V-Ray 5 for Houdini, Beta - now available!

[Gosho.Genchev]

Hello everyone,

I'm excited to announce that we've officially launched the V-Ray 5 for Houdini Public Beta.

You can apply for the beta here: https://www.chaosgroup.com/vray/houdini/beta
Once you've registered, you can find the download links for your products in: https://my.chaosgroup.com/products

There is a separate forum section for the beta, where you can find information about all new major features: https://forums.chaosgroup.com/forum/...r-houdini-beta


Here's the new feature highlights:

• A redesigned V-Ray Frame Buffer with a new Layer Compositor you can use to fine-tune your images
• Streamlined Renderer UI to improve your rendering workflow with fewer tweaks and less clicks
• The V-Ray 5 Material Library containing over 500 render-ready materials including metals, glass, wood and more
• Light Path Expressions that allow you to construct your own render passes
• Simplified acesCG workflow so V-Ray 5 can automatically convert the colors of textures, light temperatures, etc. to the correct color space, without the need of additional nodes
• A new Sun & Sky analytical model dramatically improves lighting at sunrise and sunset.
• Sheen layer for the V-Ray Material so you can easily achieve soft microfiber fabrics like velvet, satin and silk
• Coat layer for the V-Ray material so you can render faster and more efficiently
• The V-Ray Volume Grid texture for sampling voxel data, with the end goal of providing tighter integration between V-Ray and Houdini’s native Ocean toolset down the line. Native ocean rendering is still being developed.
• Stochastic texture tiling with the new UV Randomizer VOP

For more information, please be sure to check the V-Ray for Houdini documentation's What's New page.
You may also want to check the Release Notes and Known Issues page.

Enjoy!