VRay Advanced 3.20.02 for 3ds Max 2014-2016 3.20.02 x64 [2014-2016, ENG]

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Build 3.20.02 (official) (01 June 2015)
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New features:
(*) V-Ray: Added Cubc 6x1 camera type;
(*) VRayStereoscopic: Added support for the Cubic 6x1 cameras;
Modified features:
(*) V-Ray RT GPU: Added support for texture baking with dynamic and displaced geometry;
(*) VFB: Added #savemultiimage keyword to the vfbControl() MaxScript function that saves all channels into a single multi channel (.exr or .vrimg) file;
(*) V-Ray Quick settings: Light cache's Retrace parameter is now controlled by the GI Quality slider;
Bug fixes:
(*) V-Ray RT: Animated parameters of standard 3ds Max lights were not exported to .vrscene files;
(*) V-Ray RT: Fixed animated displacement export when rendering ActiveShade;
(*) V-Ray RT: Fixed crash when a VRayLight has VRayCompTex with no texmap assigned to Source B;
(*) V-Ray RT: Fixed crash when there is Hair Farm Renderer atmospheric effect present;
(*) V-Ray RT GPU CUDA: Work around an issue with the nVidia driver versions 352.86 and 353.06;
(*) VRayVolumeGrid: Fixed a crash when browsing for simulation caches and previously the path has been set to a password protected server location;
Build 3.20.01 (official) (25 May 2015)
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New features:
(*) VRayVolumeGrid: Added support for rendering of fluid simulation data (Phoenix FD, Field3D and OpenVDB);
(*) V-Ray: Added ability to add/remove DR servers on the fly from the Render Progress window;
(*) V-Ray: The DR servers list is re-read whenever the vray_dr.cfg file is modified during rendering;
(*) V-Ray: Added button to open the V-Ray messages log window;
(*) V-Ray: Added camera object properties to control the number of transformation samples for camera motion blur;
(*) V-Ray: Added support for 3ds Max 2016, including the new Physical Camera and Physical Camera Exposure Control;
(*) V-Ray: MaxScript parameter to control the DMC random seed;
(*) V-Ray: The V-Ray object properties allow to specify a given map channel as velocity channel (useful with some Alembic importers);
(*) V-Ray: Provided tooltip descriptions for most of the renderer settings;
(*) V-Ray RT CPU: Support for VRayEnvironmentFog;
(*) V-Ray RT GPU: Added support for Composite map rendering;
(*) V-Ray RT GPU: Added support for displacement;
(*) V-Ray RT GPU: Added support for VRayMtl anisotropy;
(*) V-Ray RT GPU: Added UDIM tag support;
(*) V-Ray RT GPU: Implemented QMC sampling for CUDA engine;
(*) V-Ray RT GPU: Initial support for texture baking;
(*) V-Ray RT GPU: Support for spherical panorama cameras;
(*) V-Ray RT GPU: Added support for 3ds Max Spot and Omni lights Decay and Near/Far Attenuation parameters;
(*) V-Ray RT GPU: Added support for textures output Bezier curve output color correction;
(*) VRayProxy: Added better methods for generating viewport preview meshes based on mesh simplification;
(*) VRayProxy: Added Show whole mesh viewport display option;
(*) VRayProxy: Support for exporting the VRayInstancer as a .vrmesh file preserving the instancing;
(*) VRayStereoscopic: Support for stereo spherical/cylindrical panorama cameras;
(*) VFB: Added ability to load the render settings for an image from the history window;
(*) VFB: Can be zoomed in/out with the regular +/-/* keys (useful for remote access from mobile devices);
(*) VRayCurvatureMap: A new texture similar to VRayDirt; useful for detecting mesh curvature;
(*) VRayFur: Faster rendering; can now be accelerated by Embree;
(*) Hair&Fur: Faster rendering; can now be accelerated by Embree;
(*) VRayInstancer: Added ability to override node and V-Ray object properties of the source objects;
(*) VRayInstancer: Added parameters to control the random seed, render percentage;
(*) VRayInstancer: Added an experimental option for multithreaded instance generation (only for the V-Ray portion of the code);
(*) VRayLight: Added a line that shows the orientation of the dome lights in the viewport, it also shows the center of VRayHDRI wrapping;
(*) VRayOSLMtl: Added support for vray_subsurface() closure;
(*) VRayOSLMtl: Added support for vray_hair() closure;
(*) VRayOSLMtl/VRayOSLTex: Support for drop-down controls;
(*) VRayHDRI: Added support for loading PNG grayscale with alpha images;
(*) Texture baking: Additional bake elements for render to texture: VRayMtlReflectIORBake, VRayReflectionFilterMap;
(*) V-Ray scene converter: Added initial implementation of conversion of Corona materials and lights;
(*) ply2vrmesh: Support for conversion of particles from .geo and .bgeo files;
(*) vrayspawner.exe can assign separate DR nodes to different processor groups;
Modified features:
(*) V-Ray: Reduced light cache leaks through a new parameter "Leak prevention";
(*) V-Ray: New default settings for the light cache;
(*) V-Ray: The GI subdivs multiplier in the V-Ray object properties has been renamed to "Subdivs multiplier" and affects all shading samples for the particular object;
(*) V-Ray: The render mask can work with transparent and not Visible to Camera objects along the ray paths;
(*) V-Ray: The render mask on selected objects is intersected by VRayLights;
(*) V-Ray: Setting the Global subdivs multiplier to 0.0 does not affect the irradiance map and other reflection/refraction interpolation maps;
(*) V-Ray: Added UI view switcher to the Global DMC sampler rollout;
(*) V-Ray: Changed the default motion blur duration value to 0.5;
(*) V-Ray: Improved handling of meshes and proxies that are invisible to the camera;
(*) V-Ray: Speed up of the "transforming vertices" phase in scenes with many objects;
(*) V-Ray: Simplified the "default" view of the light cache rollout;
(*) V-Ray RT GPU: Added support for Falloff texmap in VRayVRmatMtl;
(*) V-Ray RT GPU: Cleaner glossy reflections from area lights;
(*) V-Ray RT GPU: Implemented Light Cache support for motion blurred hairs;
(*) V-Ray RT GPU: Implemented more robust common tasks execution, leading to about 10% render speed gain;
(*) V-Ray RT GPU: Optimized system CPU memory usage for bitmap textures;
(*) V-Ray Toolbar: Changed the default alignment to floating for 3ds Max 2016 and later due to issues with default docking;
(*) VFB: Added VRAY_BLENDED_GUI environment variable that, when set to 0, allows to run the VFB in a separate thread like before, otherwise it runs in the 3ds Max main thread by default;
(*) VFB: Better contrast function that preserves the black and white points;
(*) VFB: The render region coordinates are stored normalized to the image size;
(*) VFB: The vfbControl MaxScript function supports loading of color correction files;
(*) VFB: The vfbControl MaxScript function does not cause the VFB to show anymore;
(*) VFB: The "Edit comment" window appears under the mouse cursor when shown;
(*) VFB: The "Close" button in the "Edit comment" window is changed to "Save and close";
(*) V-Ray Quick settings: Light cache's Pre-filter is no more affected;
(*) VRayCarPaint: Added max reflection depth control;
(*) VRayExposureControl: Added MaxScript access to the "active" and "processBG" options;
(*) VRayFastSSS2: Changed trace reflections to enabled by default;
(*) VRayHDRI: Allow negative values for the U/V Crop/Place parameters in VRayHDRI;
(*) VRayHDRI: Added option to generates IFL lists with full file paths rather than relative;
(*) VRayHDRI: Faster rendering of tiled textures when the tiled memory limit is reached;
(*) VRayHDRI: Improved elliptical filtering;
(*) VRayLight: Simplify the interface options layout;
(*) VRayProxy: Instancing for Alembic meshes is enabled by default;
(*) VRayScatterVolumeMtl: Improved calculations;
(*) VRayToon: Added support for layers in the include/exclude list;
(*) V-Ray Light Lister: Made the light names fields wider and the list is sorted by the lights names;
(*) .vrmesh exporter: Added support for VRayInstancer when "Export each mesh to separate file" option is selected;
(*) .vrscene exporter: The render state of objects is exported;
(*) Installer: Adding exceptions for applications and ports to the firewall;
(*) Lens analyzer: Added ability to generate texture for physical camera distortion map;
(*) ply2vrmesh: Preserve UV set names for .geo/.bgeo files;
Bug fixes:
(*) V-Ray: Creating VRayFur either from the V-Ray Toolbar or the menus, was not attaching it to the source object's transformation;
(*) V-Ray: Fixed a crash when loading Alembic files containing particles with invalid positions;
(*) V-Ray: Fixed a crash when rendering a scripted material that extends a 3ds Max native material;
(*) V-Ray: Fixed a crash when rendering primitives with no faces with Embree;
(*) V-Ray: Fixed crash when rendering absolutely straight, motion blurred hairs with Embree;
(*) V-Ray: Fixed hang if cancelling the render during irradiance map calculation phase when DR;
(*) V-Ray: Fixed a random crash at the end of a render if "Get resolution from MAX" option is unchecked;
(*) V-Ray: Fixed artifacts when rendering hairs with Embree;
(*) V-Ray: Fixed some of the quad menu items registering more than once;
(*) V-Ray: Fixed issue where toggling the "Default Lights" option also changed VFB resolution preset;
(*) V-Ray: Fixed unhandled exception when doing distributed rendering an animation with any of the irradiance map incremental modes;
(*) V-Ray: Standard 3ds Max materials were not rendering with VRayOverrideMtl;
(*) V-Ray: Writing output with the "Separate render channels" can be interrupted;
(*) V-Ray/V-Ray RT CPU: Removed occurring bright pixels with progressive sampling;
(*) VRayPhysicalCamera: Fixed wrong physical camera distortion when distortion map is used;
(*) VRayMtl: Fixed wrong shadows with opacity of VRayMtl in VRay2sidedMtl in VRayBlendMtl;
(*) V-Ray RT: 3ds Max UI was freezing during and for some time after render to texture with large resolutions;
(*) V-Ray RT: Added support for animated UVW coordinates;
(*) V-Ray RT: Animation frames were duplicated;
(*) V-Ray RT: Changing map channels during Active Shade was not re-exported;
(*) V-Ray RT: Divide shading subdivs was not exported;
(*) V-Ray RT: Fixed crash due to leaking animated mesh light meshes;
(*) V-Ray RT: Fixed crash when VRayLight has Bercon Noise or Bercon Wood texture;
(*) V-Ray RT: Fixed incorrectly exported displacement plugin when it is animated;
(*) V-Ray RT: Fixed incorrectly exported material names starting with digits;
(*) V-Ray RT: Fixed random hang during "Waiting for renderer..." stage when rendering as production renderer;
(*) V-Ray RT: Fixed some of the messages in the console appearing on the same line;
(*) V-Ray RT: Fixed VFB occasionally freezing during rendering;
(*) V-Ray RT: Mesh light was missing if "Replace mesh with light" was off;
(*) V-Ray RT: Render server may crash on exit if there is a physical camera in the scene;
(*) V-Ray RT: Refraction environment map was used when Reflection/Refraction environment are disabled;
(*) V-Ray RT: Removed unnecessary displaced mesh re-exports;
(*) V-Ray RT: Rendering stops after VRayMtl Displace weight is changed;
(*) V-Ray RT: Texmap animation was not exported when the texmap was attached to VRayDisplacementMod or Output map;
(*) V-Ray RT: The 3ds Max render windows have data from the wrong render element when VRayMtlSelect is used in production rendering;
(*) V-Ray RT: The DMC sampler frame data was not updated properly along animation, interfering with Lock noise pattern;
(*) V-Ray RT: The Generate caustics option in VRayWrapperMtl was not exported;
(*) V-Ray RT: The Lock noise pattern option was not exported properly;
(*) V-Ray RT: The SSS2 render element was not exported;
(*) V-Ray RT: The VFB always pops up when rendering with as production renderer, even if switched off;
(*) V-Ray RT: VRayLight with Composite map was rendered black when base layer transparency was 0.0;
(*) V-Ray RT: VRayLightMtl was always emitting on back side;
(*) V-Ray RT: VRayProxy was rendering with frames offset in ping-pong playback mode;
(*) V-Ray RT: Wrong Alpha channel when rendering as production renderer and native 3ds Max frame buffer is used;
(*) V-Ray RT CPU: The VRayEdgesTex Hidden edges option was ignored;
(*) V-Ray RT GPU: Added support for procedural textures attached to VRayLights;
(*) V-Ray RT GPU: Camera vignetting is applied on directly visible VRayLights in the Alpha channel;
(*) V-Ray RT GPU: Fixed crash when restarting the rendering session;
(*) V-Ray RT GPU: Fixed crash with VRayFastSSS2;
(*) V-Ray RT GPU: Fixed rendering of VRayFastSSS2 in the VRayLightSelect render element;
(*) V-Ray RT GPU: Fixed wrong refraction rendering with VRayVRmatMtl;
(*) V-Ray RT GPU: Fixed wrong shading with mapped reflection glossiness;
(*) V-Ray RT GPU: Instanced dome lights with different transformations render wrong;
(*) V-Ray RT GPU: Optimized displaced geometry memory usage and skipped unnecessary re-exporting;
(*) V-Ray RT GPU: Rect lights were producing incorrect shadow when lit by another rect light;
(*) V-Ray RT GPU: VRayLight direct light was clamped with Max ray intensity value;
(*) V-Ray RT GPU: VRayLights did not appear in VRaySelfIllumination render element;
(*) VFB: Curve color correction control is not updated when loading from file;
(*) VFB: Fixed messed image when switching from large image to a smaller one during comparison;
(*) VFB: No color corrections are applied in saved render output file;
(*) VFB: Some color correction parameters' values were not resetting;
(*) VFB: The RGB color is still restored from the lens effects source, even if the lens effects mode is "Render elements only";
(*) V-Ray Quick settings: Fixed issue preventing the loading of custom presets;
(*) Hair&Fur: Fixed wrong color of VRayHairInfoTex in VRayMtl on motion blurred hairs;
(*) Hair&Fur: Fixed occasionally wrong shading results (-1.#IND);
(*) VRay2SidedMtl: Fixed rendering black with "multiply by front diffuse" in certain situations;
(*) VRayClipper: Fixed a crash with multiple clippers one of which has material ID enabled when rendering with V-Ray RT;
(*) VRayDirt: Fixed result affected by the geometry inside the shaded object when invert normal is enabled;
(*) VRayFastSSS2: Fixed a crash when rendering with Object-based illumination map;
(*) VRayHairMtl: Wrong shading results when blended with VRayBlendMtl;
(*) VRayHDRI: Interpolation and filtering options are not working if "Clear cache on render end" is enabled;
(*) VRayIES: Fixed a crash on VRayIES color temperature change with disabled viewport shading;
(*) VRayInstancer: Cancelling a render during "Updating instances" causes a crash at the end of the render;
(*) VRayLensEffects: Glare mask was not working when using DR through network rendering jobs;
(*) VRayMetaball: Animated parameters of the VRayMetaball object do not update the preview in the viewport;
(*) VRayMetaball: Changing Particle inputs for VRayMetaballs via MaxScript doesn't refresh in UI automatically;
(*) VRayMtl: Fixed GTR/GGX wrong results when GTR tail falloff is different from 2.0;
(*) VRayMtl: Fixed GTR/GGX invalid results with glossiness value of 1.0;
(*) VRayMtl: The "Affect channels" option for refraction doesn't work when dispersion is enabled;
(*) VRayOrnatrixMod: Fixed a crash when using Bitmap texture with .ifl sequence for Thickness map in Render settings;
(*) VRayOrnatrixMod: Ox Render Settings were not applied to the exact group specified in the modifier;
(*) VRayOSLMtl/VRayOSLTex: Fixed the tab order for shader parameters controls;
(*) VRayPhysicalCamera: Camera tilt parameters are not properly updated in the viewport for hidden cameras;
(*) VRayProxy: Slow import of proxy meshes with the weld option on;
(*) VRayVRmatMtl: Fixed bug when exporting textures that have no tiling disabling and mapping type set to Explicit map channel;
(*) .vrscene exporter: Rendering exported animation scenes should append frame numbers to the output images;
(*) ply2vrmesh: Fixed conversion of PRT files with many particles;
Build 3.10.03 (official) (12 January 2015)
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Modified features:
(*) V-Ray RT GPU: Added support for VertexColor texture;
(*) V-Ray RT GPU: Basic support for rendering VRayDirt texmap;
(*) VRayMetaball: Added support for MaxScript vector color source;
(*) VRayProxy: Force first map channel option disabled by default;
(*) .vrmesh viewer: Added a slider controlling the point size of particles;
(*) .vrmesh viewer: Enabled OpenGL point smoothing only when the point size is greater than 1.0;
Bug fixes:
(*) V-Ray: Fixed 3ds Max 2015 with Extension 2 crash on remote DR hosts;
(*) V-Ray: Fixed hairs smooth normals rendering with V-Ray Standalone;
(*) V-Ray: Fixed MaxScript VFB functions not working when V-Ray RT set as production renderer;
(*) V-Ray RT: Added export of GI ambient occlusion parameters;
(*) V-Ray RT: Fixed export of "sample lookup" Irradiance Map parameter;
(*) V-Ray RT: Fixed not exporting the default geometry type for objects with type set to Default in the V-Ray object properties;
(*) V-Ray RT GPU: Fixed crash when UVW coordinates are invalid;
(*) V-Ray RT GPU: Fixed crash with refractive overlapping faces;
(*) V-Ray RT GPU: Fixed Light Cache loading on DR hosts;
(*) VFB: Apply color corrections even when rendering to file;
(*) VFB: Fixed crash caused by NaN output values with Curve color correction;
(*) VFB: Fixed wrong time stamp when loading images from history;
(*) VRayClipper: Fixed artifacts near the edges of intersection surfaces;
(*) VRayHDRI: Fixed "Match Bitmap Size as Closely as Possible" 3ds Max option to work for VRayHDRI with Legacy Direct3D driver;
(*) VRayHDRI: Fixed viewport preview not working for map channels differing from 1;
(*) V-Ray RT: Fixed crash when disc light has VRayColor for texture;
(*) V-Ray RT: Fixed issue with multiple disc lights with different colors rendering only the color of the first light;
(*) VRayProxy: Fixed crash with displacement when no vertex normals are present;
(*) ply2vrmesh: Fixed conversion from Alembic particles, that was causing crash during rendering;
Build 3.10.02 (official) (15 December 2014)
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Bug fixes:
(*) V-Ray: Fixed random crashes due to Windows messages processing, happening mostly with 3ds Max 2012, but not only;
(*) V-Ray: Fixed wrong rendering of dynamic geometry with opacity using Embree;
(*) V-Ray: Work around Royal Renderer's renderer window handling;
(*) V-Ray RT: Fixed crash with scenes with many plugin instanced objects;
(*) V-Ray RT: Fixed crash when rendering as production renderer with Max.vray UI preset is selected;
(*) V-Ray RT: Fixed random crash in CUDA engine;
(*) V-Ray RT: Fixed random hang during "Starting RT render server..." phase;
(*) V-Ray RT: Redirected log messages to appear in the Message Log window for production renderer;
(*) V-Ray RT CPU: Fixed rendering hanging at Light Cache pass when using SSS2 on CUDA CPU;
(*) V-Ray RT GPU: Fixed darkening in corners when using the light cache with "retrace" option;
(*) V-Ray RT GPU: Fixed not reflecting highlight glossiness;
(*) VRayInstancer: Fixed crash when the source object(s) do not have any materials applied;
(*) VRayMtl/VRayLight: Fixed crash on 3ds Max 2012 and older when showing the DMC samples;
(*) VRayPhysicalCamera: Bitmap aperture was producing black renders;
(*) VRayScannedMtl: Fixed license checkout fail in DR mode;
(*) VRayScannedMtl: Fixed memory leak when no input file was provided;
(*) setvrlservice: Fixed help text for "-password" option;
Build 3.10.01 (official) (November 2014)
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New features:
(*) V-Ray: Further optimizations for render speed;
(*) Updated to OpenEXR 2.2.0 and added new DWA compression options to VRayOptionsRe;
(*) Support for point cloud rendering in 3ds Max 2015;
(*) Built-in DMC samples calculator for VRayLight, VRayMtl and brute force GI;
(*) .vrmesh viewer: Added a .vrmesh viewer tool for previewing .vrmesh and Alembic files in a standalone OpenGL application;
(*) Embree: Update to Embree 2.3;
(*) Embree: Proxies and instances can now be accelerated by Embree;
(*) V-Ray: Added "GI filter multiplier" option to the Global switches rollout to control texture filtering for GI rays for VRayHDRI;
(*) V-Ray: Embree can now accelerate hair rendering for Ornatrix and HairFarm;
(*) V-Ray: Secondary matte environment background slot to control the appearance of matte objects in reflections/refractions;
(*) V-Ray: When created, V-Ray will automatically load a preset named "default" if there is one (allows for customized default values);
(*) V-Ray RT: Added support for the Mask texture map;
(*) V-Ray RT: Support for Carbon Scatter;
(*) V-Ray RT: Support for the V-Ray VFB for ActiveShade session;
(*) V-Ray RT CPU: Support for the VRayClipper object;
(*) V-Ray RT CPU: Support for Ornatrix and HairFarm rendering;
(*) V-Ray RT GPU: Support for using the light cache for GPU rendering;
(*) V-Ray RT GPU: Support for coherent tracing (may improve rendering performance);
(*) V-Ray RT GPU CUDA: Support for the nVidia Maxwell GPU architecture;
(*) V-Ray RT GPU CUDA: Support for the VRayFastSSS2 material;
(*) V-Ray RT GPU CUDA: Initial support for hair rendering for Ornatrix and HairFarm;
(*) V-Ray RT GPU CUDA: On-the-fly recompilation of the GPU kernel to include only features used by the particular scene;
(*) VFB: Ability to dock/undock History window and Color Corrections window to the main VFB window;
(*) VFB: Added highlight burn color correction to the VFB;
(*) VFB: Added "background image" color correction to the VFB;
(*) VFB: Added white balance color correction;
(*) VFB: Added the ability to save multi-channel .vrimg and OpenEXR files from the VFB UI;
(*) VFB: Added the ability to load arbitrary file formats in the V-Ray VFB for post-processing;
(*) VRayInstancer: Implement a new geometric plugin for instancing objects on a ParticleFlow and other particle systems;
(*) VRayHDRI: Added image preview in the file open dialog;
(*) VRayHDRI: Added controls to specify UDIM/UVTILE tiles for the preview in material editor;
(*) VRayHDRI: Added support for elliptical texture filtering;
(*) VRayScatterVolumeMtl: Greatly improved calculations; ability to use the light cache;
(*) VRayScannedMtl: Support rendering of scanned real-world BRDF materials;
(*) VRayProxy: Support for hair and particle instances;
(*) VRayProxy: Support for subdivision objects in Alembic files using OpenSubdiv;
(*) VRayLight: Disc light shape;
(*) VRayLight, VRayIES, VRaySun: Added parameters to control the diffuse and specular contributions separately;
(*) VRayLightSelect render element: Added "mode" parameter to allow extracting the full/raw/diffuse/specular contribution of specific lights;
(*) VRayMtl: Added GGX BRDF model;
(*) VRayMtl: Added clip opacity mode option for faster rendering of trees etc;
(*) VRayMultiSubTex: Extended with new randomized modes for choosing colors;
(*) VRayVelocity render element: Added include/exclude list;
(*) ply2vrmesh: Added export options to export specified frames to separate files;
(*) ply2vrmesh: Added Alembic frame offset output to the files;
(*) ply2vrmesh: Added option to merge two or more .vrmesh files into one;
(*) vrimg2exr: Added -multiPart option to vrimg2exr that produces an OpenEXR 2 file with each render element in its own "part";
Modified features:
(*) V-Ray: Added an option to open the V-Ray messages window on error or warning only;
(*) V-Ray: Added by Object IDs selection method for Render mask;
(*) V-Ray: Added MaxScript access to the Trace sets include/exclude flag;
(*) V-Ray: Added %numPasses and %numSubdivs stamp keywords;
(*) V-Ray: "Camera Motion Blur" is controlled independently on "Motion Blur" setting;
(*) V-Ray: Embree enabled by default;
(*) V-Ray: Improved render speed when not using any render elements;
(*) V-Ray: Light cache "Use for glossy rays" option is enabled by default;
(*) V-Ray: Optimized hair rendering in general;
(*) V-Ray: Reduced memory usage for hair and particles;
(*) V-Ray: Renamed the "Time independent" option to "Lock noise pattern" in the DMC sampler rollout;
(*) V-Ray: The default GI methods are set to Brute force/Light cache;
(*) V-Ray: The default image sampler set to Progressive;
(*) V-Ray: The image sampler parameters rollout is unfolded by default;
(*) V-Ray: VFB is cleared always when doing network rendering with render mask;
(*) V-Ray RT: Added support for animated rotation of VRayHDRI;
(*) V-Ray RT: Added support for the 3ds Max default lights in production mode;
(*) V-Ray RT: Added support for VRayHairInfoTex;
(*) V-Ray RT: Added support for VRayLensEffects object selection (Intensity, Object ID and Material ID);
(*) V-Ray RT: Adjust the width of the ActiveShade renderer UI to match the standard width of the production renderer;
(*) V-Ray RT: Clear the VFB when the camera is moved;
(*) V-Ray RT: Frameless progressive and RT rendering, which provides for earlier preview passes;
(*) V-Ray RT: Implemented export of the Area AA filter settings to .vrscene files;
(*) V-Ray RT: Improved refresh speed;
(*) V-Ray RT: Properly show statistics with region renders;
(*) V-Ray RT: Removed the Show Mask option from the user interface, the mask is written in VRaySampleRate render element for the progressive sampler;
(*) V-Ray RT: Remove ActiveShade related settings from the UI when used as production renderer;
(*) V-Ray RT: When V-Ray RT is used as a production renderer, hide unused render settings;
(*) V-Ray RT GPU: Added support for Crop/Place parameters of the Bitmap texture;
(*) V-Ray RT GPU: Added support for the Flip Red/Green options of the standard Normal Bump texmap;
(*) V-Ray RT GPU: Added support for the Visibility parameter in the 3ds Max Object properties;
(*) V-Ray RT GPU: CUDA driver API errors are replaced with more meaningful error messages;
(*) VFB: Improved anaglyph stereoscopic preview to reduce retinal rivalry;
(*) VFB: Improved initialization speed of the History window when there are a lot of images in the history;
(*) VFB: The vfbControl MaxScript function returns values for the commands that have states;
(*) VFB: Made the History window compliant with the 3ds Max color theme;
(*) .vrscene exporter: Added combo box to select between Scene Animation/Frame range, the latter remembers the start/end values;
(*) VRay2SidedMtl: Added ability to filter the translucency effect through the diffuse color of the front-facing side;
(*) VRayClipper: More robust and faster algorithm is used;
(*) VRayDirt: Added "double sided" option;
(*) VRayDirt: The distribution parameter can now take negative values for more defined edges;
(*) VRayFastSSS2: Added opacity texture slot;
(*) VRayHairFarmMod and VRayOrnatrixMod: Faster rendering of hair;
(*) VRayHDRI: Added MaxScript access to "coords" parameters;
(*) VRayLight: Added the ability to display the light name in the viewport;
(*) VRayLight: Somewhat faster sampling of rectangle lights;
(*) VRayMtl: Multiple layers of glass rendered with noise;
(*) VRayOSLMtl/VRayOSLTex: Improved shader cache logic, now the compiled shaders reside entirely in a memory buffer;
(*) VRayOSLMtl/VRayOSLTex: Removed dependency of shader name on the shader file name;
(*) VRayProxy: Export texture coordinates for .vrmesh preview, if preview mesh is specified;
(*) VRayProxy: Same proxies are automatically instantiated;
(*) VRayProxy: Show proxy color set names in Vertex Color texture "Channel Name" list;
(*) VRayProxy: Show the extra color channels from Alembic files in the "Channel Name" drop-down of Vertex Color maps applied to the proxy object;
(*) VRayProxy: Support for Material ID channel when rendering with point clouds;
(*) VRayShadow: Made the U, V, W Area shadow sizes animatable in the VRayShadows params rollout;
Bug fixes:
(*) Progressive sampler: Adaptive image sampling based on the Noise threshold did not work correctly;
(*) Progressive sampler: Fixed crash with region rendering and sample rate render element;
(*) Progressive sampler: Switch to sRGB color mapping for AA, leading to faster sampling;
(*) Crashes with building the SD tree in specific scene;
(*) Render mask was not exported to .vrscene files;
(*) DR: X-Ref scenes were not transferred with DR option "Transfer missing assets";
(*) Fixed incorrect depth with camera motion blur for deep image output;
(*) Fixed 3ds Max crashes when pressing the "Last VFB" button with V-Ray RT set as Production renderer;
(*) Fixed a crash with "Render to fields" enabled on 3ds Max 2012;
(*) Fixed unhandled exception error when rendering geometry imported from Revit;
(*) Fixed render crash with ProBoolean scene geometry;
(*) Fixed slow SD tree build on many-core machines;
(*) V-Ray: DR hosts saved in scene were appended to the hosts list and used for consequent renderers;
(*) V-Ray: Fixed Embree crash on AMD machines;
(*) V-Ray: Fixed Embree crashes with specific scenes;
(*) V-Ray: Fixed incorrect rendering of 3ds Max Populate with motion blur with Embree;
(*) V-Ray: Fixed a crash when rendering a scene with ParticleFlow that is not generating geometry;
(*) V-Ray: Fixed a crash with VRayFur density map when rendering with V-Ray RT or Standalone;
(*) V-Ray: Fixed imageSampler_renderMask_texmap MaxScript property name;
(*) V-Ray: Fixed issue where VRayMtl's "Affect all channels" affects matte surfaces visible through refractive objects;
(*) V-Ray: Fixed light leaks when rendering bump mapping on surfaces that face away from the light;
(*) V-Ray: Fixed Render mask with Light Cache as secondary GI engine, causes darker final result;
(*) V-Ray: Fixed rendering wrong object when render selection mask is used with object that has Renderable property disabled;
(*) V-Ray: Fixed tiled EXR clipping to half-float precision;
(*) V-Ray: Fixed wrong error message "error: Auto-backup is enabled at file..." appearing when license is not found;
(*) V-Ray: Fixed wrong Irradiance Map buckets appearing from the DR render hosts;
(*) V-Ray: MaxScript V-Ray ".imageSampler_normal_threshold" parameter's name was ".imageSamper_normal_threshold";
(*) V-Ray: Removed artifacts caused by overlapping geometry with disable Visible To Camera option for hairs;
(*) V-Ray: Strand index was not returned to shaders (e.g. Ox Hair);
(*) V-Ray RT: Adaptive image sampling based on the Noise threshold did not work correctly;
(*) V-Ray RT: Added support for the color mode parameter;
(*) V-Ray RT: Camera movement was not updated if motion blur Duration was smaller than 1.0;
(*) V-Ray RT: Fixed no motion blur when the rendered frame is the last of the range and the keyframe is beyond the range;
(*) V-Ray RT: Fixed progress window update;
(*) V-Ray RT: Fixed rendering of scenes containing objects with many primitives and many texture mapping channels at the same time;
(*) V-Ray RT: Fixed updating of GI depth parameter;
(*) V-Ray RT: Fixed wrong camera field of view with network rendering;
(*) V-Ray RT: Hair is rendered with preview counts even when using V-Ray RT as production renderer;
(*) V-Ray RT: Rendering was not finished when Don't render (just export) option was enabled;
(*) V-Ray RT: The "Scatter coeff" and "Fwd/bck coeff" parameters of VRayMtl are swapped;
(*) V-Ray RT: The "Min shading rate" parameter was not exported to .vrscene files;
(*) V-Ray RT: VRayFur was exported with wrong coordinates instead of the Source object's;
(*) V-Ray RT: VRayHairMtl was not listed with compatible materials in the material editor;
(*) V-Ray RT: VRaySun was replaced by another object, when linked to it;
(*) V-Ray RT: When "dynamic tesselation" was turned on, the hairs UVs were lost;
(*) V-Ray RT: When V-Ray RT was used as a production renderer, output images were saved without alpha channel;
(*) V-Ray RT GPU: CUDA engine could not render VRayFlakesMtl unless VRayCarPaintMtl is was present in the scene;
(*) V-Ray RT GPU: Did not fully utilize the GPU after certain noise level was reached;
(*) V-Ray RT GPU: Direct light render elements were rendering black if GI depth was 0;
(*) V-Ray RT GPU: Falloff texture was rendering wrong (greenish);
(*) V-Ray RT GPU: Fixed crash with V-Ray RT GPU on scenes with more than 100 lights;
(*) V-Ray RT GPU: Fixed crash with Normal map assigned to Mix map that is assigned to Bump map slot;
(*) V-Ray RT GPU: Fixed crash with VRayOSLMtl;
(*) V-Ray RT GPU: Fixed handling of environment override maps intensity multipliers;
(*) V-Ray RT GPU: Fixed inverted bump effect when using bitmap in VRayNormalMap;
(*) V-Ray RT GPU: Fixed memory leak;
(*) V-Ray RT GPU: Fixed Fresnel texmap shading;
(*) V-Ray RT GPU: Fixed render server crash when changing materials of VRayProxy;
(*) V-Ray RT GPU: Fixed some render elements cause others data shift in the wrong channel;
(*) V-Ray RT GPU: Global illumination BF/LC setup was rendering differently than on the CPU;
(*) V-Ray RT GPU: Multi/Sub-Object material was not wrapping the IDs for static meshes;
(*) V-Ray RT GPU: VRayMtls bump multiplier was not working with VRayNormalMap;
(*) V-Ray mesh exporter: Fixed crash when exporting point clouds with "lowest level point size" < 1.0;
(*) V-Ray mesh exporter: Particle systems were not exported with the "Export all selected objects in a single file" option;
(*) V-Ray Toolbar: Button were not working after 3ds Max Custom UI Layout load/reset;
(*) VFB: Edit boxes accept values without pressing enter;
(*) VFB: Fixed crash with Lens effects and active link to PDPlayer when an update occurs;
(*) VFB: Fixed lag when clicking between the VFB and other 3ds Max windows;
(*) V-Ray Bitmap to V-RayHDRI converter: Fixed error when converting bitmaps to tiled EXR;
(*) V-Ray Light Lister: Fixed an issue with light temperature, not handling very low values;
(*) VRayBPTracer: Fixed calculation errors causing NAN results;
(*) VRayBPTracer: Fixed crash with particular scenes;
(*) VRayClipper: The clipper showed up with ambient occlusion;
(*) VRayClipper: The clipper affected objects from its Exclude list even when it is hidden;
(*) VRayClipper: There is ambiguous situation with instancing, rendering the last copy only;
(*) VRayColor: Color swatch and gamma were not displayed as Additional Params in the Slate material editor;
(*) VRayFastSSS2: Fixed crash when rendering the object has Dent texmap for displacement;
(*) VRayFur: Fixed fur placement on "Selected faces" for 3ds Max 2014/2015;
(*) VRayHDRI: EXR textures are always loaded as 32-bit floating point;
(*) VRayHDRI: Fixed crash with IFL input when saving in a material library;
(*) VRayHDRI: Fixed Crop/Place not working;
(*) VRayHDRI: Fixed overbright pixels occurring with specific texture values;
(*) VRayHDRI: The texture cache size for tiled textures in VRayHDRI did not work correctly for values over 2 GB;
(*) VRayLight: Fixed incorrect rendering of Dome lights with scaling, they should not take it into account;
(*) VRayMtl: Fixed Self-illumination multiplier value not taken into account;
(*) VRayOSLTex: Fixed crash when used as environment texture;
(*) VRayPhysicalCamera: Tilt/Shift parameters were not reflected in the viewport when loading a scene;
(*) VRayProxy: Cannot select in the viewport if there is a recorded preview mesh that falls outside the render-mesh bounding box;
(*) VRayProxy: Fixed crash when opening a scene containing a proxy created from an empty group;
(*) VRayProxy: Fixed incorrect UVW coordinates with point clouds;
(*) VRayProxy: The Alembic subdivision parameters were the same for all proxies;
(*) VRaySkinMtl: Fixed textured scatter radiuses not taken into account;
(*) img2tiledexr: Alpha channel was created even if there was not such in the input image;
(*) img2tiledexr: Fixed wrong pixel aspect in the output image;
Build 3.00.08 (official) (16 September 2014)
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Modified features:
(*) V-Ray scene converter: Added option to convert the standard cameras to VRayPhysicalCamera;
(*) V-Ray Quick settings: Added preset delete button;
(*) VRayDistanceTex: Replaced the texmap preview in the material editor slot with a generic but faster rendering one;
(*) VRayFastSSS2: Added color mode control;
(*) VRayHairMtl: Added light_multiplier parameter;
(*) VRayMeshGeom: Updated V-Ray SDK example project;
(*) VRayOSLMtl/VRayOSLTex: Added support for tweak parameters tooltips display in material editor;
(*) VRayOSLMtl/VRayOSLTex: Made .osl the default file extension;
(*) VRayProxy: Added support for UV channels with negative indices;
Bug fixes:
(*) VRayBPTracer: Fixed a crash in a specific scene;
(*) Fixed artifacts in certain situations with irradiance map and area lights with "Affect reflections" turned off;
(*) V-Ray: Added "facesPerVoxel" and "oneVoxelPerMesh" parameters to the .vrmesh exporter;
(*) V-Ray: Fixed a crash when reading mip-map levels for non-square textures;
(*) V-Ray: Fixed a crash when rendering geometry with incorrect faces;
(*) V-Ray: Fixed a crash when rendering objects with Linked XForm and motion blur;
(*) V-Ray: Fixed a crash when rendering with empty layer as render selection mask;
(*) V-Ray: Fixed a crash when switching RT and Production after changing VRayColor parameters while RT was running;
(*) V-Ray: Fixed a crash with XMesh having very large surface normals;
(*) V-Ray: Fixed a random crash in scenes saved with region rendering enabled;
(*) V-Ray: Fixed artifacts when rendering with mapped IOR;
(*) V-Ray: Fixed crash with VRayPtex due to incorrect mesh data;
(*) V-Ray: Fixed memory allocation for non-tiled bitmaps;
(*) V-Ray: Fixed rare crash with progressive image sampling initialization;
(*) V-Ray: Fixed rare crash with progressive image sampling and noise threshold greater than 0.0;
(*) V-Ray: Fixed Embree rendering on machines with lower versions of SSE support;
(*) V-Ray: Fixed export of multiple splines to .vrmesh through MaxScript;
(*) V-Ray: Optimized geometry traversing on multi-core machines;
(*) V-Ray: Fixed "No GI on other mattes" option;
(*) V-Ray: Fixed "Max ray intensity" not working for the first glossy reflection;
(*) V-Ray: Fixed rendering of "Matte for reflect/refraction" objects;
(*) .vrscene exporter: Added point cloud export parameters;
(*) .vrscene exporter: Fixed animation settings persistence between export sessions;
(*) .vrscene exporter: Frame range is not written into .vrscene files when exporting animations;
(*) .vrscene exporter: The "Strip paths" option didn't affect VRayProxy objects;
(*) .vrscene exporter: Some options didn't work as expected;
(*) V-Ray RT: Animated "focus distance" parameter was not exported;
(*) V-Ray RT: Fixed a crash when ActiveShade is rendering simultaneously with material editor's swatches;
(*) V-Ray RT: Fixed color mapping improperly applied twice when sub-pixel was enabled;
(*) V-Ray RT: Fixed the "Make V-Ray RT Animation Preview" command to save images when rendering with VFB;
(*) V-Ray RT: Fixed the On parameter support for 3ds Max lights;
(*) V-Ray RT: Fixed rendering sequence through animated camera, subsequent frames were wrong;
(*) V-Ray RT GPU: Fixed a crash with animated meshes, during ActiveShade session;
(*) V-Ray RT GPU: Fixed a crash with animated proxies, during ActiveShade session;
(*) V-Ray RT GPU: Fixed an issue causing lights disappearance when moving dynamic geometry during ActiveShade rendering;
(*) V-Ray RT GPU: Fixed slow "Compiling geometry" with Forest Pro;
(*) V-Ray RT GPU: "Trace depth" parameter was ignored;
(*) V-Ray RT CPU: VRayFastSSS2 with raytraced single scattering and Direct light renders differently from production renderer;
(*) V-Ray Standalone: VFB history autosave was always enabled;
(*) V-Ray Quick settings: Fixed non-Quick Settings custom presets handling;
(*) V-Ray VFB: Ability to set the bloom "shape" parameter for the lens effects to larger values that 40;
(*) V-Ray VFB: Add a #hide keyword to the vfbControl() command to close the VFB after a command is executed;
(*) VRayClipper: Fixed include/exclude with grouped objects and hairs;
(*) VRayFastSSS2: Fixed incorrect results with raytraced multiple scattering and raytraced single scattering;
(*) VRayHairFarmMod: Fixed a crash when rendering multiple hair instances;
(*) VRayLight: Fixed artifacts occurring with irradiance map and "affect reflections" in certain situations;
(*) VRayLightMeter: Fixed viewport representation in 3ds Max 2015;
(*) VRayOrnatrixMod/VRayHairFarmMod: Fixed velocity render element;
(*) VRayOSLMtl/VRayOSLTex: Fixed not-working "Open in External Editor" command for 3ds Max 2012 and previous;
(*) VRayPhysicalCamera: Fixed undo of "Guess vert/horiz tilt" buttons;
(*) VRayProxy: Fixed artifacts when rendering with motion blur;
(*) VRayProxy: Prevent unneeded reading proxy particle widths for preview;
(*) VRayStereoscopic: Render elements were outputting left channel only image files through 3ds Max rendered image window;
Build 3.00.07 (official) (22 May 2014)
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Bug fixes:
(*) V-Ray: "Direct visualization" of the caustics photon map does not work properly with VRayEnvironmentFog;
(*) V-Ray: Freeze at render start with memory frame buffer and very large resolutions;
(*) VRayProxy: Fixed crash with Nitrous in 3ds Max 2015 with a scene created with an older version of V-Ray;
(*) VRayStereoscopic: Fixed crash when outputting Deep EXR with "Previous render" set to anything but "Unchanged";
Build 3.00.06 (official) (5 May 2014)
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New features:
(*) Support for 3ds Max 2015;
(*) Added VRayPointParticleMtl material for shading point particles from .vrmesh/Alembic files;
Modified features:
(*) V-Ray: Added option to the .vrmesh exporter to automatically create a Multi/Sub-Object material when exporting multiple objects in a single file;
(*) V-Ray RT: Added lights include/exclude lists support;
(*) V-Ray RT: Added statistics when using the VFB;
(*) V-Ray RT: Implemented showing Safe Frame when rendering in a viewport;
(*) VRayProxy: Added option to render particles as points;
(*) VRayProxy: Added option to enable/disable Alembic full names support in the visibility lists;
(*) VRayProxy: Added support for hair and particles color channels from Alembic;
(*) VRayProxy: Make the "Animation offset" parameter animatable;
(*) VRayBump2Normal is now included in the V-Ray installation;
(*) VFB: Added support for the "track mouse" option while rendering for progressive sampling and V-Ray RT;
(*) VFB: The Lens Effects 3ds Max Effect plugin settings are now applied only when the 3ds Max rendered image window is used, as it clashes with the VFB Lens Effects settings;
(*) VFB: Lens effects - the default glare type changed to "From render camera";
(*) VFB: When the "mono" button of the VFB is pressed, the computed intensity is now based on the selected R/G/B components only;
(*) VRayVRmatMtl: Material exporter support for VRayBlendMtl;
(*) VRayVRmatMtl: Material exporter support for Checker and Falloff textures;
Bug fixes:
(*) Global subdivs multiplier should be able to go down to zero;
(*) Hair&Fur/VRayOrnatrixMod/VRayHairFarmMod: Fixed assigned materials order when rendering with multiple hair nodes and having some of them hidden;
(*) Fixed a MaxScript system exception error when cancelling the creation of a VRayLight from the V-Ray toolbar;
(*) Fixed issues with VRayLights and FumeFX with illumination map;
(*) Embree: Fixed a crash with XMesh and motion blur;
(*) DR: Rendering in DR mode with "Use local host" unchecked demanded a render node license;
(*) DR: The "Save hosts in scene" option was not always working correctly when rendering with DR through Backburner;
(*) V-Ray: Prevent raw image output, when enabled but empty path is provided;
(*) V-Ray: Reflection/Refraction trace sets' Clear button was cleaning both of the lists;
(*) V-Ray: Reflection/Refraction trace sets were not working in inclusive mode;
(*) V-Ray RT: Fixed a crash when undoing delete of Forest Pro geometry while Active Shade rendering;
(*) V-Ray RT: Fixed support of Material Frequency Particle Flow operator when rendering as production renderer;
(*) V-Ray RT: Progressive sampler settings were not exported in .vrscene files;
(*) V-Ray RT: VRayParticleTex was not translated;
(*) V-Ray RT: Region rendering with the V-Ray VFB did not work when using V-Ray RT as production renderer;
(*) V-Ray RT: The translucency parameters of VRayMtl are not exported;
(*) V-Ray RT/GPU: Lens effects source channel was incorrect when re-rendering as production renderer;
(*) VRayBPTracer: Bucket outlines left in VFB after rendering end;
(*) VRayDisplacementMod: Fixed a very slow rendering when Noise texture with animated parameter was used;
(*) VRayClipper: Fixed clipper's material channel ID appearance in MultiMatte render element;
(*) VRayGLSLMtl/VRayGLSLTex: Fixed smoothstep output values outside the interpolation range;
(*) VRayGLSLMtl/VRayGLSLTex: Newly opened shaders were not added to the recent files history after clearing history;
(*) VRayOSLMtl/VRayOSLTex: Newly opened shaders were not added to the recent files history after clearing history;
(*) VRayOSLTex: Fixed crash when assigned to dome VRayLight;
(*) VRayProxy: Fixed crash with corrupt .vrmesh files with large number of voxels;
(*) VRayProxy: Fixed wrong rendering of multiple instances with particles/hairs;
(*) VRayProxy: Optimized loading of scene with many Alembic proxies;
(*) VRayProxy: Optimized preview voxel loading routine;
(*) VRayProxy: Skip proxy preview calculations if zero number of faces/hairs/particles is provided;
(*) VRayPtex: Changing PTex cache size had no effect on rendering, 100 MB was always used;
(*) VRayPtex: Added an option for turning off anisotropic filtering for PTex textures;
(*) VRayStereoscopic: Rendering shade map sequences could cause crashes;
(*) VRayIES: Fixed crash after VRayIES light was created in 3D snap mode and 3ds Max was Reset;
(*) VRayLight: Fixed "Lock to dome orientation" option to work for nested textures;
(*) VFB: V-Ray did not write .vrimg/.exr files if "Generate preview" was enabled, and "Memory frame buffer" was turned off;
(*) VFB: The progressive sampler was not creating a raw .vrimg/.exr file;
(*) VFB: The Lens Effects were not applied to images loaded from the history;
(*) VFB: The Lens Effects were not stored in the output file;
(*) VRayExtraTex: Cloning VRayExtraTex element didn't clone the include/exclude list;
(*) VRayGLSLMtl/VRayGLSLTex: Ensure all user defined global variables are initialized to zero;
(*) VRayGLSLMtl/VRayGLSLTex: Shader source files were not shown in the Asset Tracker;
(*) VRayOSLMtl/VRayOSLTex: Shader source files were not shown in the Asset Tracker;
(*) vrimg2exr: Fixed batch conversion output names generation;
Build 3.00.05 (official) (7 April 2014)
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Bug fixes:
(*) Fixed more cases of stuck buckets with GI;
(*) Wrong render results when using camera DOF and motion blur at the same time;
(*) V-Ray RT GPU: OpenCL engine was not working;
(*) VRayPhysicalCamera: Fixed camera creation unhides hidden lights;
Build 3.00.04 (official) (3 March 2014)
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Modifed features:
(*) VFB: The lens effects sliders position can be set by mouse click;
(*) VRayLight: Added Affect alpha option for the dome lights;
Bug fixes:
(*) Fixed stuck buckets due to long GI paths in certain cases;
(*) Fixed stuck buckets with dynamic geometry with mixed static and motion-blurred geometry;
(*) Fixed texmap slots of some of the V-Ray texmaps did not refresh immediately when a new map is connected to them;
(*) Fixed NaN pixels in certain cases with Noise texture used as displacement map on a large plane;
(*) Fixed NaN pixels in certain scenes with 3ds Max Fog atmospheric effect;
(*) Fixed NaN pixels when a bump texture returned a NaN normal;
(*) Updated DLL version numbers;
(*) Improved motion blur raycast accelerator for fast rotating objects;
(*) Fixed rare crashes when preparing scenes with many mesh lights;
(*) VRayOrnatrixMod and VRayHairFarmMod: Fixed different dynamic tessellation with and without motion blur;
(*) VRayPhysicalCamera: LENS files were not auto-transferred for DR;
(*) VFB: Apply inverse gamma correction when loading an image with 8-bit colors;
(*) VFB: Color balance and HSL corrections were applied after display corrections like sRGB instead of before;
(*) VFB: Fixed crash with curve color correction when there were NaN pixels in the image;
(*) VFB: Color balance correction could produce strange results with HDR colors;
(*) VFB: Fixed crash with deep output in certain situations;
(*) VFB: Fixed global presets loading the sRGB/ICC button state;
(*) VFB: Fixed a crash when loading image after 3ds Max reset;
(*) VFB: Lens effects were applied twice when changing the Mode and Type settings;
(*) VFB: Lens effects were not applied on images loaded from the VFB history;
(*) VRayHairMtl: Fixed cut-off look of the material in the Material Editor;
(*) Render mask: Further improvements with multithreading;
(*) Render mask: Disabled GI preview to prevent artifacts along the selection borders;
(*) VRayClipper: Fixed unexpected behavior when linked to other objects;
(*) VRayMap: Artifacts with environment override in the texture;
(*) V-Ray RT CPU: Phoenix FD did not update in mesher mode when changing frames;
(*) V-Ray RT CPU: Stereo mode did not work correctly;
(*) V-Ray RT GPU: Crash when trying to render an object with GLSL material;
(*) V-Ray RT GPU: Fixed bump mapping with Fresnel reflections;
(*) V-Ray RT GPU: Fixed bump mapping with tiled texture;
Build 3.00.03 (official) (17 February 2014)
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Bug fixes:
(*) Render mask: Improved performance with threads number scaling;
(*) Fixed slower rendering of scenes with dynamic meshes on many-core machines compared to V-Ray 2.4;
(*) Fixed updating of texmap buttons on some V-Ray texmaps when connecting them in slate material editor;
(*) Fixed crash when rendering with 3ds Max frame buffer, V-Ray Stereoscopic's "Adjust resolution" enabled and DR;
(*) Fixed crash with the "Previous render" option in the render settings when render elements were enabled;
(*) Fixed issue where the "Check for missing maps" option was breaking the animation export for particle systems;
(*) Fixed NaN pixels in certain cases when a 3ds Max Bitmap is used as a spherical environment;
(*) Fixed long irradiance map calculation times in specific cases with matte objects and "Retrace" light cache option enabled;
(*) VRayHDRI: did not work with the Default Scanline renderer with mapping channels different from 1;
(*) VRayUserColor/VRayUserScalar: User properties for standalone plugin were not read correctly;
(*) VRayVRmatMtl: Fixed crash in the VRMat editor in certain builds when previewing materials in the editor;
(*) VRayLightMtl: A helper meshlight was not created in the same layer as the object's when "Direct illumination" was on;
(*) VRayObjectSelect: Fixed displaying of include/exclude lists editor on vrayVFB check/uncheck;
(*) V-Ray RT: Fixed issue where rendering particle systems was breaking the rendering of motion blur;
(*) V-Ray RT: VRayHDRI was not working as bump map;
(*) V-Ray RT GPU: Fixed crash in V-Ray standalone when moving dynamic geometry with motion blur enabled;
(*) V-Ray RT GPU: Fixed driver crash with dynamic motion blurred geometry;
(*) V-Ray RT GPU: Fixed artifacts with area lights;
Build 3.00.02 (official) (07 February 2014)
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Modifed features:
(*) vrimg2exr: increase the default buffer size to 100 MB to speed up conversions;
Bug fixes:
(*) Installer: Fixed previous installation license settings acquisition, local license was assumed always;
(*) Render mask: Fixed rendering with DR;
(*) "V-Ray VFB" quad menu command was not showing the VFB in ActiveShade mode;
(*) V-Ray: Fixed handling of tiled textures with mip-map levels that fit into one tile as produced by txmake;
(*) V-Ray: Fixed rare crash when cancelling a render with tiled textures;
(*) V-Ray: The render region height parameter was not always updated correctly when locked to the width;
(*) VRayHDRI: Fixed slower reading of OpenEXR files compared to previous V-Ray versions;
(*) VRayHDRI: Fixed a crash with PSD textures with all layers hidden;
(*) VRayMtlWrapper: Fixed crash when a Multi/Sub-Object material is used as a base material;
(*) VRayBPTracer: Fixed rendering of camera motion blur;
(*) VRayGLSLMtl/VRayGLSLTex: Fixed crash with "discard" statement when using uniform global variables;
(*) VRayOSLMtl/VRayOSLTex: Reverted to OSL 1.3 as some input parameters were not updated properly;
(*) VRayLightSelect: Fixed erroneously disabled Remove button when more than one VRayLightSelect render elements were present;
(*) VRayFakeFresnel: Moved to the V-Ray category for textures;
(*) VRayProxy: Fixed proxy selection in viewport, objects behind were selected instead;
(*) V-Ray RT: Fixed rendering of animated materials attached to Multi/Sub-Object material;
(*) V-Ray RT GPU: Fixed incorrect mapping of baked procedural textures;
(*) V-Ray RT GPU: VRayDirt in VRayExtraTex render element did not render properly;
(*) imapviewer: Reduced the number of messages that are printed to the standard output when merging large irradiance map files;
Build 3.00.01 (official) (20 January 2014)
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(Changes since previous beta)
New features:
(*) A V-Ray toolbar provides quick access to common V-Ray features;
(*) Redirected all help links to the new official help web site;
(*) V-Ray RT CPU: Support for VRayDirt, VRayFastSSS2, VRaySkinMtl materials;
(*) VRayEnvironmentFog: Added an option for deep output to OpenEXR 2 and .vrst files;
(*) ply2vrmesh: Added ability to convert particles from Alembic files to .vrmesh files;
Modified features:
(*) For 3ds Max 2014, all related V-Ray files have been renamed to xxxx2014 (f.e. vrender2014.dlr, vray2014.dll etc);
(*) Added a "Divide shading subdivs" parameter in the image sampler to prevent V-Ray from balancing shading subdivs vs AA subdivs for those users that find it confusing;
(*) Hair&Fur properties are taken from the source object (except the "Renderable" property);
(*) Exposed in the UI the option for direct visualization of caustics calculations;
(*) Added an option to control DOF/moblur subdivisions for the Adaptive subdivision image sampler;
(*) When the maximum transparency level is reached, return the environment color rather than black;
(*) VRaySkinMtl: The material now respects the global "Linear workflow" option;
(*) VRayMetaballTex renamed to VRayParticleTex and can be used to read colors from Alembic particles;
(*) VRayLight: Removed the "Ignore light normals" from the UI;
(*) V-Ray RT CPU: Internally uses the production renderer core running in progressive mode;
(*) V-Ray RT GPU: Use different GPU code depending on the features used in the scene;
(*) V-Ray RT GPU: Faster loading of textures;
(*) VRayPhysicalCamera: Bitmap aperture now has "affect exposure" option;
(*) VRayProxy: Added an option to force remap mapping channels so that they always start from 1;
(*) VRayHDRI: Added a "View image" button that opens a 3ds Max bitmap buffer with the texture;
(*) VRayHDRI: Added support for single-channel TIFF and .tx/.tex files;
(*) VRayLight: Dome lights are now always created with intensity 1.0 instead of the default 30;
(*) VFB: The numpad 1-9 keys can also be used to switch between recent images;
(*) VFB: Ability to load arbitrary file formats;
(*) VFB: Clicking on a slider for HSL, color balance or brightness/contrast now sets the value;
(*) VFB: A color correction rollout can now be hidden or expanded by clicking on its title;
(*) VRayPhysicalCamera: Renamed the "offset" and "shift" parameter to the more correct photographic terms "shift" and "tilt" respectively;
(*) VRayPhysicalCamera: Added an option to prevent custom bitmap aperture from affecting exposure;
Bug fixes:
(*) Different buckets with probabilistic lights and DR;
(*) VRayIES: Lights with different power from the default could produce different buckets in DR;
(*) VRayIES: Fixed slow rendering compared to V-Ray 2.x;
(*) VRayProxy: Alembic particles didn't work correctly with irradiance map and motion blur;
(*) VRayProxy: Alembic particles rendered black with light cache enabled;
(*) VRayProxy: Velocity render element didn't work with Alembic hair and particles;
(*) VRayLight: Fixed an issue with spherical lights when "Use texture" was enabled;
(*) VRayLight: The options for previewing the directional parameter were not grayed out for non-rectangle lights;
(*) VRayLight: Fixed a glitch when creating dome lights;
(*) VRayLight: Incorrect rendering of non-uniformly scaled lights with directionality greater than 0.0;
(*) VRayLight: When looking through a sphere light, black parts of the geometry could appear;
(*) VRayLight: Fixed issues with dome lights with the "Lock to dome orientation" option enabled;
(*) VRayLight: Textured dome lights could appear pixelated to the camera and in reflections;
(*) Hair&Fur: Mapped scale of Hair&Fur could take the entire RAM;
(*) VRayHairFarmMod: Fixed flickering with motion blur when the hairs change the number of knots between frames;
(*) VRayHDRI: Modified bitmaps were not transferred properly to DR servers when "Transfer missing assets" was enabled;
(*) VRayHDRI: Lists all supported image formats by default;
(*) VFB: Fixed a crash when trying to apply lens effects to an image loaded from the VFB history;
(*) VFB: The HSL and color balance corrections were not saved in the 3ds Max scene;
(*) VFB: Some of the new color corrections were not taken in account when displaying corrected pixel info;
(*) VFB: The curves were not updated properly if the numerical input fields were used;
(*) VFB: HSL color correction didn't work unless there is at least one other correction enabled;
(*) V-Ray RT: Fixed mixed up materials with RailClone objects;
(*) V-Ray RT: Fixed issues with animated proxy objects;
(*) V-Ray RT: Support for VRayBumpMtl;
(*) V-Ray RT: Fixed crashes and corrupted 3ds Max window after closing ActiveShade in 3ds Max 2014 with Enhanced Menus enabled;
(*) V-Ray RT: Right-click menu in ActiveShade could be flooded with "Missing" entries;
(*) V-Ray RT: The scene translation time was counted as render time;
(*) V-Ray RT: Wrong Z-depth render element with the "invert z-depth" option enabled;
(*) V-Ray RT CPU: Fixed a crash with animated displacement;
(*) V-Ray RT CPU: Fixed incorrect results with tags;
(*) V-Ray RT GPU: Fixed crashes when starting rendering;
(*) V-Ray RT GPU: ForestPro did not work correctly;
(*) V-Ray RT GPU: Reflection environment and background were added randomly to a light select element;
(*) V-Ray RT GPU: Invisible lights affected the Z-Depth render element;
(*) V-Ray RT GPU: Fixed artifacts with Multi/Sub material and VRayNormalMap on ForestPro objects;
(*) V-Ray RT GPU: The "compensate camera exposure" option for the VRayLightMtl material didn't work;
(*) The "Max ray intensity" parameter could introduce color shifts;
(*) Fixed rare crashes with tiled textures and dynamic geometry when the dynamic memory limit was reached;
(*) DR: Saving of servers inside the scene file did not work;
(*) DR: Fixed multiple transfers of assets with Unicode characters;
(*) DR: Missing assets could incorrectly prevent other assets from being transferred to the render servers;
(*) VRayMetaball: Fixed a crash when a velocity render element was present in the scene;
(*) Render mask: Irradiance map was calculated even for parts of the image not covered by the mask;
(*) Embree: V-Ray failed to load when 3ds Max was started with an affinity mask set from the command prompt;
(*) Some V-Ray materials did not generate proper material IDs;
(*) Fixed crash with FumeFX render elements;
(*) Added support for alpha channel from FumeFX render elements;
(*) VRaySkinMtl: The primary reflection glossiness map didn't work, just the numeric value;
(*) VRayOCIO: The .ocio file was not read correctly if the system decimal symbol was comma;
(*) VRayLightMeter: Fixed incorrect results due to probabilistic light sampling;
Build 3.05.04 (beta 3) (11 December 2013)
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New features:
(*) VRaySkinMtl material;
(*) VRayProxy: Initial support for particles in Alembic files;
(*) VFB: New color corrections - contrast, HSL, color balance;
(*) VRayOrnatrixMod and VRayHairFarmMod: Added options for dynamic view-dependent hair tesselation;
(*) VRayOptionRe: Added an option to save three-channel alpha in deep OpenEXR 2 files for compatibility with Houdini;
(*) VRayUserColor and VRayUserScalar textures for reading data directly from a Node's User Properties;
(*) V-Ray RT: Support for RailClone instancing;
Modified features:
(*) Right-click on a UI switcher allows to switch all rollups to Basic/Advanced/Expert views;
(*) Updated to Embree 2.0;
(*) VRayOCIOTex: Added an "auto" option to try and automatically convert textures to linear space;
(*) VRayVRmatMtl: Added a preview of the currently selected .vrmat/.vismat material in the Open File dialog when browsing for a file;
(*) VRayVRmatMtl: Added .tx and .tex as valid texture file names;
(*) VRayMultiSubTex: Added an option to preserve the alpha of the sub-textures;
(*) VRayFur: Ability to specify face material ID for the hairs;
(*) V-Ray will now print a performance warning in the messages window if the 3ds Max bitmap pager is enabled;
(*) VRayClipper: Added an option to exclude the light coming in result of cutted geometry;
(*) .vrscene exporter: Make .vrscene exporter's Export and render button render the whole sequence;
(*) VRayOrnatrixMod and VRayHairFarmMod: Implement global hair tree support;
(*) Support for %d and %0nd tags in file names for irradiance maps, light caches, photon maps and caustics maps;
(*) VRayLight: More robust sampling of small rectangle lights;
(*) VRayHairMtl: Reduced noise on transparent hairs;
(*) VRayGLSLMtl and VRayGLSLTex: Added the ability to type a shader directly in the Material Editor;
(*) VRayGLSL: Added a __VRAY_HOST__ macro that expands to the version of vray.dll;
(*) Quick settings: Added the possibility to save custom presets;
(*) VFB: Multithreaded file save with the "Split channels" option is disabled due to instabilities;
(*) VRayFakeFresnel: Now exposed in the UI;
(*) V-Ray RT: Improved refresh rate and responsiveness;
Bug fixes:
(*) 3.0 slower than 2.4 in some cases;
(*) VFB: Color clamp button selection state not saved when button not pushed;
(*) VFB: The UI colors should match the 3ds Max color scheme;
(*) VRayDistanceTex: Setting tex_inside_separate_on:true for a VRayDistanceTex constructor from MaxScript causes system exception;
(*) Unnecessary repeated asset transfer after a texture is changed once;
(*) VRayCarPaintMtl and VRayFlakeMtl: Wrong material name in info message in 3ds Max 2013 and later;
(*) VRayHairInfoTex: Did not work properly with Hair&Fur;
(*) DR: Render servers failed to join a DR render;
(*) VRayBPTracer: Image rendered with BDPT turns black when Glare effect is applied;
(*) Hair&Fur: The "Visible to camera " option for distribution object was not inherited by Hair&Fur;
(*) VRayVRmatMtl: Fixed issues with non latin characters in VRMat material;
(*) VRayVRmatMtl: Correct default values for TexCloth;
(*) VRayVRmatMtl: Loading some .vrmat files in scene caused 3ds Max to crash;
(*) VRayVRmatMtl: The vrmat editor preview should have gamma 2.2 applied;
(*) VRayLightMtl is black in MultiMatte render element when using material ID;
(*) Reflection/Refraction exclude lists in the V-Ray object properties didn't work with groups;
(*) VRayLight: Fixed issues with targets when creating new lights;
(*) VRayIES: Fixed a rare crash when loading scenes with VRayIES;
(*) Fixed rare crash with progressive sampler;
(*) Some bake elements has duplicate class names of other plugins;
(*) Render mask did not work with the VRayStereoscopic helper;
(*) VRayProxy: Fixed issues with Alembic with dynamic topology and visibility lists;
(*) VRayMtl: "Affect all channels" didn't work with glossy reflections for some render elements;
(*) VRayClipper: Strange result when used on Editable Poly with intersecting attached elements;
(*) VRaySun: Should return the true intensity in the viewport if VRayExposureControl is active in Nitrous;
(*) VRayFur: Fixed crash when accidentally rendering with the scanline renderer;
(*) Render mask: Drag and drop of textures to the render mask button was not working;
(*) VFB: When opening a scene with bloom/glare masks turned on, lens effects were not applied after the first rendering;
(*) VRayMetaball: Negative particles rendered as positive;
(*) Artifacts with motion blur and shutter efficiency less than 1.0;
(*) V-Ray RT: Swirl texture prevented V-Ray RT from starting;
(*) V-Ray RT: Rendering production while RT was running in VFB would lock RT properties until VFB is closed;
(*) V-Ray RT: Saving images from V-Ray RT as production renderer didn't work with the V-Ray VFB enabled;
(*) V-Ray RT GPU: Fixed issues with Multi/Sub-object materials on dynamic geometry (instances);
Build 3.05.03 (beta 2) (14 October 2013)
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New features:
(*) DR settings: Option to exclude the local machine from DR rendering;
(*) DR settings: Options to automatically transfer and cache render assets to the DR servers (3ds Max 2010 and later);
(*) VRayFastSSS2: Raytraced mode for multiple scattering;
(*) VRayHDRI: Added an option for ground environment projection;
(*) VRayProxy: Support for Alembic 1.5;
(*) VRayProxy: Ability to specify starting path in Alembic files;
(*) VRayDisplacementMod: Support for Ptex object-space vector displacement;
(*) Lens analyzer: Ability to analyze distortion in arbitrary images;
(*) Render mask: Added two new modes: include/exclude list and by layer name;
(*) VFB: Option to automatically save each render in the history (enabled from the VFB history options dialog);
(*) The full version of V-Ray Standalone is now included in the installation;
(*) Added a new camera type "Spherical panorama" for equirectangular panoramas (similar to "Spherical" but allows manual control of the vertical FOV);
Modified features:
(*) VRayPhysicalCamera: Newly created objects are named "VRayCam001" etc;
(*) VRayHDRI: Faster shutting down of 3ds Max when "clear on render end" for tiled textures is disabled;
(*) VRayMtl and VRayFastSSS2: Print information about which materials require prepass interpolation maps;
(*) VRayIES: The light dimensions are now shown in scene units in the UI;
(*) "Reinhard" color mapping is now the default color mapping mode;
(*) Added per-object motion blur duration setting in the V-Ray object properties dialog;
(*) V-Ray RT: Now uses the V-Ray VFB when enabled in the production renderer;
(*) V-Ray RT: Up to 5x faster initial scene transfer to render servers;
(*) V-Ray RT: Automatic asset transfer to the render servers;
(*) V-Ray RT GPU: Reduced noise on VRayBlendMtl materials;
(*) VRayProxy: The default preview mode is "preview from file (faces)" as it's faster in Nitrous;
(*) Embree: Now is always compiled with pure SSE2 so that it works on older hardware;
Bug fixes:
(*) Hair&Fur: Multiple Hair&Fur materials swap randomly between different modifier instances in the same stack;
(*) Hair&Fur: Crashes with VRayLightMtl material;
(*) VRayProxy: Preview was always as faces instead of edges in Nitrous;
(*) VRayProxy: Alembic hair preview could not be selected in the viewport;
(*) VRayPhysicalCamera: Greyed out "Autogrid" in latest builds;
(*) Quick settings: Slow update when changing the shading quick settings if render globals are open;
(*) VRayOSLMtl and VRayOSLTex: Problems with OSL shaders with ',' as the system decimal symbol;
(*) VRayHDRI and VRayProxy: Convert file paths to UNC option didn't work for these;
(*) VRayHDRI: The Browse button does not work if the texture file name contains tag;
(*) VRayHDRI: The "Show Map in Viewport" button was not working;
(*) VRayFastSSS2: Phase Function = 1 produced NaN pixels;
(*) VRayBPTracer: Crash when rendering VRayMetaball objects;
(*) VRayBPTracer: Materials with glossiness less than 1.0 rendered incorrectly;
(*) VRayStereoscopic: Stereoscopic rendering through shade maps was not working in beta 1.1;
(*) VRayMetaball: Fixed crashes when rendering with the V-Ray VFB;
(*) VRayMetaball: Incorrect renders with the irradiance map;
(*) VRayMetaball: Incorrect surface normals in some cases;
(*) VRayMetaball: Fixed incorrect motion blur in some cases;
(*) VRayRenderID render element: XML output was not correct in 3ds Max 2013 and later due to Unicode;
(*) V-Ray object properties: Fixed incorrect setting of properties when multiple objects are selected;
(*) VFB: The entire history was reloaded when saving an image into the history;
(*) The V-Ray caustics Auto save option is errorneously named casutics_autoSave in MaxScript;
(*) Fixed override issue with V-Ray object properties when selecting multiple objects;
(*) The V-Ray log file was not redirected properly when loading a scene with modified log file path;
(*) No shadows behind glass with "cast shadows" disabled;
(*) VRScene exporter didn't work for SSS2 materials;
(*) Deep OpenEXR 2 files continued to be written even after a render has been cancelled;
(*) Distributed rendering didn't work after rendering with V-Ray RT;
(*) Fixed crash with multithreaded saving of render elements when using the "split render channels" option;
Build 3.05.02 (beta 1.1) (16 September 2013)
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Modified features:
(*) VRayVRmatMtl: The material can now read and render materials from .vrscene files;
(*) VRayHDRI can now load unlimited number of OpenEXR tiled texture files;
(*) VRayMtl: The default value for the cutoff parameter is now 0.005;
(*) V-Ray RT: Added option to disable initial image undersampling;
Bug fixes:
(*) V-Ray didn't load on Windows XP and Windows Vista;
(*) Fixed increased noise compared to V-Ray 2.x in specific situations;
(*) Fixed darker GI compared to V-Ray 2.x in specific situation;
(*) Fixed darker reflections compared to V-Ray 2.x in specific situations;
(*) Fixed freeze or crash with "Separate render channels" option;
(*) The "separate channels" file name box did not update correctly;
(*) Fixed horizontal line artifacts with the Progressive sampler;
(*) Fixed issues with texture baking;
(*) Fixed issues with render subset and objects with visibility less than 1.0;
(*) Fixed occasional corrupted deep image files;
(*) Fixed crash after loading scenes with VRayEnvironmentFog;
(*) Fixed render hang with materials using the Raytrace map;
(*) Fixed noise threshold issue with the Progressive sampler;
(*) Fixed a crash with probabilistic lights in certain situations involving VRayLightMtl materials;
(*) Embree: Fixed artifacts with transparent surfaces;
(*) VRayHairInfoTex: Support for hair colors from Alembic files;
(*) VRayOpenColorIO texture: various fixes;
(*) VRayBPTracer: buckets started where they were last cancelled;
(*) VRayProxy: fixed a viewport display issue with Alembic hair in 3ds Max 2011;
(*) VRayProxy: added multiplier for hair width from Alembic files;
(*) VRayProxy: fixed issues with Alembic files containing meshes with changing topology;
(*) VRayBPTracer: fixed black pixels in certain situations;
(*) V-Ray RT scene exporter: fixed a problem when exporting VRayFastSSS2 material;
(*) V-Ray RT: Fixed issues with the noise threshold not working correctly;
Build 3.05.01 (beta 1) (20 August 2013)
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New features:
(*) New progressive image sampler;
(*) Simplified main renderer user interface: basic/advanced/expert views for some rollouts; help shortcut buttons;
(*) Extensive optimizations for render speed, especially when using brute force GI;
(*) The Intel Embree library is now integrated into the V-Ray core for static and motion-blurred geometry;
(*) Probabilistic light sampling for scenes with many lights;
(*) Support for render texture mask and render subset from selected objects;
(*) Added reflection/refraction trace sets in the V-Ray object settings dialog;
(*) New streamlined installer;
(*) VRayPhysicalCamera: Support for bitmap aperture and optical vignetting;
(*) VFB: ability to write deep images (OpenEXR 2/vrst/vrsm);
(*) VFB: Support for OpenColorIO color correction;
(*) VFB: Lens effects can be applied directly in the VFB;
(*) VRayHDRI: Support for and tags;
(*) VRayHDRI: Support for tags in the bitmap file name based on the node user properties;
(*) VRayOrnatrixMod: Optimized rendering and reduced memory usage;
(*) VRayProxy: Ability to render hair from Alembic .abc files;
(*) New "Max ray intensity" parameter to help deal with fireflies in glossy reflections;
(*) VRayOSLMtl and VRayOSLTex: new material and texture with support for the Open Shading Language;
(*) VRayVRmatMtl material for rendering .vrmat/.vismat files;
(*) VRayFastSSS2: Option for geometry-based sampling for the illumination map;
(*) VRayMetaballs: a new geometric object;
(*) VRayClipper: a new geometric object;
(*) V-Ray toolbar with a button that shows the Quick Presets window;
(*) VRayLUT, VRayICC and VRayOpenColorIO textures;
(*) V-Ray RT GPU: Support for most render elements;
(*) VRayBPTracer: Initial support for vertex merging;
Modified features:
(*) VRayPtex: Updated the Ptex library to the latest version;
(*) VRayPtex: Rewritten the Ptex library texture cache for better multithreading on many-core machines;
(*) VFB: Ability to switch between the most recent images in the history using the 1-9 keys;
(*) VFB: Ability to switch between render elements in the VFB using PageUp and PageDown;
(*) VFB: The history thumbnails in the VFB now have sRGB color correction if the sRGB setting is enabled;
(*) VFB: Support for the "track mouse" option in the VFB for stereo renders;
(*) VFB: "Compare" button to toggle comparison view on/off;
(*) VFB: Add right-click menu on the border for custom border color selection;
(*) VRayExposureControl: Affect the Nitrous viewports in 3ds Max 2013 and later;
(*) VRayMtl: The "fix dark edges" option is now "on" by default for newly created materials;
(*) VRayPhysicalCamera: The "Show cone" option now respects the pixel aspect ratio;
(*) VRayPhysicalCamera: Added an "auto guess vert. shift" option to keep the vertical shift when moving the camera;
(*) VRayDisplacementMod: Added support for hidden faces for displaced and subdivision surfaces;
(*) VRayDisplacementMod: Added "static geometry" and UV smoothing options, as well as option to use fast displaced normals;
(*) VRayHDRI: Added "View map" and "Reveal in explorer" buttons;
(*) VRayHDRI: Ability to automatically generate .ifl files when picking a frame from an image sequence;
(*) VRayEdgesTex: Added "Show subtriangles" option to show tesselation of displaced and subdivision surfaces;
(*) VRayHairInfoTex: The "Random by strand index" option is now supported for VRayFur;
(*) VRayHairMtl: The "Simpify for GI" option is now enabled by default;
(*) VRayHairMtl: Faster rendering of transparent VRayHairMtl material;
(*) VRayOptionRe: Added an option to group g-buffer fragments by Z-depth rather than render ID;
(*) VRayColor2Bump: Added a "bump delta scale" parameter;
(*) VRayColor: Added a "color gamma" option that allows correction of the actual color used for rendering;
(*) VRayLight: Added an "affect alpha" option for the dome lights;
(*) VRayLight: Added an option to lock the dome light texture to the orientation of the light icon in the viewports;
(*) VRayLight: Added the ability to change the wire color;
(*) VRayIES: Support for motion blurred lights;
(*) V-Ray lights now support external atmospherics renderers (AfterBurn/FumeFX);
(*) VRayColor: Added a "Temperature" color mode;
(*) ply2vrmesh: Added support for material IDs in .obj files;
(*) vrimg2exr: Added an option to truncate channel names to 32 symbols;
(*) Updated the OpenEXR library to OpenEXR 2;
(*) Optimized the loading of irradiance map files over the network;
(*) The irradiance map prepass now uses the same render region sequence as the main renderer;
(*) Multithreaded saving of images when using "Split render channels" option;
(*) Added "shutter efficiency" option for motion blur;
(*) Correct "raw" elements for easier compositing (needs the regular and the filter elements to be present too);
(*) Dynamic bucket splitting towards the end of the image;
(*) "Right Click - vrscene exporter" now uses the V-Ray RT translator instead of MaxScript;
(*) Removed the light cache "Number of passes" parameter; this is now handled internally;
Bug fixes:
(*) VRayMtl: Fixed incorrect (brighter) GI with glass objects with "affect shadows" enabled when they are in front of an area light;
(*) VRayMtl: Fixed rare bug with refractions due to precision loss;
(*) VRaySphereFade: Could not edit the gizmo objects list through MaxScript;
(*) VRayToon: Could not edit the exclude list through MaxScript;
(*) VRayToon: Fixed various issues with the include/exclude UI;
(*) VRayLightMtl: Fixed random lighting between renderings with DirectIllumination and CompensateExposure on;
(*) VRayLight: Ability to set higher values for dome light texture resolution;
(*) VRayLight: The light preview in the Nitrous viewport disappeared when the light size if very large;
(*) VRayLight: Brighter glossy reflections of light portals;
(*) VRayLight: Incorrect (brighter) GI with glass objects with "affect shadows" enabled when they are in front of an area light;
(*) VRayLight: Inconsistency between GI on/off when an invisible sphere light intersects geometry;
(*) VRayEnvironmentFog: Fixed crash after deleting environment fog gizmo and rendering;
(*) VRayPtex: Fixed issue on duplicated objects with modifiers;
(*) VFB: The V-Ray LUT .cube textures does not load if the system decimal symbol is not ".";
(*) VFB: Comments section of the VFB history changed the information when it was in Korean;
(*) VRayHDRI: "RGB Offset" and "RGB Level" in the Output rollout had no effect until the Material Editor is opened;
(*) VRayDisplacemendMod: If model using the VrayDisplacementMod was X-Ref'd, the displacement is not considered;
(*) VRayLight: Dome light looked pixelated in glossy reflections and refractions (light needs to be recreated for the fix);
(*) VRayMultiSubTex: Issue with drag and drop on the texture button;
(*) VRayBlendMtl: Fixed incorrect diffuse render element with blend material in additive mode inside a 2-sided material;
(*) VRayBlendMtl: The "Use irradiance map" option from the base material is now used;
(*) VRayStereoscopic: The helper should append .vrst extension to file names if no extension is specified;
(*) Fixed truncated error messages in the V-Ray log for missing textures in 3ds Max 2013 and later;
(*) Some message boxes in 3ds Max 2013 did not display proper Unicode strings;
(*) Set sensible limits to some parameters in 3ds Max;
(*) Increase the max stdio file handles to the maximum possible (2048) on 3ds Max startup;
(*) V-Ray loses its license when RPManager is running;
(*) Low CPU utilization when the irradiance map prepass is calculating background;
(*) The parameters of some render elements did not have proper names in Track View;
(*) Crash/hang when checking/unchecking "V-Ray VFB" option in VRayMtlReflectglossiness render element;
(*) Hang on "Unloading geometry" when cancelling a render during "Presampling displacement";