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 |
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Cinema 4D Team Render 6 | ||
Stereoscopic Rendering | ||
Resumable Rendering | ||
Viewport Interactive Rendering |
Geometry
Feature | V-Ray | V-Ray GPU |
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V-Ray Proxy | ||
V-Ray Scene 3 | ||
Displacement | ||
V-Ray Fur | ||
V-Ray Clipper | (without Mesh mode) | |
Cinema 4D Floor | ||
Renderable Spline tag | ||
Perfect Sphere | ||
V-Ray Enmesh | ||
V-Ray Decal | ||
V-Ray Particles | ||
Chaos Scatter |
Camera
Feature | V-Ray | V-Ray GPU |
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Cinema 4D Camera | PARTIAL | PARTIAL |
V-Ray Camera |
Special Object
Feature | V-Ray | V-Ray GPU |
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Cinema 4D Stage 4 | PARTIAL |
Mograph Objects
Feature | V-Ray | V-Ray GPU |
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Cloner | PARTIAL | |
Matrix | PARTIAL |
Lighting
Feature | V-Ray | V-Ray GPU |
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V-Ray Lights | ||
Light instancing | ||
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 |
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Brute Force | ||
Light Cache | ||
Caustics | PARTIAL 1 |
Materials
Feature | V-Ray | V-Ray GPU |
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Al Surface | ||
Blend | ||
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 | ||
Toon |
Volumetrics
Feature | V-Ray | V-Ray GPU |
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Environment Fog | PARTIAL (without Cutoff Threshold) | |
V-Ray VolumeGrid | PARTIAL 7 | |
V-Ray Toon |
Render Elements
Feature | V-Ray | V-Ray GPU |
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Preset: Back to Beauty | ||
Atmospheric Effects | ||
Background | ||
Bump Normals | ||
Caustics | (Production mode) | |
Coat Specular | ||
Coat Filter | ||
Coat Glossiness | ||
Coat Reflection | ||
Coverage |
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Cryptomatte | ||
Denoiser | ||
Diffuse | ||
Extra Tex(ture) | ||
GI | ||
LightMix | ||
Light Select | ||
Lighting | ||
Material ID | ||
Material Select | ||
Matte Shadow | ||
Metalness | ||
Multi Matte | ||
Multi Matte ID | ||
Normals | ||
Object ID | ||
Object Select | ||
Raw Coat Filter | ||
Raw Coat Reflection | ||
Raw Sheen Filter | ||
Raw Sheen Reflection | ||
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 | ||
Sheen | ||
Sheen Glossiness | ||
Sheen Filter | ||
SSS | ||
Sample Rate | ||
Self Illumination | ||
Shadow | ||
Specular | ||
Toon | ||
Total Light | ||
Velocity | ||
Z Depth |
Textures
Feature | Type | V-Ray | V-Ray GPU |
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VRayBitmap | Classic+Node | ||
VRayC4DBake | Classic | ||
VRayCurvature | Classic+Node | ||
VRayDirt | Classic+Node | PARTIAL | |
VRayDistance | Classic+Node | ||
VRayFalloff | Classic+Node | ||
VRayFresnel | Classic+Node | ||
VRayHairSampler | Classic+Node | ||
VRayLayered | Classic+Node | ||
VRayMix | Classic+Node | ||
VRayMultiSubTex | Classic+Node | ||
VRayNormalMap | Classic+Node | ||
VRayOCIO | Classic+Node | ||
VRayRamp | Classic+Node | ||
VRaySamplerInfo | Classic+Node | ||
VRaySky | Classic | ||
VRaySoftbox | Classic+Node | ||
VRayTriPlanar | Classic+Node | ||
VRayUVWChannel | Classic+Node | ||
VRayUVWRandomizer | Classic+Node | ||
VRayUserColor | Classic | ||
VRayUserScalar | Classic | ||
VRayUserInteger | Classic | ||
Cellular | Node | ||
Checker | Node | ||
Color Arithmetic | Node | ||
Color Channel | Node | ||
Color Correction | Node | ||
Color | Node | ||
Color Range | Node | ||
Color to Float | Node | ||
Color to UVW | Node | ||
Combine Color | Node | ||
Compose Color | Node | ||
Bump to Glossiness | Node | ||
Edges | Node | ||
Float Arithmetic | Node | ||
Float to Color | Node | ||
Invert Float | Node | ||
Invert | Node | ||
Luminance | Node | ||
Maxon Noise | Node | ||
Noise Max | Node | ||
Particle Sampler | Node | ||
Remap | Node | ||
RGB to HSV | Node | ||
Smoke | Node | ||
Splat | Node | BAKED | |
Stucco | Node | BAKED | |
Tiles | Node | BAKED | |
UVW Object | Node | ||
UVW Projection | Node | ||
UVW to Color | Node | ||
UVW Transform | Node | ||
Value 5 | Node | ||
Vector Product | Node | ||
Vertex Color | Node |
Overrides
Feature | V-Ray | V-Ray GPU |
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Material Override |
Effectors
Feature | V-Ray | V-Ray GPU |
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MoGraph Shader |
Cinema 4D Shaders
Feature | V-Ray | V-Ray GPU |
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Color | ||
Fresnel | PARTIAL | PARTIAL |
Gradient | PARTIAL | PARTIAL (Except: Turbulence) |
Noise | ||
Colorizer | ||
Filter | PARTIAL | PARTIAL 2 |
Fusion | PARTIAL | PARTIAL |
Layer | PARTIAL | PARTIAL |
Posterizer | BAKED | BAKED |
Effects | ||
Ambient Occlusion | ||
Backlight | ||
ChanLum | ||
Distorter | ||
Falloff | ||
Lens Distortion | ||
Lumas | ||
Normal Direction | ||
Normalizer | ||
Pixel | ||
Projector | PARTIAL | PARTIAL |
Proximal | ||
Ripple | ||
Spectral | ||
Spline | ||
Subsurface Scattering | ||
Terrain Mask | ||
Thin Film | ||
Variation | ||
Vertex Map | ||
Weathering | ||
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 |
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.
V-Ray for Cinema 4D 2023 and newer supports native OCIO color management.
1. The new Progressive Caustics method works only with the Progressive Image Sampler and on CPU.
2. The Spline Interpolation is currently not supported. The Colorize option is not supported at the moment. Positive values for Lightness in the native Filter shader do not currently produce the expected results.
3. Currently, V-Ray Scene does not import V-Ray Sky in Cinema 4D. V-Ray Scene does not refresh when working with Interactive rendering.
4. Currently, only the V-Ray Physical Camera and Python tags work with the Cinema 4D Stage environment.
5. Vector2d, Vector4d and TimeValue Data Type are not supported.
6. V-Ray Output System is not compatible with Cinema 4D Team Render. Performing single frame renders with enabled denoiser and lens effects can lead to unwanted results.
7. Fire Lights and Volume Light Cache options, as well as isosurface rendering and meshing, are not supported with V-Ray GPU.