Cloud rendering has been an increasingly popular feature for many 3D rendering platforms in recent years. Chaos Group is the next company in the 3D rendering realm to begin offering cloud rendering services. Earlier this month, Chaos Group moved V-Ray Cloud out of Beta status and rebranded the service to Chaos Cloud. In this post, we’ll describe what Chaos Cloud is, what the pricing is like, and what platforms are compatible.

What is Chaos Cloud?

Chaos Cloud is a cloud rendering service for V-Ray software. Cloud rendering allows you to send your render jobs to Chaos Group’s rendering service instead of using your own hardware. The benefit of doing this is that you can make use of Chaos Group’s high-end render farms, which will render your jobs much quicker than your own computer. Sending your job to Chaos Cloud will also allow you to keep using your computer smoothly while the render is processed.

You can access Chaos Cloud through your account on the Chaos Group website. This site allows you to view your jobs, queue up new jobs, change job settings, and resubmit jobs. Since these features are included on a website, they are accessible through mobile devices.

Chaos Cloud Credit Packages

Getting access to the Chaos Cloud requires that you have cloud credits associated with your account. Cloud credits represent computation time on the cloud. There are several packages available, each includes a set amount of credits. By owning credits, your account will be allowed access to the cloud service so you can submit rendering jobs through the Chaos Group cloud rendering service. Chaos Group states that the amount of credits required for a job varies due to numerous factors. To get an idea of how many credits a job might take, we recommend reviewing their sample scenes. The number of credits that were used to render the scenes on that page are listed there, which should help give an idea of how many credits may be needed for your own purposes.

Chaos Cloud Rendering Compatible Platforms

Chaos Cloud is compatible with the following V-Ray platforms:

• V-Ray Next for 3ds Max
• V-Ray Next for Maya
• V-Ray Next for SketchUp
• V-Ray Next for Rhino
• V-Ray 3.6 for SketchUp
• V-Ray 3.6 for Rhino
• V-Ray 3.6 for Revit
• V-Ray 3.6 for Modo
• V-Ray 3.7 for Cinema4D
• V-Ray for Houdini beta

Note that you must install the Chaos Cloud Client Application before you can send jobs from your V-Ray program to Chaos Cloud.

Conclusion

Chaos Cloud provides the ideal solution for fast, high-quality renders of your V-Ray projects. Chaos Cloud credit packages can be purchased to allow you access to the Chaos Cloud. If you have any questions about Chaos Cloud, we recommend reviewing the Chaos Cloud FAQ.