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Monday, October 15, 2018

Catching Up with V-Ray for Revit – What's New in Versions 3.6 & 3.7

From the Chaos Group website:

WHAT'S NEW

V-Ray 3.7 for Revit now available



FULLY INTERACTIVE RENDERING

Now with support for live geometry changes, you can render your full scene while you design.


REVIT 2019 SUPPORT

Now compatible with Revit 2019 and its new Opaque, Transparent, Metal and Layered material types.

Free update for V-Ray 3.x for Revit customers


RECENTLY ADDED IN V-RAY 3.6



OVERVIEW

See what’s new in V-Ray 3.6 for Revit.


STREAMLINED UI

Updated and streamlined interface for a more intuitive, user-friendly workflow.


HYBRID RENDERING

V-Ray GPU running on NVIDIA CUDA can now take full advantage of all available hardware, including GPUs and CPUs.


FASTER SCENE EXPORT

With our new optimizations and smart caching, translation and rendering of complex scenes is now up to 4 times faster.


ASSET BROWSER

The new Asset Browser now includes materials and proxy objects, and allows you to select and edit multiple items at once.


FILTER MAPS BY LINKED FILES

Filter materials from linked projects separately from project materials.


IMPROVED COLOR MATERIAL

The Color Material now includes options for transparency, glossiness and reflections.


GLOBAL MATERIAL OVERRIDES

Improved user interface with new option to override RPC materials.


V-RAY PROXIES

ArchVision RPC objects can be used as stand-ins for V-Ray proxy objects in your Revit scene to render high resolution models of trees, cars, people and other entourage.


V-RAY GRASS & FUR

Render realistic grass and fur.


INFINITE GROUND PLANE

The Infinite Ground Plane includes new global override controls, an improved UI, and is supported in interactive rendering mode.


AUTOGEN MATERIALS

AutoGen materials are now supported in interactive rendering mode.


IMPROVED SETTINGS SHARING

A new UI makes it easy to share settings between projects and users, including importing settings by category.


IMPROVED STANDALONE MATERIAL EDITOR

A new color picker, and new gradient and color temperature texture maps have been added to the Standalone Material Editor.


IMPROVED V-RAY FRAME BUFFER

Copy the entire frame buffer image to the clipboard, including background and color corrections.

NOW COMPATIBLE WITH VRSCANS*

Access to over 650 photorealistic, drag-and-drop materials.


*Certain limitations apply



V-Ray for Revit is brought to you by Chaos Group. Pricing begins at USD $60/month and $350/year.

There's more information available on the Chaos Group website.

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