V-Ray 6

Build 6.20.05

Official release, update 2.5

Date - Dec 17, 2024

Download V-Ray for Cinema 4D

Modified Features

V-Ray

• Add support for instance rotations for the new Particle Emitters
• Add support for User Data Tag
• Handle scene-linear Rec.709-sRGB and ACEScg bitmap import
• Add -skipHome command when initiating LiveLink to prevent the Vantage Home screen from appearing

Bug Fixes

V-Ray

• Incorrect result with animated Bend Deformers in V-Ray Standalone
• Missing "Vertical FOV" setting in the Overrides settings when the Camera is set to Spherical Panorama
• Freeze when Render Node License error is encountered
• Light Cache build fails at start of build, crashing of V-Ray GPU
• Fix crash with new default camera
• Crash when an empty Instance object is used
• Particles will render earlier than expected in V-Ray Standalone
• Node material previews in some scenes will be refreshed after loading
• Cinema 4D crashes when reloading cosmos assets
• Chaos Scatter is always re-exported during interactive rendering
• V-Ray Material does not support animation for Cinema 4D Noise Shader
• V-Ray crashes when a source with object properties tag is cleared from Enmesh
• Animated material change is not functioning in V-Ray Standalone
• Color management problems in Cinema 4D 2025
• Material Override does not work without a material
• Materials are not linked to selections when importing a V-Ray scene containing Multi/Sub-Object

V-Ray GPU

• Interactive does not update any V-Ray Volume Grid changes

Build 6.20.04

Official release, update 2.4

Date - Sept 18, 2024

New Features

V-Ray

• Support Cinema 4D 2025
• Add Scatter version with support for Cinema 4D 2025

Modified Features

V-Ray

• Color management modifications for Cinema 4D 2025
• Expose DWA compression level for EXR files

Bug Fixes

V-Ray

• Animated V-Ray Clipper without Mesh doesn't export in V-Ray Standalone
• The icon for the object hierarchy of the VRayDecal objects include exclude list is missing
• Wrong default of shadow bias in Sun light
• Installer fails to find the directory for Cinema 4D 2024.5
• Render instances do not inherit MoData from Cloner in render-instance mode
• Render host is not responding with Vantage
• File asset paths do not work with objects
• V-Ray Denoiser Tool is not working on Mac OS
• V-Ray Dirt Texture doesn't match CPU and GPU results when Affected By is inclusive
• Animated objects sharing geometry produce artifacts with the bucket sampler

Build 6.20.03

Official release, update 2.3

Date - June 27, 2024

New Features

V-Ray

• Add support for the new particle system in Cinema 4D 2024.4
• Implement "Debug Shading" in V-Ray

Modified Features

V-Ray

• Custom user data parameters support for V-Ray Decal
• Add the Glossiness parameter in the Clear Coat section of the Scanned material
• Hide the randomization by render ID from UVWGenRandomizer
• Improve Redshift node material conversion

V-Ray GPU, VRayTextures

• Use a V-Ray Triplanar texture with different textures on each axis and direction

VRayTextures

• Improve defaults of MultiSubTex

LegacySceneConverter

• Improve the conversion from V-Ray 3.7

VRaySky

• Upgrade the Sun Direction Only parameter to a boolean

Bug Fixes

V-Ray

• V-Ray Lights create lines in the Specular render element while set to include mode
• A crash when opening a specific scene on MacOS
• Default lights don't update properly in interactive when active lights are deleted
• First node preview render in a process may fail
• Cinema4D crashes when V-Ray is installed on the latest Cinema4D 2024.4.0
• Unnecessary undos are added by node material change handlers
• VRayUVWTransform shader transformation is not applied in shader previews
• Multi-sub random by user attribute name has no effect

Build 6.20.02

Official release, update 2.2

Date - April 16, 2024

New Features

V-Ray

• Use system memory for rendering with V-Ray GPU

Modified Features

V-Ray

• Add animation options to V-Ray Bitmap node texture and classic shader
• Automatically set Start Node for converted materials
• Support for the Multi Shader
• Expose the phase function parameter for Environment Fog
• Add ports for user-defined output closures of OSL material nodes
• Surface properties have a too low hard limit
• Add support for the native compositing tag
• Add support for Redshift Color Layer, Material Layer, and Material Blender nodes

VRayTextures

• Implement Batch Load feature in VRayMultiSubTex
• Add an option to reload, edit, and locate images in the classic V-Ray Bitmap shader

VRayVolumeGrid

• Provide preset for Pyro volumes

VRayPhysicalCamera

• Add Automatic Vertical Tilt, Guess Vertical Tilt, and Guess Horizontal Tilt parameters

Bug Fixes

V-Ray

• Updates on classic materials may prevent viewport interactive updates
• Modifying imported vrscene may break the Cinema 4D scene rendering
• Depth of Camera should utilize camera clipping values even when clipping is not enabled
• Non-default texture outputs are not working with plugin lists
• Crash when starting render without accepted EULA
• Cinema 4D 2024 crashes when loading the last file from the profiler
• Anima 4D characters texture mapping is incorrect when exporting to Chaos Cloud
• LightMix back to the scene doesn't work as expected with IES lights
• Splines and gradients cannot be imported for classic shaders
• Wrong import and export of transparency layers in native materials

V-Ray, VRayProxy

• VRayProxyHook can leak Proxy properties nodes

V-Ray GPU

• Cinema 4D freezes when rendering

VRayTextures

• Wrong material projection in specific scene after material update

Build 6.20.01

Official release, update 2.1

Date - Feb 8, 2024

New Features

V-Ray

• Introduce an adaptivity clamp to control the sampling in overexposed regions of the image

VRayTexture

• Use a V-Ray Triplanar texture with different textures on each axis and direction

Modified Features

V-Ray

• Make V-Ray Lights non-editable
• Expose additional UV scale in Object Properties
• Add support for converting additional Redshift nodes
• Add support for Refraction and Glossiness in the Viewport editor
• Support all TexAColorOp operations on GPU
• Implement the ability to get the name for the Bitmap node from the texture filename

VRayLightDome

• Hide light preview when the light is turned off by the generator checkbox

VRayTextures

• Add option for disabling the automatic RGB primaries modification

Bug Fixes

V-Ray

• Chaos Scatter is not rendered with interactive on Cinema4D 2024 when V-Ray proxy is instanced
• Specific frames rendering black in V-Ray Standalone
• The Decal's length offset is not animated
• Negative values of Decal displacement shift the geometry instead of applying the intended displacement
• Improve the performance of rendering node material previews when opening scenes containing a large number of materials
• Chaos Vantage animation fails to start
• Warnings for invalid material evaluation with a specific scene
• Having a Post effect layer in render settings with over 98 render element "Layers" causes renders to not start

V-Ray, Interactive

• Interactive doesn't refresh when using the "Frame Geometry" option in the viewport
• Wrong focus distance when the Camera is a child in the hierarchy and focus object is used

V-Ray GPU

• Negative explicit channel IDs are causing a crash

VRayLightRectangle, VRayLightSphere

• Imported lights might be over-bright

Build 6.20.00

Official release, update 2

Date - Dec 7, 2023

New Features

V-Ray

• Initial support for importing V-Ray Scene files as native objects
• Support for importing the Place2D UVW generator from Maya
• Convert Cinema 4D Materials to Classic V-Ray Materials
• Convert Redshift Standard materials to V-Ray Materials
• Add import of IES lights from Cosmos
• Render animation with Vantage via Live Link
• Expose the V-Ray Node material parameters in the Classic Material Editor

VRayVolumeGrid, V-Ray

• Native support for rendering Pyro

V-Ray, Interactive

• Add support for OSL Material and Texture

V-Ray, Interactive, VRayPhysicalCamera

• Add support for Stereoscopic rendering

V-Ray, LegacySceneConverter

• Separate the Environment settings to a new V-Ray Environment Object

VRayVolumeGrid

• Integrate VolumeInstancingTree and VolumeGrid instancing optimizations into V-Ray Standalone CPU

Modified Features

V-Ray

• Support for the Pin Material tag
• Better import of raw texture buffers
• Add support for the "Solo" mode in the Node Editor
• Modify Light Mesh options to have a similar layout to other lights
• Update Chaos Scatter to version 4
• Add LPE labels to materials and lights
• Implement the Stochastic Flakes as a node material
• Hide deprecated option "Inverted Normal" from UI of V-Ray Dirt texture
• Add the ability to show the current texture from Light Lister in the Active Object Manager
• Filter exported plugins for animation and interactive
• Add profiler events for export durations by categories
• Skip the import of TexMaxGamma plugin whenever possible

V-Ray, V-Ray GPU

• V-Ray GPU shouldn't load already loaded bitmaps from files when rendering an animation
• Support for V-Ray Enmesh rendering on V-Ray GPU

V-Ray, VRayPhysicalCamera

• Parallel physical camera rendering requires additional setup
• Support for per camera overrides

V-Ray, VRayPhysicalCamera, Interactive

• Ability to transfer Auto Exposure and White Balance to the camera

V-Ray, VRayLightDome, VRayLightIES, VRayLightRectangle, VRayLightSphere, VRaySun

• Add viewport light previews

VRayLightDome, VRayLightIES, VRayLightRectangle, VRayLightSphere, VRaySun

• Add the ability to change the wire color for the V-Ray lights in the viewport

VRayLightRectangle

• Expose the new directionality strength parameter

V-Ray, VRayProxy, V-Ray GPU, VRayTextures

• Support for rendering Particle colors based on different channels

V-Ray GPU, VRayTextures

• Add support for more Sampler Info outputs

VRayMtl, V-Ray

• Double click in Material Manager should create V-Ray Node material as a default material
• Add the option to select V-Ray Material as the default material

VRayTextures

• Automatically set the RGB primaries to the current active color space when creating V-Ray bitmaps

Displacement and Subdivision

• Compile geometry is slow for subdivision surface objects on high core count machines

Bug Fixes

V-Ray

• Viewport Interactive is blocking Cinema 4D when OCIO color management is used
• Cinema 4D Freezes when Blend Material is added to its own Base Material Slot
• Fix a deadlock in GeomParticleSystem in streaks mode when no velocity channel is present
• The "Use Default Lights" global override parameter does not work
• User attributes are not working for the VRayBitmap filename text field
• Wrong label in the Max Gamma shader
• Wrong import of TexCombineColor and TexCombineFloat
• VR Mat could not fetch the name of Material X automatically
• Unpack installation may not unpack the V-Ray plugin and docs
• Fix the typo in the Light Lister units settings

V-Ray, VRayMtl

• Unable to convert native C4D materials if unsupported native shaders are present in the material

V-Ray, V-Ray GPU, VRayTextures

• Rendering animation stops in the middle of the "Loading bitmaps" stage

Render Elements

• When trying to add a render element during interactive rendering in Cinema 4D, the application crashes

VRayVolumeGrid

• Volume grid loads mirrored .vdb cache, simulated with the Pyro engine

V-Ray GPU

• Bump mapping in V-Ray GPU is inverted
• Bump type 5 is not working with procedural textures
• Bump mapping doesn't work correctly on a plane
• Cryptomatte render element doesn't work for objects behind glass
• VRaySphere is not rendered with RTX
• Select object and Pick object material functionality in VFB is broken with V-Ray GPU IPR
• Rendering stuck when using the Bucket image sampler and Textured render mask
• MultiMatte does not consider material IDs nested in VRayBlendMtl with a blend amount
• Crash when scenes containing Image sequences and V-Ray Sky are rendered with CUDA and then with the RTX engine
• Render freezes when rendering animated objects with RTX, motion blur, and V-Ray Denoiser
• GPU Light cache freezes when rendering animation with specific scene on machine with multiple GPU devices
• Phoenix Particle Shader in Point mode randomly disappears on a test scene with OptiX
• Print a warning for CUDA 12 min driver version
• Emissive material does not appear in VRaySelfIllumination behind refractive object
• VRayProxy with assigned Multi/Sub-Object material in V-Ray GPU has incorrect shading with material override
• VRayClipper does not have correct material IDs when rendering with V-Ray GPU
• Bump mapping differs when comparing small objects between V-Ray and V-Ray GPU
• MultiMatte does not work with material IDs within VRayBlendMtl
• MultiMatteID is not propagated through nested materials
• GPU interactive prints warnings on material changes

V-Ray GPU, VRayTextures

• GPU rendering performance is slower when some of the VRam is occupied

VRayLightDome, VRayLightIES, VRayLightRectangle, VRayLightSphere, VRaySun, V-Ray GPU, VRayTextures

• Regression of spot/direct lights intensity

VRayVolumeGrid

• Enabling the Only If Selected preview option of the Cinema 4D VolumeGrid and then deselecting and selecting the grid leaves it empty
• Changing the preview Detail Reduction in Cinema 4D always resets back to a certain value
• Crash when basing the Smoke Color on the Speed channel of VDBs whose bounding box does not start at 0,0,0
• Wrong Grid-based Volumetric Motion Blur with VDBs whose bounding box does not start at 0,0,0

Build 6.10.02

Official release, update 1.2

Date - Sept 20, 2023

New Features

V-Ray

• Build V-Ray for Cinema 4D 2024
• Implement Switch material
• Support for emissive materials in LightSelect and LightMix
• Add option for moving pivot point of UVW Transform Node

V-Ray, Render Elements

• Add Distributed Rendering Render element

Modified Features

V-Ray

• Add Legacy lights group to the Light Lister
• Set the state for the color picker to be expanded by default for some materials and lights
• Add support for importing Switch Node Material
• Improvements to parameter steps and defaults
• Disable generating previews for some utility textures to increase performance
• Collapse the Output rollout for V-Ray Bitmaps by default on creation
• Uvwgen option replaced with Map Channel in Stochastic Flakes Material

VRayProxy

• Improve proxy animation detection and reduce redundant file reads

VRayVolumeGrid

• Increase the hard limit of the Heat Haze parameter in the Volume grid

Chaos Cloud

• Support for texture baking in Chaos Cloud

Bug Fixes

V-Ray

• Buckets rendering incorrectly with Distributed Rendering
• V-Ray Light Mesh visibility does not consider parent object visibility during animation
• Crash during interactive rendering of Boole object with complex hierarchy
• Can't hide a sun light from Sun with Sky in interactive
• Scenes from Windows to Mac don't properly relink Cosmos assets
• Resumable rendering doesn't show an error when used with the Cinema 4D file output system.
• Enmesh crash with non-polygon references or source
• Hide the V-Ray viewport menu when V-Ray is not the current render engine

Build 6.10.01

Official release, update 1.1

Date - Jun 28, 2023

New Features

V-Ray

• Support importing Scatter Presets from Cosmos in Cinema4D
• Add Viewport preview for instanced geometry from VRayParticles object

V-Ray, Render Elements

• Implement SamplerInfo RE

Modified Features

V-Ray

• Add brightness and mix type for self-illumination of VRayMtl
• Expose the length offset parameter of VRayDecal
• Show progress bar dialog for downloading Cosmos assets
• Add download/relink button in cosmos objects
• Material previews using document color management

VRayProxy

• Add button for recreating material assignment tags
• Improve Enmesh Cosmos import in Cinema4D

Bug Fixes

V-Ray

• Instanced geometry with different nsamples crashes during compile geometry
• Using OCIO color management produces darker material previews in Cinema 4D 2023.2
• Proxy exported from Cinema 4D does not render properly with decal
• Resumable rendering is not disabled for VFB interactive rendering
• VFB Menu button state is not updated when switching scenes
• Luminance from native material is ignored
• Mark missing Cosmos assets option is not updated during active document when using Relink option from "Project Asset Inspector"
• Cinema 4D freezes when moving or undocking Qt based windows
• The standalone V-Ray GPU Device Select tool is not working because of missing Qt libraries
• Using multi-instance cloner prints redundant messages

V-Ray, Interactive

• Render Region disappears when a render is started
• Wrong VFB render region when switching from one opened file to another

V-Ray, Render Elements

• Light Select render element does not work with Cloner

V-Ray, VRayProxy

• Cinema 4D crashes with displacement from V-Ray decal over Cloner

VRayProxy

• Cinema 4D may crash if relinked with "Download missing assets" without logging in

Build 6.10.00

Official release, update 1

Date - May 18, 2023

New Features

V-Ray

• Chaos Scatter in V-Ray for Cinema 4D
• Implement V-Ray Toon Node and Classic Material
• Implement V-Ray Profiler
• Add Support For Cylindrical Decal
• Support V-Ray Interactive rendering in the Viewport editor
• Add support for Geometry Instancing in VRayParticles object
• Expose the path guiding light cache options
• Add support for importing V-Ray Enmesh assets from Chaos Cosmos
• Add Download and Relink of missing Cosmos Assets
• Add support for user attribute textures and the MoGraph Color Shader
• Add light decay options to V-Ray Lights
• Implement Resumable Rendering
• Implement the "Test resolution" functions for the V-Ray Frame Buffer
• Add support for Ornatrix hair system
• Integrate NVidia AI denoiser upscaling mode

V-Ray, VRayMtl

• Implement Bump To Glossiness shaders

V-Ray GPU, VRayTextures

• Add support for Compressed Textures on V-Ray GPU

Chaos Cloud, V-Ray

• Add support for exporting sidecar vrscene files

Render Elements

• Add a Metalness render element

V-Ray, Interactive

• Implement "Object Selection" inside the V-Ray Frame Buffer

V-Ray, Render Elements

• Add support for V-Ray Toon render element

VRaySun

• Add the new Sky clouds parameters for density, seed and contrails

VRayVolumeGrid, V-Ray, V-Ray GPU

• Integrate VolumeInstancingTree and VolumeGrid instancing optimizations into V-Ray Standalone

Modified Features

V-Ray

• Improve the UI for V-Ray Decal and add additive bump options
• Add support for Matrix object as particle source in V-Ray Particles
• Add support for native OCIO management in Cinema 4D 2023
• Add the ability to lock the aspect ratio for V-Ray Enmesh Crop Box sizes and UV tiling
• Add include exclude list for affected lights in environment fog
• Add extra material options to BRDF nodes
• Rearrange the Tools menu
• Mark missing Cosmos assets with an icon
• Expose the Flat and Frontal and Camera projection types for the V-Ray projection node
• Expose the legacy lights in the V-Ray menu
• Replace "Face ID" labels with "Polygon Selections"
• Update the Fog Distance and Fog Height default value
• Update Environment Fog Raymarching params
• Add an option to save only the RGB Channel when Denoiser or Lens Effects are active
• UI changes to the V-Ray Softbox texture
• Deprecate the Standalone zip Installations and allow extracting files from the V-Ray Installer
• Hide V-Ray Enmesh in viewport when the object's "Enable" parameter is off
• Change the stepsize for V-Ray Decal dimensions
• Intermediate render output should have final color corrections
• Preserve the existing layer for converted materials
• Change the stepsize for the Displacement amount in V-Ray Decal
• Add the new Affect Alpha parameters to Volumetrics
• Add selections as input objects when creating Fur or Enmesh
• Notarize the V-Ray for Cinema 4D installation for macOS

VRayMtl, V-Ray GPU

• Port the "Uniform" illumination mode of the VRayMtl translucency on GPU

Chaos Cloud, Interactive, V-Ray

• Add a window with EULA agreement for zip installations

V-Ray, VRayTextures

• Expose the nearest filtering to interface of Bitmaps
• Material previews using document color management

Render Elements

• Support for ObjectID as a new ID type in the Cryptomatte render element

V-Ray, V-Ray GPU

• LightMix during LC building and progressive undersampling

V-Ray, Displacement and Subdivision

• Change the Min/Max Displacement bound parameter type from Color to Float

V-Ray GPU

• Implement auto bump mapping for smoothed and displaced meshes

VRaySun

• Improve the viewport locator for the V-Ray Sun to display the sun vector

VRayVolumeGrid

• Speed up grid volume rendering by substituting PreLin() with GridSampling::prepareLerpVoxelWeights/Indices()
• Speed up the rendering of grid volumetrics by removing needless reading from the grid

Bug Fixes

V-Ray

• Alpha is used in some of the node slots as default color
• Material IDs for the Blend and 2Sided V-Ray materials are not inherited from the submaterials
• Material ID doesn't create correct masks when multiple materials with opacity maps are blended together
• Override camera options step amount is too large
• Stage animation of cameras and camera projections not working as expected
• Texture slots import redundant color shader
• Low CPU utilization with Intel Alder Lake CPUs on Windows 11
• The text spline object is not rendering with animation when deleting the text on the second frame
• V-Ray Enmesh allows the use of non-geometry items as a reference object
• Crash when using the Set Active Object as Camera button

V-Ray GPU

• Dynamic geometry doesn't update during Interactive rendering when deformed
• Memory leak with textures when rendering animation
• Cryptomatte render element doesn't work for objects behind glass
• "CUDA error 700" appears when toggle off/on the Volumetric Environment set to Fog during Interactive render with GPU
• VRayMultiSubTex in Random By Element mode with dynamic geometry produces incorrect results
• Crash in V-Ray GPU IPR with BF+BF and refractive glossy VRayMtl when changing translucency modes
• Difference between CPU and GPU with VRayMultiSubTex Random By Element and non-default motion blur geometry samples

V-Ray, Interactive

• Preview object disappears when switching extra options on and off

VRayLightIES

• Once changed, IES Light Shape option can not get back IES From file parameter.

VRayProxy, VRayVolumeGrid

• Making a Proxy/Decal/Volume Grid editable results in deleting any object in the hierarchy under them

V-Ray, VRayTextures

• Bitmap filtering doesn't work

VRayLightRectangle, VRayLightSphere

• Cryptomatte masks for lights are not working in V-Ray GPU

VRayVolumeGrid

• The user attributes assigned to the simulator/volume grid aren't accessible through the VRayUserXXXX textures
• Render artifacts with Adaptive dome light and Particle Shader in Fog mode in a specific scene

Build 6.00.05

Official release, hotfix 4

Date - Apr 26, 2023

New Features

V-Ray

• Light is selectable via Light lister name

Modified Features

V-Ray

• Create V-Ray Tags submenu in Cinema 4D 2023
• Update End User License Agreement

Bug Fixes

V-Ray

• Preview object disappears when switching extra options on and off
• V-Ray interactive only utilize half of the threads on AMD 3990x
• Team Render doesn't save single frame render output
• TX Textures stop the rendering process
• Node Light Material uses transparency instead of opacity
• Node material assets are not renamed from Project Asset Inspector

V-Ray GPU

• Render stucks when specific nodes are used for 2D displacement

V-Ray GPU, VRayTextures

• Rendering animation stops in the middle of the "Loading bitmaps" stage

VRayTextures

• VRayDirt's "Ignore Self Occlusion" does not work

Build 6.00.04

Official release, hotfix 3

Date - Feb 08, 2023

New Features

V-Ray

• Add support for the TriPlanar Mapping option for the Cosmos materials

Modified Features

V-Ray

• Help links for the Node Materials
• Add the Phase Function parameter to V-Ray VolumeGrid

V-Ray Volume Grid

• Change the default of the 'Scatter Depth' to 0 in the VolumeGrid for Cinema 4D for better cloud rendering

Bug Fixes

Legacy Scene Converter

• Converted legacy scene is corrupted and crashes after render

Render Elements

• Render elements are exported with the same name, causing issues with Chaos Cloud rendering

V-Ray

• Fix deadlock in GeomParticleSystem in streaks mode, when no velocity channel is present
• Some quick help links are not working correctly
• Incorrect alpha and specular conversion of native Cinema 4D materials

V-Ray GPU

• UVW mapping for Scanned materials is not working properly with V-Ray GPU

V-Ray Layered Tex

• VRayLayeredTex shader adds a new layer in incorrect order

Build 6.00.03

Official release, hotfix 2

Date - Dec 21, 2022

Modified Features

V-Ray, Render Elements

• Improve the user interface of the MultiMatte render element

Bug Fixes

Chaos Cloud, V-Ray

• VFB animation outputs different number of frames when having custom framerate

V-Ray

• V-Ray MultiSubTex node doesn't work in Cinema4D S22 and R23
• Error message when creating V-Ray Node Blend material
• Orthogonal cameras do not work with V-Ray GPU interactive in Cinema4D
• Improve responsiveness for multithreaded CPUs

Build 6.00.02

Official release, hotfix 1

Date – Dec 08, 2022

Modified Features

V-Ray

• Expose TriPlanar reference object parameter
• Add support for importing TexEdges shaders
• Support Max procedural textures that are being used in Cosmos in Cinema4D
• Import flakes material from Cosmos library
• Viewport editor preview for V-Ray Decal
• Import Decals from the Chaos Cosmos library
• Add "Fit aspect ratio" buttons in V-Ray Decal
• V-Ray Fur for Cinema 4D should have Enable/Disable Checker
• Support for Isometric Camera

V-Ray Interactive

• Read material max depth override settings

V-Ray GPU

• Support for Affect All Channels
• Implement auto bump mapping for smoothed and displaced meshes

Bug Fixes

V-Ray

• Standard instances of deforming geometry do not update in animation
• Animated instances and particles may not update in animation
• LightMix Back-To-Scene does not work with MeshLight
• Save Project with Assets doesn't save the Cosmos Asset vrmeshes from the scene
• Importing a 2-sided material from Cosmos results in duplicated materials
• Interactive renderer crashes with decal while deleting assigned material
• Making changes to a Cinema 4D standard material or light causes 5 to 10 second freeze during Interactive Rendering
• Materials for the recently added Cosmos assets are imported incorrectly
• Import VRayCarPaint2 materials from the Cosmos library
• Spherical camera selected with Stage may not consider Phycal camera tag
• Stage animation of cameras lost in Vantage
• V-Ray proxies lose their assigned material after the scene is saved with all assets
• Use "Camera focus distance" option from Overrides settings does not affect the render
• Low CPU utilization with Intel Alder Lake CPUs on Windows 11

V-Ray, Interactive

• Crash when tweaking lights during interactive rendering and LightMix enabled

V-Ray GPU

• Fix broken Samples limit value when opening scenes saved with V-Ray 6
• Light Cache crash with a specific scene

LegacySceneConverter

• The V-Ray scene converter doesn't convert a specific scene in V-Ray 6
• Scene conversion dialog isn't displayed on scene open with Cinema 4D S26

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 6.00.01

Official release

Date - Sep 28, 2022

New Features

V-Ray

• Support for ACEScg
• Implement V-Ray Decal
• Implement V-Ray Enmesh
• Implement V-Ray Mesh Light
• Procedural clouds for V-Ray Sun and Sky
• Finite Dome and ground projection for the V-Ray Dome light
• Add Thin Film layer to V-Ray Material
• Implement V-Ray MultiSubTex for Node materials
• Conversion from Standard and Classic V-Ray materials to V-Ray Node materials
• Add V-Ray Shadow Catcher command in the V-Ray menu
• Add TexParticleSampler shader
• Implement V-Ray SoftBox node and shader
• Add support for Cinema 4D Team Render
• Support for rendering Particles and X-Particles in Cinema 4D
• Implement Hair and Fur sampler for strand variations
• Support for calculating Light Cache with the Interactive renderer
• Calculate Light Cache on the GPU device for the V-Ray GPU engine
• Support for Cinema 4D 2023
• Add support for TexOCIO plugin
• Implement Texture Baking
• Toolbar for V-Ray for Cinema 4D
• Add SamplerInfo shader and node

V-Ray, Interactive

• Implement Object, Material and Focus picker inside the V-Ray Frame Buffer

Modified Features

V-Ray

• Support for the "Render Perfect" option for the Cinema 4D Sphere
• Add option to respect displaced surfaces in TexTriPlanar
• Add the affect alpha option to Volumetric objects
• Rework the Object Properties icon to support displaying more than 9 ObjectID numbers
• Automatically flip coordinate system handedness for vrscenes exported from a host app with different coordinate system
• Replace min and max subdivs with samples limit for V-Ray GPU
• Remove trace and GI depth from interactive tab
• Intermediate render output should have final color corrections
• Material preview quality improvements
• Add support of include/exclude lists for reflection and refraction in object properties
• Add ID input texture to MultiSubTex
• Convert DropDown menus to QuickTab Buttons for some parameters
• Ability to add the current selection as input objects when creating V-Ray Fur or V-Ray Enmesh
• Ability to denoise the Alpha channel with the V-Ray Denoiser
• Temporal denoise mode for NVidia AI Denoiser
• Rename the "Use Mtl Id" to "Use Multimatte ID" checkboxes
• Create scene importer for scanned materials

V-Ray, VRayProxy

• Add support for multi sub tex plugins from Cosmos Assets

VRayMtl

• Change coat and sheen glossiness name to roughness when "use roughness" is enabled

VRaySun

• Improve the viewport locator for the V-Ray Sun to display the sun vector

V-Ray GPU

• Autovoxelize dynamic geometry in V-Ray GPU

V-Ray GPU, VRayTextures, Displacement and Subdivision

• Implement auto bump mapping for smoothed and displaced meshes

VRayProxy

• Shader set generation option in proxy export

VRayVolumeGrid

• Enable Probabilistic Volumetrics by default for new scenes

Bug Fixes

V-Ray

• Object leftovers between frames in animation
• V-Ray clipper doesn't work for more than 1 frame in animation in mesh mode
• Diffuse artifacts with anisotropic reflections and sheen or diffuse roughness
• Reflections computed in fully diffuse VRayMtl materials
• Issues with Anti-aliasing when using VRayCryptomatte mask on objects with multiple materials
• Missing values in exported vrscenes
• Imported Sphere and Rectangle Lights have wrong intensity
• Cosmos browser asks for cookies on each process restart
• Scanned material should be able to work with relative paths
• Change the step size for the "Multiplier" and "Burn Value" in Color Mapping
• Cinema 4D crashes in Interactive Rendering with Subdivision and Fur
• Crash when V-Ray Fur is a hierarchy added to object
• Darker Buckets appear on M1 Mac Machines with Adaptive lights
• Crash when adding modifiers to geometry with Fur in Interactive
• Identical meshes with different polygon selection names export the same geometry
• Changing the V-Ray physical camera focus distance from the Cinema 4D focus picker doesn't work
• Material link parameters can't be cleared in interactive rendering
• Implicit focus distance may result in inverted camera render

V-Ray, Render Elements

• Add input options for Material Select RE

V-Ray GPU

• V-Ray Sun disk is not rendered with V-Ray GPU
• Instanced textured V-Ray lights don't share loaded textures
• Clipped light geometry when 'Clip lights geometry' option is disabled and non-light geometry is in front of lights
• Wrong fog color alpha results when refraction set to affect all channels
• The alpha of a transparent VRayMaterial is not working correctly
• Some threads never finish with "Low GPU thread priority" set to 1
• Wrong V-Ray Clipper material on clipped V-Ray Light objects when set to Use object material