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 5.20.04
-Rhino 8 support - An experimental support for Rhino 8 is added
-Progressive Caustics - V-Ray's new progressively calculated caustics achieve real-world reflections and refractions in less time. Easier to set up, without the need for pre-calculated photon maps
-Enhanced Curvature texture - A number of new parameters are added to extend the artistic control
-Other improvements and fixes - Improvements and fixes cover workflows related to VFB, GPU engine performance, Decals, Scatter, error logging, script access and more

New Feature
-Add Rhino 8 as supported version

Improvement
-RectLight to use Plane instead of pos+target in GH
-Improve naming of the python scripting methods
-Implement Python script transaction wrapper

Bug
-Rhino mapping does not affect the Scatter Density map
-All the default VFB shortcuts are missing
-Setting the Material of the Decal to None does not trigger Interactive update
-Decal's material is duplicated after Undo of its deletion
-Incorrect interpretation of boolean input parameters and returned values in scripts
-Animated FOV isn't exported in vrscene
-Lost material assignment after pasting a block twice between parallel sessions
-Crash when the V-Ray plugin is loaded in the current session

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