If you’ve not come across V-Ray before, it’s essentially a singular physically based rendering system that has been developed for integration in a wide spread of 3D modelling and visualisation systems. This month, we’re going to take an in- depth look at the last update to one of these – namely, V-Ray for Rhino, developed by the Bulgarian team at Chaos Group. While Rhino has its own built-in rendering tools and its own add-ons (Flamingo and more recently, McNeel has built in the open source Cycles renderer), there are a range of third-party vendors looking to add their own special brand of magic. Whether you’re using Rhino for product development, architectural design or something else, there is a huge range of options.

One of the most popular classes of add-on is rendering and visualisation.

Whether you’re looking for stress analysis, CAM or a niche add-on to assist in the development of boat hulls, they’re all available. The final reason for its popularity is, I suspect, the huge wealth of third-party add- ons for the system.

Free vray materials for rhino