--- title: "7.50.00" canonical: "https://documentation.chaos.com/space/VRHINO/1441300496/7.50.00" format: markdown --- *Official Release* **Date** - November 05, 2026 [Download V-Ray 7 for Rhino](https://my.chaos.com/download/build?product=V-Ray&build-type=official&tags=windows-x64&platform=Rhino&platform-version=9+BETA) ## **New Features** --- - **AI Assistant:** Introduced the AI Assistant, accessible from the V-Ray menu and toolbar, with skills such as Sky Match, Cosmos asset recommendation, and scattering - **MCP for External Agents:** MCP server that lets external AI agents, such as Claude Desktop and Claude Code, inspect and edit assets in the Asset Editor, with access to parameter tooltips and Cosmos assets, and turned off when generative AI is disabled - **AI 3D Assets Generation:** Support for importing AI-generated 3D assets from Chaos Cosmos - **V-Ray GPU AMD Support:** Support for rendering on compatible AMD graphics cards through HIP - **Anima Integration:** Basic integration of Chaos Anima for adding animated people to scenes - **Scatter Groups:** Support for applying multiple Scatter layers to a single object through one modifier - **Scatter Decals:** Support for scattering Decals - **Vantage:** Support for Vantage Viewport Render with a Custom Live Link running on a remote machine - **Cosmos Assets Customization:** New Import Material for Editing action for the materials embedded in non-merged Cosmos assets - **Spinner Control:** New number spinner control available in all number fields - **HEX Color Picker:** New HEX field in the color picker for defining colors with hexadecimal codes - **Cylindrical Light:** New light type that emits from the surface of a cylinder, defined by its length and radius - **Advanced Lights Decay:** Support for decay regions that control where a light fades in near its source and fades out at a distance - **Barn Doors for the Spot Light:** Barn Doors parameters added, which can be used to restrict the light cone along all four sides and can produce a rectangular light shape ## **Improvements** --- - **AI Assistant:** Implemented improvements to the Sky Match skill - **Asset Preview Optimizations:** Updated the asset preview scenes to match the latest V-Ray version and recommended configuration, with denoising enabled - **Bitmap Texture:** Introduced support for .ifl files and improved the Sequence section - **Bongo:** Introduced support for Bongo Layer Visibility Animation - **Chaos Account:** Introduced the display of the current Licensing Mode - **Commands:** Combined the vrayShow commands into a single command - **Commands:** Introduced the vrayPackScene command - **Compatibility Warning:** Allowed suppressing the compatibility warning for beta versions - **Cosmos:** Enabled automatic start of Cosmos when it is not running - **Light Gen:** Renamed Mood Match to Sky Match - **Material ID:** Removed the 0 to 100 limit for the ID Number value - **Motion Blur:** Exposed the per-object motion blur samples control for geometry - **Node Editor:** Changed the Displacement and additional Bump material inputs to stay visible when the effects are disabled - **Node Editor:** Exposed the Viewport Texture slot in the material nodes - **Node Editor:** Implemented the Select Objects in Scene context menu option for materials - **Node Editor:** Introduced full parameter labels on hover - **Outlines:** Extended the Outlines feature with the outerEdgeStyle parameter, which places outlines inside, outside, or on both sides of the silhouette - **Sky:** Changed the default Sky properties to improve the look of new projects - **Textures:** Enabled wrapping textures in a Distance texture - **Textures:** Extended the Distance and Dirt textures to accept Cosmos assets in their object lists - **V-Ray for Grasshopper:** Introduced support for the Cylindrical light - **V-Ray for Grasshopper:** Introduced support for Material Override - **V-Ray GPU:** Removed the deprecated Resize textures mode, Texture Size, and Bit Depth parameters - **About:** The V-Ray UI no longer checks for new versions itself; new V-Ray versions are now announced only through the Chaos notification center, and the automatic version check option has been removed from the advanced Configuration settings ## **Fixes** --- - **Asset Editor:** Typo in the Stochastic Flakes Layer Highlight Glossiness parameter - **Asset Preview:** Gradient preview blinked black when creating gradients and lagged when dragging a control point - **Asset Preview:** Preview got stuck loading with large texture files - **Asset Preview:** Preview stopped updating after an asset was renamed - **Cosmos:** Cosmos Browser got stuck loading when launched from V-Ray - **Grasshopper:** Crash during interactive rendering when the Cosmos Asset and Clipper components were connected - **Installer:** License configuration settings could not be changed during silent installation - **Licensing:** Vision did not work with Cloud Licensing when a License Server was not installed - **Material Override:** Issues with Cosmos assets, such as parts missing from the render when Opacity is preserved, and changes to the override material or its Refractive Color not updating during interactive rendering - **Node Editor:** Globalizing a texture caused issues, such as the map no longer affecting the material - **Node Editor:** Issues when deleting multiple connected textures - **Quick Caustics:** The rollout caret did not indicate that the effect configuration differs from the default - **RenderWindow:** Crash when running the RenderWindow command during V-Ray rendering - **Textures:** Wrapping a texture in a Layered map caused issues, such as black previews or endless loading - **UVW Randomizer:** The UI became misaligned when entering random values with three or more digits - **Vantage:** Vantage Live Link render remained active after closing the Vantage window - **VFB:** The History panel disappeared after contracting and expanding the left panel