7.10.00

Official Release, V-Ray 7, update 1

Date - Aug 26, 2025

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New Features

V-Ray

• Add support for Blender 4.5
• Introduce support for Geometry nodes
• Introduce the Open PBR shading model for V-Ray Material
• Introduce conversion from Cycles to V-Ray materials

Modified Features

V-Ray

• Add a checkbox that toggles the Vignetting property in the V-Ray Physical Camera
• Add a gradient type 'from position' for V-Ray Gradient Ramp
• Add hard minimum and maximum values to the Gradient Position property of the V-Ray Gradient Ramp texture
• Add import for the V-Ray TexAColorOp and TexFloatOp plugins
• Add import for the V-Ray TexLayered plugin
• Add import for the V-Ray TexRemap plugin
• Add support for the Legacy Mix Cycles node
• Disable the Bump Amount property of the V-Ray Material when the Bump Type is set to Explicit normal
• Display the estimated remaining render time in the console log during headless rendering
• Export animation ranges as sequences
• Export only the active camera during production rendering
• Group node sockets using rollouts in the V-Ray Material node
• Hide unsupported options from the V-Ray GPU Render Settings
• Improve the UI of the Displacement node
• Improve the Render Settings' and V-Ray Physical Camera's UI for configuring Motion Blur
• Improve the UI for the Subdivision node
• Reduce the number of the bump/normal nodes
• Set the bump type to 'explicit' when a normal map node is attached to the input port of a V-Ray Material
• Skip the Color Arithmetic node when exporting Principled BSDF diffuse
• Use the V-Ray Scene version 2 format when exporting for Chaos Cloud
• Use improved sampling for the V-Ray Toon Volume

Bug Fixes

V-Ray

• "vray.upgrade_scene" operator throws an error when Blender is started in headless mode
• 'Reset to default value' command for nodes does not respect V-Ray defaults
• Add active conditions to nodes with Invert Alpha parameters
• An Error occurs in the console when changing the Cycles Mix node mode during interactive rendering
• An exception is thrown in the console when opening the Material Preview tab
• An exception occurs when copying a V-Ray material to the V-Ray Shader Editor before the 'Use V-Ray Material' option is enabled
• Blender crashes while pasting the V-Ray bitmap node across scenes
• Caustics' Progressive Mode's multiplier option is not active
• Change Anti-Aliasing Filter settings to be non-animatable
• Prevent scale reset when changing the proxy object preview type
• Converting a Volume Shader from Cycles triggers a console exception
• Cosmos Materials containing BRDFScanned are not imported
• Crash when Compressed Texture Mode and Use System Memory for Textures are enabled on V-Ray GPU
• Default File Path for Light Cache Auto Save produces an error in Blender 4.5
• Disable inactive V-Ray Car Paint 2 Material properties
• Discrepancy in the render result of a Cycles material with a Normal node before and after conversion
• Do not write output files for the material preview renders
• Exception when drawing render elements
• Exception when importing assets containing a Remap node
• Exception when upgrading the scene with NormalMap
• Fog depth is not imported correctly
• Hide all V-Ray operators when V-Ray is not the active render engine
• Incorrect V-Ray Visibility properties result in duplicated objects
• Light sources of Lighting Cosmos assets render incorrectly when their preview meshes change
• No suffix is added to the Channel Name of newly created render channels
• Nodes with hidden sockets do not get arranged correctly when converted
• Object selector nodes do not work when connected through a reroute node
• Pressing VFB's Prod render button queues multiple render jobs
• Production rendering doesn't start with a specific scene
• Promoting user attributes to other meshes does not impact interactive rendering
• Remove V-Ray Node Debug Switch from the UI
• Respect muted links when exporting node trees
• The V-Ray Toon render element doesn't work
• Typo in the "Download Cosmos Assets" button label
• V-Ray Sky 'Invisible' option has no effect
• Wrong UV scale import for conversion and some Cosmos materials
• The Cosmos relinking progress window doesn't appear during interactive rendering