V-Ray for Cinema 4D
Supported Features
Cinema 4D shaders marked as baked are supported by V-Ray via the Bake Cinema 4D Shaders option available in Render Settings > Overrides > Textures or via the VRayC4DBake texture.
Last updated 11 February 2026
Rendering
Feature | V-Ray | V-Ray GPU |
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Feature | V-Ray | V-Ray GPU |
|---|---|---|
Cinema 4D Team Render 6 | ||
Stereoscopic Rendering | ||
Resumable Rendering | ||
Viewport Interactive Rendering |
Geometry
Feature | V-Ray | V-Ray GPU |
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Feature | V-Ray | V-Ray GPU |
|---|---|---|
V-Ray Proxy | ||
V-Ray Scene 3 | ||
Geometry tag | ||
Object Properties tag | ||
V-Ray Fur | ||
V-Ray Clipper | (without Mesh mode) | |
Cinema 4D Floor | ||
Renderable Spline tag | ||
Perfect Sphere | ||
V-Ray Enmesh | ||
V-Ray Decal | ||
V-Ray Gaussians | ||
V-Ray Particles | ||
Chaos Scatter | ||
User Data Tag |
Render Elements
Feature | V-Ray | V-Ray GPU |
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Feature | V-Ray | V-Ray GPU |
|---|---|---|
Preset: Back to Beauty | ||
Atmospheric Effects | ||
Background | ||
Bump Normals | ||
Caustics | (Production mode) | |
Coat Specular | ||
Coat Filter | ||
Coat Glossiness | ||
Coat Reflection | ||
Coverage | ||
Cryptomatte | ||
Denoiser | ||
Diffuse | ||
Extra Tex(ture) | ||
GI | ||
LightMix | ||
Light Select | ||
Lighting | ||
Material ID | ||
Material Select | ||
Matte Shadow | ||
Metalness | ||
Multi Matte | ||
Multi Matte ID | ||
Normals | ||
Object ID | ||
Object Select | ||
Raw Coat Filter | ||
Raw Coat Reflection | ||
Raw Sheen Filter | ||
Raw Sheen Reflection | ||
Raw GI | ||
Raw Light | ||
Raw Reflection | ||
Raw Refraction | ||
Raw Shadow | ||
Raw Total Light | ||
Reflect IOR | ||
Reflection | ||
Reflection Filter | ||
Reflection Glossiness | ||
Reflection Highlight Glossiness | ||
Refraction | ||
Refraction Filter | ||
Refraction glossiness | ||
Render ID | ||
Sheen | ||
Sheen Glossiness | ||
Sheen Filter | ||
SSS | ||
Sample Rate | ||
Sampler Info | PARTIAL8 | |
Self Illumination | ||
Shadow | ||
Specular | ||
Toon | ||
Toon Lighting | ||
Toon Specular | ||
Total Light | ||
Velocity | ||
Z Depth |
Textures 10
Feature | Type | V-Ray | V-Ray GPU |
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Feature | Type | V-Ray | V-Ray GPU |
|---|---|---|---|
VRayAColorOP | Classic | ||
VRayBitmap | Classic+Node | ||
VRayC4DBake | Classic | ||
VRayCurvature | Classic+Node | ||
VRayDirt | Classic+Node | PARTIAL | |
VRayDistance | Classic+Node | ||
VRayFalloff | Classic+Node | ||
VRayFresnel | Classic+Node | ||
VRayHairSampler | Classic+Node | ||
VRayLayered | Classic+Node | ||
VRayMix | Classic+Node | ||
VRayMultiSubTex | Classic+Node | ||
VRayNormalMap | Classic+Node | ||
VRayOCIO | Classic+Node | ||
VRayRamp | Classic+Node | ||
VRaySamplerInfo | Classic+Node | ||
VRaySky | Classic | ||
VRaySoftbox | Classic+Node | ||
VRayTriPlanar | Classic+Node | ||
VRayUVWChannel | Classic+Node | ||
VRayUVWRandomizer | Classic+Node | PATIAL | |
VRayUserColor | Classic | ||
VRayUserScalar | Classic | ||
VRayUserInteger | Classic | ||
Cellular | Node | ||
Checker | Node | ||
Color Arithmetic | Node | ||
Color Channel | Node | ||
Color Correction | Node | ||
Color | Node | ||
Color Range | Node | ||
Color to Float | Node | ||
Color to UVW | Node | ||
Combine Color | Node | ||
Compose Color | Node | ||
Bump to Glossiness | Node | ||
Edges | Node | ||
Float Arithmetic | Node | ||
Float to Color | Node | ||
Invert Float | Node | ||
Invert | Node | ||
Luminance | Node | ||
Maxon Noise | Node | ||
Noise Max | Node | ||
Particle Sampler | Node | PARTIAL | |
Remap | Node | ||
RGB to HSV | Node | ||
Smoke | Node | ||
Splat | Node | baked | |
Stucco | Node | baked | |
Tiles | Node | baked | |
UVW Object | Node | ||
UVW Place 2D | Node | ||
UVW Projection | Node | ||
UVW to Color | Node | ||
UVW Transform | Node | ||
Value 5 | Node | ||
Vector Product | Node | ||
Vertex Color | Node |
Overrides
Feature | V-Ray | V-Ray GPU |
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Feature | V-Ray | V-Ray GPU |
|---|---|---|
Material Override |
Effectors
Feature | V-Ray | V-Ray GPU |
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Feature | V-Ray | V-Ray GPU |
|---|---|---|
MoGraph Shader |
Camera
Feature | V-Ray | V-Ray GPU |
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Feature | V-Ray | V-Ray GPU |
|---|---|---|
Cinema 4D Camera | PARTIAL | PARTIAL |
V-Ray Camera |
Special Object
Feature | V-Ray | V-Ray GPU |
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Feature | V-Ray | V-Ray GPU |
|---|---|---|
Cinema 4D Stage 4 | PARTIAL |
Mograph Objects
Feature | V-Ray | V-Ray GPU |
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Feature | V-Ray | V-Ray GPU |
|---|---|---|
Cloner | PARTIAL | |
Matrix | PARTIAL |
Cinema 4D Shaders
Feature | V-Ray | V-Ray GPU |
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Feature | V-Ray | V-Ray GPU |
|---|---|---|
Standard Material 11 | PARTIAL | PARTIAL |
Color | ||
Fresnel | PARTIAL | PARTIAL |
Gradient | PARTIAL | PARTIAL |
Noise | ||
Colorizer | ||
Filter | PARTIAL | PARTIAL 2 |
Fusion | PARTIAL | PARTIAL |
Layer | PARTIAL | PARTIAL |
Posterizer | baked | baked |
Effects | ||
Ambient Occlusion | ||
Backlight | ||
ChanLum | ||
Distorter | ||
Falloff | ||
Lens Distortion | ||
Lumas | ||
Normal Direction | ||
Normalizer | ||
Pixel | ||
Projector | PARTIAL | PARTIAL |
Proximal | ||
Ripple | ||
Spectral | ||
Spline | ||
Subsurface Scattering | ||
Terrain Mask | ||
Thin Film | ||
Variation | ||
Vertex Map | ||
Weathering | ||
MoGraph12 | ||
Beat Shader | baked | baked |
Camera Shader | baked | baked |
Color Shader | ||
Multi Shader | ||
Sketch and Toon | ||
Art | baked | baked |
Cel | baked | baked |
Hatch | baked | baked |
Spots | baked | baked |
Surfaces | ||
Brick | baked | baked |
Checkerboard | ||
Cloud | baked | baked |
Cyclone | baked | baked |
Display Color | baked | baked |
Earth | baked | baked |
Fire | baked | baked |
Flame | baked | baked |
Formula | baked | baked |
Galaxy | baked | baked |
Marble | baked | baked |
Metal | baked | baked |
Pavement | baked | baked |
Planet | baked | baked |
Rust | baked | baked |
Simple Noise | ||
Simple Turbulence | baked | baked |
Starfield | baked | baked |
Stars | baked | baked |
Sunburst | baked | baked |
Tiles | baked | baked |
Venus | baked | baked |
Water | baked | baked |
Wood | baked | baked |
Moves Face Shader | baked | baked |
Polygon Hair | baked | baked |
Substance Shader | baked | baked |
Particle Systems Channels
Particle Type | Channel |
|---|
Particle Type | Channel |
|---|---|
Thinking Particles Group | Particle ID |
X-Particles | Particle ID |
Cinema 4D Emitter (Legacy) | Particle ID |
MoGraph Generators (Matrix, Cloner) | Particle ID |
Cinema 4D Emitter13 | Particle ID |
Redshift Shaders 9
Feature | V-Ray | V-Ray GPU |
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Feature | V-Ray | V-Ray GPU |
|---|---|---|
Texture | ||
Wireframe | ||
Maxon Noise | ||
Curvature | ||
Fresnel | ||
Ramp | ||
Bump Blender | ||
Material (Legacy) | ||
Ambient Occlusion | ||
Scalar Ramp | ||
Color Constant | ||
Color Maker | ||
Color Splitter | ||
Incandescent | ||
Color Layer | ||
Material Layer | ||
Material Blender |
Corona Materials15
Feature | V-Ray | V-Ray GPU |
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Feature | V-Ray | V-Ray GPU |
|---|---|---|
Corona Hair Material | ||
Corona Layered Material | ||
Corona Legacy Material | 14 | 14 |
Corona Light Material | ||
Corona Physical Material | ||
Corona Rayswitcher Material | ||
Corona Scanned Material | ||
Corona Select Material | ||
Corona Shadow Catcher Material | ||
Corona Skin Material | ||
Corona Slicer Material | ||
Corona Volume Material |
Corona Shaders15
Feature | V-Ray | V-Ray GPU |
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Feature | V-Ray | V-Ray GPU |
|---|---|---|
Corona AO Shader | ||
Corona Bitmap Shader | ||
Corona Color Correct Shader | ||
Corona Color Mix Shader | ||
Corona Curvature Shader | ||
Corona Data Shader | ||
Corona Distance Shader | ||
Corona Edge Shader | ||
Corona Mapping Randomizer Shader | PARTIAL16 | PARTIAL16 |
Corona Mixture Shader | ||
Corona Multi Shader | PARTIAL16 | PARTIAL16 |
Corona Normal Shader | ||
Corona Ray Switch Shader | ||
Corona Round Edges Shader | ||
Corona Select Shader | ||
Corona Sky Shader | ||
Corona Tile Shader | ||
Corona Tonemap Control Shader | ||
Corona Triplanar Shader | ||
Corona Wire Shader |
Tags
Feature | V-Ray | V-Ray GPU |
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Feature | V-Ray | V-Ray GPU |
|---|---|---|
Compositing |
Footnotes
Cinema 4D shaders marked as baked are supported by V-Ray via the Bake Cinema 4D Shaders option available in Render Settings > Overrides > Textures or via the VRayC4DBake texture.
- The new Progressive Caustics method works only with the Progressive Image Sampler and on CPU.
- The Spline Interpolation is currently not supported. The Colorize option is not supported at the moment. Positive values for Lightness in the native Filter shader do not currently produce the expected results.
- Currently, V-Ray Scene does not import V-Ray Sky in Cinema 4D. V-Ray Scene does not refresh when working with Interactive rendering.
- Currently, only the V-Ray Physical Camera and Python tags work with the Cinema 4D Stage environment.
- Vector2d, Vector4d and TimeValue Data Type are not supported.
- V-Ray Output System is not compatible with Cinema 4D Team Render. Performing single frame renders with enabled denoiser and lens effects can lead to unwanted results.
- Fire Lights, Volume Light Cache options, isosurface rendering and meshing, are not supported with V-Ray GPU.
- Not all render elements produced by the Sampler Info render element are supported or produce the same results both in CPU and GPU. For a full list of the produced render elements and their support, see the Sampler Info Re page.
- Redshift shaders are supported by V-Ray provided the Convert Materials tool is used to convert the Redshift nodes first.
10. V-Ray Node textures are also supported on both CPU and GPU when converted to Classic materials using the Convert Materials tool.
11. Only Color (except Model Oren-Nayar), Brightness, Diffusion, and Transparency are supported.
12. The MoGraph Shader are only available for the V-Ray Classic Materials; however, note that classic materials can be converted into nodes using the Convert Materials tool.
13. The Cinema 4D particle systems, introduced with Cinema 2024.4, are supported on V-Ray for Cinema 2024.4.1 and above.
14. Corona Legacy materials can be converted to Corona Physical Materials and then converted to V-Ray materials.
15. Corona Materials can be imported into V-Ray using the V-Ray Convert Materials tool, they are not supported directly.
16. The Corona Mapping Randomizer Shader and Corona Multi Shader are only supported in Objects, Material ID, Object buffer ID, and Mesh element modes.