7.20.00

V-Ray 7, update 2

Build 7.20.00

Official release

Date – Aug 5, 2025

Download V-Ray 7 for 3ds Max

New features

V-Ray

• Night Sky
• Deferred loading of the VRayProxy viewport previews
• Distributed rendering 2
• Add external dispatcher settings to V-Ray DR2 dialog
• Gaussian Splats clipping
• Add a button for Gaussian Splats in the V-Ray toolbar
• Independent Horizontal/Vertical FOV for cylindrical point camera (Cylindrical w/ vertical FOV camera type)
• Multi-import from Chaos Cosmos
• Show highlight settings in V-Ray Render setup
• V-Ray two-sided texture
• Add Probability column to VRayMultiSubTex
• Add a mapping source slot for the VRayMultiSubTex
• Add VRayEnhancerData render element
• Support ACES based on OCIO 2.4
• Increase maximum count of light selects up to 256
• Update OpenEXR to v3.x
• Show animated texture in the viewport for V-Ray Plane light
• Add an OpenPBR shading mode in VRayMtl
• Support for 3ds Max OpenPBR material on export

V-Ray GPU

• Added VRayLuminaire support in V-Ray GPU
• Support of Gaussian splats on GPU
• Improved Caustics with Dispersion support on GPU
• Better memory usage and performance optimizations
• IPR options rollout in V-Ray GPU Render settings

VFB

• Ability to drag a mask from one layer to another one in VFB
• Add an environment variable to stop AI features (CHAOS_DISABLE_GEN_AI)
• Add Highlights, Whites, Shadows and Blacks to Exposure layer
• Duplicate layers in VFB by holding Alt and dragging
• Move Highlight Burn from Exposure layer to Filmic Tonemap - linear

Chaos Scatter

• Clusters in Chaos Scatter

Chaos Cosmos

• Support for AI Material Generation from Cosmos browser

Chaos Cloud/Collaboration

• AI Image Enhancer
• 3D Streaming on Cloud

Modified features

V-Ray

• Add a VRayGaussianSplats render element to hold the shading results from VRayGaussiansGeom, and support for z-depth
• Gaussian Splats viewport performance and preview improvements
• Improve V-Ray Viewport IPR updates for Gaussian splats
• Show the amount of primitives as Percentage in VRayGaussianGeom
• Add a warning message in the Render setup when the GUI license is missing
• Add layers select and object IDs to include/exclude of VRayLight
• Add plus/minus buttons to the include/exclude functionality for VRayLight
• Import lights from Cosmos as instances
• Group lights participating in a VRayLuminaire light source in a single light select render element when using light mix
• The VRayLuminaire color and temperature parameters should override the color of the original lights, rather than multiply them
• Use Embree for VRayLuminaire's internal convex hull intersections
• VRayLuminaire: reduce samplers' resolutions for high-resolution fields
• Improved V-Ray scene conversion of Corona Sun and Sky
• Scene Converter - improvement in conversion process
• VDenoise will now by default and implicitly save "lean" images i.e. discarding the denoiser extra data from the saved image
• Add an option to exclude denoiser extra data on saving raw files
• Change the Standard/Advanced button in V-Ray render settings panel with a switch button
• Change the UI for Material override in V-Ray render settings
• Support for USD 0.11.00
• Drop the old USD’s support: 0.7.0, 0.8.0, 0.9.0
• Implement export for VRaySphereFade environment effect along with the SphereFadeGizmo(s)
• Remove Resize Textures mode in V-Ray GPU UI
• The "Register Spawner as a Service" shortcut is not working with Windows 11 and V-Ray 7
• UI improvements in V-Ray and V-Ray GPU render setup
• Update V-Ray and V-Ray GPU to OCIO v2.4
• Subdivision and displacement optimizations
• Add an option to VRayBump2Normal to generate normal maps with flipped green component
• Make the "ignore invisible objects" VRayDirt option available when the renderer is V-Ray GPU
• Gray out the Height parameter of VRayIES shape override in mode rectangle
• Disable Bitmap preview in the viewport for V-Ray Plane light when wireframe mode is used
• Modify the VRayOCIO texture to allow baking of the current OCIO transformation to a .cube LUT file

V-Ray GPU

• Support for Area shadow of VRayShadow in Standard 3ds max lights (Spot, Directional)
• Support for Material Select render element

VFB

• Ability to save single or multiple history images to disk
• Access to render stats from the last render using MAXScript
• Add a clear button to the cryptomatte mask in VFB2
• Add Highlight burn in Exposure layer back for old scenes
• Reinitializing an already loaded but updated OCIO config via 3dsMax color management dialog or via maxscript does not reload it in the VFB
• Remove the "1" & "2" keyboard shortcuts from the context menu in VFB region rendering

Bug fixes

V-Ray

• Bad viewport preview of VRayBitmap with UV offset as Environment Background
• Chaos Scatter with disconnected line segments renders differently in V-Ray for 3dsMax and V-Ray Standalone
• Incorrect export of ChaosScatter with 2D scattering on a non-renderable shape/spline, which is set visible in viewport
• Crash in V-Ray Standalone, when rendering a specific ChaosScatter scene with distribute-on objects without channels
• Crash on 3ds max reset with running full screen V-Ray Viewport IPR with Gaussian Splats
• Crash on Cosmos variation selection, when mtl variations number is inconsistent for all geometry variations
• Crash on second DR render
• Crash when rendering scene with USD instances when the camera is below ground level
• Improper 2D scattering on spline embedded polygon in V-Ray Standalone and Chaos Cloud
• Incorrect file path displayed on the V-Ray mesh export overwrite confirmation dialog
• Incorrect normals for dynamic moving mesh geometry when rendering with motion blur enabled
• Misleading warning in V-Ray GPU IPR when caustics are enabled
• One-click submit (Chaos Cloud) cannot be started on Windows User names with non-latin characters
• Preview images of Cosmos assets appear cropped in the Cosmos Asset rollout for the Variants previews
• Spline shape is rendered wrong in V-Ray Standalone when Enable in Render is checked but Enable in viewport is not in the Spline settings
• The "Sun light" button to specify a specific VRaySun is missing in the VRaySky node in 3ds Max 2026
• The file output override window stays behind VFB
• V-Ray is not working in 3ds Max 2024/2025 when unsupported version of USD is installed
• V-Ray Light Meter crashes in 3ds Max 2026
• Viewport IPR randomly fails to start using max script then VFB IPR starts unexpectedly later
• VRayDirt renders differently in 3dsMax and V-Ray Standalone when object visibility is <= 0.000001
• VRayGaussianGeom's 'Point size' viewport representation resets on scene open
• VRayLightMix "To Scene" button doesn't work properly with VRayLuminaire lights
• VRayLuminaire: a block of black pixels artifact
• VRayLuminaire: convex hull luminaire caches produce slightly darker result compared to the old box caches
• VRayProxy override material can't be pasted/instanced in material editor in 3ds Max 2025/2026
• VRayUVWRandomizer with default settings (no randomization) causes changes in normal maps
• Wrong Gaussian Splat color space conversion
• Wrong results with Dispersion (Abbe Number) and Volumetric translucency
• VRayMultiSubTex doesn't allow maps to be drag and dropped onto other slots
• Crash in ipr with activating Bend direction map with normal map in it in VRayFur
• Caustics parameters in V-Ray properties are not respected in V-Ray GPU
• Native 3ds max MaterialX material is not rendered with V-Ray properly and it's not exported to vrscene when created in newer 3ds max versions (2024-2026)
• V-Ray scene converter should convert Coronabitmap to VRayHDRI nodes using sharp isotropic filtering
• File naming is not consistent using V-Ray Denoiser tool
• Wrong lights default multiplier on creation when the units are changed
• The effect of the Coat color should not depend on the energy preservation mode
• VRayMutliSubTex exports differently when using the "Random by Name" and "Random by Node Handle" modes
• PRG Clear Sky with altitude values from 0.01 to 0.25 is creating artifacts
• Clouds are not rendered when VRaySun is explicitly specified in VRaySky map
• Crash with VRayLightMix, xRef scene and Isolate Selected
• VRayFastSSS2 parameters are not updated in the UI when color mode is set to "Scatter coefficient + Fog color"

V-Ray GPU

• Black hole at Caustics focal point
• Crash when aborting light cache calculation with Caustics and overlapping lights
• CUDA 700 crash when using VRayDistanceTex with empty list / hidden objects
• Occasional crash when cancelling while building photons on GP
• The GPU Caustics's Max Photons value of 0 behaves differently than CPU
• VRayMultiSubTex multiplier is rendered wrong with CUDA/RTX in Standalone
• Wrong Caustics with physical 2-sided glass

VFB

• Discrepancy in separate channels output gamma between 3ds max and V-Ray Standalone output
• VFB warning box might go below other windows
• VFB Undo Stack gets flooded in various situations