--- title: "7.30.02" canonical: "https://documentation.chaos.com/space/VMAX/707559558/7.30.02" format: markdown --- ## **V-Ray 7, update 3** *Official release* **Date **- Apr 03, 2026 > Macro (ui-button) ### **New Features** --- **V-Ray** - Support for 3ds Max 2027 - Cloud licensing - New Quick Sun Caustics in V-Ray material for water surfaces - V-Ray Parallax texture - Ability to use scene lights to illuminate Gaussian splat objects - Visibility override for objects in VRayPhysicalCamera - Add additional settings for Displacement in V-Ray material - Object focus for depth of field in V-Ray Physical Camera - Add geometry as include/exclude criteria in Chaos Scatter - Support for VRayDecal in Chaos Scatter - Animation support for Gaussian splat loader - Add support for Parallax textures import from Chaos Cosmos - DR2 becomes the default version in the official releases. DR1 is available only in Stable builds - Add support for USD 0.14 - Support BigTIFF file format **V-Ray GPU** - HIP support for AMD GPUs **VFB** - Improved Background layer called Image layer - Added Foreground and Background folders in the fixed stack of Layers in VFB to prevent issues with Lens effects when using an image for Background - Add Histogram in VFB - Add thumbnail preview in the EXR header for Cloud Collaboration ### **Modified features** --- **V-Ray** - Add Caustic multiplier to the cells in V-Ray Lister - Displacement: Possibility to set pre-scaled vector texture - Add grey VRayMtl into the override mat. slot in V-Ray Render settings - Improve scene setup time in scenes with many lights and many instances - Expose -renderhost argument for the V-Ray DR spawners when they are set as dispatchers - Add a MaxScript command to import Cosmos assets by name - Add Option for AI features in the installer - USD-Export V-Ray render settings to usd - Reveal the Viewport opacity filter parameter in the V-Ray Gaussian geometry UI - Add generic/particle channels reading for VRayUserScalar in vrender - Preserve Relative to BBox for old scenes and change the default for new scenes in order to have accurate results with the new settings for displacement in VRayMtl - Do not open "Manage license server" link from Manage Chaos License Server button in Settings, if cloud licensing is selected - Add support for GeomStaticMesh::smooth_uvs=0 in the new primitives - Implement keep continuity for new subdiv primitives - Cleanup related to displacement and normals for new subdiv primitives - MappedTexture optimizations - Compute displacement and cached normals for the new subdiv primitives on multiple threads - Reimplement the export to vrmesh files for the new primitives - Add support for object/world space vector displacement for new subdiv primitives - Minor performance optimization for 2D displacement - Add USD 0.25.05 to standalone - Process alpha channel during Interactive denoising - Improve time zones supported by the night sky - Extend the exclude/include support for VRayLuminaire - VRayMtl presets update in respect of recent changes related to OpenPBR shading mode - Extend the exclude/include support for VRaySun - Apply night sky improvements from Corona to VRay **V-Ray GPU** - Support for tyFlow's tyBitmap in V-Ray GPU - Improve loading bitmaps on multiple GPUs - Add an option to render GPU LC on the CUDA CPU device - Write Z-depth render channel for Gaussian splats - Add support for the new subdiv primitives on the GPU - Avoid the max samples level GPU warning during interactive rendering - Speedup bitmap loading by deferring color corrections to the GPU on bitmap access **VFB** - Add a UI option for Light Cache denoising to the VRayDenoiser render element - Grey out "Blend frames" when OIDN or NVIDIA denoisers are used in VDenoise tool - Improve VFB Layers performance - Minor performance improvement to Cryptomatte layer performance - Add support for AI Enhancer workflow from EXR image source ### **Bugfixes** --- **V-Ray** - Missing Render Elements with USD 0.25.05 - Endless IPR refresh if an instanced VRayPhysicalCamera is selected and Automatic vertical tilt is turned on - Empty Compact and Slate Material Editor swatches after scene save and scene load with V-Ray 6.20 - IPR crashes when modifying any parameter from an edit poly modifier and VRayUVWRandomizer (by Particle ID) is used - 3ds Max's common output does not consider the loaded image in the VFB when rendering with Polygon region - DR2 CPU Camera with resolution override renders incorrectly - VRayCryptomatte is not properly filled on DR2 local host rendering while OK on remote hosts - IPR does not always reflect Exclude/Include Layer changes with sublayers - VRayInstancer does not take in account alembic particle velocity channel when reading particles from VRayProxy - Crash with VRayLister with active selection when trying to Reset layout with 3ds Max 2025-2026 - 3ds Max freezes and hangs when using Cosmos assets in large projects - Many V-Ray GPU render setup parameters have wrong highlight if V-Ray Render setup UI was not used first - VrayBitmap/Bitmap export to USD defaults to vertexColor in the uvgen_remapper as uv_set_name - Deep output artifacts with environment fog "occluding" geometry - TyBitmap is not rendering properly on Chaos Cloud - Crash when rendering a sequence with overrides in tyFlow object properties using V-Ray GPU in 3ds Max - Error dialog is shown when trying to view a .tx loaded in the VRayBitmap - Vantage config file/changes are reset when starting Live-Link animation rendering from V-Ray for 3ds Max - VRayUserScalar nested into VRayMultiSubTex is not considered when linked to refraction slot of VRayMtl - DR2 builds <> Vantage live-link crashes after loading config scene and panning in max viewport - Error dialog is shown when trying to view a .tx loaded as sequence in the VRayBitmap - VRaySky intensity is ignored when a Sun node is specified and the scene is exported to V-Ray Standalone - Inconsistent forest color on std rendering of exported Forest scene with enabled camera culling - Inconsistent scripted .vrscene export on using incrBaseFrame - Crash when deleting multiple lights selected in V-Ray Lister when the focus is on the lister - 3ds Max crashes after submitting to Chaos Cloud scene with active camera in the viewport - Check call sites of VUtils::getRenderGlobalContext()->getVRayRenderer() for potential issues with DR2 client-side dispatcher - Discrepancies between 3ds Max, Standalone and V-Ray GPU when having instanced VRayDecal with opacity - Assert in setProgress when saving a multichannel EXR and there is a region - Edge visibility is not correct for triangle base meshes - Excessive GPU Memory consumption caused by Decal in a specific scene - Animated tyFlow instances are updated incorrectly in out-of-process IPR (also Vantage live link) - Lighting from Moon is missing in reflections and refractions - Exception with V-Ray Scene Converter trying to process specific Physical Material brought from SketchUp - V-Ray decal disappear after change in IPR - Crash when a disabled RenderChannelDenoiser with enable_blurred_denoising=1 is present - VRay noise texture output cannot be set via maxscript - Render time instancing integration crashes with custom materials - Crash when loading the parameters of another VRayPluginNodeTex in SME **V-Ray GPU** - Trace Sets are not working in RT GPU - Motion blur's Bias parameter is not taken into account - Light's intensity multiplier does not work with textures and directionality set to 1 - Caustics intensity in V-Ray GPU doesn't match cpu - Differences between CPU and GPU render results for a translucent/refractive VRayMtl with Coat darkening - Wrong results with affect matte surfaces for VRayGaussianGeom and certain camera angle - VRayDisplacementMod in subdivision mode breaks the shading of rigged objects - V-Ray GPU Render Fails with CUDA Error 700 When Using VRayNormalMap in PlusMinusAverage Node - VRayUserScalar and VRayMultiSubTex do not render correctly when using GPU - Stars brightness in Night Sky affect Clouds differently in V-Ray GPU - TexNoise is invalid on GPU when uvwgen is None - TexBitmap with UVWGenProjection is invalid as bump map on GPU - Rendering with RTX crashes when UVW channel 0 is used and specific broken geometry - IPR scenes crash with the new bitmap loading set as default - There are crashing standard tests with the new bitmap loading set as default - Artefacts in VRayZDepth with gaussian splat behind object with opacity - VRayGaussianGeom clipping mask with procedural texture in Object XYZ space doesn't match CPU - Gaussian splats produce artefacts when the splat is behind object with opacity on GPU - Fix broken geometry topology in OptiX - Interpolated generic lists get only the last frame data when transferred over command queue **VFB** - Incorrect default tooltip being displayed in right side panel on widget with no tooltip - VFB Render Region moves the Background layer - Denoiser is enabled after starting render and Intel Open Image Denoiser produces black buckets - Intel AI Denoiser does not denoise the Alpha channel properly - Lens effect artifacts occur on Linux when saving to an 8-bit output with an exposure layer and gamma 2.2 - LightMix can produce negative pixels with values very close to 0