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title: "V-Ray Next, Update 1"
canonical: "https://documentation.chaos.com/space/VREVIT/161186598/V-Ray%20Next%2C%20Update%201"
format: markdown
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*Official release*

**Date** – May 13, 2020

 

## **Improvements**

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### General

- Added support for Revit 2021
- Asset Editor updated to version 1.0.2
- License Server updated to version 5.4.0
- Chaos Cloud client app updated to version 1.7.1
- Added ability to save view-specific V-Ray settings
- Added support for RTX GPU devices
- Implemented Batch Rendering
- Improved Interactive performance when modifying materials

### Lights 

- Added support for Revit animated Solar Study
- Optimized export of IES files

 

### Camera

- Added ability to review and transfer auto EV & White Balance values

 

### <span style="color: #172b4d"> </span><span style="color: #172b4d">**Appearance Manager**</span>

- Modified Fur workflow/Adding Fur moved to the Materials tab
- Added Pick Material tool
- Added ability to filter materials by V-Ray Fur assignment

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### <span style="color: #172b4d">**Asset Editor **</span>

- Added ability to create V-Ray Fur
- Added Sharp Isotropic filter to bitmap filter types
- Library materials migrated to the latest version with optimized shader structure
- Optimized performance when deleting materials
- Removed Translucency attributes option from SSS and Blend materials

### <span style="color: #172b4d">**Settings**</span>

- Added ability to purge all V-Ray data from within the Revit project

 

### <span style="color: #172b4d"> </span><span style="color: #172b4d">**UX/UI **</span>

- Redesigned Current View selector
- Renamed Acquire/Release License buttons to Enable/Disable V-Ray
- Reduced Geometry Tessellation sliders to one

##   
**Bug fixes**

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<span style="color: #172b4d">**General   **</span>

- **Rendering of Revit families (.rfa files) causes an exception **
- **Resolution Width/Height are calculated twice when selecting a new 3D View **
- **Wrong output in Current view list after a view is deleted in a workshared project **
- **Exception in AppGlobals when retrieving ActiveRevitDocument **
- **Exception when acquiring license after Save As **
- **Unhandled exception when entering random characters in the View Selector**

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### <span style="color: #172b4d">**Settings **</span>

- **InvalidObjectException when getting data from Extensible Storage **
- **Fur settings reset to default on project reopen **
- **Specific settings appear in the default list even though their values are default **
- **Missing interval in default RGB color values requires an additional reset to default**

 

### <span style="color: #172b4d">**Geometry/Revit**</span>

- **Some geometries disappear after adding steel connections **
- **Some Revit duct system elements render in a wrong material **

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### <span style="color: #172b4d">**Appearance Manager**</span>

- **Displayed family type is multiplied when syncing workshared projects **

 

### <span style="color: #172b4d">**Asset Editor**</span>

- **Version 8 vrmat file is not correctly imported from file **
- **Deleting assets does not function in succession **
- **Displacement attribute disappears after renaming a material **

### <span style="color: #172b4d">**Lights **</span>

- **Enabling Artificial Lights Overrides during Interactive crashes the renderer **
- **Expanding image preview reverts the Dome Light image to default **

### <span style="color: #172b4d">**Camera **</span>

- **Auto EV and White Balance affect Interactive rendering**

 

### **Interactive Rendering**

- **Wrong export when copying Revit links during interactivе **
- **Wrong positioning of proxies when in nested Revit link **
- **Disabling Can be overridden does not work when override is enabled **
- **Vrscene geometries appear after Reveal Hidden Elements is enabled **
- **Show/hide overriding V-Ray object based on corresponding Revit element state **
- **RPCs are exported twice on Interactive rendering start **
- **Wrong result on GPU when turning Environment Light off **

 

### <span style="color: #172b4d">**VFB**</span>

- **The image is saved to the active project instead of the corresponding one **
- **Render Last fails to re-export Revit data when project context has been changed **

### <span style="color: #172b4d">**UX/UI**</span>

- **Fixed behavior of three-state checkboxes **
- **Selected user label remains after settings import from Project Storage **
- **Leap in Camera window width when White Balance is set to Incandescent**