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title: "7.20.00"
canonical: "https://documentation.chaos.com/space/VC4D/377421828/7.20.00"
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*Official release, V-Ray 7, update 2*

**Date **- Dec 09, 2025


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## **New Features**

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**V-Ray**

- Ability to use displacement inside Classic and Node Materials
- Introduce AI Image enhancing with Chaos Cloud Collaboration
- Introduce the ability to create Night Sky with the V-Ray Sun and Sky system
- Introduce Distributed Rendering version 2 (DR2)
- Introduce AI Material generation with Chaos Cosmos
- Introduce V-Ray Lighting Analysis Render Element
- Implement V-Ray (Phoenix) Ocean Texture


## **Modified Features**

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**V-Ray**

- Add support for the hierarchy flag in include-exclude list in the V-Ray ExtraTex render element
- Limit the displacement amount and shift for material previews


## **Bug Fixes**

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**V-Ray**

- Chaos Vantage home screen is shown with Vantage 3.0 when starting Live Link
- Textures can not be sampled in object space for displacement or ExtraTex RE
- Change the Vantage default port to 20703 for DR2
- Slow update of previews for node materials when textures from the Asset Browser are used
- Hang when the Edge Length is set to 0 in the Geometry tag
- Tex compress warnings with metal
- Volume grid slows down the viewport in Cinema4D 2025

**V-Ray GPU**

- Gaussian splats are affected differently from Camera exposure
- Crash with Gaussian splats and multiple instances
- VRayLuminaire color is not properly applied to cosmos lights (as override) when rendering with OptiX
- Affect Matte Surface option does not work when rendering Gaussian splats with the GPU engine
- Incorrect GI with VRayLuminaire with OptiX
- Compute function exceeds available stack space on M2 macOS machines