V-Ray Next for Rhino includes support for Grasshopper. Grasshopper is a popular Rhino add-on for parametric design. Designers can manage all V-Ray scene assets (lights, textures, materials, scripts and more) from one location, using the live preview function to interactively fine-tune the look of a specific rendering. The new asset management system is designed to be a rendering project control center to streamline workflows and coordinate across projects. Chaos Group recommends using denoising for interactively fine-tuning the look of a scene. No-input denoising is also available through the new NVIDIA AI denoiser, which eliminates image noise “almost instantly,” giving an immediate sense of how a specific lighting scene will look in the final render. V-Ray Scene Intelligence includes an update to V-Ray Camera, which can now set exposure and white balance automatically. V-Ray Next for Rhino brings a variety of rendering and visualization workflow elements into one comprehensive user interface. When used for interiors, ADL removes the need to add separate light portals at windows and openings.

For instance, Chaos Group says the new Adaptive Dome Light (ADL) offers more accurate, image-based environment lighting, resulting in up to 7x faster rendering. V-Ray Scene Intelligence automatically analyzes a 3D scene at the start of a render to automate and optimize many common decisions a designer would make. A new feature, V-Ray Scene Intelligence, also contributes to performance improvements. Improvements to GPU (graphics processing unit) rendering offer another 200% increase in speed, depending on the GPU and the workstation.

Chaos Group says material optimization allows rendering speeds to be up to 50% faster than the previous version of V-Ray. Several enhancements to V-Ray Next directly affect how fast it creates photorealistic renderings. Chaos Group has introduced V-Ray Next for Rhino, calling it “the first smart renderer made for designers.” A variety of new tools expand the core capabilities of Robert McNeel & Associates' Rhino and Grasshopper, linking photorealistic rendering, scene intelligence and asset management, while providing a central workflow hub for the design/visualization experience.

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