--- title: "7.30.00 Community Edition" canonical: "https://documentation.chaos.com/space/VBLD/710968294/7.30.00%20Community%20Edition" format: markdown --- Official Release, *V-Ray 7.3, Community Edition* **Date** - April 13, 2026 > Macro (refined-button) ## **New Features** --- **V-Ray** - Ability to check for new V-Ray versions - Add denoising when calculating the Light Cache ## **Modified Features** --- **V-Ray** - Add a global option to toggle between Roughness and Glossiness workflows with V-Ray Material - Add an option to directly create different types of V-Ray materials - Add icons for V-Ray materials in node menus - Add support for Blender's texture preview with V-Ray bitmaps - Add support for Swap Node operation - Add support for searching specific node operations in the Add menu - Add the ability to load multiple images from a directory into V-Ray MultiSubTex node - Automatically create a world node tree if V-Ray Sun and Sky system is added to the scene - Automatically create material slots for V-Ray Proxy objects on import - Changes made to objects in Edit mode are not shown during Interactive rendering when the rendering mode is set to 'Solid' - Connect nodes automatically whenever possible - Create V-Ray Bitmaps with raw color space by default in Object trees - Enable parenting for the V-Ray Frame Buffer by default on Windows - Expose toggles for enabling color options in V-Ray Scanned Material node - Improve Environment UVW generator detection - Improve V-Ray scene exporting time - Improve support for Blender command-line parameters - Make adding new sockets to layered and container nodes easier - Respect Blender's preferences for the temp folder - Show customized descriptions for URL menu items and buttons ## **Bug Fixes** --- **V-Ray** - 'Add World Nodetree' button is unresponsive in World Properties - Animation sequences are not exported to .vrscene when "View Layer" is animated - Fix assert when changing scene type - V-Ray Blend material node is connected to the Transparency socket when created on an existing connection - Blender crashes when purging data command is used with VRay Toon Material - Can't export .vrscene without Camera - Changing denoising settings while interactive rendering is running produces black image - Changing the colors of V-Ray Scanned Mtl in interactive crashes V-Ray - Changing the position of V-Ray Color Ramp points does not update Interactive rendering in Blender 5.0 - Chaos Cloud jobs occasionally fail to submit - Crash when opening a specific Blender scene with V-Ray enabled - Displacement applied to the wrong decal object when opacity mask is used - Error printed in Blender console when creating a new main window - Failed Cosmos Assets relinking in a specific scene - Failed update of the V-Ray Gradient Ramp texture causes render exception - Fur preview shader compilation fails on MacOS - Geometry nodes points as spheres are not rendered consistently - Import of V-Ray Proxy fails when the imported file is not on the same drive as the .blend file - Changes to Include/Exclude lights lists do not update the scene during interactive rendering - Incorrect deselection of V-Ray light gizmos - Leaking shared memory objects on Unix systems - Mesh lights visible in viewport when their mesh objects are hidden - Missing attributes in PointCloud objects in specific scene - Modifiers added to a linked duplicate are not rendered - New V-Ray default node trees are created to the left - No UI workflow to export non-default UVW channel for V-Ray Proxy Objects - Node editor pin button does not work with V-Ray - Reduce bump amount default value in all materials - Remove "Pivot Offset" and "Transform" sockets from Light nodes - Removing Hair Particle system doesn't affect the render result during Interactive Rendering - Scene upgrade fails when V-Ray is not the active rendering engine - TexEdge is always shown hidden edge with ExtraTex render element - The progress bar does not update during the execution of the V-Ray scene or animation export processes - ULA process isn't properly detected on MacOS - UVWRandomizer Stochastic tiling has the wrong label - V-Ray Distance node with Object Select causes production render failure - V-Ray Edge Tex always rendered hidden edges - V-Ray Fur does not work when it is applied to V-Ray proxies - V-Ray Fur properties cannot be animated - V-Ray IES light does not filter .ies files in its File Browse dialog - V-Ray Sky texture does not show Blender's 'Sun' lights in its Sun search list - V-Ray lights break drawing of other addons in the viewport - View Layer 'Use for rendering' property is not animated correctly - Viewport interactive doesn't start with some custom OCIO configs - Wrong default "Directory Path" in the Bake rollout - Wrong mapping type options in Environment mapping on MacOS - Interactive rendering crashes with internal error when TexWood randomness is zero ## **V-Ray Installer** --- - Add check for running ZMQ Server process when installing V-Ray for Blender - Windows Firewall blocks the Zmq Server to acquire a license