--- title: "V-Ray 5" canonical: "https://documentation.chaos.com/space/VC4D/116854016/V-Ray%205" format: markdown --- ## **Build 5.20.07** *Official release, update 2.7* **Date **– Dec 08, 2022 > Macro (ui-button)   ### New features --- **V-Ray** - Support for Cinema 4D 2023 - Implement V-Ray Mesh Light   ### Modified features --- **V-Ray** - Raise the max file limit on MacOS ### Bug fixes --- **V-Ray** - Issues with Anti-aliasing (bucket sampler only) when using VRayCryptomatte mask and Multi/Sub-object material assigned to single object - Crash when tweaking lights during interactive rendering and LightMix enabled - Cinema crashes when transforming cosmos assets during Interactive - Missing values in exported vrscenes - Cosmos browser freezes after interaction - DOF is not rendering after the first frame - V-Ray clipper doesn't work for more than 1 frame in animation in mesh mode - Darker Buckets appear on M1 Mac Machines with Adaptive lights **VRayProxy** - Longer render and load time with Alembic compared to Vrmesh - Compile geometry is slow when there are 735 proxy files referencing the same vrmesh file     ## **Build 5.20.06** *Official release, update 2.6* **Date **- Jul 06, 2022   ### New features --- **V-Ray** - Implement an option for animating visibility in Object Properties tag ### Modified features --- **V-Ray** - Raise the max file limit on MacOS to improve stability ### **Bug fixes** --- **V-Ray** - Add support for the Reroute node - Additional unused nodes in node materials - Missing Add and Remove layer buttons from the layered node in V-Ray Node material on Cinema4D R26 - The V-Ray Node space is not registered in Cinema 4D S26.1 - Rendering Stereoscopic images in the Picture Viewer with Stereo Camera doesn't work in Cinema 4D S26 - Assigned material part of the compound does not transfer to a new scene **V-Ray GPU** - Texture mapping doesn't work on extruded spline primitives **VRayProxy** - An error message popped up when exported cosmos asset is rendering   ## **Build 5.20.05** *Official release, update 2.5* **Date **– Jun 09, 2022   ### New features --- **V-Ray, VRayTextures** - New nodes for context control - Add VRayEdges texture for node and classic materials ### Modified features --- **V-Ray** - Expose the UVWChannel shader for use with Classic materials - Implement the "Use object material" option for V-Ray Clipper **V-Ray, VRayProxy** - Add support for Multi Sub Tex plugins from Cosmos Assets **VRayTextures** - Wrap existing shader on TriPlanar creation ### Bug Fixes --- **Interactive** - Cinema S26 crash when loading multiple objects **V-Ray** - Receive GI option is ignored when cast shadow is enabled - Randomly generated motion blur with cloth simulation tear effect - Classic material preview with large textures blocks UI - Corrupted node materials when changing versions - Crash when Phong tag is removed from geometry used for V-Ray fur - The Object Properties tag doesn't affect child objects with multiple materials and polygon selections   ## **Build 5.20.04** *Official release, update 2.4* **Date** - Apr 27, 2022   ### New features --- **V-Ray** - Support for Cinema 4D S26 - Implement V-Ray Override Material ### Bug fixes --- **V-Ray** - Coat glossiness might produce NaN values in certain scene setups - Filter shader with empty input exports invalid vrscene - Fusion shader with empty channel exports invalid vrscene - Crash when VFB is opened in Cinema 4D R20 - Corrupted node materials when changing versions ## **Build 5.20.03** *Official release, update 2.3* **Date** - Apr 06, 2022 ### New features --- **V-Ray** - [Adaptive Bucket Splitting](https://www.chaos.com/blog/how-adaptive-bucket-splitting-speeds-up-v-rays-rendering) - Implement V-Ray Renderable Spline tag - Support for the Cinema 4D Projector shader ### Modified features --- **V-Ray** - Improve export of native Cinema 4D shaders (Fusion, Fresnel and Colorizer) - Improve export of native Cinema 4D material - Support projection of single material with multiple selections ### Bug Fixes --- **V-Ray** - Black renders when a camera is selected in Chaos Cloud app when rendering on the cloud - Sky and Sun texture preview may crash - GPU LC is slower to render with big resolutions - Outdated help links for VRayMtl - Show help on Fur, Clipper and Proxy opens wrong link **V-Ray GPU** - Crash upon CUDA CPU render on MacOS   ## **Build 5.20.02** *Official release, update 2.2* **Date** - Feb 16, 2022     ### Modified features --- **V-Ray** - Transfer the object hierarchy when exporting vrscene and importing it into Chaos Vantage   ### Bug fixes --- **V-Ray** - Scenes with UVW randomizer may crash on open - Render mask clear does not work in animation or when toggled during interactive - V-Ray clipper (when mesh is used as a clipper) reduces the quality of the mesh when the objects are scaled down - Cryptomatte doesn't work with Node Layer name ID type   ## **Build 5.20.01** *Official release, update 2.1* **Date **- Feb 9, 2022 ### **New features** --- **V-Ray** - Implement V-Ray Aerial Perspective - Implement V-Ray Normal Map shader node - Add support for the Cinema 4D infinite floor - Show the ObjectID number as overlay in the Object Properties icon ### Modified features --- **V-Ray** - Update Open Image Denoiser with support for Arm M1 - Ability to create V-Ray Node materials from the menu - The U and V Size parameter in the light should represent the width and height of the light - Recalculate the intensity value for V-Ray Lights based on the currently selected light units ### Bug fixes --- **V-Ray** - Support for loading assets from the new asset browser system in Cinema 4D S24 and R25 - V-Ray doesn't respect the viewport aspect ratio and renders cropped image - Camera Shift causes Viewport Rendering to be mismatched - Turning ON or OFF the Round Edges doesn't refresh in interactive - Sun shadow texture is not rendered **V-Ray GPU** - Crash when rendering scenes of objects with translucent materials and a shadow catcher - VRaySun disc is rendered with offset in V-Ray GPU lately - Different GI results with enable/disable render elements and HairNextMtl ## **Build 5.20.00** *Official release, update 2* **Date** - Dec 08, 2021 ### New Features --- **V-Ray** - Native support for Apple Silicon (M1 arm64) - Add "Live link" button for connection with Chaos Vantage - Implement UVW Randomizer as shader and as a node - Ability to export V-Ray scene files from the Export menu in Cinema 4D - Ability to import V-Ray scene files as reference objects - Support for Chaos Cosmos materials - Support for instancing V-Ray Lights - Implement V-Ray Light Lister - Implement render mask modes: "Objects" and "Object ID" - Options to control the Light Volumetric Contribution - Cryptomatte with progressive sampling **VFB** - Add a Sharpen/Blur post effect layer - Integrate rendering log in the new frame buffer - Ability to set shortcut keys for all VFB items - Batch image processing in VFB2 for vrimg files - Ability to add color corrections to the VFB Background layer ### Modified Features --- **V-Ray** - Improve V-Ray Dirt texture with additional features - LightMix transfer from VFB back to the scene - Improve V-Ray MultiSubTex to support new multiple random modes **V-Ray GPU** - Calculate Light Cache on the Graphics card when V-Ray GPU is used as renderer **VFB** - Allow masks for Render element layers   ### Bug Fixes --- **V-Ray** - Using "Random by Node name" mode in V-Ray MultiSubTex produces different results - Viewport previews of materials with Dirt is very slow - Disabling a child of a multi instance cloner doesn't remove the object during interactive rendering - Affect Child does not work in Include/Exclude mode for Lights - Cloner object displays additional light in the viewport - Render mask mode set to "Texture" does not work - Forester trees leaves are not rendered when motion blur is enabled   ## **Build 5.10.24** *Official release, update 1.4* **Date** - Oct 27, 2021 ### Bug fixes --- **V-Ray** - Incorrect texture rendering when the UVW tag is placed after the material tag - V-Ray Bitmap "No Tiling" option does not work - Fix broken hyper link inside the Update dialog ## **Build 5.10.23** *Official release, update 1.3* **Date** - Oct 14, 2021 ### New features --- - Support for Cinema 4D R25 **VRayTextures** - Support TexRamp in material nodes   ### Modified features --- **V-Ray** - Improve responsiveness when working with Node Materials - Add an option to hide QT framework warnings from the log **LegacySceneConverter** - Better conversion for the "Material Weight" and "Use Fresnel" parameters from the classic V-Ray Advanced Material   ### Bug fixes --- **V-Ray** - Fix slow export of cloners in render instance mode - Fix slow export of scenes with lots of material assignments - GPU device selection is not used if preferences are not open - Wrong viewport previews of node materials - Viewport previews don't render if editor map size is not default - Overridden editor map size in the preview settings of the material is considered even if "override preferences" is disabled - The "Save" and "Open" dialogs are not shown when the VFB is used on displays with different DPI scaling - Textures are black in the viewport when using Cinema4D layered shader - LightMix in manual light select mode does not work **V-Ray, Interactive** - VFB layers are not saved when applied while Interactive is running **VRayProxy** - Some Cosmos assets change their material when the object is expanded to geometry **VRayMaterials** - V-Ray GPU crashes when rendering CarPaint 2 material in animation   ## **Build 5.10.22** *Official release, update 1.2* **Date **- Sept 02 2021 ### **New features** ---   **V-Ray** - Support for Chaos Cosmos **VRayTextures** - Implemented V-Ray Normal Map texture - TexMix as classic shader and node added in the V-Ray node space   ### Modified features ---   **VRayMaterials** - Material viewport previews are slow even for constant colors **VRayTextures** - Scenes load slowly with enabled material previews **V-Ray** - Considers disabled motion blur from Cinema 4D tag **VRayProxy** - Flip proxy z-axis to improve compatibility with other host applications with right-handed coordinate system **VRayLights** - Ozone and Turbidity parameters in VRay Sky should be inactive when Sky Model is set to Improved   ### Bug fixes ---   **V-Ray** - Fixed wrong shadows casted by V-Ray Sun to Volumetric objects - Moving the VFB window causes the image inside to flicker - The Vertical Shift parameter in the Physical Camera does not work in Production rendering   ## **Build 5.10.21 ** *Official release, update 1.1* **Date** - Jul 27 2021 ### Modified features ---   **V-Ray** - Support for the VertexMap tag   ### Bug fixes --- **V-Ray** - V-Ray doesn't render in the same color space as the Node materials - Geometry dissapears with V-Ray GPU Interactive rendering when using the CUDA engine - Opacity mask doesn't work if the "Tile" option is disabled - V-Ray doesn't render motion blur when using command line rendering with frame overrides - Node preview updates may not be triggered for ports of Layered and Blend nodes - Aborted update of texture node preview - Different animated visibility in V-Ray for Cinema 4D and Standalone - Animated visibility of objects does not work when exported and rendered with V-Ray Standalone - Fix artifacts with animated boolean geometry - Crash with animated boolean geometry when using default scene material **VRayProxy** - Adding a scene containing proxy from the content browser doesn’t keep the materials applied - Rendering alembics is more than 3 times slower than rendering unpacked geometry on CPUs with many cores ## **Build 5.10.20** *Official release, update 1* **Date** - Jun 23, 2021   ### **New features** --- **V-Ray** - Add V-Ray node space for node materials - Add V-Ray Clipper as scene object - Add V-Ray Fur as scene object - Cryptomatte in progressive - Progressive caustics mode **VRayVolumeGrid** - Add Slice and Mesh preview options **VRayEnvironmentFog** - Environment Fog colored transparency **VRayMtl** - New translucency modes for VRayMtl (based on VRayScatterVolume) - Thin-walled refraction option **VFB** - Now possible to change or remove VFB2 shortcuts - Layers masking based on Cryptomatte, integer and color render elements data - Added stamp layer support - Custom White Balance support for color picker and tint - Support for animated sequences for Background layer using tag - Added an option to bake the RGB primaries conversion - Added horizontal/vertical offset for Background layer - Image Info for the history images - Added the frame number to the VFB History image info overlay - Save color corrections to a LUT file - Added an option to switch between world units and pixels as photon lookup radius for the caustics photon map **VRayDomeLight** - Support for multiple Dome lights for Light Mixing **V-Ray/vdenoise** - Integrated Intel Open Image Denoiser **VRayRectLight, VRayLightSphere** - Added "Occlude other lights" option for V-Ray lights **VRaySun/V-Ray GPU** - Added support for blending the sun with the horizon with the Improved sky model - Added support for tiled textures with large amount of tiles on V-Ray GPU - Rounded corners, VRayDirt, VRayCurvature, VRayFastSSS2, VRayAlSurfaceMtl, VRayClipper support with Out-Of-Core geometry **V-Ray GPU** - Added support for normal maps in world space   ### **Modified features** --- **V-Ray** - Improve include/exclude object lists usage with hierarchies - Consider MotionBlur tag for disabling motion blur on objects - Faster initialization of meshes with static 3D displacement in Standalone - Mixed filtering option for ZDepth - Added preview modes to V-Ray Proxy object - Automatically load the full geometry when it's made editable **VRayTriplanar** - Replaced the "scale" parameter of the VRayTriplanar texture with "size" dependent on the scene units **V-Ray GPU** - Optimized CUDA CPU performance - Optimized interactive scene updates with OptiX - Implemented displacement in world space **V-Ray/V-Ray GPU** - Improved volume intersection & shading **V-Ray GPU/VRayDirt** - Add support for dirt and curvature attached to extra tex when OOC geometry is enabled   ### Bug fixes --- **V-Ray Proxy** - Fixed export of animated proxy **V-Ray** - Fixed VFB History loading very slowly when OCIO configuration is used for display - Fixed Dark coat over refractive VRayMtl - Fixed slow CarPaint2 preview rendering - Fixed difference between glossy and mirror caustic reflections from metallic surfaces - Fixed VRayCarPaintMtl2 coat IOR <1 not consistent in V-Ray and V-Ray GPU **V-Ray GPU/VRayBlendMtl** - Fixed fireflies in additive mode with multiple coat layers **V-Ray GPU** - Fixed GPU Memory leaks after interactive updates when there is CarPaint2 material in the scene - Fixed texture on objects with normal displacement appearing smudged in GPU production renders with on-demand mipmapping - Fixed crash when using vrmesh file with more than 16 material and UV maps   ## **Build 5.00.45** *Official release, Hotfix 3* **Date **- Apr 28, 2021   ### **Improvements** ---   - Instances and Multi-instances support - Support blending of multiple material assignment tags - Motion blur samples override for objects - Support Cinema 4D S24 ### **Bug fixes** ---   - Hair is rendered without motion blur - Crash when switching projects with Volume Grid preview in Cinema 4D - The MultiMatte render element renders different result in V-Ray GPU compared to V-Ray - V-Ray GPU production crashes if there is applied material with missing texture ## **Build 5.00.44** *Official release, Hotfix 2* **Date** - Mar 25, 2021 ### **Improvements** ---   - VolumeGrid Preview Rollout for Cinema 4D - Velocity Streamlines - Integrate V-Ray TexRamp texture - Support for Cloner object with V-Ray Volume Grid in Cinema 4D ### **Bug fixes** ---   - Distributed rendering doesn't work correctly when rendering animations - Wrong material assignment on objects with dynamic caches - HairNextMtl doesn't work with bitmaps assigned to the diffuse color - Materials get tiled when scaled even if "tile" setting is disabled in Attributes manager - Image sequences are not rendered when used with the Cinema 4D bitmap - Cinema 4D noise doesn't work when used in Blend Material - Relative file paths do not work for non-texture assets - Deformed geometry does not update in animation - Motion blur only works for the first rendered frame - The Distance texture is not affected by geometry with applied skin deformer - Crashes on MacOS systems with more CPU cores - Cloning Proxy objects doesn't copy the assigned materials - Animated visibility of objects does not work ## **Build 5.00.43** *Official release* **Date** - Feb 11, 2021   ### Improvements ---   - LegacySceneConverter: Support of converting object layers - LegacySceneConverter: Support for more converted types (Materials and Composite Tag) - Render Elements: Prevent drag and drop of non-render element objects in the render elements list - Exported lights should consider visibility and layers flags - VRayVolumeGrid: VolumeGrid Preview Rollout for Cinema 4D - Container and Voxel Preview - Ability to convert scenes via script with python (c4dpy) - Add an option to disable the automatic conversion pop-up window when opening V-Ray 3.7 scene ### Bug fixes ---   - Animated visibility of objects does not work - V-Ray doesn't respect the "Render" option in the Cinema 4D layers - Wrong texture projection of child objects - Native C4D noise shader doesn't render correctly when rendering with DR - Missing Phong tags may cause different buckets from slaves with DR - Distributed rendering doesn't work correctly when rendering animations - Wrong UVW coordinates when generated with V-Ray Material - VRayProxy: Copying Proxy objects doesn't copy the assigned materials - Displacement is wrongly applied when geometry is cloned - The "Use mtl ID" parameter in the ObjectSelect RE doesn't work - Objects saved in the content browser do not show the materials applied to them - Interactive: Starting Interactive with unsupported camera makes the render buttons inactive - Interactive: VFB settings and layers are reset when changing material preview scene or creating material - Exported animation does not have second frame values in vrscene - Applying material to a poly selection should happen only in "Polygon" mode - VRayVolumeGrid: When two or more VolumeGrids in Cinema 4D load the same cache, their previews are not updated correctly when scrolling the timeline - Improve Interactive and UI responsiveness when tweaking materials and textures - V-Ray GPU: Normal displacement has wrong normals - V-Ray GPU: Incorrect GPU LPE REs with Light Cache   ## **Build 5.00.42** *Official release* **Date** - Dec 10, 2020   ### **New Features** ---   - Implement Chaos Cloud Submit dialog and initial integration with Cloud client - Add support for VRScans (V-Ray Scanned Material) - Implement MultiSubTex shader ### **Improvements** ---   - VolumeGrid voxel and bounding box preview for loaded caches - Support for Cinema 4D noises with V-Ray GPU - Add Object Select Render Element - Add MultimatteID Render Element - Support for the Cinema 4D "Background" object - Implement V-Ray image output options - Keep the FOV when Film Gate is changed and Specify FOV is checked - V-Ray Light previews should hide when the Viewport filter for lights is off - Make the Auto White Balance option a checkbox - Set the default Mix Type for some float textures to "Normal" - Change the size step for several real parameters to be more intuitive - Improve user interface for V-Ray FastSSS2 and Light material - Improve user interface for V-Ray Dirt and Distance shaders - Improve user interface for V-Ray Sun - Menu command for triggering V-Ray 3.7 scene conversion   ### **Bug Fixes** ---   - Drag and Dropping a material to a polygon selection doesn't create a selection tag - Polygon selections are not working correctly with correction deformer attached to objects - Polygon selections are not working when the name of the poly select tag is the same as the texture tag name - Region rendering with production does not work on the first render - Exporting a vrscene with single non-zero frame does not render the same frame - Textures loaded with V-Ray bitmap are not saved correctly in the content browser - VFB spin controls delimiter does not match the one in Cinema 4D - Textures are not mapped in Environment fog and VolumeGrid   ## **Build 5.00.41** *Beta Release* **Date** - Nov 04, 2020 ### New Features ---   - V-Ray VolumeGrid (WIP) - About dialog with automatic version update checks - Support for Cinema 4D noise shader without baking (CPU only)   ### Improvements ---   - Improvements on V-Ray Proxy export and import including animations and material assignments - Support for Filter shader without baking - Add multiplication mix mode for distance parameters and shaders - Support the basic material override options - without channel overrides - Rearrange the GPU engine selection and the rendering devices button - Expand the glossiness texture and Mix by default for VRayMtl - Add presets for Light Path Expressions - Adding the Beauty render elements now automatically sets up composite layers - User interface of Bump material - User interface of VRayBitmap   ### Bug Fixes ---   - Materials in parent objects do not work with polygon selections in child objects - Normal bump maps do not work on V-Ray GPU - Velocity render element does not work without enabling motion blur - V-Ray does not respect the final image size output units - V-Ray has wrong verbose level for the Console log - GPU Production rendering does not respect the Noise threshold from the Production settings - Canceling the Cinema 4D quit dialog makes V-Ray unusable - Broken help page anchors for V-Ray lights - VFB layers are preserved on new scenes - ZDepth render element has additional gamma applied in Picture Viewer and output   ## **Build 5.00.40** *Beta Release* **Date** - Sep 28, 2020   ### **New features** --- **Installation** - Integrate the new installer design in V-Ray for Cinema 4D - Embed the License Server installation in the V-Ray for Cinema 4D installer **User Interface** - Overhauled UI for V-Ray Render Settings - Overhauled UI for the V-Ray Render Elements manager - Overhauled UI for the V-Ray Material - Implement V-Ray Lights as separate objects - Redesigned icons and menu - Integrate V-Ray VFB as a native Cinema 4D window - New V-Ray Virtual Frame Buffer with light mix and compositing capabilities **V-Ray** - V-Ray is now based on V-Ray 5 Core - Implemented V-Ray Geometry tag for Displacing and Subdividing geometry - Implemented V-Ray Environment Fog as separate object - Implemented new V-Ray Proxy - Hash map based light cache - Adaptive Dome Light - Implemented blue-noise optimization for the DMC sampler - Implemented "Improved" sky model for V-Ray Sun - Added new Coat and Sheen render elements - Added new LightMix render element - Automatic Exposure Control and White Balance **V-Ray GPU** - Implement V-Ray GPU as a separate Production rendering engine - Added support for RT cores of NVIDIA RTX cards (RTX Engine) - Support for Bucket rendering - Ability to select devices directly inside Cinema 4D - Initial support for Out-of-Core rendering **Materials** - Added additional Coat and Sheen layers to V-Ray Material - Added Metalness parameter to V-Ray Material to support PBR workflows - Added V-Ray Hair Next - new physically based hair material **V-Ray Denioser** - Added Nvidia AI Denoiser