Chaos Group will release the first official pre-release of V-Ray, version 1.5. The New version will be revealed at SIGGRAPH 2006, in Boston, USA. V-Ray 1.5 builds on the existing foundation of the V-Ray rendering engine, extends its capabilities and adds many new features:

• Full render elements support inside 3dsmax with nearly 30 render elements available;
• Physically based sun and sky for simulating the natural daylight illumination of the Earth;
• Physically based camera model with real-world parameters (exposure, distortion etc);
• New material types (VRayBlendMtl for layering materials in an efficient manner, VRay2SidedMtl for simulating thin translucent surfaces, VRayFastSSS for simulating subsurface scattering in translucent materials like humnan skin, and more);
• Detail enhancement for the irradiance map - a blend between the irradiance map and QMC GI to bring the best of both worlds;
• Adaptive path tracing;
• VRayDirt texture map for simulating dirt or ambient occlusion;
• Improved distributed rendering;
• Improved V-Ray virtual frame buffer;
• Multi-platform SDK for extended virtually any part of the rendering engine;

V-Ray had enourmous success on the market and it become the renderer of choice in big production studios across the globe. LINK: [1] http://www.chaosgroup.com/

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