Blender and V-Ray for Blender are free and open-source products licensed under the GNU General Public License. Blender is available through the Blender Foundation.
· Download and install the latest official version of V-Ray Blender here.
· Purchase a Universal V-Ray Render Node here
All you need is a V-Ray Standalone aka Universal Render Node. What is a Universal Render Node?
A Universal Render Node. It is a full-featured command-line renderer that supports V-Ray’s native .vrscene file format. It supports V-Ray's complete feature set including CPU & GPU rendering capabilities.
Purchase additional blender render nodes for V-Ray to help you work faster and more efficiently. Utilize your other machines to unload rendering jobs so several computers can be rendering simultaneously.
Additional notes:
Some features and third-party plugins cannot be exported to V-Ray Scene (.vrscene) files.
V-Ray Standalone does not currently support GPU rendering on Apple® Mac OS©.
Quality
Using production-ready ray traced rendering and a full suite of useful tools, V-Ray creates high-quality, professional imagery and animation.
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Speed
V-Ray utilizes mulit-accelerated rendering techniques for optimized speed and scalability.
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Power
V-Ray was built tough so you can render your largest, most complex scenes.
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Creative Control
The full suite of tools and numerous features associated with V-Ray gives you complete control over your projects.
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System Requirements
Processor
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Intel Pentium IV or compatible processor with SSE2 support
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RAM
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4 GB RAM and 4 GB swap minimum – recommended 8 GB or more RAM, 8 GB or more swap file
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Operating system
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Windows XP Professional SP2, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, 32 bit and 64 bit, Ubuntu 12.04, Apple® Mac OS® X 10.6.5 or higher (Snow Leopard)
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USB port
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Required for hardware lock, preferably USB 2.0.
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TCP/IP
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Only IPv4 is supported. IPv6 is currently not supported.
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