7.00.40

V-Ray for Blender Official Release

Date - Jul 1, 2025

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New and Modified Features

V-Ray Addon

• Initial support for rendering Cycles materials and nodes
• Disable interactive rendering updates for V-Ray Scene objects
• Add a link to the V-Ray Ideas Portal inside the V-Ray menu
• Group the Chaos Cosmos commands under a Cosmos sub-menu in the V-Ray main menu
• V-Ray Material's Sheen and Coat Glossiness socket labels should update when Use Roughness is selected
• Assign unique names to copied render channel nodes
• The default material is re-exported each time for every single mesh without a V-Ray material
• Hide the Use Irradiance Map option from the Additional Surface properties of the V-Ray Material Output node
• Hide the Visible to GI option from the V-Ray Material Output > Render Stats properties
• Show the 'Sun' socket in the V-Ray Sky node
• Disable the Follow Mouse and Region Rendering effects in the interactive viewport

V-Ray Installer

• Update Chaos binary components in the installation to the latest versions
• Change the company name in copyright notices accordingly to the new policy

Bug Fixes

V-Ray Addon

• Exception when using the Add/Delete buttons of V-Ray Switch Mtl on the property page
• The tooltips for many V-Ray menu items say "undocumented operator"
• Exception when creating Dome Light in Edit mode
• V-Ray Proxy moves to the origin point location when its Preview Type is changed
• V-Ray Proxy preview mesh position differs from the final render
• Adjust VRay Proxy sequence override interface
• Blender internal bitmaps not rendering unless saved first
• Exception when trying to render particle hair
• Restrict the Round Edges Radius input values to a range of 0 to 100
• Switching on and then off V-Ray Sky -> Sun Direction Only results in all white image in IPR
• Unable to animate Physical Cameras via Camera Markers during production rendering
• Change the icon of V-Ray Scene object in the Add menu
• Adding any node to a material causes the V-Ray Triplanar node to not render until IPR restart
• V-Ray Triplanar texture renders only one output from the input texture
• Blender becomes unresponsive when exporting a V-Ray Scene file with an invalid file path
• The Invert property of V-Ray Layered texture node is consistently exported with a value of 0
• Receives Shadows and Visible to GI properties of V-Ray Mtl Render Stats don't affect the render result
• Expose the Override FOV parameter in Camera Overrides panel
• Non-packed bitmap images with relative paths are exported as absolute paths to V-Ray Scene file
• Exception when creating Fur during Interactive Rendering
• Hide V-Ray Toon Specular and V-Ray Toon Lighting Render Channels
• Show only V-Ray Sun Light objects in V-Ray Sky's 'Sun' selector