V-Ray 6 for Cinema 4D Update 1 is now available

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Hello everyone,
V-Ray 6, Update 1 is now out, introducing Chaos Scatter, Cell shading with V-Ray Toon Material, V-Ray Profiler, Bump to Glossiness, Interactive Rendering inside the Viewport Editor.
Alongside the new tools we also improved some of the existing ones and added Cylindrical decal type and additive bump mapping for the V-Ray Decal, new options to control the density darkness and add contrails to the Procedural Clouds, custom light decay controls for the V-Ray lights, NVidia AI Upscaling for the NVidia Denoiser, support for Resumable Rendering. We've made some pre render tasks multithreaded and significantly improved the time to first pixel and also improved the memory usage for textures in V-Ray GPU by 75% with the introduction of the new Compressed mode for texture resizing.
More about the new features could be found in our Documentation page or our What's new page.

The builds can be downloaded from the Downloads section on our site.

Here is the change log for release version 6.10.00

New features:

• 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 V-Ray Particles object
• New path guiding light method for Light Cache (experimental)
• 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
• Implement Bump To Glossiness shaders
• Add support for Compressed Textures on V-Ray GPU
• Add support for exporting sidecar vrscene files
• Add a Metalness render element
• Implement "Object Selection" inside the V-Ray Frame Buffer
• Add support for V-Ray Toon render element
• Add the new Sky clouds parameters for density, seed and contrails
• Integrate VolumeInstancingTree and VolumeGrid instancing optimizations into V-Ray Standalone

Modified features:

• Improve the UI for V-Ray Decal and add additive bump options
• Add support for Matrix object as particle source in V-Ray Particles
• Improve the 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 pojection 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
• Port the "Uniform" illumination mode of the VRayMtl translucency for V-Ray GPU
• Add a window with EULA agreement for zip installations
• Expose the nearest filtering to interface of Bitmaps
• Material previews using document color management
• Support for ObjectID as a new ID type in the Cryptomatte render element
• LightMix during LC building and progressive undersampling
• Change the Min/Max Displacement bound parameter type from Color to Float
• Implement auto bump mapping for smoothed and displaced meshes
• Improve the viewport locator for the V-Ray Sun to display the sun vector
• Speed up the rendering of grid volumetrics by removing needless reading from the grid

Bug fixes:

• 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 sub materials
• 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
• Dynamic geometry doesn't update during Interactive rendering when deformed
• V-Ray GPU: 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 Interactive 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
• Preview object disappears when switching extra options on and off
• Once changed IES Light Shape option can not get back IES From file parameter.
• Making a Proxy/Decal/Volume Grid editable results in deleting any object in the hierarchy under them
• Bitmap filtering doesn't work
• Cryptomatte masks for lights are not working in V-Ray GPU
• 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

Find out more about V-Ray 6 for Cinema 4D
Change log - Full list of changes since the first Beta release of V-Ray 6
V-Ray 6 Documentation - We've updated our documentation pages with up-to-date information on all our new features