Ideas

New type for the V-Ray Light - Cylindrical. Fast and easy way of creating a new form of render-friendly lights.

Add shadow softness/sharpness controls in V-RayDome (with HDRI). (Control the size of light-generating pixels within HDRI?) In other words, if the Dome texture sampling generates internal lights, it would be nice to be able to adjust the size of t...

I want to achieve these motion-blurred trails left by the star, similar to when we have a super slow exposure time.

There's currently only a very limited set of ways to control vray lights. Other renderers have a wide range of ways to shape and affect light sources. Ranging from simple barndoor controls, over spotlight control and softness to focus tinting and ...

Would be possible to add a lock aspect ration button next to the light's width and height parameters to be possible to change the light size proportionally?

Similar to Arnold Lights where you can change the shape and soft edges of the light, suitable for reflections, currently we can use VraySoftBox map to achieve soft edges but its nott very practical

When searching online on how to deepen shadows in Vray for Maya with Ambient Occlusion, it is said you need to add a ExtraTex Render Element and in that you then need to add a Vray Dirt Texture and then you need to composite it. A very cumbersome ...

All Maya users would benefit from a procedural system. Bifrost is growing with each release and it makes sense to support it.

i am also wondering if there is any way to disable dof for image planes? this would be very useful for quick preview renders with the physical camera dof enabled A VFB background is not affected but very limited with its placement, enviroment back...

Might there be a way of making the VRayLayeredTex viewable in the viewport? When I use it, instead of being able to see the composition of layers I just get a blank shader.