--- title: "7.10.00" canonical: "https://documentation.chaos.com/space/VBLD/117639836/7.10.00" format: markdown --- Official Release, *V-Ray 7, update 1* **Date** - Aug 26, 2025 > Macro (ui-button) ## **New Features** --- **V-Ray** - Add support for Blender 4.5 - Introduce support for Geometry nodes - Introduce the Open PBR shading model for V-Ray Material - Introduce conversion from Cycles to V-Ray materials ## **Modified Features** --- **V-Ray** - Add a checkbox that toggles the Vignetting property in the V-Ray Physical Camera - Add a gradient type 'from position' for V-Ray Gradient Ramp - Add hard minimum and maximum values to the Gradient Position property of the V-Ray Gradient Ramp texture - Add import for the V-Ray TexAColorOp and TexFloatOp plugins - Add import for the V-Ray TexLayered plugin - Add import for the V-Ray TexRemap plugin - Add support for the Legacy Mix Cycles node - Disable the Bump Amount property of the V-Ray Material when the Bump Type is set to Explicit normal - Display the estimated remaining render time in the console log during headless rendering - Export animation ranges as sequences - Export only the active camera during production rendering - Group node sockets using rollouts in the V-Ray Material node - Hide unsupported options from the V-Ray GPU Render Settings - Improve the UI of the Displacement node - Improve the Render Settings' and V-Ray Physical Camera's UI for configuring Motion Blur - Improve the UI for the Subdivision node - Reduce the number of the bump/normal nodes - Set the bump type to 'explicit' when a normal map node is attached to the input port of a V-Ray Material - Skip the Color Arithmetic node when exporting Principled BSDF diffuse - Use the V-Ray Scene version 2 format when exporting for Chaos Cloud - Use improved sampling for the V-Ray Toon Volume ## **Bug Fixes** --- **V-Ray** - "vray.upgrade_scene" operator throws an error when Blender is started in headless mode - 'Reset to default value' command for nodes does not respect V-Ray defaults - Add active conditions to nodes with Invert Alpha parameters - An Error occurs in the console when changing the Cycles Mix node mode during interactive rendering - An exception is thrown in the console when opening the Material Preview tab - An exception occurs when copying a V-Ray material to the V-Ray Shader Editor before the 'Use V-Ray Material' option is enabled - Blender crashes while pasting the V-Ray bitmap node across scenes - Caustics' Progressive Mode's multiplier option is not active - Change Anti-Aliasing Filter settings to be non-animatable - Prevent scale reset when changing the proxy object preview type - Converting a Volume Shader from Cycles triggers a console exception - Cosmos Materials containing BRDFScanned are not imported - Crash when Compressed Texture Mode and Use System Memory for Textures are enabled on V-Ray GPU - Default File Path for Light Cache Auto Save produces an error in Blender 4.5 - Disable inactive V-Ray Car Paint 2 Material properties - Discrepancy in the render result of a Cycles material with a Normal node before and after conversion - Do not write output files for the material preview renders - Exception when drawing render elements - Exception when importing assets containing a Remap node - Exception when upgrading the scene with NormalMap - Fog depth is not imported correctly - Hide all V-Ray operators when V-Ray is not the active render engine - Incorrect V-Ray Visibility properties result in duplicated objects - Light sources of Lighting Cosmos assets render incorrectly when their preview meshes change - No suffix is added to the Channel Name of newly created render channels - Nodes with hidden sockets do not get arranged correctly when converted - Object selector nodes do not work when connected through a reroute node - Pressing VFB's Prod render button queues multiple render jobs - Production rendering doesn't start with a specific scene - Promoting user attributes to other meshes does not impact interactive rendering - Remove V-Ray Node Debug Switch from the UI - Respect muted links when exporting node trees - The V-Ray Toon render element doesn't work - Typo in the "Download Cosmos Assets" button label - V-Ray Sky 'Invisible' option has no effect - Wrong  UV scale import for conversion and some Cosmos materials - The Cosmos relinking progress window doesn't appear during interactive rendering