Superior Grasshopper support:With V-Ray Next, you can do more in Grasshopper than ever before and get advantage of powerful capabilities. Render your parametric designs directly without "bakes" or exports. Animate Grasshopper definitions as well as cameras and sun, and measure real-world illumination values - all right in Grasshopper.

-Adaptive Dome Light: Render faster, cleaner and more accurate image-based lighting that's up to 7x faster. The new Adaptive Dome Light also removes the need to set up Portal lights for interiors.

-Powerful asset management: The new asset management system helps you keep track of everything in your scene and streamlines your entire workflow. Now it is quick and easy to preview and manage lights, materials, textures and more all from a single location.

-Simplified Render controls: V-Ray Next for Rhino includes a redesigned interface that is more intuitive and easy to use. From the new camera layout to the simplified render controls, you'll spend less time navigating and more time designing.

-Material metalness: The V-Ray Material adds native support for metallic reflections (Metalness) for greater compatibility with PBR materials from applications like Substance Designer.

-Automatic exposure & white balance: Capture the perfect exposure every time. The new Auto Exposure and Auto White Balance camera controls make rendering as simple as point and shoot.

-Optimized materials: V-Ray materials have been fine-tuned for faster render speeds, improved GPU rendering, and Chaos Cloud compatibility

-Licensing and backward compatibility: The upgrade to V-Ray Next for Rhino will allow customers to use either V-Ray Next for Rhino or V-Ray 3 for Rhino. V-Ray 3 for Rhino Workstation licenses will work with V-Ray Next Render Node licenses. V-Ray Next for Rhino will work only with V-Ray Next Render Node licenses (Perpetual and Rentals). With the launch of V-Ray Next for Rhino, support for V-Ray 1.5 and 2.0 for Rhino is discontinued.

System Requirements:
OS:Windows 8.1,Windows 10(64-bit versions only)
CPU:Intel® Pentium ® IV or compatible processor with SSE3 support.
RAM:4 GB RAM and 4 GB swap minimum - recommended 8 GB or more RAM, 8 GB or more swap file
Rhino 5:Rhino 5.14 or later
Rhino 6:Rhino 6.6.18117 or later

WHATS NEW
V-Ray Rhino 5.20.01

New Feature
-Implement Cosmos materials import
-Implement Cosmos Component in Grasshopper
-Implement camera and sun animations in Grasshopper Sender component
-Preview modes for the Instancer component

Improvement
-Lower Decal's default Normal Angle value to prevent spilling out on perpendicular surfaces
-Let the Cosmos browser know that tri planar material mapping is supported
-Add support for the tri-planar import mode of the Cosmos materials
-Allow adding VFB color corrections to all render channels
-Add GPU support for Spotlight texture
-Opening a document with V-Ray data marks it as modified
-Implement a confirmation dialogue for the VFB 'Clear image' action
-Update the Vision icon in both Rhino and Grasshopper
-Transfer color list data via RenderInProject component back to V-Ray in Rhino
-Full Sub-object materials support
-FlowAlongSrf with history enabled is not working with IR
-Make sure that changes to the Reflection Glossiness of Metallic materials works even when the Reflection color is not White
-Implement support for the Rhino focus distance feature
-Retain V-Ray special objects in the scene after removing their instances
-Optimize voxelization of Proxy Meshes
-Expose additional camera parameters in Grasshopper
-The Rhino Properties panel's V-Ray tab is not getting updated in real time
-Implement mesh combine option to the GH Instancer

New Feature
-Implement V-Ray Decal
-Implement Vantage live link
-Implement missing lights in V-Ray for Grasshopper
-Integrate Scatter Pro
-Add additional utility components for better camera control
-Make sure that the GeomStaticMesh.dynamic_geometry is enabled when a mesh instance is added to an Instancer
-License compliance

Bug
-Batch render fails to render successfully specific scenes when using Swarm
-SunLight and Displacement not affected by their global switches during interactive rendering
-Wrong result restoring snapshots
-The VFB render button does not work after using the Batch Render
-Duplicate thumbnails in History panel when 'Use project path' option is enabled
-Minimized VFB window could not be restored with a specific project file
-Some Special objects are rendered even though they are in a hidden layer during Interactive
-Decal transformations are not properly restored when using Snapshots
-Badly serialized material breaks the Asset Editor
-Batch Render cannot open read-only files
-Proxy Meshes in specific v3 scenes are rendered completely white
-Log window appears in front of the notification prompt if VFB is opened and try to render when a license is taken away
-Rhino Ground Plane's native material does not update during interactive rendering
-Infinite Plane and Proxy Scene are not appearing in the viewport when created from the AE
-No notification appears when have no license and try to render with opened Asset Editor
-VFB Color corrections made with V-Ray Next are not transferred in V-Ray 5 (VFB2) after 5.10.01
-Contour effect disappears in orthographic close-up shots
-Creating a Proxy Mesh out of a single object with multiple materials has incorrect material assignment
-Uncaught exception upon opening a specific user scene
-Enable scene offset during export
-Grasshopper Live Link does not reproduce animation
-Making unique a duplicated V-Ray object with instanced texture duplicates the instanced texture as well
-Texture files inside archive directories are not resolved to
-Mtl Simple component in Grasshopper fails to export a vrmat file
-Animation having non-animated Instancer causes moving instances
-Discrepancy between CPU and GPU when rendering Rhino texture with WCS box mapping
-WCS Box style mapping is affected by face normals
-Issue with the Cosmos asset status in the UI
-The VRAY_DEV environment variable is ignored in Grasshopper
-Hidden Cosmos assets are visible during Interactive rendering
-Installer fails to create a firewall exception for Vision
-Cosmos objects in hidden layers are showing in Interactive rendering
-History cannot be enabled if VFB has been opened in an empty project prior to an existing one
-rhVRay.py got installed for V6 even if VfR6 is not installed
-The `Remove` command is not taken into account for special objects in Rhino Properties panel
-The preview of some Cosmos assets is loaded as a single triangle
-VPR does not turn off the display mode when the renderer is stopped
-V-Ray for Grasshopper hangs when using Material from file
-Special objects can be applied to a block by dragging them from the Asset Editor
-Converting a V-Ray material to Rhino and back breaks its viewport representation
-Hidden Proxy Scenes are always visible during interactive rendering
-VRscene does not preserve the material applied to a Mesh Clipper
-Decals are not projected individually for each Block instance
-Assets introduced via insert/import do not have their file paths auto resolved
-Elapsed time is not shown when using Bucket sampler
-Lights plugins not listed in the outliner
-Transformations of Proxy Scenes do not affect clippers nested within
-2D Displacement not rendered right when adjusting U/V Placement parameter on GPU
-Unnecessary parts of some Cosmos asset shaders are imported after merge
-Crash when continuously trying to add a guest that has already been added to the instancer
-Crash on exit in specific situations
-Crash when packing specific project

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