--- title: "7.40.01" canonical: "https://documentation.chaos.com/space/VBLD/1232699395/7.40.01" format: markdown --- *Official Release, V-Ray 7.4, hotfix 1* **Date **- Sept 16, 2026 ## **New features** --- - Introduce Chaos Scatter in V-Ray for Blender - Introduce Live Link to Chaos Vantage for real time preview and rendering - Introduce V-Ray Object Lister - Introduce V-Ray Material Manager - Import V-Ray Scene (.vrscene) files as native objects in Blender - Add V-Ray Infinite Plane geometry object - Ability to add utility textures and bitmaps from the Material tab instead of the Node editor ## **Modified features** --- - Add Chaos Scatter Surface Color texture - Add Out of Frustum subdivision control - Add an option to highlight selections in object selectors in the viewport - Add max_velocity_last_frame in the Velocity render element - Add more control for Toon outlines - Add quality presets for the V-Ray Sampler - Add support for Chaos Cosmos asset sets - Add support for Custom per-instance user data for Geometry Nodes - Add support for material thumbnails - Add support for rendering and converting Cycles Principled Hair, Vector Math, Float Curve, and Map Range Cycles nodes - Add a shadow catcher revert option in the F3 menu - Add support for rendering and converting Cycles worlds - Add a way to create LightMix and Denoiser in the World tree - Add a button in the LightSelect render channel that leads to the LPE builder - Add the rest of the missing Raw filter render channels - Add the option to include the Rest channel when saving VRayLightMix to file - Connect V-Ray material bump when dragging a link on top of the Bump rollout socket - Convert the Cycles Thin Wall introduced in Blender 5.2 - Draw the curve directly in the Remap texture node - Fix "Back to Beauty" not showing up in the VFB when all beauty elements are present - Export only the geometry attributes that are used during shading - Import V-Ray Luminaires from Cosmos lights - Improve UV-only support when UVW Randomizer is used - Improve V-Ray Curvature user interface - Improve material preview performance - Improve naming of assets imported from Cosmos - Improve the arrangement of nodes when importing assets or using the 'Arrange Tree' option in the Node Wrangler - Improve the conversion of Cycles Principled materials - Keep displacement texture link when changing displacement type - Show a status during V-Ray GPU kernels compilation - Speed up hair export for particle systems and curves - Use UVW Projection with texture transform for converting the Cycles Generated coordinates node - Use incremental updates for interactive object visibility and referenced objects - Velocity render element should work without enabling Motion Blur - Add a link to the docs in the Directories page of the Installer ## **Bug fixes** --- - A frame step of 0 raises an uncaught ValueError, and the render never starts - Animation .vrscene export does not restore current frame - Blender adjust light operators don't work - Blender crashes when trying to render the 2.90 Blender splash art scene - Camera operators raise an error when invoked outside the 3D viewport - Cannot change shape of IES light - Chaos Cosmos does not register in Blender on multi-user systems - Clicking Material Preview while in Viewport Rendering mode resets to viewport shading - Converted Cycles gradient ramp doesn't work with procedural textures on GPU - Crash in the server if a connection is closed too fast - Cursor moves to the center of the screen when asked to overwrite output image - Custom frames list keeps duplicates and overlaps, so frames render more than once - Cycles Math node "Inverse Square Root" converts to 1-sqrt(x) instead of 1/sqrt(x) - Cycles Principled specular renders at half brightness in V-Ray - Disappearing geometry when using an instanced decal - Dropping a .vrmesh into the viewport cannot be undone - During viewport rendering with the Blender 4.5 splash scene, instanced collections disappear when the user changes the object selection - Empty undos created when trying to remove the last socket in containers - Exceptions after deleting multiple objects used in a single object selector - Exception when exporting particle hair in the Blender 2.91 splash art scene - Export errors in the Blender 5.1 splash art scene - File overwrite check not performed when production job is started from VFB - Film Speed not grayed out when Exposure Value is used in V-Ray Physical Camera - Frame 0 is dropped from the render sequence with animated view layer - Rename V-Ray Fur's "Gravity Variation" property to "Length Variation" - Increase V-Ray Sun's Cloud offset soft limits - Light Mix "Apply to scene" confirmation popup is missing - Light Select arrives with an empty Lights list - Limit Light material minimum color multiplier to 0 - Loading the V-Ray add-on might break the HIP integration in Blender - "Make Shadow Catcher" command does not enable Affect Alpha - Merged objects and materials from other Blender files are not upgraded - Minor differences in Blender 5.2 compositing - Objects disappear when two of them use different Motion Blur sample overrides - Render Settings > Common > Rendering quick toggles cannot be undone - Render region resets on interactive rendering - Rendering animation never finishes when switching between cameras with motion blur - Rendering a single frame with Motion Blur never finishes - Remove the deprecated Precision parameter in 2D displacement - Rolling Shutter is not included in the motion blur export interval - Start Production Render from top menu does not respect render settings - Starting an interactive render refreshes material previews - Stopping caustics during interactive rendering doesn't work - Transferring 0 intensity from Light Mix to scene breaks subsequent intensity updates - Undoing collapses any opened rollouts in the V-Ray node editor - V-Ray Triplanar texture is missing the random by user attribute parameter - V-Ray Volume Toon causes artifacts with geometry mesh converted from a curve - V-Ray Server crashes after waking from sleep on Mac OS - VFB layers are not loaded correctly when changing scenes - VRayZmqServer doesn't quit properly on macOS - VRscan relinking from the scene lister doesn't work - Viewport status messages are not filtered based on preferences log level - Wrong Checker scale when converting from Cycles - Wrong hair export in a specific scene - Wrong material export in a geometry nodes scene - Wrong render result given to Blender when VFB render region is used - Importing Blender preferences into a new version of Blender breaks the installation process