--- title: "7.50.00" canonical: "https://documentation.chaos.com/space/VMAX/1441858094/7.50.00" format: markdown --- ## **V-Ray 7, update 5** --- *Official Release* Date - Nov 5, 2026 [Download V-Ray 7 for 3ds Max](https://download.chaos.com/?platform=49&product=47) ### **New features** **V-Ray** - Initial implementation of a V-Ray Volume object, Volume shader and Volume textures - Support TyFlow's new volumetric data - Initial implementation of Chaos AI Assistant - Initial implementation of VRaySpotLight - Cylinder type in VRayLight ### **Modified features** **V-Ray** - Hide Irradiance Map from Render setup - Enable light depth sampling for VRayLuminaire lights - VRayVelocityElement Include/Exclude Layers and IDs - Include converting Irradiance map to Brute Force suggestion in the scene open dialog which pops up when old settings are detected - Support for Anima 7 - Hide Prepass samples option from the UI - Add integration/support for animatable material index in the material switcher in 3ds Max 2026 and 2027 - MultiMatteElement Include/Exclude Layers - VRayClipper Include/Exclude Layers and IDs - VRayAmbientOcclusionElement Include/Exclude Layers and IDs - VRayDirt Include/Exclude Layers and IDs - VRayDistanceTex Include/Exclude Layers and IDs - Hide Use Irradiance map parameter from VRayMtl UI and VRayToonMtl UI - Optimizations in the V-Ray Scene Converter - VRayDecal Include/Exclude Layers and IDs - Launch cosmos browser service automatically - ICX PGO builds for VMAX **V-Ray GPU** - V-Ray GPU (CUDA / RTX) to print frame completion time on render end similar to CPU - Improved the rendering of 2D displacement - Improved GPU sampling, make it less error-prone - Smoother light cache updates during IPR - Equalize V-Ray GPU Gaussian splat rendering with V-Ray CPU - Add velocity data to gaussian splats - Support for VRayMatteShadowsRE in GPU **VFB** - IPR with Denoise Light Cache might show noisy images - Add possibility to auto-remap file path in Image layer **VRayDenoiser/vdenoise.exe, VFB** - Optimized post effects processing during rendering ### **Bugfixes** **V-Ray** - Refractions in VRayMtl become progressively darker with low glossiness - Scatter is different in IPR after it was hidden and shown in IPR - VRayBitmap's Start Frame parameter is broken - Add separation line above the material override - Render resolution from 3dsMax live-link not updated in Vantage - Crash resizing VFB while V-Ray IPR is running with Light cache denoise - VRscene is flipped when rendering it with motion blur - V-Ray GPU Viewport IPR + nVidia Denoiser + Upscale - no denoising after Light Cache - ActiveShade viewport render resolution drops when Safe Frame is on and the viewport is wider (in aspect ratio) than the render output - DR2 with V-Ray GPU Bucket rendering does not distribute reserved buckets at the end of the render to other render nodes - Tiled rendering issue using 3ds Max crop and separate image channels output - VRayMultiSubTex's ID Generator slot info is not exported to Standalone / GPU - Exported Anima 4D characters are rendered wrong when Motion Blur is used - Incorrect render of ForestPack/RailClone with V-Ray GPU/Vantage when motion blur is enabled - Instanced VRayPhysicalCamera nodes are constantly updated in the viewport when "Automatic vertical tilt" is enabled - Crash navigating in heavy client scene with proxy deferred loading enabled - Incorrect MutiMatte element when using VRayBlend Mtl to mix materials with different Material/ Effect IDs - Displacement Amount is capped for values outside the usual 0 to 100 for maps in VRayMtl with GPU/Standalone - Difference in displacement shift between V-Ray Production in 3ds Max and GPU/Standalone - V-Ray Bitmap "View Image" window appears off-screen in multi-monitor setups with ultrawide display - VRayVolumeGrid with VDB file renders wrong on Chaos Cloud/Standalone Linux when 'Flip Up Axis' is used - VRayStereoscopic helper's "Adjust Resolution" is not considered when submitting a job through 3ds Max - 3ds Max freezes after GPU IPR render of TyFlow scenes where Motion blur duration is above 1 - Highlights to most modified parameters in V-Ray GPU render setup are still applied with the highlights option disabled - Opacity mapped objects appear outside render mask when a thick VRayEnvironmentFog is present - Chaos Cosmos importer - importing assets with variants show error and possibly variants do not work properly - VRayMtl bump map multiplier is not exported to Vrscene for VRayNormalMap when it only sets additional bump - Planar from Object XYZ mapping is motion blurred additionally - Crash with Standalone on closing VFB when VRayCryptomatte RE is used (regression) - Incorrect written VFB 'primitives' stamp data saved in animated sequence images - Artifacts with Adaptive lights and Environment fog - DR2 | The "Follow Mouse" option does not work - Wrong visibility overrides for decals in VRayPhysicalCamera on IPR - VRayLight surface is not updated in IPR when the light's type is set to Sphere - V-Ray Physical Camera: crash when using focus picker during creation mode - VRayPhysicalCamera with object focusing flickering in the viewport when using Orbit - VRaySphereFade in a scene with dome light rendered incorrectly in Standalone **V-Ray GPU** - Instanced VRayEnmeshMod randomly shows the base/source mesh after a change in V-Ray GPU IPR - Samples limit is not respected - Crash when rendering with V-Ray GPU using DR2, Bucket mode, and large image resolutions (4K) - Adaptive lights renders more than necessary with compact sampling enabled - Hide CUDA tab if there are only AMD GPU-s in the system - Regression: CUDA error with a VRayTriplanar projected Normal map - Crash with CUDA error on render with specific scene file and hiding unhiding objects - The metalness's reflection of a matte object is always visible in the Alpha (even if Affect Alpha is disabled) - GPU memory leak approx. 215-250 MB when rendering with out-of-process from 3ds max - Crash with caustics and interactive light cache - Discrepancy between CPU and GPU with Cylindrical Point Camera - Support for motion blur for photon tracing for all lights - Freeze with 3ds Max 2026 and 2027 UI when selecting gpu device and Slate material editor is opened - Crash with VRayExtraTex RE with VRayEdgesTex with VRayPlane - Artifacts on rendering a client's scene on HIP and HIPRT - RGB primaries in VRayBitmap is ignored when the same file is used - Endless Light cache calculation with specific scene - The automatic resolution adjustment from Stereoscopic rendering does not work in Standalone/Cloud - BRDFCarpaint2 coat bump not evaluated on GPU - Render elements are not rendered correctly for shaders with refraction affecting All Channels - Bad VRayStochasticFlakesMtl results when rendered through transparent objects - VFB Stats Tab displays incorrect available and used memory information - VRayMtl's Bump multiplier does not work when the map type is 'Normal map in tangent space' - Different results when rendering a combination of CompTex and DistanceTex with V-Ray and V-Ray GPU - The distance texture slot of VRayDistanceTex is not working correctly using V-Ray GPU **VFB** - Crash when quickly loading images from VFB history - Crash when attempting to delete the Histogram Layer via MaxScript and afterwards switching between images in the History - Slow bucket refresh when using Curves or Exposure corrections - TIFF (8/16 bit) and 16-bit PNG saved with color corrections look washed out when loaded back - Wrong Composite result in history save and enhancement EXR - VFB Crash with missing LUT asset file - A denoiser layer with an opacity less than 1 is not automatically applied if a Sharpen/Blur layer is also present - VFB's Image Layer Color Picker value precision issues - VFB does not keep the last stop render option used - Enhancer upload image preview is broken if we have denoiser in the VFB layers - The opacity slider of the Lens Effects layer is not considered in the effectsResult/Glare channels (only in the RGB) - Crash upon loading recent files into the VFB Image layer - Some options for saving History images to files do not work as expected - Artifacts appear in the background while rendering with Image layer added to Backgrounds folder - Some color transformation options in the Background layer in the VFB are not greyed out when the mode is set to Color - Files containing Alpha Channel cause issues when loaded as a Background or a Foreground in the V-Ray Frame Buffer - Vrimg file is not deleted after a completing a render with Resumable Rendering and Bucket Sampler - Extra attributes about raycast and primitive count stats are missing from Raw images (EXR and VRImg) **VRayDenoiser/vdenoise.exe** - Upscaled image briefly displayed while calculating GI with using VRayDenoiser with Denoise Light cache option enabled **Security** - Fixed security issues