7.00.04

V-Ray 7 for Maya, hotfix 1

Official release

Date - Apr 10, 2025

New features

Installer

• Add support for Maya 2026

USD

• Add support for MayaUSD 0.31.0 for Maya 2024, Maya 2025 and Maya 2026

Modified features

USD

• Export XGen Intractive Groom Splines to GeomMayaHair in USD

VRayMtl

• Add Shading Model dropdown option in Hypershade Property editor
• Update UI for VRayMtl in OpenPBR mode
• Add better support for Reflection amount for VRayMtl in OpenPBR mode
• Adjusted VRayMtl in OpenPBR mode to always use the roughness model

V-Ray

• Added option to skip adding "_tmp" to the output file name when using vrend command
• Fixed crash when adding image to Background layer in VFB on macOS
• Added process memory usage report in the progress output
• Added a warning when no selected materials can be exported during a MaterialX export
• Brought back GPU CUDA and RTX options in the V-Ray for Mac builds
• Expose "Hardware textures" mode for GPU rendering on MacOS
• Fixed OCIO config file with backslashes in the path not loading on Linux
• Fixed bitmaps from IFL with backslashes in the path not loading on Linux
• Fixed OIDN Prefilter option becoming available if the Intel Denoiser is selected for IPR
• Fixed wrong material connection when there is no material shader connected in the shading group
• Fixed moving meshes not switching from static to dynamic geometry in IPR
• Fixed Metal engine/device selection not persisting when switching between GPU and CPU
• Fixed crash with Chaos Collaboration on MacOS with Intel CPU or emulation
• Fixed slow loading of Volume grid located on a shared drive
• Fixed crash when graphing a material node imported from vrscene coming from Houdini
• Added missing metadata when uploading an image to Chaos Collaboration from the VFB
• Added missing tooltips for Metal UI buttons
• Added Credits and Copyrights link to the Settings Tab and About Window

VFB

• Remember and use last folder location when loading files in the VFB
• Added Recent Files option for loading images in the VFB
• Fixed disapearing Curve Layer's Histogram when the Alpha channel is black
• Fixed VFB Undo and Redo issues when there is a Background layer
• Fixed more than one click needed to undo VFB filter

VRaySun

• Added support for creating multiple VRaySun nodes
• Adjust VRaySun Turbidity min and max default values
• Added support for animating VRaySun Altitude and Turbidity for PRG sky

Chaos Cosmos

• Fixed endless loop when auto-downloading missing Cosmos assets with anonymous or unlogged users
• Fixed missing Cosmos variant preview images in VRayProxy UI when changing the Cosmos root directory
• Fixed drag and drop of Cosmos asset variants not importing the chosen variation index

Chaos Vantage

• Fixed crash when rendering animation with Chaos Vantage with starting frame 0

MaterialX

• Fixed wrong position for materialX worleynoise_3d and cellnoise_3d
• Fixed incorrect results for normal map in mtlx
• Fixed wrong specular anisotropy direction with Standard Surface
• Fixed wrong render with anisotropy value 0 with Standard Surface

Chaos Cloud

• Fixed MaterialX image file textures not uploaded to Chaos Cloud

V-Ray GPU

• Added missing vray_gpu_device_select tool with Maya 2025
• Fixed named hair map channels not rendereding