What's New in V-Ray

This page provides information regarding the latest release of V-Ray for Rhino.

V-Ray 6 Update 2 includes numerous enhancements to improve user experience and streamline workflows. V-Ray now provides access to an improved Scatter tool, .vrscene imports from various applications, and faster job submissions to Chaos Cloud.

Official release

Date: Apr 5, 2024

Latest Build: V-Ray 6, Update 2, hotfix 3 (6.20.03)

Download V-Ray 6.2.3 for Rhino

See Release Notes for all previous V-Ray versions here.

RELEASE NOTES FOR V-RAY 6, UPDATE 2, HOTFIX 3

V-Ray 6, Update 2, hotfix 3 (6.20.03)

Official release

Date - Apr 5, 2024

Improvements & bugfixes

Improved V-Ray toolbar icons in Rhino 8. The quality of the icons is now consistent when varying their size. A dark-theme specific icons set is also included
The file path verification in the Export V-Ray Scene and Export V-Ray Proxy windows is improved
Entering sleep mode no longer severs the communication between V-Ray and Rhino
Asset Editor and other V-Ray windows now always open in the center of the Rhino window by default
An issue preventing Hue from being set to 0 or 1 in the Color Picker is now resolved
Deleting multiple maps of the same texture type simultaneously no longer causes a crash
An issue causing Blend materials from vrscene files to not import properly via the V-Ray Scene Importer is resolved
An issue preventing the Dirt texture's Ignore Self-occlusion option from functioning correctly is resolved
An issue causing incorrect viewport representation of Rhino compound materials with V-Ray sub-materials is resolved
Conversion of a Rhino material with nested V-Ray materials within no longer causes the sub-materials to be duplicated
An issue preventing Rhino's Rendered View option "Shadows only" from functioning is fixed
An issue preventing changes to V-Ray materials from being registered if they are slotted within Rhino Blend or Double Sided materials is resolved
V-Ray Decal is no longer identified by Rhino as a bad object
An issue causing textures within Rhino materials converted to V-Ray to disappear is resolved
An issue causing a crash when adding and moving a Proxy Mesh during Interactive rendering is resolved
An issue preventing the update of the Scatter's preview when changing guests probability, is now resolved
Sending LightMix changes to a Light with a slotted texture no longer produces additional nested textures
An issue preventing the import of Instancer geometries from Proxy Scene files is resolved
A crash upon merging Cosmos assets during Interactive Rendering is resolved
A crash caused by importing Enmesh assets from Cosmos during Interactive rendering is resolved
An issue causing the NVIDIA AI Denoiser's Upscale option to be enabled for each Denoiser type is resolved
An issue with enabled NVIDIA AI Denoiser's Upscale option breaking the preview of a Cloud job and a Viewport rendering is resolved
An issue preventing Cloud rendering job name from being populated when restarting the submit process is resolved
Fixed an error appearing when Cloud jobs are submitted multiple times in a row
Attempting to upload an image via the Chaos Cloud Collaboration window before rendering no longer produces an error. A warning is shown instead
Improved notification for missing Chaos Cloud application
Cloud window no longer causes an error to appear briefly when closing Rhino
Canceling a Cloud job submittal shortly after launch no longer causes an error
Fixed an issue with V-Ray Scene files containing a Dome light with modified control points rendered in Chaos Cloud or V-Ray Standalone
Added script access support for Python 3.9 and C# 9.0 in Rhino 8
Grasshopper’s V-Ray Camera component ‘Get Active Rhino Viewport’ and ‘Look through Camera’ functions are now accessible via script