--- title: "7.40.02" canonical: "https://documentation.chaos.com/space/VBLD/1336279042/7.40.02" format: markdown --- *Official Release, V-Ray 7.4, hotfix 2* **Date **- Oct 13, 2026 ## **New Features** --- - Introduce support for running V-Ray for Blender on Windows for ARM64 devices - Introduce the Phoenix Ocean texture for rendering ocean surfaces ## **Modified Features** --- **V-Ray** - Introduce “thumbnail previews” for each node inside the V-Ray Shader node editor - Introduce “Categories” in V-Ray Material Manager - Add support for Chaos Cosmos assets with variations - Add “Divide blend” mode to the V-Ray Layered texture - Add V-Ray Material Manager and Object Lister inside the Right Mouse Button > Tools menu - Add enable conditions for the TexDistance radius when both inner and outer separate are enabled - Add enable conditions for the colors and multipliers of the Color Arithmetic node - Add an object visibility list in the V-Ray proxy - Ability to import animations from V-Ray Scene (.vrscene) files - Add the material slot move buttons in the material properties - Allow TexMulti to be used as a texture-switch node - Allow both the Object Lister and Material Manager to be docked in the same window - Allow scattering of collections in Chaos Scatter - Change the defaults of the TexAColorOp colors to white - Convert several V-Ray Gaussian splat parameters to type "slider" - Do not block Blender during Vantage startup - Draw common properties when creating objects or using operators - Expose the Composition Guides of the Blender camera in V-Ray - Expose the Stochastic Bump global settings option - Grey out the Clipper material field when “Mesh mode” is enabled - Improve export of packed images - Improve the conversion of Cycles worlds - Improve the thumbnail preview of the Toon material - Make the Shift+R command used to repeat the last operator to work in V-Ray - Suppress the "Cannot save c:/*0000.jpeg" log in headless mode - Utilize the Cosmos error reporting notifications **V-Ray Installer** - Add an "Install for All Users" option during the installation process of V-Ray ## **Bug Fixes** --- **V-Ray** - "Object Tree +" in Object properties on a V-Ray Decal creates the wrong tree and breaks export of the whole scene - "V-Ray Luminaire Light" missing from Add (Shift+A) menu - A Gaussian splat with a path relative to the .blend file does not load - A mesh used as a V-Ray Mesh Light shows in the preview but renders nothing when picked as a model in Scatter - Add the ability to enable or disable motion blur for the camera in the Object Lister - Animated V-Ray Gaussians attributes are exported only for one frame - Applying non-uniform scaling to the Camera distorts the render view - AttributeError on node addition in Objects tab - AttributeError when rendering headless animation - Bad viewport performance in large scenes with many instances - Batch Rename "Selected Only" option is ignored in Material Lister - Blender can sometimes crash when changing visibility of mesh light sources - Blender crashes after Ctrl+Z after vrmesh is exported - Blender crashes when V-Ray is enabled while a file containing a V-Ray node group is open - Blender crashes when vray addon is enabled a second time in a session - Blender freezes when a Reroute loop is linked to a V-Ray node input - Blender's compositing setup doesn't update render layers after loading a scene - Camera aperture has default of 5 meters - Cannot dock Object Lister into the area where Material Manager was docked and vice versa - Cannot multi-select materials in Material Lister - Clipper (Plane mode): Clipper Material is dropped on export unless an earlier-exported object uses it — no cut surface is rendered - Coat Anisotropy has no effect when Coat Amount is at its default value - Console flooded with errors when editing a material while the material preview is open - Copying V-Ray nodes crashes Blender 5.1+, V-Ray groups leak textures - Cosmos import ignores the scene Unit Scale for light sources, decals and Triplanar size - Crash during editing a color of unassigned material - Crash when enabling V-Ray in a scene with gradient nodes - Cycles Normal Map UV map and Image Texture Clip/Extend/Mirror extension are ignored - Displacement and subdivision are not applied correctly on objects sharing the same Mesh - Do not grey out the Mesh Mode property of the V-Ray Clipper when the Use Object Material option is enabled - Edge and vertex crease sharpness does not match Blender - Every export carries the grease-pencil depth channel - ExtraTexInt and ExtraTexFloat are visible in the UI - First scene update sometimes ignored in interactive - Fix "Cannot render with V-Ray to more than one viewport" with a single viewport - Headless render with -F fails with "Unsupported output format" for any format (PNG, JPEG, EXR) - IPR doesn't update correctly when object tree is changed for duplicated objects - IPR ignores V-Ray light property edits unless the edited light is the active object - Ignore camera object scale - Importing a .vrscene with a V-Ray Sun hits an Exception error every time - Incorrect Cosmos error notifications - Infinite Plane and Perfect Sphere ignore Disable in Viewports and Local View during IPR - Infinite Plane and Perfect Sphere ignore matte and visibility object properties - Live-link with Vantage crashes when adjusting Scatter parameters - Material Manager and Object Lister switch to Preferences window when changing workspaces - Material preview doesn't re-render after license type change unless forced - Multiple problems with spline nodes - Node preview thumbnails for V-Ray Color Arithmetic and Separate Color nodes render as transparent black - Node sockets without a UI block are drawn as sliders while their property is a plain number field - Objects with a Fluid Flow or Effector modifier render as nothing - Opening the N-Panel for Luminaire and IES Light raises an exception - Export V-Ray Proxy with "Add Proxy to Scene" fails with "'Context' object has no attribute 'object'" and leaves an empty VRayProxy object - Remove the “Random By Particle” and “Random By Handle” modes in the UVWRandomizer - Render elements enabled in node tree but not rendered - Render settings import in vrscene covers 11 of 23 plugin types - RenderView: explicitly set ortho_adjust_to_scene=False for ortho cameras - Reset Parameters button does not reset Filter Blur to default value - Sun exposure is wrong when scene scale is updated - Texture Controls shown in the UI never reach the export - The vrscene importer converts positions but not other lengths - Toon material thumbnail ignores Specular ramp after Viewport Interactive - Unassigned materials are lost on save/reopen - V-Ray Fur viewport preview does not update when the growth mesh is deformed by animated shape keys - V-Ray Luminaire does not emits light on CPU - V-Ray scene import ignores frameStart/frameEnd, and animated values cannot be read at all - Chaos Scatter "Factor" has no effect when Scatter Type is On Splines (1D)