Chaos has released V-Ray Advanced 6.00.03 for Cinema 4D, which extends artistic control over everything from particles to skies. Users can now Access production-ready features such as V-Ray Enmesh, a new procedural cloud system, and V-Ray Decal. The V-Ray Decal allows for easy projection onto any surface, including 3D stickers, labels, cracks, stains, and scratches, offering artists greater creative freedom without additional UVW mapping or disrupting the underlying material. Displacement settings can also be employed for added realism. VRayEnmesh is a new system that efficiently tiles geometry onto object surfaces, enabling artists to treat geometry as textures for creating patterns like panels, fences, and fabrics, particularly for close-up shots. Enmesh is very memory-efficient, allowing users to add billions of polygons to a scene without compromise. The V-Ray Sun and Sky system now includes procedural clouds, eliminating the need for static HDRs or cloudless skies. Artists can now customize their scenes to take full advantage of ray-traced lighting, ground shadows, and volume effects during animation production.

V-Ray 6.00.03 introduces a range of new features and enhancements that include:

• Support for ACEScg color space
• Implementation of V-Ray Decal for versatile surface Projections
• Introduction of V-Ray Enmesh for efficient geometry tiling
• Integration of V-Ray Mesh Light for照明 enhancements
• Procedural clouds in the V-Ray Sun and Sky system
• Enhancements to V-Ray Dome Light with limited dome and ground projection options
• Addition of thin film layers to V-Ray materials
• Implementation of V-Ray MultiSubTex for node-based materials
• Conversion from standard and classic V-Ray materials to node-based V-Ray materials
• Inclusion of V-Ray Shadow Catcher command in the V-Ray menu
• Introduction of TexParticleSampler shader for advanced particle rendering
• Implementation of V-Ray SoftBox nodes and shaders for improved lighting
• Support for Cinema 4D Team Render and particle rendering within Cinema 4D and X-Particle
• Hairstyle and fur samplers for strand variation rendering
• Support for calculating Light Cache with the interactive renderer
• Ability to compute Light Cache on GPU devices for the V-Ray GPU engine
• Support for Cinema 4D 2023 and the TexOCIO plugin
• Texture baking capabilities
• Toolbar enhancements for V-Ray for Cinema 4D
• Addition of SamplerInfo shaders and nodes
• Object, material, and focus selectors within the V-Ray frame buffer for interactive rendering

Versions 6.00.03 also includes a range of updated features and bug fixes to improve performance, stability, and user experience:

• Improved support for the "Perfect Render" option in Cinema 4D Sphere
• Enhanced export options for multiple cameras and settings in Chaos Cloud and V-Ray
• Reduced redundant interactive updates from node materials
• UI updates in response to changes on nodes in interactive mode
• Added options to respect displacement surfaces in TexTriPlanar
• Inclusion of an alpha option for volume objects
• Redesigned object property icons to support more than 9 ObjectID numbers
• Automated coordinate system flipping for scenes exported from applications with different coordinate systems