Build 7.00.04

Official release, Hotfix 1

Date – November 19, 2024

Modified Features

VFB

• Improve hotkeys for Polygon Creation Shape Form
• V7 Localization updates

Bug Fixes

V-Ray

• Thick hair/fur artifacts
• VRayLuminaire differences between brute force and light cache GI
• NaN pixels when rendering GeomScatter instanced VRayLight on GPU
• Profiler .html file fails to generate when there is installed Phoenix
• Luminaire assets are misplaced after Cosmos import on different viewports
• Black pixels in render with Firefly Remover enabled and specific HDRI image loaded in a Dome light
• V-Ray Scene Converter doesn't save the information about non converted assets in the log file
• Black pixels with specific setup with metalness and reflection glossiness lower than 1 and Progressive sampler

GPU:

• Animation with caustics enabled causes a crash on second frame
• Crash with specific HDRI map used in Dome light

• Fix caustics when V-Ray GPU RTX is used

Build 7.00.02

Official release

Date – October 31, 2024

New Features

V-Ray

Create a 3ds Max and V-Ray plugins to render Gaussian splatting models

• Add V-Ray Profiler in V-Ray for 3ds Max CPU
• Export Chaos Scatter to GeomScatter
• Support for V-Ray Luminaires
• Redesign of the Scene Converter and Bitmap Converter UIs (3ds Max 2022+)
• Chaos Scatter - introduce Instance Brush
• Chaos Scatter - Distribution maps
• Implement Firefly removal algorithm
• Update Open Image Denoiser to version 2.3
• Support for the OpenPBR material in 3ds Max 2025.3

V-Ray GPU

• Caustics support

VFB

• Add Freeform region rendering
• Add Filters tab for color corrections presets
• Implement Vignette Layer in VFB
• Add ability to drag and open a file directly in VFB
• File format options for file saving from the VFB (for V-Ray Standalone only)
• Add Image Alpha as a mask option
• Soft stop in the VFB

V-Ray Lister

• Add Geometry Tab in V-Ray Lister
• Add ability to Undo actions in V-Ray Lister
• Add Include/Exclude column in the VRayLister

Modified Features

VFB

• Add fine-sliding and step-sliding functionality to VFB sliders
• Refined control over the Strength slider in Chromatic aberration menu
• Thin lines to indicate fixed layers
• VFB2 Screen mode to handle values > 1
• Add exportRegion option to maxScript vrayExportVRScene() command
• Way to check last Frame Buffer and Render Region size via MaxScript
• Do not disable LightSelect render elements if there is active LightMix
• Improve loading performance and memory use of png bitmaps
• Color space support for lookup layers in the VFB
• Improve the Curves layer
• Usability/UI Performance improvement with scene using multiple Curve layers
• Add the predefined color correction presets to the installation
• Generate VRayCaustics RE with VRayBackToBeauty when rendering with V-Ray GPU in V-Ray 7
• Add an option to the Raw multichannel output to save VFB color corrections to render elements

V-Ray

• Switch to AVX2
• Improve memory usage for static geometry
• Optimize render start time with Scatter
• Optimize VRayFur's hair generation
• Slow memory release (single threaded) and incremental render time added with a huge Forestpro mesh instance count on multicore machines
• Add V-Ray Ideas portal link in the V-Ray tab menu
• Switch Windows builds to use vc143 by default
• Get a basic build of V-Ray standalone without GUI working on Linux Arm64
• Support QT minimal and offscreen platforms
• Add USD 0.23.11 for standalone, move USD installation to versioned folders
• Use Optix 7.6 denoiser API
• Add lean saving of denoised files to the standalone denoiser
• Make lean split saving of denoiser REs optional, and off
• Optimize reading of HDR images
• Freezing the first several columns for better navigation in VRayLister
• Scrolling with mouse wheel in the inner scroll not the outer one in VRayLister
• Bring VRayLister in front when the button is clicked in the V-Ray tab menu
• ChaosScatter rest pose frame support for animated models and targets
• Optimize loading performance and memory use of TIFF bitmaps
• Improve loading performance and memory use of OpenEXR bitmaps
• Do not export greyed out textures modes when Use system memory is on
• Update OpenColorIO library to 2.3.2
• Update LibTIFF to v4.6.0t
• Small performance optimization for distance tex calculations
• Remove internal processing for Arch&Design materials
• The "Save Cryptomatte Separately" option should name the files with the sequence number last
• Improve the names of the proxy override materials where wireframe shading was exported
• Add a MaxScript function vrayTransferAutoExposure() that transfers the last computed auto-exposure value to selected camera(s)
• Improve loading time for V-Ray Proxy using a preview override cache
• Add a warning to Chaos Cloud submit regarding VRaySphereFade which is not supported
• Export single UVWGenRandomizer in vrscene for VRayUVWRandomizer map used as mapping source to multiple bitmaps
• Force the render time render element to be stored as 32 bit channel in OpenEXR
• V-Ray Settings' "About V-Ray" rollout Qt implementation
• Redesigned Scene Converter - add an option to save preferences
• Move all installations to Program Files/Chaos
• Integrate with ScatterCore/ScatterAPI 6.0 multi-OS xpaks, so GeomScatter can be rendered properly on the cloud
• Limit the width of texmap buttons in VRayLister
• Hide options for V-Ray 7 Render Setup UI
• Add extra info for the RTX checkbox in the V-Ray GPU UI
• Add VRayLuminaire to the Create menus

V-Ray GPU

• Improve the sampling of bitmaps before transferring them to the GPU
• Add a "separate folders" option when outputting with "Separate render channels" in V-Ray GPU
• Add overwrite confirmation for separate VFB render channels in GPU mode
• Initial implementation of VRayLuminaire for GPU
• Update the default settings for IPR Rays Per Pixel and IPR Ray Bundle Size
• Disable Post Effects Rate for Production rendering with Progressive Sampler
• Remove on-demand mip-mapping Textures Mode from the GPU UI
• Show Caustics Render Element in the GPU UI
• Add missing GPU LightSelect support for all light types that we support for rendering
• Add support for fog color for photon rays
• Hide Engine choice from the GPU UI
• Remove Low Priority option from the standalone Device Selector tool
• Export of Forest Pro's built-in ForestIvy tool
• Forest Pro animation modes export
• Disable caustics when V-Ray GPU RTX is used
• Print a recommendation about installing the recommended driver when the current one is older
• Add support for multiple lights that shoot photons

VRaySun/VRaySky

• Add the improved PRG sky model to VRaySky
• Set VRaySun shadow bias to 0.02 to match the rest of V-Ray lights

V-Ray Lights

• List VRayLuminaire in a separate category in V-Ray Lister
• VRayLister: Add missing parameters
• Animatable parameters for VRayLight's Decay rollout
• Remove "From GI settings" in Dome light parameters

VRayMDL

• Demote errors about unsupported BSDF functions to warnings

VRayOSL

• Disallow connecting OSLMap to VRayOSLOutputSelector

VRayVolumeGrid

• Standalone volumetric instancing: Instances self-illumination, scene illumination

V-Ray Bitmap to VRayBitmap converter/V-Ray scene converter

• Remove the Bitmap to VRayBitmap converter V-Ray menu entry where the redesigned scene converter is available
• Redesigned Scene Converter - UI reorganization
• V7 Localization updates

VRayPhysicalCamera

• VRayLister: Camera's Distortion Lens file field is not handled right

Bug Fixes

V-Ray

• Frame sequence does not work if current frame is used and a non-zero frame offset is used
• High CPU usage at the end of renders which use bucket splitting
• Disabling the "Generate Render Elements" toggle for Matte objects has no effect on Cryptomatte output
• Rayserver mode not reading Alembic string attributes
• OSL textures applied to the VRayExtraTex render element are not correctly exported from 3ds Max
• OSL and GLSL textures attached to VRayNormalMap bump slot are not exported
• GLSL shaders attached as bump maps in 3ds Max are not exported properly to vrscene
• Textures mode is not greyed out when Use system memory is enabled and the rendering has finished
• Crash when importing render settings if VRay is not the active renderer
• Incorrect SSS2 contribution in specific scene
• V-Ray Lister 'Shadows' parameter for Photometric and Standard lights is not syncing on multiple selections
• After installing corona v12 Scatter instances not exported/rendered on GPU with V-Ray 6.2
• V-Ray Lister does not consider custom column changes after it has been minimized / maximized through its toolbar icon
• Changing parameters is not synced in V-Ray Lister when multiple cameras or lights are selected
• Crash on IPR start if VRayDistanceTex map is slotted as environment override
• VRayUserScalar and VRayUserColor node names are not saved in the scene
• Cosmos models crash 3ds Max if a value of zero is used in the VRay Proxy scale
• Invalid symbol for the frame number leads to an infinite loop while submitting to Chaos Cloud
• Minimized V-Ray Lister is not maximized when pressing its tool icon
• Crash with VRayLister left open and opening a scene
• Cosmos browser possibly broken by http_proxy env var and alike
• Number of redundant errors shown to the user on importing scatter assets
• Crash on 3ds max scene reset when resetting V-Ray Lister layout
• BackToBeauty and VRayReflection element broken when using matte object
• GPU IPR hangs after change when there is a render mask set and Light Cache
• Crash on IPR start if VRaySky is slotted as environment override in 3ds Max 2025
• V-Ray Lister is not refreshing on undo operation with lights and cameras which leads to crashes
• External links in Cosmos More menu do not open in Max 2025
• 3ds Max OCIO Rules are not properly transferred on export when using max bitmap loader
• Triplanar mapping is not applied to additional bump of VRayNormalMap in V-Ray Standalone
• Missing buttons in max.vray default settings preset
• V-Ray Lister crashes when deleting light which was just made unique
• The Exclude object is not working with Scattering On Curve
• Chaos Scatter's temporal consistency option enabled leads to missing animated distribute-on object
• Distribution object pivot doesn't affect the altitude limit distribution in "position independent" mode
• Crash on undo operation after creating Free or Target camera twice while V-Ray Lister is open
• Wrong results with standalone command options -imgWidth or -imgHeight and VRayPhysicalCamera Resolution Override
• Scatter spline offset isn't exported from max
• Incorrect preview of animated VRayProxy after frame rate modification
• Chaos Scatter is not rendered in Standalone when using closed spline as surface scattering with GeomScatter enabled
• The unpackInstall produces wrong paths for some components
• Some Start menu shortcuts have command prompt icon instead of the one provided by the tool
• Chaos Cloud cannot be started from 3ds max on Windows User names with non-latin characters
• Selected Display options are not remembered when closing VRayLister on different tab
• Remove the middle mouse click or any other option that allows you to change values in cells with the scroller in VRayLister
• USD - VRayMultiSubTex with Random by instance ID is not working with Hydra translator
• GPU IPR resolution is not updated correctly when changing between VRayCameras with Resolution Override and VFB Test resolution enabled
• Batch render in GPU ignores enabled Resolution Override from picked VRayCamera
• USD - Crash when deleting UsdStage during IPR
• VRayLightMtl's Opacity reads the RGB channel, although the Bitmap's Mono output is set to Alpha
• Viewport IPR could not be started again after starting production rendering
• VFB Test resolution is ignored in GPU with V-Ray Cameras with enabled Resolution override
• Different results with V-Ray Standalone when VRayEnmeshMod is applied on a scaled base object
• Adaptive Dome light support for Light Cache 'From File' mode
• VRayBitmap with high res. image is causing long time save compared to 3ds max's native Bitmap loader
• TyFlow is not overridden in V-Ray Standalone
• Discrepancy in Standalone with TyFlow and Light Exclude list
• Light cache build fails at start of build, crashing V-Ray GPU
• Image is saved when rendering with Iterative Rendering Mode
• Restore the ability of standalone to render to tiled OpenEXR files
• Compiling geometry in V-Ray Standalone with specific scene takes high amount of time
• Crash when trying to view a certain .vrimg file with File > View image file
• Artefacts with CPU engine and Dynamic geometry
• VRayProxy crashes when undoing loaded proxy objects from 'Mesh file'
• VRayLister object selection not updated properly after making instanced objects unique
• GeomScatter MB is not working on animated line
• GeomScatter MB is not working with animated Transformations
• VRayProxy preview types edges and faces are showing swapped results
• Instanced lights with Chaos Scatter differ in V-Ray Standalone (bounding box mismatch)
• Huge slowdown with alembic with complex hierarchy loaded in VRayProxy
• Thick hair/fur artifacts
• Unable to read Gaussian splat geometry generated from ai model
• V-Ray .vrscene exporter Archive functionality is broken
• (Un)installer may crash with empty environment variables
• Crash in chaos_networking.dll when running 3ds Max with V-Ray
• V-Ray additional files for 3ds max 2022-2025 are still extracted to the old Chaos Group folder if V-Ray was not explicitly uninstalled first
• Max photons are greyed out when switching V-Ray to V-Ray GPU and Progressive caustics were used

V-Ray GPU

• Raw RE renders wrong in a combination with Camera exposure and Bucket rendering
• Artifacts with VRayEnmeshMod and V-Ray Denoiser when we use Planar UVW map
• Discrepancy in the GPU rendering of Enmesh when using Random Offset if Offset U is set to a negative value
• Wrong render after the second frame when rendering with VRayBitmap's Inverse gamma color space transfer function
• GPU IPR not refreshing properly on deletion of lights and geometry
• BRDFBump ignores simple values for bump multiplier tex
• V-Ray GPU fails to load some big textures in parallel
• 3dsMax Mix map doesn't work on GPU
• Specific user's Clipper is stuck on Building Light Cache
• One-sided SketchUp geometry does not render with CUDA
• Pick material and Select object in VFB functionality is not working with V-Ray GPU and RTX engine
• 3DS max needed to be restarted in order to take the new value of the checkbox
• Incorrect RawSheenReflection with bucket sampler
• LightDirect plugin changes light direction with GPU
• VRaySphere wrong size when scaled (CPU)
• Investigate slow-to-start scene in V-Ray GPU
• Bump delta scale parameter has no effect when rendering with GPU
• The back side of VRayClipper plane is visible in already clipped zone
• Infinte loop due to transparency and floating point imprecision
• Solaris/USD: Instances take a long time to compile the scene and a lot of memory to render
• Using WITH_CUDA_CPU_ONLY=1 causes the render to crash immediately
• The Multimatte RE is affected by Camera Vignetting

VFB

• Light multiplier value ranges in LightMix are not equal when compared to ported ones “To Composite”
• VFB2 Layer tree collapsed state is not updated if resized manually
• VFB goes black with folders and nested masks
• VFB moves to another monitor with 4K monitors
• VFB2 is cleared when using Render mask selected on a loaded vrimg file
• Crash when pressing the Back mouse button during rendering with V-Ray Frame Buffer
• The values stored in the extra attributes in VRImg or OpenEXR file for number of raycast is only 32bit and overflows for longer renders
• Save Cryptomattes Separately does not work with deep ouput
• SRGB suffix in the VRayBitmap's name is converted to lowercase srgb and the image renders differently
• Extra attributes about raycast and primitive count stats are missing from Raw images (EXR and VRImg)
• Memory leak in IccTransform::createIccTransform
• 3ds Max crash if the VFB is empty and we click on the Upload button in the Collaboration
• Crash when saving EXRs with dataWindow=region and Filmic Tonemap correction
• Lens Effects: Obstacle image not written into the logs
• IPR takes a lot of time to restart when rendering high resolution with denoiser
• Duplicate images in VFB history when specific vrscene is rendered
• Half pixel offset when enabling chromatic aberration
• Raw vrimg image file is not correctly saved using soft-stop

V-Ray Lights

• VRaySun is not considered by Cryptomatte VFB masks
• IES light near and far decay renders differently than V-Ray Standalone when shape override is used
• IES light near and far decay renders differently on CPU and export/GPU
• Crash with VRayColor mode set to 'Temperature' when slotted in V-Ray Light with OCIO Color management set
• Crash on undo operation with VRayIES, VRaySun light, VRayFur, and others when changing parameters
• Issue with the VrayLight, VRayIESLight and mrAreaLightCustAttrib
• Crash when creating VRayLight with Viewport shading disabled
• V-Ray Lights create lines in the Specular render element while set to include mode
• Light artifacts with VRaySun's Clouds when Sun is slightly below the horizon
• Additive GPU memory leak for type Texture Data on animation with sun light
• The VRayIES light renders different soft shadows in Max compared to V-Ray Standalone with shapes from the LM-63-02 version of the format

V-Ray Textures

• tyCache is not considered as an object in VRayDistanceTex with production rendering (CPU)
• VRayMultiSubTex color swatch is not locked for slots with applied texture and disabled Blend color
• VRayTriplanarTex does not consider animated Reference Nodes when rendering Production

VRayEnmesh

• Fit in object space deletes animation keys on VRayEnmesh gizmo
• VRayEnmeshMod renders the Preview override file

VRayMDL

• MDL materials lost on reload

V-Ray Materials

• Creating Refractive materials while using 3ds Max's color management with a custom OCIO config output inf pixels with VRayDomeLight
• Color darkening when rendering metals with low reflection roughness and high anisotropy values

VRayOSL

• Bitmap tiling is not taken into account in VRayOSLTex on GPU
• Crash with camera shaders on CPU
• Linux Standalone crashes with a user scene

VRayMtl

• V-Ray for 3dsMax and Standalone renders don't match when SSS translucency uses fully white scatter radius and "fog system units scaling" is ON

VRayPhysicalCamera

• When changing between VRayCameras with resolution override enabled locked Aspect Ratio gets mixed up
• Camera FOV changes between certain frames when focus distance parameter is animated
• Issues when switching from a camera viewport with DOF to a perspective view

VRayPluginNode

• Crash to desktop when rendering VRayPluginnodeMtl (BRDFCSV mode) on V-Ray GPU
• UV Noise and Invert alpha do not work correctly in VRayNoiseTex

VRayVolumeGrid

• Crash when starting render after changing the Particle Shader 'Mode' to 'Fog'
• Incorrect "Temperature" channel data range for a specific VDB file
• Phoenix atmosphere automatically created upon render start when there was a Particle shader in the scene
• Changing any option in the floating rollout does not affect the options in the regular rollout in 3ds Max until you reselect the Simulator
• Hide automatically the Phoenix viewport icons when using V-Ray Viewport IPR in 3ds Max
• Max scene fails to load when a particle texture is added and applied to a shader
• Crash when render specific scene with Volumetric Heat haze together with Pure ocean simulator shaded with Volumetric translucency material
• Empty Velocity render element for liquid meshes without active camera motion blur
• Changing the frame during 3ds Max V-Ray IPR CPU distorts the Phoenix mesh when it has modifiers
• Changing the frame during V-Ray IPR CPU doesn't update the cache file correctly with Motion Blur enabled in 3ds Max