Koylazov’s Facebook post, which simply reads “We are getting there…”, doesn’t give a lot of information on what has been happening recently within Chaos Group’s Blender team. Since then, the Blender Foundation has put out four further sizeable updates, the latest being Blender 2.90.

Recently, development seemed to have stalled entirely: over a year since Blender’s milestone 2.80 update, it still only supports Blender 2.79, while the last new nightly build of the plugin came out last October.

In a post on Facebook, Chaos Group CTO Vlado Koylozov shared a screenshot of Blender’s ‘fishy cat’ benchmark scene rendering to the V-Ray frame buffer from what looks to be a recent build of the software.Īlthough V-Ray has had an official Blender integration plugin since 2014, it never achieved feature parity with those for commercial 3D applications like 3ds Max. The industry changes pace fast and old software such as blender 2.79 is no longer viable to users that make the switch from other 3d packages.Chaos Group has hinted at an update to V-Ray for Blender that would finally make the renderer compatible with versions 2.8 and above of the open-source 3D software. I'm amazed that Unreal Engine gets more attention. The issue I see is that they stretched their resources beyond what they could handle and left Blender behind for some reason. That rings alarm bells in my head that in the end there is some other reasons why they dont udapte blender/vray so rapidly.They already covered this and said the work involved is very specific and they need to assign it to someone willing to work in their main office which I believe since it's no easy task. But they decided to remove that part from standalone and make it separated unit and users don't have access to it. It had that feature in the past and it would have been possible to code into vray/blender addon by users. Other thing that I wonder why they removed IPR feature from standalone( Im talking about standalone.exe, not vray/blender addon). There is many users that are ready to help to make this v-ray/blender to happen.Just code the main structures and share in git and let magic happens by blender community. One thing I wonder why not ChaosGroup understand the power of blender community.

Vray for blender 2.8 github