V-Ray 5

Build 5.20.07

Official release, update 2.7

Date – Dec 08, 2022

Download V-Ray for Cinema 4D

New features

V-Ray

• Support for Cinema 4D 2023
• Implement V-Ray Mesh Light

Modified features

V-Ray

• Raise the max file limit on MacOS

Bug fixes

V-Ray

• Issues with Anti-aliasing (bucket sampler only) when using VRayCryptomatte mask and Multi/Sub-object material assigned to single object
• Crash when tweaking lights during interactive rendering and LightMix enabled
• Cinema crashes when transforming cosmos assets during Interactive
• Missing values in exported vrscenes
• Cosmos browser freezes after interaction
• DOF is not rendering after the first frame
• V-Ray clipper doesn't work for more than 1 frame in animation in mesh mode
• Darker Buckets appear on M1 Mac Machines with Adaptive lights

VRayProxy

• Longer render and load time with Alembic compared to Vrmesh
• Compile geometry is slow when there are 735 proxy files referencing the same vrmesh file

Build 5.20.06

Official release, update 2.6

Date - Jul 06, 2022

New features

V-Ray

• Implement an option for animating visibility in Object Properties tag

Modified features

V-Ray

• Raise the max file limit on MacOS to improve stability

Bug fixes

V-Ray

• Add support for the Reroute node
• Additional unused nodes in node materials
• Missing Add and Remove layer buttons from the layered node in V-Ray Node material on Cinema4D R26
• The V-Ray Node space is not registered in Cinema 4D S26.1
• Rendering Stereoscopic images in the Picture Viewer with Stereo Camera doesn't work in Cinema 4D S26
• Assigned material part of the compound does not transfer to a new scene

V-Ray GPU

• Texture mapping doesn't work on extruded spline primitives

VRayProxy

• An error message popped up when exported cosmos asset is rendering

Build 5.20.05

Official release, update 2.5

Date – Jun 09, 2022

New features

V-Ray, VRayTextures

• New nodes for context control
• Add VRayEdges texture for node and classic materials

Modified features

V-Ray

• Expose the UVWChannel shader for use with Classic materials
• Implement the "Use object material" option for V-Ray Clipper

V-Ray, VRayProxy

• Add support for Multi Sub Tex plugins from Cosmos Assets

VRayTextures

• Wrap existing shader on TriPlanar creation

Bug Fixes

Interactive

• Cinema S26 crash when loading multiple objects

V-Ray

• Receive GI option is ignored when cast shadow is enabled
• Randomly generated motion blur with cloth simulation tear effect
• Classic material preview with large textures blocks UI
• Corrupted node materials when changing versions
• Crash when Phong tag is removed from geometry used for V-Ray fur
• The Object Properties tag doesn't affect child objects with multiple materials and polygon selections

Build 5.20.04

Official release, update 2.4

Date - Apr 27, 2022

New features

V-Ray

• Support for Cinema 4D S26
• Implement V-Ray Override Material

Bug fixes

V-Ray

• Coat glossiness might produce NaN values in certain scene setups
• Filter shader with empty input exports invalid vrscene
• Fusion shader with empty channel exports invalid vrscene
• Crash when VFB is opened in Cinema 4D R20
• Corrupted node materials when changing versions

Build 5.20.03

Official release, update 2.3

Date - Apr 06, 2022

New features

V-Ray

• Adaptive Bucket Splitting
• Implement V-Ray Renderable Spline tag
• Support for the Cinema 4D Projector shader

Modified features

V-Ray

• Improve export of native Cinema 4D shaders (Fusion, Fresnel and Colorizer)
• Improve export of native Cinema 4D material
• Support projection of single material with multiple selections

Bug Fixes

V-Ray

• Black renders when a camera is selected in Chaos Cloud app when rendering on the cloud
• Sky and Sun texture preview may crash
• GPU LC is slower to render with big resolutions
• Outdated help links for VRayMtl
• Show help on Fur, Clipper and Proxy opens wrong link

V-Ray GPU

• Crash upon CUDA CPU render on MacOS

Build 5.20.02

Official release, update 2.2

Date - Feb 16, 2022

Modified features

V-Ray

• Transfer the object hierarchy when exporting vrscene and importing it into Chaos Vantage

Bug fixes

V-Ray

• Scenes with UVW randomizer may crash on open
• Render mask clear does not work in animation or when toggled during interactive
• V-Ray clipper (when mesh is used as a clipper) reduces the quality of the mesh when the objects are scaled down
• Cryptomatte doesn't work with Node Layer name ID type

Build 5.20.01

Official release, update 2.1

Date - Feb 9, 2022

New features

V-Ray

• Implement V-Ray Aerial Perspective
• Implement V-Ray Normal Map shader node
• Add support for the Cinema 4D infinite floor
• Show the ObjectID number as overlay in the Object Properties icon

Modified features

V-Ray

• Update Open Image Denoiser with support for Arm M1
• Ability to create V-Ray Node materials from the menu
• The U and V Size parameter in the light should represent the width and height of the light
• Recalculate the intensity value for V-Ray Lights based on the currently selected light units

Bug fixes

V-Ray

• Support for loading assets from the new asset browser system in Cinema 4D S24 and R25
• V-Ray doesn't respect the viewport aspect ratio and renders cropped image
• Camera Shift causes Viewport Rendering to be mismatched
• Turning ON or OFF the Round Edges doesn't refresh in interactive
• Sun shadow texture is not rendered

V-Ray GPU

• Crash when rendering scenes of objects with translucent materials and a shadow catcher
• VRaySun disc is rendered with offset in V-Ray GPU lately
• Different GI results with enable/disable render elements and HairNextMtl

Build 5.20.00

Official release, update 2

Date - Dec 08, 2021

New Features

V-Ray

• Native support for Apple Silicon (M1 arm64)
• Add "Live link" button for connection with Chaos Vantage
• Implement UVW Randomizer as shader and as a node
• Ability to export V-Ray scene files from the Export menu in Cinema 4D
• Ability to import V-Ray scene files as reference objects
• Support for Chaos Cosmos materials
• Support for instancing V-Ray Lights
• Implement V-Ray Light Lister
• Implement render mask modes: "Objects" and "Object ID"
• Options to control the Light Volumetric Contribution
• Cryptomatte with progressive sampling

VFB

• Add a Sharpen/Blur post effect layer
• Integrate rendering log in the new frame buffer
• Ability to set shortcut keys for all VFB items
• Batch image processing in VFB2 for vrimg files
• Ability to add color corrections to the VFB Background layer

Modified Features

V-Ray

• Improve V-Ray Dirt texture with additional features
• LightMix transfer from VFB back to the scene
• Improve V-Ray MultiSubTex to support new multiple random modes

V-Ray GPU

• Calculate Light Cache on the Graphics card when V-Ray GPU is used as renderer

VFB

• Allow masks for Render element layers

Bug Fixes

V-Ray

• Using "Random by Node name" mode in V-Ray MultiSubTex produces different results
• Viewport previews of materials with Dirt is very slow
• Disabling a child of a multi instance cloner doesn't remove the object during interactive rendering
• Affect Child does not work in Include/Exclude mode for Lights
• Cloner object displays additional light in the viewport
• Render mask mode set to "Texture" does not work
• Forester trees leaves are not rendered when motion blur is enabled

Build 5.10.24

Official release, update 1.4

Date - Oct 27, 2021

Bug fixes

V-Ray

• Incorrect texture rendering when the UVW tag is placed after the material tag
• V-Ray Bitmap "No Tiling" option does not work
• Fix broken hyper link inside the Update dialog

Build 5.10.23

Official release, update 1.3

Date - Oct 14, 2021

New features

• Support for Cinema 4D R25

VRayTextures

• Support TexRamp in material nodes

Modified features

V-Ray

• Improve responsiveness when working with Node Materials
• Add an option to hide QT framework warnings from the log

LegacySceneConverter

• Better conversion for the "Material Weight" and "Use Fresnel" parameters from the classic V-Ray Advanced Material

Bug fixes

V-Ray

• Fix slow export of cloners in render instance mode
• Fix slow export of scenes with lots of material assignments
• GPU device selection is not used if preferences are not open
• Wrong viewport previews of node materials
• Viewport previews don't render if editor map size is not default
• Overridden editor map size in the preview settings of the material is considered even if "override preferences" is disabled
• The "Save" and "Open" dialogs are not shown when the VFB is used on displays with different DPI scaling
• Textures are black in the viewport when using Cinema4D layered shader
• LightMix in manual light select mode does not work

V-Ray, Interactive

• VFB layers are not saved when applied while Interactive is running

VRayProxy

• Some Cosmos assets change their material when the object is expanded to geometry

VRayMaterials

• V-Ray GPU crashes when rendering CarPaint 2 material in animation

Build 5.10.22

Official release, update 1.2

Date - Sept 02 2021

New features

V-Ray

• Support for Chaos Cosmos

VRayTextures

• Implemented V-Ray Normal Map texture
• TexMix as classic shader and node added in the V-Ray node space

Modified features

VRayMaterials

• Material viewport previews are slow even for constant colors

VRayTextures

• Scenes load slowly with enabled material previews

V-Ray

• Considers disabled motion blur from Cinema 4D tag

VRayProxy

• Flip proxy z-axis to improve compatibility with other host applications with right-handed coordinate system

VRayLights

• Ozone and Turbidity parameters in VRay Sky should be inactive when Sky Model is set to Improved

Bug fixes

V-Ray

• Fixed wrong shadows casted by V-Ray Sun to Volumetric objects
• Moving the VFB window causes the image inside to flicker
• The Vertical Shift parameter in the Physical Camera does not work in Production rendering

Build 5.10.21

Official release, update 1.1

Date - Jul 27 2021

Modified features

V-Ray

• Support for the VertexMap tag

Bug fixes

V-Ray

• V-Ray doesn't render in the same color space as the Node materials
• Geometry dissapears with V-Ray GPU Interactive rendering when using the CUDA engine
• Opacity mask doesn't work if the "Tile" option is disabled
• V-Ray doesn't render motion blur when using command line rendering with frame overrides
• Node preview updates may not be triggered for ports of Layered and Blend nodes
• Aborted update of texture node preview
• Different animated visibility in V-Ray for Cinema 4D and Standalone
• Animated visibility of objects does not work when exported and rendered with V-Ray Standalone
• Fix artifacts with animated boolean geometry
• Crash with animated boolean geometry when using default scene material

VRayProxy

• Adding a scene containing proxy from the content browser doesn’t keep the materials applied
• Rendering alembics is more than 3 times slower than rendering unpacked geometry on CPUs with many cores

Build 5.10.20

Official release, update 1

Date - Jun 23, 2021

New features

V-Ray

• Add V-Ray node space for node materials
• Add V-Ray Clipper as scene object
• Add V-Ray Fur as scene object
• Cryptomatte in progressive
• Progressive caustics mode

VRayVolumeGrid

• Add Slice and Mesh preview options

VRayEnvironmentFog

• Environment Fog colored transparency

VRayMtl

• New translucency modes for VRayMtl (based on VRayScatterVolume)
• Thin-walled refraction option

VFB

• Now possible to change or remove VFB2 shortcuts
• Layers masking based on Cryptomatte, integer and color render elements data
• Added stamp layer support
• Custom White Balance support for color picker and tint
• Support for animated sequences for Background layer using <frameNum> tag
• Added an option to bake the RGB primaries conversion
• Added horizontal/vertical offset for Background layer
• Image Info for the history images
• Added the frame number to the VFB History image info overlay
• Save color corrections to a LUT file
• Added an option to switch between world units and pixels as photon lookup radius for the caustics photon map

VRayDomeLight

• Support for multiple Dome lights for Light Mixing

V-Ray/vdenoise

• Integrated Intel Open Image Denoiser

VRayRectLight, VRayLightSphere

• Added "Occlude other lights" option for V-Ray lights

VRaySun/V-Ray GPU

• Added support for blending the sun with the horizon with the Improved sky model
• Added support for tiled textures with large amount of tiles on V-Ray GPU
• Rounded corners, VRayDirt, VRayCurvature, VRayFastSSS2, VRayAlSurfaceMtl, VRayClipper support with Out-Of-Core geometry

V-Ray GPU

• Added support for normal maps in world space

Modified features

V-Ray

• Improve include/exclude object lists usage with hierarchies
• Consider MotionBlur tag for disabling motion blur on objects
• Faster initialization of meshes with static 3D displacement in Standalone
• Mixed filtering option for ZDepth
• Added preview modes to V-Ray Proxy object
• Automatically load the full geometry when it's made editable

VRayTriplanar

• Replaced the "scale" parameter of the VRayTriplanar texture with "size" dependent on the scene units

V-Ray GPU

• Optimized CUDA CPU performance
• Optimized interactive scene updates with OptiX
• Implemented displacement in world space

V-Ray/V-Ray GPU

• Improved volume intersection & shading

V-Ray GPU/VRayDirt

• Add support for dirt and curvature attached to extra tex when OOC geometry is enabled

Bug fixes

V-Ray Proxy

• Fixed export of animated proxy

V-Ray

• Fixed VFB History loading very slowly when OCIO configuration is used for display
• Fixed Dark coat over refractive VRayMtl
• Fixed slow CarPaint2 preview rendering
• Fixed difference between glossy and mirror caustic reflections from metallic surfaces
• Fixed VRayCarPaintMtl2 coat IOR <1 not consistent in V-Ray and V-Ray GPU

V-Ray GPU/VRayBlendMtl

• Fixed fireflies in additive mode with multiple coat layers

V-Ray GPU

• Fixed GPU Memory leaks after interactive updates when there is CarPaint2 material in the scene
• Fixed texture on objects with normal displacement appearing smudged in GPU production renders with on-demand mipmapping
• Fixed crash when using vrmesh file with more than 16 material and UV maps

Build 5.00.45

Official release, Hotfix 3

Date - Apr 28, 2021

Improvements

• Instances and Multi-instances support
• Support blending of multiple material assignment tags
• Motion blur samples override for objects
• Support Cinema 4D S24

Bug fixes

• Hair is rendered without motion blur
• Crash when switching projects with Volume Grid preview in Cinema 4D
• The MultiMatte render element renders different result in V-Ray GPU compared to V-Ray
• V-Ray GPU production crashes if there is applied material with missing texture

Build 5.00.44

Official release, Hotfix 2

Date - Mar 25, 2021

Improvements

• VolumeGrid Preview Rollout for Cinema 4D - Velocity Streamlines
• Integrate V-Ray TexRamp texture
• Support for Cloner object with V-Ray Volume Grid in Cinema 4D

Bug fixes

• Distributed rendering doesn't work correctly when rendering animations
• Wrong material assignment on objects with dynamic caches
• HairNextMtl doesn't work with bitmaps assigned to the diffuse color
• Materials get tiled when scaled even if "tile" setting is disabled in Attributes manager
• Image sequences are not rendered when used with the Cinema 4D bitmap
• Cinema 4D noise doesn't work when used in Blend Material
• Relative file paths do not work for non-texture assets
• Deformed geometry does not update in animation
• Motion blur only works for the first rendered frame
• The Distance texture is not affected by geometry with applied skin deformer
• Crashes on MacOS systems with more CPU cores
• Cloning Proxy objects doesn't copy the assigned materials
• Animated visibility of objects does not work

Build 5.00.43

Official release

Date - Feb 11, 2021

Improvements

• LegacySceneConverter: Support of converting object layers
• LegacySceneConverter: Support for more converted types (Materials and Composite Tag)
• Render Elements: Prevent drag and drop of non-render element objects in the render elements list
• Exported lights should consider visibility and layers flags
• VRayVolumeGrid: VolumeGrid Preview Rollout for Cinema 4D - Container and Voxel Preview
• Ability to convert scenes via script with python (c4dpy)
• Add an option to disable the automatic conversion pop-up window when opening V-Ray 3.7 scene

Bug fixes

• Animated visibility of objects does not work
• V-Ray doesn't respect the "Render" option in the Cinema 4D layers
• Wrong texture projection of child objects
• Native C4D noise shader doesn't render correctly when rendering with DR
• Missing Phong tags may cause different buckets from slaves with DR
• Distributed rendering doesn't work correctly when rendering animations
• Wrong UVW coordinates when generated with V-Ray Material
• VRayProxy: Copying Proxy objects doesn't copy the assigned materials
• Displacement is wrongly applied when geometry is cloned
• The "Use mtl ID" parameter in the ObjectSelect RE doesn't work
• Objects saved in the content browser do not show the materials applied to them
• Interactive: Starting Interactive with unsupported camera makes the render buttons inactive
• Interactive: VFB settings and layers are reset when changing material preview scene or creating material
• Exported animation does not have second frame values in vrscene
• Applying material to a poly selection should happen only in "Polygon" mode
• VRayVolumeGrid: When two or more VolumeGrids in Cinema 4D load the same cache, their previews are not updated correctly when scrolling the timeline
• Improve Interactive and UI responsiveness when tweaking materials and textures
• V-Ray GPU: Normal displacement has wrong normals
• V-Ray GPU: Incorrect GPU LPE REs with Light Cache

Build 5.00.42

Official release

Date - Dec 10, 2020

New Features

• Implement Chaos Cloud Submit dialog and initial integration with Cloud client
• Add support for VRScans (V-Ray Scanned Material)
• Implement MultiSubTex shader

Improvements

• VolumeGrid voxel and bounding box preview for loaded caches
• Support for Cinema 4D noises with V-Ray GPU
• Add Object Select Render Element
• Add MultimatteID Render Element
• Support for the Cinema 4D "Background" object
• Implement V-Ray image output options
• Keep the FOV when Film Gate is changed and Specify FOV is checked
• V-Ray Light previews should hide when the Viewport filter for lights is off
• Make the Auto White Balance option a checkbox
• Set the default Mix Type for some float textures to "Normal"
• Change the size step for several real parameters to be more intuitive
• Improve user interface for V-Ray FastSSS2 and Light material
• Improve user interface for V-Ray Dirt and Distance shaders
• Improve user interface for V-Ray Sun
• Menu command for triggering V-Ray 3.7 scene conversion

Bug Fixes

• Drag and Dropping a material to a polygon selection doesn't create a selection tag
• Polygon selections are not working correctly with correction deformer attached to objects
• Polygon selections are not working when the name of the poly select tag is the same as the texture tag name
• Region rendering with production does not work on the first render
• Exporting a vrscene with single non-zero frame does not render the same frame
• Textures loaded with V-Ray bitmap are not saved correctly in the content browser
• VFB spin controls delimiter does not match the one in Cinema 4D
• Textures are not mapped in Environment fog and VolumeGrid

Build 5.00.41

Beta Release

Date - Nov 04, 2020

New Features

• V-Ray VolumeGrid (WIP)
• About dialog with automatic version update checks
• Support for Cinema 4D noise shader without baking (CPU only)

Improvements

• Improvements on V-Ray Proxy export and import including animations and material assignments
• Support for Filter shader without baking
• Add multiplication mix mode for distance parameters and shaders
• Support the basic material override options - without channel overrides
• Rearrange the GPU engine selection and the rendering devices button
• Expand the glossiness texture and Mix by default for VRayMtl
• Add presets for Light Path Expressions
• Adding the Beauty render elements now automatically sets up composite layers
• User interface of Bump material
• User interface of VRayBitmap

Bug Fixes

• Materials in parent objects do not work with polygon selections in child objects
• Normal bump maps do not work on V-Ray GPU
• Velocity render element does not work without enabling motion blur
• V-Ray does not respect the final image size output units
• V-Ray has wrong verbose level for the Console log
• GPU Production rendering does not respect the Noise threshold from the Production settings
• Canceling the Cinema 4D quit dialog makes V-Ray unusable
• Broken help page anchors for V-Ray lights
• VFB layers are preserved on new scenes
• ZDepth render element has additional gamma applied in Picture Viewer and output

Build 5.00.40

Beta Release

Date - Sep 28, 2020

New features

Installation

• Integrate the new installer design in V-Ray for Cinema 4D
• Embed the License Server installation in the V-Ray for Cinema 4D installer

User Interface

• Overhauled UI for V-Ray Render Settings
• Overhauled UI for the V-Ray Render Elements manager
• Overhauled UI for the V-Ray Material
• Implement V-Ray Lights as separate objects
• Redesigned icons and menu
• Integrate V-Ray VFB as a native Cinema 4D window
• New V-Ray Virtual Frame Buffer with light mix and compositing capabilities

V-Ray

• V-Ray is now based on V-Ray 5 Core
• Implemented V-Ray Geometry tag for Displacing and Subdividing geometry
• Implemented V-Ray Environment Fog as separate object
• Implemented new V-Ray Proxy
• Hash map based light cache
• Adaptive Dome Light
• Implemented blue-noise optimization for the DMC sampler
• Implemented "Improved" sky model for V-Ray Sun
• Added new Coat and Sheen render elements
• Added new LightMix render element
• Automatic Exposure Control and White Balance

V-Ray GPU

• Implement V-Ray GPU as a separate Production rendering engine
• Added support for RT cores of NVIDIA RTX cards (RTX Engine)
• Support for Bucket rendering
• Ability to select devices directly inside Cinema 4D
• Initial support for Out-of-Core rendering

Materials

• Added additional Coat and Sheen layers to V-Ray Material
• Added Metalness parameter to V-Ray Material to support PBR workflows
• Added V-Ray Hair Next - new physically based hair material

V-Ray Denioser

• Added Nvidia AI Denoiser