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title: "7.00.04"
canonical: "https://documentation.chaos.com/space/VMAYA/111739922/7.00.04"
format: markdown
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***V-Ray 7 for Maya, hotfix 1***

*Official release*

**Date **- Apr 10, 2025

## **New features**

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**Installer**

- Add support for Maya 2026

**USD**

- Add support for MayaUSD 0.31.0 for Maya 2024, Maya 2025 and Maya 2026

##   
**Modified features**

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**USD**

- Export XGen Intractive Groom Splines to GeomMayaHair in USD

**VRayMtl**

- Add Shading Model dropdown option in Hypershade Property editor
- Update UI for VRayMtl in OpenPBR mode
- Add better support for Reflection amount for VRayMtl in OpenPBR mode
- Adjusted VRayMtl in OpenPBR mode to always use the roughness model

**V-Ray**

- Added option to skip adding "_tmp" to the output file name when using vrend command
- Fixed crash when adding image to Background layer in VFB on macOS
- Added process memory usage report in the progress output
- Added a warning when no selected materials can be exported during a MaterialX export
- Brought back GPU CUDA and RTX options in the V-Ray for Mac builds
- Expose "Hardware textures" mode for GPU rendering on MacOS
- Fixed OCIO config file with backslashes in the path not loading on Linux
- Fixed bitmaps from IFL with backslashes in the path not loading on Linux
- Fixed OIDN Prefilter option becoming available if the Intel Denoiser is selected for IPR
- Fixed wrong material connection when there is no material shader connected in the shading group
- Fixed moving meshes not switching from static to dynamic geometry in IPR
- Fixed Metal engine/device selection not persisting when switching between GPU and CPU
- Fixed crash with Chaos Collaboration on MacOS with Intel CPU or emulation
- Fixed slow loading of Volume grid located on a shared drive
- Fixed crash when graphing a material node imported from vrscene coming from Houdini
- Added missing metadata when uploading an image to Chaos Collaboration from the VFB
- Added missing tooltips for Metal UI buttons
- Added Credits and Copyrights link to the Settings Tab and About Window

**VFB**

- Remember and use last folder location when loading files in the VFB
- Added Recent Files option for loading images in the VFB
- Fixed disapearing Curve Layer's Histogram when the Alpha channel is black
- Fixed VFB Undo and Redo issues when there is a Background layer
- Fixed more than one click needed to undo VFB filter

  
**VRaySun**

- Added support for creating multiple VRaySun nodes
- Adjust VRaySun Turbidity min and max default values
- Added support for animating VRaySun Altitude and Turbidity for PRG sky

  
**Chaos Cosmos**

- Fixed endless loop when auto-downloading missing Cosmos assets with anonymous or unlogged users
- Fixed missing Cosmos variant preview images in VRayProxy UI when changing the Cosmos root directory
- Fixed drag and drop of Cosmos asset variants not importing the chosen variation index

**Chaos Vantage**

- Fixed crash when rendering animation with Chaos Vantage with starting frame 0

**MaterialX**

- Fixed wrong position for materialX worleynoise_3d and cellnoise_3d
- Fixed incorrect results for normal map in mtlx
- Fixed wrong specular anisotropy direction with Standard Surface
- Fixed wrong render with anisotropy value 0 with Standard Surface

**Chaos Cloud**

- Fixed MaterialX image file textures not uploaded to Chaos Cloud

  
**V-Ray GPU**

- Added missing vray_gpu_device_select tool with Maya 2025
- Fixed named hair map channels not rendereding