
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| Backlight |
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| ChanLum |
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| Distorter |
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| Falloff |
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| Lens Distortion |
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| Lumas |
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| Normal Direction |
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| Normalizer |
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| Pixel |
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| Projector |
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| Proximal |
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| Ripple |
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| Spectral |
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| Spline |
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| Subsurface Scattering |
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| Terrain Mask |
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| Thin Film |
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| Variation |
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| Vertex Map | | |
| Weathering |
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| MoGraph | ||
| Beat Shader | BAKED | BAKED |
| Camera Shader | BAKED | BAKED |
| Color Shader | BAKED | BAKED |
| Multi Shader | BAKED | BAKED |
| Sketch and Toon | ||
| Art | BAKED | BAKED |
| Cel | BAKED | BAKED |
| Hatch | BAKED | BAKED |
| Spots | BAKED | BAKED |
| Surfaces | ||
| Brick | BAKED | BAKED |
| Checkerboard | | |
| Cloud | BAKED | BAKED |
| Cyclone | BAKED | BAKED |
| Display Color | BAKED | BAKED |
| Earth | BAKED | BAKED |
| Fire | BAKED | BAKED |
| Flame | BAKED | BAKED |
| Formula | BAKED | BAKED |
| Galaxy | BAKED | BAKED |
| Marble | BAKED | BAKED |
| Metal | BAKED | BAKED |
| Pavement | BAKED | BAKED |
| Planet | BAKED | BAKED |
| Rust | BAKED | BAKED |
| Simple Noise | | |
| Simple Turbulence | BAKED | BAKED |
| Starfield | BAKED | BAKED |
| Stars | BAKED | BAKED |
| Sunburst | BAKED | BAKED |
| Tiles | BAKED | BAKED |
| Venus | BAKED | BAKED |
| Water | BAKED | BAKED |
| Wood | BAKED | BAKED |
| Moves Face Shader | BAKED | BAKED |
| Polygon Hair | BAKED | BAKED |
| Substance Shader | BAKED | BAKED |
Overrides
| Feature | V-Ray | V-Ray GPU |
|---|---|---|
| Material Override | | |
Footnotes
Cinema 4D shaders marked as BAKED are supported by V-Ray via the Bake Cinema 4D Shaders option available in Render Settings > Overrides > Textures or via the VRayC4DBake texture.
1. The new Progressive Caustics method works only with the Progressive Image Sampler and on CPU.