V-Ray 7, hotfix 2
Official release
Date - Apr 8, 2025
New Features
V-Ray
- Support for 3ds Max 2026
- Support for USD 0.10.0
- Support for Advanced Traffic Simulation System - Vroom in Chaos Anima 6.0
- Added support for baking of Spherical Maps with rotation in Material editor - Render Map
- Added Chaos Academy link in V-Ray tab menu
Modified Features
VFB
- Improved default folder browsing when loading files in the VFB
- Undo applied filter with single click
V-Ray GPU
- Added support for caustics with dispersion in V-Ray GPU
- VRayLuminaire parameters are not considered when GI is used
Bug Fixes
V-Ray
- Handling of Windows-compatible paths under V-Ray Standalone in Linux
- Hair/fur artifacts fixes and performance optimisations
- Crash with gizmo controls in VRayEnvironmentFog and VRaySphereFade
- Duplicated export of TyFlow particles in animation sequence with motion blur
- Crash when exporting a .vrscene to a location with a very long path
- Incorrect timeout message on cosmos assets auto-download on logged out user
- V-Ray GPU rendering of groups scattering from ForesPro
- Artifacts with OpenPBR material
- Crash on rendering a specific scene with V-Ray GPU and ForestPro
- ChaosScatter rendering in Standalone/Cloud in the presence of alpha & illumination map channels
- VRayLuminaire settings reset on subsequent imports from Chaos Cosmos
- Mismatch in reflection LPE with VRayEnvironmentFog in V-Ray Standalone
- Bad Antialiasing for Chromatic Aberration when rendering large images
- Crash with specific AMD CPUs
- Incorrect behavior when using Nvidia AI upscale with Polygon regions
- Crash when selecting a luminaire within the interactive renderer
- Standalone renders VRay Luminaire with V-Ray Environment Fog randomly with artifacts
- Crash when loading different Gaussian splats during V-Ray IPR in scenes with Chaos Scatter
- Unmapped network paths changed upon closing the .vrscene exporter
- V-Ray Color management is not synchronized with 3ds Max 2025 color management defaults on render engine change
- VRayLightMtl's Opacity reads the RGB channel, although the Bitmap's Mono output is set to Alpha
- Crash when rendering Deep Images (.exr, .vrst) with Deep Merge Fragment mode set to By render ID and Z-depth
- Named hair map channels are not rendered
Importing specific asset variants with older version from the Cosmos Browser leads to a crash
V-Ray GPU
- Out of Core should be disabled in V-Ray 7 for old scenes, even if it is set activate there
- V-Ray GPU IPR crashes when drawing Regions, and Light cache is used
- The "Use System Memory for Textures" option ignores the ACEScg color management setup
- Fix for V-Ray Luminaire and VRayEnvironmentFog rendering with user-defined gizmo
VFB
- The "Save VFB color corrections to render elements" option does not consider adjustments in folders
- The VFB Curve Layer's Histogram disappears when the Alpha channel is black
- Images saved to VFB history with a Background layer disregard it when using the A/B compare
- VFB Undo and Redo are not working properly when there is a Background layer
- Crash on deleting VFB Layers
V-Ray, VFB
- VRaySamplerInfoTex render output defaults conversion affects the VFB output
V-Ray Bitmap to VRayBitmap converter
- Crash on converting Autodesk Bitmaps plugged in Autodesk Materials
VRayDenoiser/vdenoise.exe
- VFB Artifacts with Sharpen/Blur or V-Ray denoiser without Hardware acceleration and low samples
- V-Ray Denoiser Tool Segmentation Fault in Rocky linux 9
VRayEnmesh
- Crash with VRayEnmesh and Motion blur
VRaySphere
- Crash when adding gizmos to VRaySphereFade from script