Luckily, there are several great alternatives to V-Ray that don’t come slapped with a hefty price tag and a user’s manual the size of an ancient tome. However, for many casual renderers or those looking to dip their toes in the proverbial water, dropping the cost and time commitment required to best utilize V-Ray is a daunting uphill climb that typically results in regret and disappointment. Very few people who are even closely associated with computers and graphics technology know what Chaos Group’s flagship software is, and how dominant it is in terms of user-base and capability. V-Ray has been lining the bed of the visualization and rendering industry since the early days of computer generated graphics.

Contribute to ChaosGroup/blenderwithvrayadditions development by creating an account on GitHub. Blender with patches for V-Ray.vrscene export.

The plugin extends the Blender interface with V-Ray specific features. After that, Andrei joined Chaos Group and the development of the plugin continues. The project has been started by Andrei Izrantcev when Blender 2.5 was released.

V-Ray for Blender is an open-source plugin that integrates Chaos Group's rendering engine in Blender.

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