V-Ray 7, hotfix 2 available for download

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Hello,

V-Ray 7, hotfix 2 is now available for download from our website.

Build 7.00.08

New Features

V-Ray

• Support for 3ds Max 2026
• Support for USD 0.10.0
• Added support for baking of Spherical Maps with rotation in Material editor - Render Map
• Added Chaos Academy link in V-Ray tab menu

Modified Features

VFB

• Improved default folder browsing when loading files in the VFB
• Undo applied filter with single click

V-Ray GPU

• Added support for caustics with dispersion in V-Ray GPU
• VRayLuminaire parameters are not considered when GI is used

Bug Fixes

V-Ray

• Handling of Windows-compatible paths under V-Ray Standalone in Linux
• Hair/fur artifacts fixes and performance optimisations
• Crash with gizmo controls in VRayEnvironmentFog and VRaySphereFade
• Duplicated export of TyFlow particles in animation sequence with motion blur
• Crash when exporting a .vrscene to a location with a very long path
• Incorrect timeout message on cosmos assets auto-download on logged-out user
• V-Ray GPU rendering of groups scattering from Forest Pro
• Artifacts with OpenPBR material
• Crash on rendering a specific scene with V-Ray GPU and Forest Pro
• ChaosScatter rendering in Standalone/Cloud in the presence of alpha & illumination map channels
• VRayLuminaire settings reset on subsequent imports from Chaos Cosmos
• Mismatch in reflection LPE with VRayEnvironmentFog in V-Ray Standalone
• Bad Antialiasing for Chromatic Aberration when rendering large images
• Crash with specific AMD CPUs
• Incorrect behavior when using Nvidia AI upscale with Polygon regions
• Crash when selecting a luminaire within the interactive renderer
• Standalone renders VRay Luminaire with V-Ray Environment Fog randomly with artifacts
• Crash when loading different Gaussian splats during V-Ray IPR in scenes with Chaos Scatter
• Unmapped network paths changed upon closing the .vrscene exporter
• V-Ray Color management is not synchronized with 3ds Max 2025 color management defaults on render engine change
• VRayLightMtl's Opacity reads the RGB channel, although the Bitmap's Mono output is set to Alpha
• Crash when rendering Deep Images (.exr, .vrst) with Deep Merge Fragment mode set to By render ID and Z-depth
• Named hair map channels are not rendered
• Importing specific asset variants with older version from the Cosmos Browser leads to a crash

V-Ray GPU

• Out of Core should be disabled in V-Ray 7 for old scenes, even if it is set Activate there
• V-Ray GPU IPR crashes when drawing Regions, and Light cache is used
• The "Use System Memory for Textures" option ignores the ACEScg color management setup
• Fix for V-Ray Luminaire and VRayEnvironmentFog rendering with user-defined gizmo

VFB

• The "Save VFB color corrections to render elements" option does not consider adjustments in folders
• The VFB Curve Layer's Histogram disappears when the Alpha channel is black
• Images saved to VFB history with a Background layer disregard it when using the A/B compare
• VFB Undo and Redo are not working properly when there is a Background layer
• Crash on deleting VFB Layers

V-Ray, VFB

• VRaySamplerInfoTex render output defaults conversion affects the VFB output

V-Ray Bitmap to VRayBitmap converter

• Crash on converting Autodesk Bitmaps plugged in Autodesk Materials

VRayDenoiser/vdenoise.exe

• VFB Artifacts with Sharpen/Blur or V-Ray denoiser without Hardware acceleration and low samples
• V-Ray Denoiser Tool Segmentation Fault in Rocky Linux 9

VRayEnmesh

• Crash with VRayEnmesh and Motion blur

VRaySphere

• Crash when adding gizmos to VRaySphereFade from script