Key features of VRED Design and Professional

The new decoupled Material Editor provides full Python API access, together with improved efficiency and usability that was previously unavailable. You can now select multiple materials to make changes, have a better view of complex materials, and navigate through with more flexibility. (video: 1:33 min.)

Get better support for Substance materials. A powerful filtering mechanism gives more flexibility and a better overview. The updated Material Editor also includes different geometric representations of material and corrected texture tilling. (video: 2:48 min.)

Take advantage of dramatically improved performance when starting ray tracing and a more natural immersive experience when working with pointers and other objects. (video: 1:25 min.)

New shader models and GPU ray tracing improvements provide superior rendering quality. (video: 1:33 min.)

Includes enhanced UV editor, support for Alias reference assemblies, and new texture-based light baking. (video: 2:06 min.)

Enhanced VRED streaming capabilities, including UI improvements and expanded device support. (video: 2:22 min.)

VRED 2022 enables you to use real-time depth of field, both in OpenGL and CPU ray tracing, as well as for animations. (video: 49 sec.)

Greater option selection with screen space ambient occlusion provides better quality with minimal artifacts. (video: 55 sec.)

VRED 2021.1
The completely overhauled UV editor is more automated, now providing more Maya-like results. (video: 2:09 min.)

VRED 2021.1
Get better render quality with new sampling and ray-tracing techniques, as well as GPU ray-tracing enhancements. (video: 1:02 min.)

VRED 2021.1
Improvements to the VRED Stream app include flexibility with size, browser choice, and connectivity. (video: 51 sec.)

Updates to the volume scattering algorithm enable volume scattering for materials like translucent plastics and marble to achieve a more physically accurate look. (video: 48 sec.)

PROFESSIONAL ONLY
Export a VRED Go file to view in VR or on desktop without having to install VRED. (video: 1:05 min.)

Increase rendering performance and quality by varying the shading rate for different regions of the frame.

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Switch easily between CPU and GPU ray tracing for maximum flexibility between hardware choices.

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Stream Render window content with UI controls to a web browser, desktop, or mobile device.

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Interface improvements and visibility in the render view are among the many enhancements to the Camera function.

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UV Editor improvements include scale checker texture to adjust and better spot distorted areas. (video: 1:44 min)

Navigate more easily within a VRED scene and control which objects to select.

Work more easily with the geometry, promote geometry simply, and communicate your designs more effectively.

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Get support for Alias Variants and Transform Pivots support in VRED with enhancements to the Alias wire import capability.

Wire files from Alias industrial design software are imported with the corresponding layer and tagging information.

PROFESSIONAL ONLY
Improvements to lighting within VRED scenes, as well as support for more functionality in OpenGL mode.

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Visualize HTML 5 content in a VRED scene, including immersive validation of a user HMI design in 3D. (video: 2:26 min.)

Bake light shadows into geometry to get a more natural view of the object with fewer calculations. (video: 31 sec.)

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Accurately simulate the translucent behaviors of materials such as skin, milk, wax, and plastic.

PROFESSIONAL ONLY
Create a lens flare effect for your lights in ray tracing and OpenGL modes.

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Create an atmospheric fog effect in your scene, with controls for color, falloff, and density.

Use a wide range of photorealistic automotive virtual prototyping materials such as glass, car paint, and metal.

Easily control brightness using HDR lighting to illuminate an entire scene with a high-dynamic-range picture.

The camera module’s physical parameters make elaborate post-processing unnecessary.

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Visualize realistic behavior based on captured material data with measured materials.

Efficiently simulate highly detailed surface structure based on texture information in real time.

Single-sided objects can have a simulated thickness to achieve the appropriate index of refraction (IOR).

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Add multiple transforms as variants to Scenegraph nodes to reduce scene size and memory usage. (video: 1:16 min.)

PROFESSIONAL ONLY
Get a more natural look and feel in your VR environment with fully rigged and posable hands and preset gestures in VRED. (video: 56 sec.)

Create keyframe animations in real time. Simulate motion sequences and produce moving images. (video: 2:04 min.)

Present different configurations of your 3D model using Variants and VariantSets.

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In addition to our VR Oculus Rift and HTC Vive support, VRED offers extended support for head-mounted displays.

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Improvements include omnidirectional stereo render for 360-degree style images for mobile and web VR.

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Remotely control a VRED scene from your mobile device when connected to the Internet.

Improved metallic car paint options allow for more realistic automotive virtual prototyping.

Use 3D clipping on digital data, polygons, and even native NURBS data.

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Attach annotations directly to a 3D model during an interactive review.

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Use the same curvature shader evaluation mode available in Alias industrial design software.

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Visual simulation features help you better understand lighting distribution inside a scene.

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Set material override in the Render Layer module. Store render passes in pre-composed layered EXR and PSD files.

For additional post-processing, export your render passes for further adaptations in image processing software.

Improve visual quality for interior scenes with fewer overall samples with a noise reduction tool for rendering.

Rendering modes deliver various levels of display quality and speed. Switch between OpenGL and ray tracing mode.

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Organize how multiple users share a cluster, schedule cluster ray tracing, and manage jobs.

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Organize complex batch processes and execute them sequentially, on a single machine or in a CPU cluster environment.

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Build NURBS topology or rebuild an existing one. With TrueNURBS, you can load native NURBS data from a CAD model.

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Achieve color correctness and capture realistic dispersion effects with wavelength-based spectral rendering.