Rendering with Chaos® V-Ray®
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Chaos® V-Ray® is an Academy Award-winning 3D rendering software for artists, architects, designers, and jacks-of-all-trades, empowering them to visualize anything they can imagine.
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With its adaptive ray tracing technology and proprietary scene intelligence, V-Ray® allows Cinema 4D users to take full advantage of their hardware, rendering on GPUs, CPUs, or a combination of both to create photorealistic imagery, and composite and make lighting changes after they’ve rendered. Learn more about rendering with V-Ray for Cinema 4D.