Build 7.00.01

Official release, hotfix 1

Date - Jan 22, 2025

Modified Features

V-Ray

• Enable Intel denoiser by default for Viewport Interactive
• Add Light Luminaire to the Light Lister
• Rename the Basic tab of the Scanned material
• Improve Chaos Scatter export in interactive
• Rename the Preview tab of the Material Node

Bug Fixes

V-Ray

• Bump material nodes break the viewport
• Cinema 4D Crashes When Changing UVW Projection Node to Camera Mapping
• Luminaire is always rendered as enabled
• Disable Luminaire options when is disabled and hide Units
• Light mix and light selects do not work properly with shadow selects
• Chaos Collaboration crashes Cinema4D on MacOS with Intel CPU or emulation
• Distance/Dirt texture within V-Ray Fur is not rendered with the final renderer
• Unable to update Cosmos materials after calling the relink button
• PRG Sun is not visible in Light Lister
• Fix Cosmos proxy import to work with Edge Trimming
• VFB may crash when the mouse cursor is changed
• Chaos Scatter may not update automatically with V-Ray 7

V-Ray GPU

• Cinema4D crashes when rendering a light node material with a bitmap

Build 7.00.00

Official release

Date - Jan 15, 2024

New Features

V-Ray

• Support for rendering Gaussian Splats
• Implement Chaos Collaboration
• Virtual tours for Chaos Collaboration
• Implement V-Ray Luminaires
• Optimized Chaos Scatter export times
• Edge Trimming for Chaos Scatter
• Introduce variants for assets and materials in Chaos Cosmos
• Ability to import multiple assets from Chaos Cosmos
• Improved rendering performance by switching to Intel ICX compiler with profile-guided optimizations
• Additional motion graphics utility nodes
• Implement V-Ray Scanned materials as node material
• Introduce per-object Sub-surface scattering blending
• Support for Substance Archive files
• Support for the OpenPBR shading model in the V-Ray material
• Introduce options to suppress "fireflies" in the final render
• Add Scatter SurfaceColor node
• Add support for Scatter random distribution pattern presets
• Support for rendering and conversion of Corona materials
• Ability to use V-Ray toon outlines from the material node editor
• Introduce pre-made color correction filter presets for the V-Ray Frame Buffer

V-Ray Sun

• New and improved PRG Sun and Sky model

V-Ray VFB

• Add Freeform region rendering in V-Ray Frame Buffer
• Added Image Alpha as a mask option
• Add the ability to drag and open a file directly inside the V-Ray Frame Buffer
• Introduce a Vignetting layer for the V-Ray Frame Buffer
• Additional file-saving options for the V-Ray Frame Buffer
• "Soft" stop rendering in the V-Ray Frame Buffer

Render Elements

• Add the ability to denoise Light Mix Render elements

V-Ray GPU

• Support of rendering refractive and reflective caustics with dispersion
• Support for the Apple Metal API in V-Ray GPU on macOS
• Improved the time to first pixel for V-Ray GPU

Modified Features

V-Ray

• Cosmos materials are now imported as node materials by default
• Upgrade Scatter to 6.1
• Improve node materials viewport previews quality and performance
• Export textures of Redshift Dome Lights
• Update the Open Image Denoiser library to the latest version
• Add support for bias positions in TexRamp
• Do not disable LightSelect render elements if there is an active LightMix
• Add support for the rest of the TexFloatOp output parameters
• Show the Color Tex options in Spot Light
• Import materials as node materials
• Add Auto UVMapping for Scanned Material
• Add an option to disable material previews per material
• Improve TriPlanar texture randomization options
• UI changes for IES Light
• Add import for BRDFDiffuse
• Force the render time render element to be stored as a 32-bit channel in OpenEXR
• Remove the "Visible to GI" option from the Object Properties tag
• Support for rendering Redshift lights
• Optimize loading performance and memory use of TIFF bitmaps
• Improve loading performance and memory use of OpenEXR bitmaps
• V-Ray: Update the Agreements Acceptance popup shown in V-Ray for Cinema 4D
• Update the Telemetry Acceptance popup shown in V-Ray for Cinema 4D
• Update the Agreements Acceptance in the V-Ray for Cinema 4D installation

V-Ray Textures

• Improve loading performance and memory use of .png bitmaps

V-Ray VFB

• Usability/UI Performance improvement for scenes using multiple Curve layers
• Add fine-sliding and step-sliding functionality to VFB sliders
• Improve the Curves layer
• Refined control over the Strength slider in the Chromatic Aberration menu

Render Elements

• Hide the Derive Raw Channels parameter from non-Raw render elements
• Add an option to save render element presets

V-Ray GPU

• Print a recommendation about installing the recommended driver when the current one is older
• Remove the Low Priority option from the standalone Device Selector tool
• Improve the sampling of bitmaps before transferring them to the GPU
• Add a new UVW randomization component for the scene name
• Add missing GPU LightSelect support for all light types that we support for rendering

V-Ray Material

• Modify the hide condition to account for the new default value for the GTR energy compensation

V-Ray Proxy

• Set V-Ray as the current renderer when opening .vrscene and .vrmesh files

V-Ray VolumeGrid

• Faster Volume Grid viewport previews
• Standalone volumetric instancing - Instances self-illumination, scene illumination

Bug Fixes

V-Ray

• Objects' order affects the result of added VRayDistance to Geometry as Displacement
• Thick hair/fur artifacts
• Incorrect motion blur when increasing the motion blur samples
• Spline tangents are ignored in remap texture and node
• Fix import of enmesh checkboxes from Cosmos
• Fix import of VRayDecal height offset from Cosmos
• Cosmos diagnostics cannot be saved
• Node materials do not show with Cinema 2023.103
• Empty environment objects are being created from render settings
• Mismatching document time range and animation frame range causes wrong export
• UV Channel with Cosmos Node material is not imported correctly
• Node material is not updated in UI after the exchange
• UVW Randomizer option random by instance does not get the ID from the cloner
• TexRandom is not rendered with the default output port when rendering with V-Ray GPU
• Frame sequence does not work if the current frame is used and a non-zero frame offset is used
• V-Ray Distance Objects are not loaded when a Classic Material is converted to Node Material
• Problem importing MtlMulti materials without generators
• Extra attributes about raycast and primitive count stats are missing from Raw images (EXR and VRImg)
• Restore the ability of standalone to render to tiled OpenEXR files
• High CPU usage at the end of renders that use bucket splitting
• The values stored in the extra attributes in VRImg or OpenEXR file for the number of raycast is only 32bit and overflows for longer renders

V-Ray VFB

• Images saved to the history with a Background layer disregard it when using the A/B compare
• Duplicate images in VFB history when a specific vrscene is rendered
• Crash when pressing the Back mouse button during rendering with V-Ray Frame Buffer

Render Elements

• Render element properties do not work

V-Ray Textures

• The option for using only the Sun direction is a number in the Sky shader

V-Ray GPU

• Raw RE renders wrong in combination with Camera exposure and Bucket rendering
• Infinite loop due to transparency and floating point imprecision
• Animation with caustics enabled causes a crash on the second frame
• Crash with specific HDRI map used in Dome light
• Increased light cache generation time in V-Ray GPU IPR when LC subdivisions are raised over 1500
• Wrong render after the second frame when rendering with V-Ray Bitmap's Inverse gamma color space transfer function
• GPU IPR not refreshing properly upon deletion of lights and geometry
• BRDF Bump ignores simple values for bump multiplier tex
• V-Ray GPU fails to load some big textures in parallel
• Specific user's Clipper is stuck on Building Light Cache
• Pick material and Select object in VFB functionality is not working with V-Ray GPU and RTX engine
• Incorrect Raw Sheen Reflection with Bucket sampler
• The Multimatte RE is affected by Camera Vignetting
• Bump delta scale parameter has no effect when rendering with GPU
• The back side of V-Ray Clipper plane is visible in the already clipped zone
• UVW Randomizer is inconsistent in GPU with Triplanar
• LightDirect plugin changes light direction with GPU
• Incorrect result when using the V-Ray TexEdges option Show Sub-triangles option with V-Ray GPU
• Discrepancy between CPU and GPU when Random by Scene Name and Node Name are used

V-Ray Physical Camera

• Camera FOV changes between certain frames when the focus distance parameter is animated