VRay for 3ds Max Manual

V-Ray Renderer Parameters

V-Ray is a renderer plugin for 3ds Max. In order to use V-Ray, you must first select it as your current renderer. You can do that by clicking on the Assign... button in the Current renderers rollout of the Render Scene dialog:

In 3ds Max 9 and later, the V-Ray parameters are divided into several tabs in the render scene dialog; additionally each tab is divided into several rollouts:

For a more detailed description of each rollout, check out the sections below:

	V-Ray Frame Buffer
	Global switches
	Image Sampler (Antialiasing)
	Indirect Illumination (GI)
		Brute force GI
		Irradiance map
		Global photon map
		Light cache
	Caustics
	Environment
	DMC sampler
	Color mapping
	Camera
	Default displacement
	System

All of the parameters are also accessible through MaxScript in 3ds Max 5.x and later. Refer to the V-Ray and MaxScript section for more information.