Beta Pulse

This page provides release notes for the bi-weekly pulse checks of V-Ray for Blender Beta. 

Beta Pulse. May 29, 2025

Modified Features

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V-Ray Addon

• Add support for Blender 4.4
• Add a menu command to download and relink missing Cosmos assets
• Display the number of users in the Light data panel
• Add 'Uniform scale' option to V-Ray Transform and V-Ray Matrix nodes
• Wrong Object Selection when Physical Camera "Specify Field of View" is disabled
• Hide the V-Ray Mtl Wrapper node from the UI
• Change Fast SSS2 field labels according to the currently selected Color Mode
• V-Ray Material Sheen and Coat Glossiness socket labels should update when "Use Roughness" is selected

V-Ray Core

• Improved licensing workflow
• Lower the V-Ray render thread priority for production rendering
• Implement the download and relinking of Cosmos assets

Bug fixes

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V-Ray Addon

• Remove the 'Additive Mode' checkbox from the 'V-Ray Blend Mtl' node
• V-Ray Edges Texture does not show edges
• Hiding overlays and gizmos does not work for certain V-Ray lights
• Console error occurs when adding lights to the V-Ray Environment fog Light list
• Allow adjustment of the origin point position for V-Ray Proxy objects
• Allow connecting the V-Ray Vector node to the Tex Triplanar rotation socket
• 'Transform' socket missing from V-Ray Sampler node
• Viewport renders appear overexposed compared to the VFB
• The armature is rendered in the rest position in animation sequences
• Extra sockets appear in the V-Ray nodes when toggling Show/Hide Unconnected Sockets
• Errors when rendering V-Ray Triplanar texture
• Show the negative texture input sockets when V-Ray Triplanar is set to "Different texture on each axis in each direction" Texture mode
• Simultaneous creation of LightMix and LightSelect render elements results in an error
• V-Ray Mesh Light is missing from its designated channel in the Light Mix Render Channel
• The Film Gate property of the V-Ray Physical Camera changes the Field Of View value when 'Specify Field of View' is enabled
• V-Ray Proxy animation is not displayed during Interactive rendering
• After the EULA has been accepted during installation, the EULA dialog is shown again upon the first launch of Blender
• Objects with multiple materials and empty material slots are rendered incorrectly
• Geometry not rendered in Edit mode
• V-Ray Scene Upgrade window is always visible on Blender startup
• Animation of Alembic V-Ray Proxy objects is not rendered in interactive mode
• The Bump Multiplier of the V-Ray Bump Material is consistently exported with a value of 1

V-Ray Core

• Hide the to scene button in the VFB when using light mix
• Instances of VRayZmqServer.exe may stay in memory after Blender console is closed

Known Unresolved Issues

• Render channel nodes cannot be added from the Add menu in the Node editor
• Regenerating V-Ray Proxy Preview does not respect the object origin position, i.e., the new preview object may appear in the wrong position

Beta Pulse. April 25, 2025

Modified Features

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V-Ray Addon

• Define a color scheme for node sockets

• Import V-Ray Scene references as a separate object

• Export motion blur for single frame render mode

V-Ray Core

• Do not apply the rendering region set in VFB when in viewport rendering mode

Bug Fixes

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V-Ray Аddon

• Show all properties of type angle in degrees
• When rendering on GPU, the Max. Render Time in Min setting is not respected
• Insignificant UI actions like opening/closing some panels get recorded in the Undo history
• Use a UI field of type ANGLE (showing degrees) for all angle properties
• V-Ray Scene Upgrade window is always shown on Blender startup, even if the scene does not need an upgrade
• The camera size parameter should match the CameraPhysical's Film Gate parameter when Specify Field of View is turned off
• V-Ray Sky properties do not affect the Material Preview when the sky texture is linked to a V-Ray Sun
• Particle System Instances are not rendered when Motion Blur is enabled
• Incorrect rotation of V-Ray Triplanar texture
• Changing materials in a separate Blender window doesn't update VFB interactive
• Adding/removing links in material node trees may not result in an update to the interactive viewport
• Removing a V-Ray Mesh Light gizmo from the Objects list does not update the interactive viewport

V-Ray Core

• An exception occurs when modifying material property values while the Material Preview panel is open
• Instances of VRayZmqServer.exe may stay in memory after Blender console is closed
• Using the Follow Mouse function in VFB affects Interactive Rendering in the Viewport
• Updated the copyright notice in the About dialog
• The current frame does not reset to its initial value at the end of animation rendering

Beta Pulse. April 2, 2025 

New and Modified Features

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V-Ray Addon

• Add support for Blender 4.3
• Convert the 'Consider Same Object Only' property in V-Ray Dirt into a checkbox
• Add denoising options to the V-Ray button in the viewport

• Add a V-Ray icon in front of every V-Ray rollout in the object, camera, and layers property panels

• Add a shortcut to the Account Window in the Add-On preferences

• Add a warning in the info tab when a running instance of V-Ray Core crashes
• Allow zero values for V-Ray material Fog Depth Property
• Assert 'Object should have been evaluated' in production renders if the object is disabled in renders
• Support for Texture scaling on GPU
• Add tracking IDs to the links from the account window and licensing popups
• Update the default Shadow Bias value for all lights
• Add the new Improved Sun and Sky model data

Bug Fixes

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V-Ray Addon

• Console Errors Caused by V-Ray VRmat Material
• The render region isn't rendered correctly in the viewport
• Export of light node trees does not filter non-V-Ray nodes when searching for the light output node
• Connecting a V-Ray Selector node to a V-Ray Mesh Light does not deactivate the Object selector within the light properties
• Material Preview doesn't work with Blender 4.2.4
• Reroute in-node trees does not work
• Failed reloading of packed bitmaps
• Animated Cosmos assets not working without an internet connection

• V-Ray for Blender cannot use local offline licenses without an internet connection

• V-Ray can't obtain a license after re-login

• Rename the V-Ray Direct Light Node
• Blender 'Spot' light objects with node tree and no "Light Spot" node cause error
• Enabling the visibility of an instancer in Interactive rendering does not show instanced objects
• Crash with VFB Interactive rendering and Light Mix Render Channel
• No upgrade is performed for the default scene
• Exception with non-vray nodes attached to V-Ray Material
• From a group of linked lights, only one light is exported
• Empty File Name warnings during Viewport Interactive rendering on GPU
• Exception when rendering with an empty Output Path
• Change the icons of V-Ray for Blender to .svg format
• Misspelling in the 'UVW Mapping' Node Name
• Errors with the Projection UVW Mapping Type
• The gizmo size of the V-Ray Sphere Light is not affected by the Radius parameter when the V-Ray Light node is used
• Material Preview doesn't work with Blender 4.3
• V-Ray Denoiser properties are not displayed in the World Properties Tab
• Cosmos assets are always imported with centered origin
• Clipping exported as enabled in override camera settings even though the override section is disabled
• Local view does not hide unselected objects
• Depth of Field is not updated during Interactive Rendering
• VFB preferences are not persistent between sessions
• V-Ray for Blender installation is missing vray_gpu_device_select.exe
• Changing materials in a separate window doesn't update the VFB interactive
• Incorrect rendering of Particle System Hair Shape Properties in V-Ray
• V-Ray Material Glossiness label should update when "Use Roughness" is selected
• Checkboxes in the Render Channels node do not switch off render channels

• Remove duplicate fields in the UVWMapping node's property page

• Error during the import of some Cosmos lights

• V-Ray Visibility Properties exclude/include lists are not working

• LightMesh is not exported correctly in VFB IPR mode

V-Ray Scene

• Production V-Ray Scene export fails intermittently