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V-Ray includes a shelf with easy shortcuts to some of the most commonly used V-Ray components. The shelf can be added to the shelf dock the first time you launch Houdini with V-Ray installed.
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||Shelf dock + button|| > Shelves > V-Ray
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| Button | Description |
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Render | Starts a Production render and launches the VFB window. Note: A camera must be set in the viewport to start the render. |
Submit | Submits a render job to Chaos Cloud. For more information on Cloud rendering with V-Ray, see the Rendering in Chaos Cloud. |
| Show VFB | Launches the V-Ray Frame Buffer window. |
Physical Camera | Adds V-Ray Physical Camera properties to the active Houdini Camera. |
| Object Properties | Adds a number of properties on per-object basis. See the Object Properties page for more information. |
| Displacement Properties | Assigns displacement properties to a Geometry node. |
Hair Properties | Assigns V-Ray Hair Properties to the selected Geometry node. |
| Export VRayProxy | Opens the Create V-Ray Proxy window. |
| Import VRayProxymaterialCreates a VRayProxy node inside of a selected Geometry node | Imports material from a .vrscene file. Select the correct file path to import the material in Houdini. |
| FumeFX Fire/Smoke Preset | Sets up a V-Ray Volume Grid Shader with settings suitable for rendering FumeFX simulations. |
| Houdini Fire/Smoke Preset | Sets up a V-Ray Volume Grid Shader with settings suitable for rendering Houdini Pyro simulations. |
| Houdini Liquid Preset | Sets up a V-Ray Volume Grid Shader with settings suitable for rendering Houdini FLIP simulations (currently unavailable). |
| Maya Fluid Preset | Sets up a V-Ray Volume Grid Shader with settings suitable for rendering Maya Fluids simulations. |