V-Ray 5.1n released for Maya and Houdini

Chaos has announced the release of V-Ray 5.1 for Maya and Houdini which includes initial USD support in Maya and Houdini and beta Hydra support in Houdini. Other features include:

• V-Ray Material Library
• Masks in the V-Ray Frame Buffer
• Fog transparency color
• Improved translucent materials
• Improved GPU rendering
• Intel® Open Image Denoise
• Artist-friendly caustics
• Fast rendering of cutouts which involves converting opacity-mapped cutouts of objects like tree leaves into geometry for much faster rendering.
• The Coat and Sheen layers of the V-Ray Material are now visible in the viewport. An initial representation of the VRayLayeredTex is visible in viewport as well.
• V-Ray scene material importer

Find out more about what’s new on the Chaos blog.