V-Ray

File Format
Name	V-Ray
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Graphics V-Ray
Extension(s)	.vismat, .vrmat

V-Ray material files are textures used with software like Sketchup, Rhino, 3DSMax, etc. Originally developed by ASGvis, the company is now owned by Chaos Group.

File Format

Original .VISMAT format is a binary file, later versions used an XML tagging structure which is interchangeable with the .VRMAT format. Tagging begins and ends with <vismat>.

V-Ray 1.49 was last version to write to the .VISMAT format.

Sample Files

• Vismat Material Collection (archived)

Links

• V-Ray Wikipedia
• Chaos Group
• .vismat files created with V-Ray 1.49 or earlier versions of V-Ray are no longer supported.