Pro Tip: Chaos has moved to a Museum Licensing model. If you own a perpetual license for V-Ray 3.x or 4.x, you can continue using it forever, but you will not receive Windows 12 or macOS 16 compatibility patches.
Stay updated by visiting the official Chaos Release Notes history, or check your host app's Extension Manager for the exact build number of V-Ray 7.00.03. vray all versions list
| Version | Release Year | Key Features | |---------|--------------|----------------| | 2.0 | 2010 | V-Ray RT (real-time GPU rendering), VRayCarPaint, VRayFur, Lens Effects, Dome Light. | | 2.1 | 2011 | Improved RT GPU, VRayStereo, VRayMDL, faster proxies. | | 2.2 | 2011 | VRayDirt (AO), VRayMultiSubTex, better network rendering. | | 2.3 | 2012 | VRayBlendMtl, VRayScene, support for 3ds Max 2013. | | 2.4 | 2013 | VRayVolumeGrid (Phoenix FD integration), OpenEXR 2.0, raw caching. | Pro Tip: Chaos has moved to a Museum Licensing model
Supported hosts: 3ds Max, Maya, SketchUp (first integration in 2010), Rhino (2012). Supported hosts: 3ds Max, Maya, SketchUp (first integration
Before the modern naming conventions, V-Ray was a niche product for 3ds Max power users.