V-Ray 5 update 1 features revealed including free asset library and browser called Chaos Cosmos

Chaos Group has updated its online documentation to reveal the features of V-Ray 5 update 1. Headline features include:

• The ability to render multiple dome lights including support for adjusting them in Light Mix.
• The ability to use any of V-Ray’s masks in the Frame Buffer. 
• Chaos Cosmos, a new content library of 3D assets by vendors such as Maxtree, Design Connected, Hum3D, No Emotion,  Render People and VizPark to quickly add entourage to interior and exterior scenes. This includes a new browser for navigating, downloading and importing the content. You can read more about it in the Chaos Cosmos section of the documentation and browse the content on Chaos Group’s revamped website. 
• A new option for the Material Override feature that allows the user to preserves a scene’s original opacity, bump, refraction and self-illumination.
• Auto translation of Physical Materials to V-Ray Materials.
• Easier to set up progressive caustics for improved refraction and reflection with shorter rendering times. No more precalculating Photon maps.
• Updates to the V-Ray material to allow for true translucency with built-in volumetric subsurface scattering.
• Improved previewing of V-Ray materials in the viewport. 
• The ability to export all scene cameras to .vrscene files. This will allow users to render multiple cameras from a single job submission.
• Faster render starts by moving the Light Cache to the GPU. Out of core rendering also now supports all V-Ray GPU features.
• Intel Open Image Denoiser.
• A new V-Ray Camera Lister.
• The ability to render TyFlow simulations with V-Ray GPU and Chaos Cloud.
• Improved Cryptomatte support to separate objects by their sub-materials.

Find out more on the Chaos Group website and the V-Ray 5 documentation. A video is due to premiere this afternoon that we assume will contain further announcements surrounding this release.