--- title: "V-Ray 7" canonical: "https://documentation.chaos.com/space/VC4D/116855612/V-Ray%207" format: markdown --- ## **Build 7.00.01** *Official release, hotfix 1* **Date** - Jan 22, 2025 > Macro (ui-button) ### Modified Features --- **V-Ray** - Enable Intel denoiser by default for Viewport Interactive - Add Light Luminaire to the Light Lister - Rename the Basic tab of the Scanned material - Improve Chaos Scatter export in interactive - Rename the Preview tab of the Material Node ### Bug Fixes --- **V-Ray** - Bump material nodes break the viewport - Cinema 4D Crashes When Changing UVW Projection Node to Camera Mapping - Luminaire is always rendered as enabled - Disable Luminaire options when is disabled and hide Units - Light mix and light selects do not work properly with shadow selects - Chaos Collaboration crashes Cinema4D on MacOS with Intel CPU or emulation - Distance/Dirt texture within V-Ray Fur is not rendered with the final renderer - Unable to update Cosmos materials after calling the relink button - PRG Sun is not visible in Light Lister - Fix Cosmos proxy import to work with Edge Trimming - VFB may crash when the mouse cursor is changed - Chaos Scatter may not update automatically with V-Ray 7 **V-Ray GPU** - Cinema4D crashes when rendering a light node material with a bitmap ## **Build 7.00.00** *Official release* **Date** - Jan 15, 2024 ### New Features --- **V-Ray** - Support for rendering Gaussian Splats - Implement Chaos Collaboration - Virtual tours for Chaos Collaboration - Implement V-Ray Luminaires - Optimized Chaos Scatter export times - Edge Trimming for Chaos Scatter - Introduce variants for assets and materials in Chaos Cosmos - Ability to import multiple assets from Chaos Cosmos - Improved rendering performance by switching to Intel ICX compiler with profile-guided optimizations - Additional motion graphics utility nodes - Implement V-Ray Scanned materials as node material - Introduce per-object Sub-surface scattering blending - Support for Substance Archive files - Support for the OpenPBR shading model in the V-Ray material - Introduce options to suppress "fireflies" in the final render - Add Scatter SurfaceColor node - Add support for Scatter random distribution pattern presets - Support for rendering and conversion of Corona materials - Ability to use V-Ray toon outlines from the material node editor - Introduce pre-made color correction filter presets for the V-Ray Frame Buffer **V-Ray Sun** - New and improved PRG Sun and Sky model **V-Ray VFB** - Add Freeform region rendering in V-Ray Frame Buffer - Added Image Alpha as a mask option - Add the ability to drag and open a file directly inside the V-Ray Frame Buffer - Introduce a Vignetting layer for the V-Ray Frame Buffer - Additional file-saving options for the V-Ray Frame Buffer - "Soft" stop rendering in the V-Ray Frame Buffer **Render Elements** - Add the ability to denoise Light Mix Render elements **V-Ray GPU** - Support of rendering refractive and reflective caustics with dispersion - Support for the Apple Metal API in V-Ray GPU on macOS - Improved the time to first pixel for V-Ray GPU ### Modified Features --- **V-Ray** - Cosmos materials are now imported as node materials by default - Upgrade Scatter to 6.1 - Improve node materials viewport previews quality and performance - Export textures of Redshift Dome Lights - Update the Open Image Denoiser library to the latest version - Add support for bias positions in TexRamp - Do not disable LightSelect render elements if there is an active LightMix - Add support for the rest of the TexFloatOp output parameters - Show the Color Tex options in Spot Light - Import materials as node materials - Add Auto UVMapping for Scanned Material - Add an option to disable material previews per material - Improve TriPlanar texture randomization options - UI changes for IES Light - Add import for BRDFDiffuse - Force the render time render element to be stored as a 32-bit channel in OpenEXR - Remove the "Visible to GI" option from the Object Properties tag - Support for rendering Redshift lights - Optimize loading performance and memory use of TIFF bitmaps - Improve loading performance and memory use of OpenEXR bitmaps - V-Ray: Update the Agreements Acceptance popup shown in V-Ray for Cinema 4D - Update the Telemetry Acceptance popup shown in V-Ray for Cinema 4D - Update the Agreements Acceptance in the V-Ray for Cinema 4D installation **V-Ray Textures** - Improve loading performance and memory use of *.png* bitmaps **V-Ray VFB** - Usability/UI Performance improvement for scenes using multiple Curve layers - Add fine-sliding and step-sliding functionality to VFB sliders - Improve the Curves layer - Refined control over the Strength slider in the Chromatic Aberration menu **Render Elements** - Hide the Derive Raw Channels parameter from non-Raw render elements - Add an option to save render element presets **V-Ray GPU** - Print a recommendation about installing the recommended driver when the current one is older - Remove the Low Priority option from the standalone Device Selector tool - Improve the sampling of bitmaps before transferring them to the GPU - Add a new UVW randomization component for the scene name - Add missing GPU LightSelect support for all light types that we support for rendering ### V-Ray Material - Modify the hide condition to account for the new default value for the GTR energy compensation ### V-Ray Proxy - Set V-Ray as the current renderer when opening .vrscene and .vrmesh files ### V-Ray VolumeGrid - Faster Volume Grid viewport previews - Standalone volumetric instancing - Instances self-illumination, scene illumination ### Bug Fixes --- **V-Ray** - Objects' order affects the result of added VRayDistance to Geometry as Displacement - Thick hair/fur artifacts - Incorrect motion blur when increasing the motion blur samples - Spline tangents are ignored in remap texture and node - Fix import of enmesh checkboxes from Cosmos - Fix import of VRayDecal height offset from Cosmos - Cosmos diagnostics cannot be saved - Node materials do not show with Cinema 2023.103 - Empty environment objects are being created from render settings - Mismatching document time range and animation frame range causes wrong export - UV Channel with Cosmos Node material is not imported correctly - Node material is not updated in UI after the exchange - UVW Randomizer option random by instance does not get the ID from the cloner - TexRandom is not rendered with the default output port when rendering with V-Ray GPU - Frame sequence does not work if the current frame is used and a non-zero frame offset is used - V-Ray Distance Objects are not loaded when a Classic Material is converted to Node Material - Problem importing MtlMulti materials without generators - Extra attributes about raycast and primitive count stats are missing from Raw images (EXR and VRImg) - Restore the ability of standalone to render to tiled OpenEXR files - High CPU usage at the end of renders that use bucket splitting - The values stored in the extra attributes in VRImg or OpenEXR file for the number of raycast is only 32bit and overflows for longer renders **V-Ray VFB** - Images saved to the history with a Background layer disregard it when using the A/B compare - Duplicate images in VFB history when a specific vrscene is rendered - Crash when pressing the Back mouse button during rendering with V-Ray Frame Buffer **Render Elements** - Render element properties do not work **V-Ray Textures** - The option for using only the Sun direction is a number in the Sky shader **V-Ray GPU** - Raw RE renders wrong in combination with Camera exposure and Bucket rendering - Infinite loop due to transparency and floating point imprecision - Animation with caustics enabled causes a crash on the second frame - Crash with specific HDRI map used in Dome light - Increased light cache generation time in V-Ray GPU IPR when LC subdivisions are raised over 1500 - Wrong render after the second frame when rendering with V-Ray Bitmap's Inverse gamma color space transfer function - GPU IPR not refreshing properly upon deletion of lights and geometry - BRDF Bump ignores simple values for bump multiplier tex - V-Ray GPU fails to load some big textures in parallel - Specific user's Clipper is stuck on Building Light Cache - Pick material and Select object in VFB functionality is not working with V-Ray GPU and RTX engine - Incorrect Raw Sheen Reflection with Bucket sampler - The Multimatte RE is affected by Camera Vignetting - Bump delta scale parameter has no effect when rendering with GPU - The back side of V-Ray Clipper plane is visible in the already clipped zone - UVW Randomizer is inconsistent in GPU with Triplanar - LightDirect plugin changes light direction with GPU - Incorrect result when using the V-Ray TexEdges option Show Sub-triangles option with V-Ray GPU - Discrepancy between CPU and GPU when Random by Scene Name and Node Name are used V-Ray Physical Camera - Camera FOV changes between certain frames when the focus distance parameter is animated