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V-Ray Changelogs

In these changelogs, we keep track of all changes, such as bug fixes, new features, and improvements, made to V-Ray for SketchUp, V-Ray for Rhino, V-Ray for 3ds Max, and V-Ray for Revit. These changelogs also include all the changes made to each version of V-Ray over the years.

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V-Ray for SketchUp

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V-Ray 6 for SketchUp, Update 2

December 2023

More V-Ray Scatter capabilities
Populate your scenes with grass, trees, rocks, and light sources in a few clicks. The updated Scatter tool introduces new scattering modes along grids, curves, and within volumes, as well as area modifiers so you can limit the scatter area. Plus, you’ll find more transformation settings for finer control over your scattered objects.

Chaos Cosmos IES lights import
Cosmos assets with built-in IES light sources are importable and ready for rendering, offering expanded lighting choices from Cosmos.

VFB improvements
Enhance your editing experience with a number of enhancements to the VFB (V-Ray Frame Buffer). The new Chromatic Aberration effect adds color distortion similar to real-world lens imperfections, giving your projects subtle realism. Easily create folders within the layers stack for easier navigation. Quickly create simple backgrounds with the new plain color in the Background layer.

Improved viewport materials
Do you ever use SketchUp viewport screenshots for presentations? Now, you can display procedural textures and their corrections within the viewport, enabling a better design and presentation process.

Better V-Ray scene import
Experience a more seamless .vrscene import process from Enscape and other applications. The UI for materials and textures not originally designed for V-Ray in SketchUp has been upgraded significantly. Additionally, scenes created in Enscape import faster thanks to an improved approach to handling texture buffers.

V-Ray GPU – Enmesh support
GPU users can now take advantage of V-Ray Enmesh, the perfect tool for tiled geometric patterns.

One-click to Chaos Cloud
Enjoy a much more intuitive and faster workflow for rendering scenes on Chaos Cloud in the click of a button.

V-Ray for Rhino

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V-Ray 6 for Rhino, Update 2

December 11, 2023

More Scattering Capabilities
Effortlessly add grass, trees, rocks, and light sources to your scenes with just a few clicks. The updated Scatter tool introduces advanced scattering modes across grids, curves, and volumes.

VFB Improvements
Enhance your editing process with several upgrades to the V-Ray Frame Buffer (VFB). The new Chromatic Aberration effect adds color distortion similar to real-life lens imperfections, giving your projects subtle realism. Improve navigation by effortlessly organizing layers into folders within the stack. Additionally, you can swiftly generate simple backgrounds using the new plain color feature in the Background layer.

Better V-Ray Scene Import
Importing V-Ray scenes from Enscape and other applications is now a smoother and more efficient process with the V-Ray scene importer. Experience a significantly improved UI for materials and textures, which were not originally designed for V-Ray in Rhino, and enjoy much faster import of Enscape scenes thanks to an optimized texture buffer management method.

V-Ray GPU Enmesh Support
V-Ray GPU now supports Enmesh, offering GPU users the ability to utilize this tool to effortlessly create tiled geometric patterns.

Improved Viewport Materials
Enhanced viewport materials now showcase procedural textures and their adjustments directly within the SketchUp viewport. This upgrade significantly improves the experience, especially for users who frequently incorporate viewport screenshots into their project presentations.

One-Click to Chaos Cloud
Experience a significantly more intuitive and accelerated workflow when submitting scenes for rendering on the Chaos Cloud. It’s as effortless as clicking a button.

Chaos Cosmos IES Lights Import
Cosmos assets with built-in IES light sources are importable and ready for rendering, offering expanded lighting choices from Cosmos.

V-Ray for Grasshopper
V-Ray for Grasshopper now offers volumetric effects for heightened realism in atmospheric rendering. Achieve lifelike skies with natural atmospheric depth, or incorporate haze and fog with authentic light scattering. Moreover, the latest scatter feature is accessible within V-Ray for Grasshopper, with additional components to simplify scattering setup and configuration.

V-Ray for 3ds Max

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V-Ray 6 for 3ds Max, Update 2

November 30, 2023

Enscape Compatibility
Effortlessly transfer data from Enscape to V-Ray. Fine-tune and add details to transform real-time designs into sophisticated, high-end visualizations.

MaterialX Support
Complete your USD workflow with MaterialX. Now, you can render and seamlessly exchange shaders across teams using different DCCs or switch tools yourself.

Enhanced USD Support
V-Ray now supports the latest official version of Autodesk 3ds Max USD so you can benefit from the latest functionalities and performance improvements.

Chaos Cloud One-Click Submit
Submitting your renders to the cloud is now easier and more convenient than ever. With just one click, access Chaos Cloud rendering.

Faster .vrscene Export
Exporting complex scenes containing lots of scattering plug-in data can be time-consuming. Now you can speed up your workflow with up to 20x faster exports.

Unified V-Ray Lister
Manage all your lights and cameras from a single location. The V-Ray Lister now offers an enhanced user interface. Explore new features for bulk adjustments, filtering, searching, and more.

V-Ray Enmesh
Tile 3D geometry patterns across objects to create complex surfaces with lots of detail for stunning close-up shots. Enmesh is ideal for creating intricate panels, fences, fabrics, and so much more, and it uses much less memory than displacement or copying by hand.

Faster Animation Rendering
Render image sequences up to 4x faster with V-Ray GPU. V-Ray now caches bitmaps between animation frames, eliminating the need for reloads, leading to a substantial increase in rendering speed.

Groups Hierarchy
Effortlessly distribute multiple objects in groups or within a hierarchy. With Chaos Scatter, complex distributions are simplified to just a few clicks, streamlining your workflow and enhancing overall efficiency.

Altitude
Create even more realistic scatters by controlling the distribution of objects based on surface height. Achieve natural altitude variance in vegetation, or experiment with the value for your desired look.

Look at
Boost realism by adjusting the orientation of scattered items—rotate away or toward a selected object. Choose an axis or tweak the Falloff curve for even more creative freedom.

Chromatic Aberration
Elevate your renders with added realism thanks to the new chromatic aberration post-effect, or explore and craft distinctive looks, directly within V-Ray’s Frame Buffer—no third-party applications needed.

Custom Background Color
When performing color corrections in the V-Ray Frame Buffer, you can now opt for a solid color background instead of loading an image.

Chaos Cosmos IES Lights
Illuminate your interiors faster than ever before. Our ever-expanding library of ready-to-render assets, Chaos Cosmos, now lets you import 3D light models, including realistic IES light profiles, in just a few clicks.

V-Ray for Revit

V-Ray 6 for Revit

December 7, 2022

V-Ray & Enscape Compatibility
With V-Ray 6 it is possible to directly convert real-time scenes from Enscape and make them as photo realistic as possible. Because Enscape materials, objects, and lights are supported, all design decisions are preserved during the different design stages. This ensures flawless collaboration between designers and visualization experts.

Procedural Clouds
Enrich blue skies with exactly the clouds that you envision. The new procedural cloud system is flexible and memory-efficient. You can simulate a variety of cloud conditions and animate their movement when exporting solar studies.

V-Ray Decal
Project unique materials onto any surface and across multiple objects in your model. Create road markings, graffiti, or imperfections, and give them realistic relief using displacement.

Chaos Cloud Collaboration
It’s easy to share work and collaborate with internal and external stakeholders on the cloud. With Chaos Cloud Collaboration you can upload your images and image panoramas straight from the V-Ray Frame Buffer and significantly speed up the review and approval process.

Finite Dome Light
Embed your model into an HDR image and adjust the surrounding environment to perfection.

Asset Tags
Group families and materials with the new tagging system to manage complex projects more efficiently.

Realistic Generic Materials
Visualize native Generic materials with improved fidelity and refine them to photorealism in the Asset Editor.

Enhanced Dirt Texture
Place dirt or weathering effects exactly where you want them by including and excluding objects.

Better Translucent Materials
Render translucent materials like frosted glass or marble faster with the V-Ray Materials improved subsurface scattering mode.

Iridescent Material
Easily create iridescent materials such as soap bubbles, oil spills, and more with the new Thin Film option.

More Accurate Reflections
Render metals and other rough reflective materials with improved accuracy.

All Assets inside Chaos Cosmos
Access the V-Ray Material library through Chaos Cosmos and manage all your 3D content from a single location.

View Panoramas in the VFB
Preview spherical panorama renders directly from within the V-Ray Frame Buffer, removing the need for third-party tools.

Composition Guides
Find the perfect angle for your composition by using classic proportion guides, or create your own.

Lighting Analysis on GPU
We’ve added support for the Lighting Analysis render element to calculate the light intensity of spaces.

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