V-Ray 5 for 3ds Max is officially released

Now you can do more with your renderer than ever before. Composite renders and interactively relight your scenes in the new V-Ray Frame Buffer. Set up materials fast with new presets and over 500 ready-made shaders.

Go beyond rendering - post-process your projects in V-Ray

• LIGHT MIXING - explore lighting possibilities interactively in real-time. Use LightMix in the new V-Ray Frame Buffer to freely experiment with lighting changes after you render, save out permutations, and push back improvements you’d like to have in your scene.
• LAYERED COMPOSITING - the new Layer compositor lets you fine-tune and finish your images directly in the new V-Ray Frame Buffer — without the need for a separate post-processing app.

Explore creativity without limits - optimize your workflow

• MATERIAL MANAGER - efficiently browse from a library of over 500 render-ready materials including metals, glass, wood and more.
• MATERIAL PRESETS - save time creating common materials with presets for aluminum, chrome, glass and more. Presets for most used hair colors have also been added.
• MATERIAL PREVIEWS - new rendered material swatches show you exactly what your materials will look like.
• COAT LAYER - add reflective coatings directly in the updated V-Ray Material, saving you both material creation and rendering time vs. using Blend material.
• SHEEN LAYER - create soft microfiber fabrics like velvet, satin and silk with the new Sheen options in the updated V-Ray Material.
• TEXTURE RANDOMIZATION - add variety to your scene with the new VRayUVWRandomizer map and enhanced VRayMultiSubTex controls.
• STOCHASTIC TEXTURE TILING - automatically remove texture tiling artifacts with the new Stochastic tiling option on the VRayUVWRandomizer.
• EXTENDED V-RAY DIRT - weathered streaks and dirt in crevices are now easy with the enhanced V-Ray Dirt, which now employs both ambient and inner occlusion.
• NEW SUN AND SKY MODEL - reproduce the subtleties of twilight when the sun is below the horizon with the new Sun and Sky model.

And more

• LIGHT PATH EXPRESSIONS - use the behavior of light, rather than just geometry, to produce flexible masks for very efficient compositing. Built-in presets make getting started easy, while scripting is there for ultimate control.
• BLUE-NOISE SAMPLING - achieve better noise distribution with fewer samples.
• NATIVE ACEScg SUPPORT - select industry-standard ACEScg for rendering with automatic color space adjustment for textures, dispersion, sun & sky, and light temperature colors.
• INITIAL OUT-OF-CORE - initial out-of-core implementation to handle your largest scenes.

Try V-Ray 5 for 3ds Max at https://www.chaosgroup.com/try-vray5