Chaos Cloud Supported Features

This page provides a table of features supported by Chaos Cloud rendering in 3ds Max.

Supported Features

Cameras

Feature

Chaos Cloud

Motion blur (transformation+deformation)

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(On integer frames)

Camera motion blur

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(On integer frames)

Camera DoF

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Perspective

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VRayPhysicalCamera

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Stereoscopic

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Distortion for Physical Camera

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Geometry

Feature

Chaos Cloud

Triangle meshes

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VRayProxy

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Alembic via proxy

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NURBS

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Subdivisions

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Displacement

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VRayFur

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Hair&Fur

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VRayPlane

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VRaySphere

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Particles (with Particle Flow)

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X-Ref Scene

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VRayInstancer

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VRayClipper

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Lights

Feature

Chaos Cloud CPU

Lights textures

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V-Ray Lights

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Standard Lights

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Photometric Lights

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Ambient Light

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Image based lighting

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3ds Max Default lights

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Global switches

Feature

Chaos Cloud CPU

Displacement

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Lights

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Hidden lights

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Don't render final image

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Override depth

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Override material

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Override material exclude list

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Shadows

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Reflection/Refraction

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Maps

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Glossy effects

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Max ray intensity

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Filter maps

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Secondary rays

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Max transp. levels

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Transp. cutoff

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Light tree and adaptive lights

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Default lights

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Textures

Feature

Chaos Cloud CPU

Bitmap

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Cellular

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Checker

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Color Correction

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Composite

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Dent

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Falloff

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Forest Color

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Gradient

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Gradient ramp5

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Marble

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Mask

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Mix

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Noise

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Output

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OSL Map8

PARTIAL2

Particle Age

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Particle MBlur

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Perlin Marble

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RGB Multiply

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RGB Tint

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Smoke

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Speckle

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Splat

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Stucco

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Substance

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Swirl

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Tiles

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Vertex Color

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Waves

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Wood

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Advanced Wood

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VRayBump2Normal

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VRayColor

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VRayColor2Bump

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VRayCompTex

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VRayCurvature

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VRayDirt

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VRayDistanceTex

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VRayEdgesTex

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VRayFakeFresnelTex

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VRayGLSLTex

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VRayBitmap

images/s/en_GB/6441/ceb41ce4dba5df18f2191c32f0465b43365a715a/_/images/icons/emoticons/check.png

VRayHairInfoTex

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VRayICC

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VRayLUT

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VRayMap

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(deprecated)

VRayMultiSubTex

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VRayNormalMap

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VRayOCIO

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VRayOSLTex

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VRayParticleTex

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VRayPluginNodeTex

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VRayPTex

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VRaySky

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VRaySamplerInfoTex

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VRaySoftBox

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VRayTriplanarTex

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VRayUserColor

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VRayUserScalar

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PhoenixFDOceanTex

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3rd Party Plugins

Feature

Version

Chaos Cloud CPU

ForestPro

v7.1.2

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RailClone

v4.3.2

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MultiScatter

1.623

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ColorCorrect

v3.4.138.22

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Ornatrix

V7
7.2.3.27923 [Latest Stable]

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HairFarm

Professional 2.7.3.232

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MultiTexture

2.04

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Bercon Maps 11

3.04

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Anima

4

PARTIAL10

GrowFX

2.0.0

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tyFlow

v0.16122 [BETA]

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thinkingParticles

6.10 (R 6.10.257)

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SiNi Scatter

 

INITIAL

SiClone

 

INITIAL

ProxSi

 

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SiNi Disperse

 

INITIAL

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"Version" is the latest tested version of the respective plugin with the current official V-Ray version.

Environment

Feature

Chaos Cloud

Spherical Mapping

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Mirror ball mapping

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Angular mapping

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VRayToon

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VRayEnvironmentFog

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VRayAerialPerspective

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VRaySphereFade

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Global Illumination Methods

Feature

Chaos Cloud

Brute Force

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Light Cache

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Irradiance Map

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Other

Feature

Chaos Cloud CPU

VRayShadow

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VRayShadowMap

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VRayStereoRig

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VRayLensEffects (VFB)

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VRayLightMeter

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VRayExposureControl

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VRayVolumeGrid

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Antialiasing

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Color Mapping

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Render Mask (see Image Sampler)

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VFB

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G-Buffer

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VRayMetaballs

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UDIM/UVtile texture tags

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Anisotropy

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Matte objects
(with VRayMtlWrapper and object properties)

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Include/Exclude Lists for Materials

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Include/Exclude Lists for Lights

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Footnotes

1 – The Sampler Info Render Element supports different UVW Coordinate types through its different pass types. For more details, please see the Sampler Info Render Element page.

2 – It is supported in V-Ray for 3ds Max 2019. Some OSL maps are not supported yet.

3 – Falloff map does not support Shadow/Light type.

4 – Substance2 is supported.

5 VRayCryptomatte RE is supported when rendering with Bucket Image Sampler.

6 VRayLightMix will give an output the way it is set in the original scene, and its settings cannot be further edited directly in the cloud environment.

7 – Support is confirmed for tyFlow v0.16122 [BETA] (June 13 2021) . There may be occasional failures with other versions while the product is still in Beta and major changes to it happen.

8 – Using HDRI Environment from max native osl maps can produce a different result when rendering with Cloud.

9 – Gradient Ramp as bump texture is not supported.

10 – Currently, Anima 4D people export to Chaos Cloud produces large size files and their upload to the cloud might be sluggish.

11 BerconGradient Lighting, Random, Particle age, Particle speed and Particle size types are not supported. Normal and Distance types To Object and Object Z are not supported.

12"Limit to visibility" feature is not supported in animations and with multiple cameras with Forest Pro version 7.

13 VRayObjectID is always rendered with Integer (no Anti-Aliasing) mode in Chaos Cloud .

14 – RailClone mapping features are not supported in Chaos Cloud with RailClone's Use Instancing Engine option enabled. More details are available at Itoo's RailClone requirements page under V-Ray RT/GPU.

Notes

  • Currently, Chaos Cloud does not support animated formats for input.