V-Ray Next for Nuke helps compositors and studios be more efficient and have more creative control.

V-Ray for NUKE's approach to lighting and compositing integrates production-quality ray traced rendering into NUKE and NUKEX. V-Ray’s industry standard ray traced renderer inside NUKE’s industry standard compositing package gives artists the best of both worlds.

Key Features
POWERFUL RAY TRACED RENDERING

V-Ray for Nuke brings powerful adaptive ray traced rendering to any compositing pipeline. It’s the most full-featured rendering solution for Nuke, NukeX and Nuke Studio.
    
NODE-BASED INTEGRATION
With a full suite of advanced rendering tools and support for Nuke's native features, V-Ray for Nuke is a natural evolution of the compositing workflow.
    
ACCURATE LIGHTING
Simulate realistic ray traced lighting and shadows with a wide range of light types including spot lights, area lights, HDR environments, Nuke lights and more.
    
GLOBAL ILLUMINATION
Render accurate indirect illumination with V-Ray’s precise ray traced GI. Now with light cache support.

PHYSICALLY-BASED MATERIALS
Create multilayered physical materials directly in Nuke. Choose from purpose-built shaders for car paint, SSS, skin and more.
    
PRODUCTION-READY TEXTURES
Choose from a number of production-ready texture types including tiled EXR & TX files, layered textures, ambient occlusion and procedural noise.
    
CAMERAS
Select from a variety of camera types including physical cameras, VR panoramas and Nuke projection cameras.
    
VR CAMERAS
Render to popular VR formats including spherical and cubic 6x1 panoramas.

GEOMETRY
Import Alembic, FBX and OBJ geometry with Nuke's built-in ReadGeo node.
    
PROXY OBJECTS
Import and render memory-efficient proxy objects as Alembic or V-Ray mesh files.
       
RENDER ELEMENTS
Generate beauty, matte and utility passes on the fly. V-Ray for Nuke includes more than 37 built-in render elements for ultimate control.
    
V-RAY TRANSLATOR NODE
Use the full power of V-Ray Standalone, including distributed rendering.