What's New in V-Ray

V-Ray 7, (7.00.00)

Official release

Date - Mar 11, 2025

Improvements

• General: V-Ray Core updated to version 7.00.06
• General: Asset Editor updated to version 7.0.3
• General: License Server updated to version 6.2.0
• General: Unified Login Application updated to version 2024.10.17
• General: Chaos Cosmos Browser updated to version 2025.1.8
• General: Chaos Cloud Client updated to version 1.33.4
• Geometry: Added Gaussian splats
• Geometry: Added support for point cloud rendering
• Scatter: Added ability to scatter items along a path/line
• Scatter: Added ability to scatter items over a bounding box
• Scatter: Added grid distribution mode for surface scattering
• Scatter: Extended the random offset, scale and rotation controls of the scattered items
• Scatter: Added ability to pick areas and exclude/include them to Scatter
• Scatter: Added proximity-based fall off controls of the scattered items
• Scatter: Added ability to scatter lights
• Scatter: Added various internal optimizations
• Asset Editor: Added ability to composite multiple textures together via a Layered texture
• Asset Editor: Added ability to associate the Gradient map color positions with textures
• Asset Editor: Added ability to procedurally colorize a grayscale texture based on gradient map values
• Asset Editor: Added ability to apply a custom remap curve to the Falloff transition
• VFB: Added Chromatic aberrations effect
• VFB: Added Vignetting layer
• VFB: Added color correction presets/filters
• VFB: Improved usability of the Curves layer
• VFB: Added polygon render region
• VFB: Added ability to stop the rendering while preserving the post effects
• Collaboration: Added ability to auto-generate panorama tours
• Cosmos: Added ability to detect animated assets in Chaos Vantage and Envision
• Swarm: Moved the Swarm settings to the Asset Editor
• Swarm: Implemented Swarm 2 distributed rendering system
• General: Implemented new standardized agreements acceptance workflow
• UX/UI: Added a redirect message within the VFB History panel on how to enable history
• UX/UI: Improved installer experience and consistency

Bug Fixes

• General: Fixed Revit 2023.1.4 crash when enabling V-Ray
• General: Crash when switching the GPU engine from RTX to Cuda with Buckets sampler on
• General: Fixed “Unable to find an entry point named 'VRay_VRayRenderer_logVfbMessage' in DLL 'VRaySDKLibrary’” issue
• General: Revit stops responding when opening VFB before first rendering
• General: DirectoryNotFoundException on render start after enabling artificial lights
• General: Fixed issue with saving to Revit’s Project Browser not working
• General: Fixed core exception on render start with Scatter
• General: Fixed issue with missing interactive updates when geometries are changed
• Interactive: Crash when changing Scatter Density with a density map applied
• Environment: Changing the View Distance of Aerial Perspective automatically sets to 0
• VFB: Fixed issue with VFB not being displayed in some Revit versions
• VFB: Crash on attempt to load a layers preset
• VFB: Fixed Undo and Redo behavior when there is a Background layer
• Cosmos: Fixed issue with Cancel/Esc not being applied properly after placing an asset
• Cosmos: Fixed issue with V-Ray renderer not starting when the project contains Cosmos assets
• Materials: AccessViolationException on .vrmat file migration in specific scene