--- title: "V-Ray 5" canonical: "https://documentation.chaos.com/space/VREVIT/161022297/V-Ray%205" format: markdown --- ## **Build 5.20.23** *Official Release, update 2.2* Date - May 11, 2022   > Macro (ui-button)   ### **Improvements** --- **General** - Added support for Revit 2023 - Asset Editor updated to version 2.3.2 - V-Ray Vision updated to version 1.10.07 - Chaos Cloud client updated to version 1.16.3 - Chaos Cosmos Browser updated to version 2022.05.10 - Swarm updated to version 1.4.7.1002 **Cosmos** - Added support for Cosmos 3D models containing color randomization **UX/UI** - Removed the Render Progress window in favor of the VFB Log tab - Migrated the Swarm progress bar to the Swarm tab of the V-Ray Settings panel - Disabled Scatter Scale randomization by default - Improved behavior of the Appearance Manager expanders - The Dome Light Intensity is automatically set to 1 when a Cosmos HDR image is used - Enabled drag & drop of Scatter assets over the Appearance Manager host slots ## **Bug fixes** --- **General** - Revit filters are not properly applied to the rendering - Error in the log when adding Cosmos asset light to the scene - Unnecessary warning in the log for a missing Scatter plugin - Purge does not reset edited Cosmos assets and Infinite Ground Plane - Exception on render start after loading settings of another user **Interactive** - Crash after moving VFB while Light Gen is generating variants - Exception when switching Top coat Reflectance of Revit Layered material from Texture to Slider or vice versa - Crash after clicking on generate variants in LightGen tool - Unnecessary update when an unused V-Ray material is renamed - Linked replacements of In-place families are rendered misplaced on linked file moving **Cosmos** - Wall-based accessories sink to the opposite side of the wall when rendered - 3D models from the Architecture category fail to import - Unhandled exception when promoting a material of a deleted Cosmos 3D model **Geometries** - Proxy replacements of families containing nested RPCs are displayed twice - Crash on rendering start when specific Scatter hosts or guests are used - Scatter fails to distribute assets over the entire surface of the host - Scatter disappears when several renders are started consequently - Scatter Scale Multiplier doesn't work - Scatter disappears on Spiral stairs host - Exception when scattering a Planting guest on a Curtain System host - Scatter instances are outside the bounds of a round host - Scatter is not properly rendered when applied to a ceiling **Asset Editor** - Proxy mesh material slots are not shown when loaded from a *.vrmat file - Broken preview and missing textures when promoting a Revit material containing textures - Revit Layered material promoted to the Asset Editor is broken **Vision** - Crash when disabling Proxy Mesh replacement of RPC used as Scatter Guest - The displayed Scatter configuration is different than the one rendered with V-Ray - Scale is not respected when a Scatter Guest is replaced with a Proxy Mesh **UX/UI** - Typo in Purge V-Ray Settings message dialog ## **Build 5.20.22** *Official Release, update 2.1* Date - March 17, 2022   ### **Improvements** --- **General** - Asset Editor updated to version 2.3.1 - V-Ray Vision updated to version 1.10.05 - Chaos Cosmos Browser updated to version 2022.3.11 - License Server updated to version 5.5.5 - Hide in View setting is respected for elements from linked files   **V-Ray Interactive** - Consider Revit's Show/Hide in View for families not listed in the Appearance Manager **Appearance Manager** - Added ability to promote multiple Cosmos asset materials at once **Channels** - Added separate Light Mix channels for Sun and Dome Light **VFB** - Display a single name in Light Mix if both Revit family type and name are the same **Vision** - Added Free Flight option for the Fly navigation mode to not be constrained horizontally - Default shadow quality is set to Medium     ### Bug fixes --- **General** - Impossible to load vrmatmigrate.dll exception - Attempted to read or write protected memory exception when starting a render multiple times - Revit family replaced with a missing Cosmos asset is not rendered - Linked replacements are ignored if the main file is new and has not been saved yet - Cosmos assets are rendered in magenta if a project is opened by another user - Cosmos wall- and ceiling-based assets are rendered misplaced - Scatter does not appear on floors with modified sub-elements - Exception when rendering a Scatter with a Guest family containing nested RPC - VFB Display correction is briefly reset while preparing for rendering with V-Ray GPU - Error on render resuming after enabling or disabling DR - VRMat parser sometimes truncates floating point values when parsing .vrmat files - IES lights render incorrectly in environment fog **V-Ray GPU** - GPU Light Cache is slower to render with big resolutions - Rendering crashes after swapping the GPU devices **V-Ray Interactive** - Wrong replacements of linked file materials when Merge Identical is on - Revit family changes are not reflected to the rendering on link reload - Incorrect rendering on move/undo delete of a linked file instance containing family replacements - NullReferenceException on undo delete of a Revit family used as a scatter guest - Cosmos wall-based assets disappear when moving a linked file instance - Missing Cosmos lights are not rendered after download completes **UX/UI** - The texture associated with Extra Texture channel is incorrectly shown as missing - V-Ray button in Families tab is offset with 2 px **Asset Editor** - Scatter Density texture is not respected on rendering - Preview is not working after hibernation - Dropdown menu items occasionally offset themselves by a pixel on each mouse hover - The 2D and 3D texture preview swatches render black with the GPU engine - Removed max value limit of the Generic material Refraction Depth parameter - Some Refraction Depth values are not rounded correctly **Appearance Manager** - The Appearance Manager UI does not update after using the Revit Links Bind tool - Family replacements with Cosmos assets are not transferred on import from Project Storage - In-place family replacements disappear on move with Disjoin option enabled - Global Purge does not remove Fur, Displacement and Scatter assignments **Channels** - Linked files Cosmos lights disrespect the Light Mix grouping and appear in the Rest channel **Vision** - Enable vsync to avoid tearing with fast camera movement - The Fly Mode camera jumps slightly in specific situations   ## **Build 5.20.21 ** *Official Release, update 2* Date - Feb. 2, 2022   ### **Improvements** --- **General** - Asset Editor updated to version 2.3.0. - V-Ray Vision updated to version 1.10.04 - Chaos Cloud client updated to version 1.15.3 - Chaos Cosmos Browser updated to version 2022.1.31 - Added ability to render and override V-Ray replacements in linked files - Added a tool for scattering objects on the surface of a selected object - Added ability to establish a live-link connection to Chaos Vantage - Added support for the latest RPC API available in Revit 2022 - Added support for the native Revit Undo/Redo commands **Cosmos** - Added ability to edit or replace the materials of a Cosmos 3D model - Added a Materials category containing over 200 assets - Added ability to import materials from the Materials category - Added ability to enable tri-planar mapping on material import   **V-Ray GPU** - Light Cache is always calculated on the GPU when the CUDA or RTX engine is selected - Added support for the Lighting Analysis render element - Kernel compilation times are reduced by up to 60%   **VFB** - Added ability to apply color corrections or layer presets to a batch of images - Added ability to apply color corrections to the Background layer - Added ability to apply color corrections to all render channels when the image is saved manually   **Vision** - Added ability to export videos in .webm format - Added standalone .exe export - Added Grass preset - Optimized loading and performance of scenes containing large number of objects - Rendering is stopped when there is no user interaction to decrease the GPU load - Added support for IES and spot lights - Added Ambient Light Mode within the built-in Settings panel - Added Ambient Light Intensity slider - Added Soft Shadows (available when the Shadows Quality is set to High) - Added support for Revit’s Solar Study - Temporal anti-aliasing is automatically disabled during animation playback to prevent ghosting artifacts - Added temporal screen space reflections - Added support for the Coat layer of the Generic V-Ray material - Added ability to hide the Vision toolbar - Added navigation via the arrow keyboard keys - Added camera up/down control via the PageUp/PageDown keyboard keys - Reorganized the Output panel options - Updated various tooltips and parameter labels - Added automatic resizing and a scrollbar to all parameter panels - Improved auto exposure behavior - Added automatic scene reloading when High-quality Cosmos Assets is enabled - Improved panorama image export - Improved error message when Vision fails to initialize - Set the default state of the Tonemapping Curve to Disabled   **Asset Editor** - Optimized deletion of large asset sets - Added thin-walled option to the Generic material Refraction parameters - Removed Hard (wax) and Hybrid Fog Scattering models - Renamed Fog Scattering to Translucency - Added SSS and Volumetric modes to the Generic material Translucency - Renamed Fog Multiplier to Depth/Scale which change based on the selected Translucency type - Color Space (sRGB or Linear) for bitmaps loaded in any of the Generic material layer slots is set automatically - Improved connection with the material preview rendering process - Added Thin Mode, Ignore Bump and Streaks Density options to the Dirt texture - Extended the Curvature texture with new parameters   **Appearance Manager** - Renamed Objects tab to Families - Split Families tab into 3 sub-tabs - Removed By Origin filter from the families filter options - Added a filter to distinguish edited from non-edited Cosmos assets - Replaced bottom tab Scale/Rotation spinners with numeric fields - Moved the Pick Material button to the search bar   **UX/UI** - Renamed Improved sky model to PRG Clear Sky - The V-Ray Vision icon has been updated - Improved the output of log messages on DR nodes adding - Disabled interactive actions with Proxy Scenes - V-Ray is disabled on Undo actions executed immediately after acquiring a license   ### **Bug Fixes** --- **General** - Issue with linked project replacements disappearing on link reloading - Issue with the auto-save path validation - InvalidOperationException when V-Ray fails to add DR Nodes due to bad connection - InvalidObjectExceptionProxy when linking an existing project into brand new one - V-Ray Core exception in case of a missing Generic material parameter - Issue with rendering stop at 50% with custom resolution and Hybrid mode enabled - Issue with black rendering after VRayPlugins.json is migrated from old format - Error when exporting to Cloud with all render channels enabled - Issue with invalid version warning after a linked file has been updated and open in a fresh Revit session - Windows 11 issue where V-Ray fails to utilize more than 64 threads - Issue with bump maps appearing reversed when viewed in reflections   **Settings ** - Fixed the Proxy category label in the Paths & Sharing tab   **V-Ray Interactive** - Issue with Artificial Light Overrides not being updated if Artificial Lights are reenabled - Issue with visibility of light sources when Cosmos lights are hidden - 'An item with the same key has already been added' error - Null exception on Cosmos replacements import from an .xml file   **Geometries** - Issue with Fur applied to a Revit family remaining on rendering if the family is replaced with a V-Ray geometry   **Cosmos** - Issue with Cosmos light sources scale disrespecting the objects scale - Exception with Light Mix and Cosmos lighting fixtures - Issue with disappearing objects when Cosmos replacements are imported from .xml - Issue with Cosmos 3D models having a single material ID color - Issue with Interactive not restarting after missing assets download is complete   **Appearance Manager** - Issue with interactive updates on Cosmos-mapped Revit family deleting - Issue with Selection Type not updating when picking families in the list - Issue with family replacements restoring in case of multiple selection   **Asset Editor** - Issue with Use Mtl Override setting of proxies not being applied - Issue with labels overlapping of UV Placement Source and UVW Placement - Issue with purging of materials assigned to the infinite plane in View-Specific mode - Issue with Use as Replacement option not working when a material is applied to the infinite plane - Issue with interactive updates on Can be Overridden setting disable - Scrolling issue on systems with custom UI scaling after selecting an asset from a long list - Issue with deleting Bump attribute leading to child textures instantiated in other material slots being also deleted - Issue with Reflection Glossiness of Metallic materials not working when the Reflection color is not white   **V-Ray GPU** - AccessViolationException after CUDA is out of memory - Issue with GPU Light Cache leading to a memory leak - Issue with Light Mix not working correctly with Camera Auto Exposure   **VFB** - Issue with black artifacts when lights are disabled in Light Mix - Issue with blocked render restart immediately after .vrscene export - Issue with rendering button not working on press   **Vision** - Issue with proxy meshes remaining on rendering after replacement is disabled - Issue with various replacements not being applied correctly - Issue with Flip Axis of Proxy Meshes not updating during live-link - Issue with Auto Exposure not being applied when exporting standard or VR images - Issue with sunlight artifacts when the model is viewed from specific angles - Issue with transparent (and refractive) materials and specific mesh normals - Issue with Cancel in the Save File browser window resetting the file type to .png - Issue with Camera movement while dragging UI sliders - Issue with ghosting artifacts appearing over transparent object when the camera is moved quickly - Issue with bump and normal maps appearing flipped - Issue with the entire model being flipped when zooming in an ortho camera - Issue with plugins containing non-latin character being incorrectly loaded - Issue with Proxy Scene objects being misplaced - Issue with tri-planar textures appearing darker - Issue with supported files not being listed correctly in the Save File browser window - Issue with choppy camera movement in fly navigation mode with low fly speeds - Issue with dark circles appearing on surfaces close and under the camera in specific situations - Issue with Cosmos assets being cut when away from regular scene objects   **API** - Issue with API servers list in config.json not being cleared after Revit is closed   **UX/UI** - Issue with GPU device names being cut in the GPU engine drop-down     ## **Build 5.10.20** *Official Release, update 1.2* Date - Sept. 17, 2021 ### Big fixes --- **General** - Argument exception in Worksharing when enabling V-Ray if users have worked with different versions **Appearance Manager** - Fixed broken replacement of multiple selected Revit families - Fixed performance issue and excessive logging on Fur or Displacement assignment to multiple materials     ## **Build 5.10.09** *Official Release, update 1.1* Date - August 26, 2021   ### **Improvements** --- **General** - Asset Editor updated to version 2.2.1 - V-Ray Vision updated to version 1.00.08 - Chaos Cloud client updated to version 1.13.2 - Chaos Cosmos Browser updated to version 2021.08.23 - Handled disabled state of Revit filters **Cosmos** - Improved toolbar button behavior **Asset Editor** - Promoted Revit material appears automatically selected **Appearance Manager** - Added filter to display only Prism materials in Materials tab **UX/UI** - Modified alignment of Promote material button in Appearance Manager - Improved some tooltips behavior   ### Bug fixes --- **General** - Argument exception in Worksharing if multiple users import the same Cosmos asset - “An item with the same key has already been added” exception in Interactive - Exception when migrating VRayPlugins.json file from an older V-Ray version - UI dialogs fail after reloading linked files **Asset Editor** - Wrong materials renaming during Light Gen variants generation or vrscene export - Unreferenced plugins left after promoting an AutoGen material - Library does not display placeholder thumbnails of vrmat assets - Asset preview renderer randomly fails   ## **Build 5.10.08** *Official Release, update 1* Date - July 14, 2021 ### **Improvements** --- **General** - Batch Rendering in Chaos Cloud - Integrated Light Gen tool - Promote AutoGen Revit Prism material to Asset Editor - Implemented Public API based on gRPC - Asset Editor updated to version 2.2.0 - License Server updated to version 5.5.4 - Chaos Cosmos Browser updated to version 2021.07.14 - Set scene_name for Cosmos asset Node plugins in vrscene export **Materials/AutoGen** - Utilize option_use_roughness in all Prism AutoGen materials - Library does not display placeholder thumbnails of vrmat assets Textures assigned to anisotropy parameters of Revit Prism materials are not rendered - Enable Glossy Fresnel for all AutoGen materials - Changed default Bitmap Filter Type from Mip-map to Sharp Isotropic **Lights/Dome** - Use linear color space for Dome light image **Environment** - Extended Aerial Perspective settings **UX/UI** - Pick material button is greyed out while material picking is in progress - Irrelevant sky parameters are greyed out based on the selected sky model - Improved display names of Cosmos assets in the replacements drop-down   ### **Bug fixes** --- **General** - Crash when closing Revit with multiple open projects - Cosmos assets disrespect Revit mirror tools when rendered - NullReferenceException raised during export of a scene including Cosmos assets - InvalidOperationException when stopping the render from VFB - Wrong positioning of V-Ray Proxy Scenes when replacing in-place family instances - Rendering is noticeably slowed down in case of specific proxy mesh references - Batch Rendering fails if V-Ray scene Export As Archive option has been enabled **Appearance Manager** - Wrong replacement restored after disabling V-Ray Proxy Mesh/Scene and Cosmos asset replacements - RPCs not rendered when being replaced with Cosmos asset in a linked project - Linked project Proxy Mesh replacements are rendered instead of those defined in the main document - Linked project Global Overrides are rendered instead of those defined in the main document **Asset Editor** - Materials referred by material extensions are not listed as sub-assets in the outliner **Materials/AutoGen** - Prism Opaque translucency and cutout render incorrectly with V-Ray **Materials/V-Ray** - Inner edges are not visible when opacity is added to V-Ray Toon material **Interactive** - Crash when moving Revit family instance replaced with V-Ray Scene asset - NullReferenceException on V-Ray Global Purge - Linked projects lights are not affected by the Global Light override updates and the Artificial Lights On/Off switch - Missing updates if Revit family instances are replaced with Cosmos asset after rendering start - RPCs disappear when replaced with Proxy Mesh and a global proxy override is applied **UX/UI** - Appearance Manager does not update when a material is renamed in the Asset Editor after Interactive is stopped - Unable to select Revit family replacement in Appearance Manager Objects tab after disabling V-Ray Proxy Mesh/Scene and Cosmos asset replacements - Wrong button state after disabling Cosmos asset replacement in Appearance Manager - Objects replacement drop-down menu blinks when restoring a V-Ray Proxy Mesh/Scene assignment - Incorrect Selection Type indicated on replacement with V-Ray Proxy Mesh asset without mesh file specified - VFB window is duplicated when showing it with the toolbar button before rendering - Appearance Manager does not refresh when renaming a family type in Revit Project Browser **Installer** - Typo in Host app version screen - V-Ray installs for all supported Revit versions no matter which one is present   ## **Build 5.10.07** *Official Release, hotfix 4* Date - May 25, 2021 ### **Improvements** --- **General** - Asset Editor updated to version 2.1.3 - V-Ray Vision updated to version 1.00.06 - Chaos Cloud Client updated to version 1.12.0 - Chaos Cosmos Browser updated to version 2021.04.22 - V-Ray Swarm updated to version 1.4.6 **Asset Editor** - Decreased material library size to ensure faster downloads **Cosmos** - Decreased browser window width ### **Bug fixes** --- **Interactive** - Crash after renaming and updating a V-Ray material used to override multiple Revit materials **Cosmos** - Cosmos asset materials are lost when imported into a linked document in several cases **UX/UI** - VASSERT message shown by the installer when V-Ray Materials Library Download Path registry key is missing on the system **Asset Editor** - Issue with material library download message appearing incorrectly - Issue with materials duplicating when using square bracket symbols on renaming - Incorrect results when Refraction Glossiness of Generic material is set below 0.78 **Displacement** - Incorrect results when UVW Placement source is combined with Normal displacement mode ## **Build 5.10.06** *Official Release, hotfix 3* Date - April 22, 2021   ### Improvements --- **General** - Support for Revit 2022  - Added Post-effects Update parameter to Settings Renderer tab  - Asset Editor updated to version 2.1.2 - Chaos Cloud Client updated to version 1.11.0 - Chaos Cosmos Browser updated to version 2021.04.12  - SevenZipSharp library replaced with System.IO.Compression.ZipFile  **Materials** - Improved automatic conversion of Revit PrismMetal material  **Artificial Lights** - Added support for Cosmos lights switching in Revit Artificial Lights dialog  **Channels** - Added Intel Open Image Denoise to Denoiser engines  **Camera** - Stereo mode is ignored when exporting to Chaos Cloud   **UX/UI** - Cut Cosmos assets names in Objects tab and adjusted alignment  - Removed the automatic selection of render channels when Denoiser is enabled  - Improved the Denoiser/Lighting Analysis Update button style and behavior  - Removed Denoiser Use GPU parameter from the UI  ### Bug fixes --- **General** - Null exception when exporting a vrscene containing Cosmos lights - Issue with RPCs not rendering after a silent installation of Revit 2020 - InvalidOperationException when disabling V-Ray while Interactive is running **Cosmos** - Scale, Rotation and Randomize of assets are not saved to project storage - Exception on attempt to render linked file assets which IDs duplicate with those of the host project - Family geometries replaced with Cosmos assets remain visible on rendering when in linked file **Interactive** - Missing updates when deleting a global texture from Displacement - Rendering does not update correctly on material renaming - Global Override is not properly applied on Revit family replacement with Cosmos asset **Materials** - Issue with migration of layered materials from V-Ray 3.x - Warnings during migration of Texture material from V-Ray 3.x - Broken global material overrides migration from V-Ray 3.x in case a specific environment variable is present **Geometries** - Displacement is not applied after project reopen **Channels** - Denoiser presets appear incorrectly in VFB **UX/UI** - Drop-down UI of Appearance Manager filter does not refresh on filter reset - Wrong Selection Type when only unmapped Revit families are selected in the Objects tab of the Appearance Manager ## **Build** **5.10.05** *Official Release, hotfix 2* Date - April 9, 2021   ### Bug fixes --- **General** - TypeInitializationException on V-Ray enabling due to failed loading of System.Runtime.CompilerServices.dll assembly **Cosmos** - An error is shown and V-Ray cannot be enabled if Cosmos asset version number in the imported Revit Family is missing or invalid - UI is blocked when many Cosmos assets have been added to the project and some of them are missing and must be downloaded. **UX/UI** - Missing Cosmos assets indicator in toolbar is visible after all assets have been downloaded     ## **Build 5.10.04** *Official Release, hotfix 1* Date - March 29, 2021   ### **Improvements** --- **General** - Asset Editor updated to version 2.1.1 - License Server updated to version 5.5.3 - Chaos Cloud Client updated to version 1.10.0 - Chaos Cosmos Browser updated to version 2021.03.22 - Cleaned up environment variables set for V-Ray - Differentiate Revit LT vs. Revit from installed version - Configure download location for V-Ray Materials Library during installation - Set soft_shadows of IES lights to 2 **Cosmos** - Manage Cosmos assets lights through Light Mix - Trigger download of missing Cosmos assets referenced by a project detected on V-Ray enabling **Appearance Manager** - Keep Width/Height ratio when Lock functionality in Materials tab is used. **Vision** - Implemented model loading progress bar - Optimized loading of textures with built-in mip-maps - Optimized texture loading in scenes with many large textures - Optimized geometry data loading. Heavy models are faster to load and view - Improvements to navigation in Orbit mode as well as when resizing the Vision dialog ### **Bug fixes** --- **General** - Improper default V-Ray Materials Library download location - Crash on migration of V-Ray 3.6 project materials - Crash on render of IES Revit lights after specific Windows update **Cosmos** - Intensity of Cosmos assets lights is about 30 times lower than Revit lights - Crash and extensive logging when a connection to Chaos Cosmos Browser cannot be established. **Appearance Manager** - Material mapping of a renamed material is lost after save and project reopen - Creating missing Proxy Mesh does not fix broken Object mapping **Vision** - Cosmos assets are rendered flat in Vision when scale/rotation is applied - Navigation issues when running Vision through remote desktop - Proxy Meshes appear flat if scale falls at 0.003 or below - Changed node user attributes - Various issues causing incorrect spherical panorama output - Issue with .tx texture loading causing vertically flipped textures or black band at the bottom - Issue with Proxy Mesh LOD when a layered material is used - Hang when an object is deleted from a big model **Interactive Rendering** - Unnecessary update on "Use trace depth in Production" option change ** UX/UI** - Error message includes Chinese symbols when license cannot be obtained - Batch Render button is unlocked after Vision is stopped - By Origin filter is visible in Materials tab filter control ## **Build 5.00.03** *Official Release* Date - Feb. 23, 2021   ### **Improvements** --- **General** - Integrated Chaos Cosmos 3D content browser -  Asset Editor updated to version 2.1.0 -  License Server updated to version 5.5.2 -  Chaos Cloud Client updated to version 1.8.1 -  V-Ray Swarm updated to version 1.4.5 - Added new version notifications  - Redesigned V-Ray settings storage mechanism  - Improved Worksharing (multiple users can work in the Asset Editor) - Make Chaos Cloud client app installation mandatory and add check for version downgrade before triggering installation - Changed the default value of GPU Resize Textures parameter in VRayPlugins.json to 0 **Asset Editor** - Added drag-n-drop of assets from Asset Editor to Appearance Manager - Added config.json option for material library download path - Added config.json option for disabling material library updates check **VFB** - Added Stamp layer - Added Shortcuts editor to VFB Settings panel **UX/UI** - Modified changelog format and added link to it in the Windows Start menu - Added ability to lock Background to use the image assigned to the Dome Light **Vision** - Improved automatic exposure handling - Added screen space reflections for transparent materials - Added temporal image anti-aliasing - Added support for V-Ray Material’s Clip opacity mode - Added support for V-Ray Tri-Planar textures in One Texture mode - Added support for Stochastic texture tiling of the UVW Placement map - Removed Super Sampling option from the Image Export panel - Added Frame Delay option to the Image Export panel - Added High Quality Cosmos Assets option to Vision Settings panel - Added Shadows Quality preset to Vision Settings panel - Added support for V-Ray Sun Size parameter   ### **Bug fixes** --- **General** - Failed to get RenderingAssetManager exception on project initialization - Wrong transfer of materials during Worksharing **Appearance Manager** - Null exception when assigning a proxy mesh to a furniture family - Mapping is lost after a proxy mesh is deleted and another one is renamed to match it **Asset Editor** - Blend, Bump and Toon Override do not handle correctly slotted materials starting with underscore - Temperature texture's Kelvin slider has incorrect min. value - Adding Translucency attribute to a material breaks Raytrace Properties settings on GPU **Swarm** - Warnings received while starting Interactive rendering with Swarm **UX/UI** - Grey out Fur/Displacement indicator when the geometry is disabled in Asset Editor - VFB Settings panel fails to show - Show VFB button does nothing after Vision was stopped **Vision** - Attempted to read or write protected memory exception while applying camera updates during Live Link - Issues with Multi Material assignments - Responsivity issue when picking an output image file location twice in a row ### **Known Issues** --- There is a known issue that is caused by Revit application when using V-Ray for Revit and reproducible only in Revit 2021. When opening a project that has never been saved with V-Ray for Revit, or when starting a project from scratch, enabling V-Ray and then opening another project with an existing V-Ray storage (i.e. V-Ray settings) leads to the following error message: ![image](media://947bb7ae-06a3-417e-a349-c8250afd84ac) There are two workarounds to counter the problem. Workaround 1: Save the first project with V-Ray and then open the other one. Workaround 2: Change the order of opening the projects and open the one that has V-Ray settings first.   ## **Build 5.00.02** *Beta Release* Date - Dec. 3, 2020   ### Improvements --- **General** - Asset Editor updated to version 2.0.1 - License Server updated to version 5.5.1 - Chaos Cloud client app updated to version 1.7.8 - Redesigned installer - Implemented V-Ray Vision real-time viewer - New V-Ray Frame Buffer (VFB2) with layer compositor - Integrated Light Mix channel - New toon workflow via global & per material Contour settings - New and improved Quality presets - Optimized transactions handling in Extensible Storage **Lights/Sun** - Exposed Sky settings - New V-Ray 5 Improved sky model **Asset Editor** - New Displacement workflow - New Proxy Mesh & Proxy Scene workflow - Added GPU asset preview mode - Changed how the visibility of Asset Editor windows is determined **Appearance Manager** - Redesigned to accommodate the new workflows - Added search bar ability to filter materials by Revit identity Class - Added search bar ability to filter family items by Category - Added support for Site and Specialty Equipment categories - Displayed Revit families hierarchically - Disabled material assignments are persisted on project reopen - Added navigation history for randomized objects' seed **UX/UI** - Camera Auto checkboxes are unselected and disabled during Interactive **Materials/V-Ray** - Added Coat layer to Generic material properties - Added Sheen layer to Generic material properties - Added built-in Bump layer to Generic material properties - Removed Glossy Fresnel from the UI. It is enabled by default for all materials - Removed Normal opacity mode - Removed PBR material as well as PBR layer from the Add Layer menu - Exposed Metalness and Roughness options as part of Generic material properties - Removed Highlight Glossiness parameter from Generic material properties - Added blue highlight to UI rollouts indicating whether corresponding parameters contribute to the look of the material - Deprecated Displacement material attribute (will be removed in the future) **Textures** - Added UVW Placement texture for UV randomization and stochastic texture tiling - Added randomization options to multi-sub texture - Added external Mapping Source to texture placement Type - Added Streaks to Dirt texture - Added support for .tx file format as part of Bitmap textures - Added random colors for the slots of the Multi-Sub texture **V-Ray GPU** - Added support for 2D Displacement - Added support for Cellular textures   ### Bug fixes --- **General** - NullReferenceException when rendering a family - Exceptions in projects referring to invalid file paths when acquiring a license - Switching Current View hangs in case of inaccessible network path to textures - Grpc.Core exception when opening existing projects one after another - Issue with invalid floating point numbers - Issue with vrscene export using temp paths for .ies files - Revit hangs when opening Settings panel in Interactive - Issue with global purge not affecting mapping **Interactive Rendering** - Unnecessary update when opening Appearance Manager **Settings** - Scrollbar disappears from Renderer tab on sub-sections expanding **Textures** - Various textures exported to .vrscene don't render in Lavina or Standalone **Channels** - Lighting Analysis horizontal and vertical grid spacing are swapped **Materials/V-Ray** - Material changes are not respected when restoring the assignment in Appearance Manager **Appearance Manager** - Objects list does not refresh on family category change - Material Transforms Rotation box & spinner accept values but 1 - Proxy scale spinners are causing min scale to be larger than max scale - Hide Decals causes the global bump to partially disappear in Interactive **Proxy Mesh** - Wrong positioning of proxies when replacing in-place families **Asset Editor** - Fixed an issue with marble textures - Materials using UVW Placement instance for several textures produce incorrect results when duplicated - Swapped slots in TexFresnel UI - Redundant command in the Geometry assets context menu - Inverted Roughness/Glossiness value when disabling a texture plugged in the same slot - Simple Mix textures fail to load when opening a previously saved .vrmat - The UVWGenRandomizer mode values are incorrectly set