When users can see their changes depicted in the viewport in real-time, they can make better decisions about where they want to go next. Interactive rendering is essential to the creative process. What do you mean by using Viewport to do reference check for within Unreal? Now, thousands of new people will get access to V-Ray quality, without having to change their workflow. those imported through Datasmith, a custom pipeline, or from the Unreal marketplace – is now a simple process. With this new support, rendering and baking non-V-Ray assets – e.g. Until today, the materials resulting from those paths had not been supported by V-Ray for Unreal. But there others out there who have always approached real-time through an Unreal-based pipeline using Epic’s own materials, or are coming to Unreal from a tool where V-Ray isn’t (e.g., ArchiCAD, Vectorworks, Allplan, MicroStation).

Most times, designs come in from a supported V-Ray application (like 3ds Max, SketchUp, Revit, or Rhino) with V-Ray materials, lights, etc. How might your new release benefit the design process?

V-Ray’s renowned lighting abilities are also integrated for both rendering and as a light baking engine, ensuring high-fidelity stills and animations. Once there, users will have access to the full power of V-Ray Next technology, making the process of creating accurate ray-traced visuals possible directly from Unreal Engine. Now, they can bring those scenes, created in 3ds Max, Rhino and SketchUp, into the Unreal Editor. Since V-Ray is the industry standard, these teams already have a lot of V-Ray scenes and knowledge on hand. V-Ray for Unreal consolidates two workflows (visualization and real-time) into a single pipeline, without making archviz artists learn a new workflow. How is the V-Ray for Unreal valuable for architects? The Update is now free for existing customers. Viewport rendering has also been added, making it easier than ever to produce photorealistic beauty shots and reference checks from within Unreal. V-Ray for Unreal Update 1, has new support for native Unreal materials, which enables designers to ray trace every part of their scene from their existing Unreal projects. Simeon Balabanov, Chaos Group V-Ray for Unreal's Product Manager, spoke about the product’s newly released capabilities to what is said to be the only production rendering workflow designed for real-time.

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