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Official Release

Date - December 7, 2023

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New Features

Geometry

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  • Support for V-Ray Fur, Ornatrix, Hairfarm, and XGen hair.

  • Support for V-Ray Displacement.

  • Support for new V-Ray 6.2  Forest pack and Rail clone instancing.

Materials

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  • Support for V-Ray Hair Next material.

Hardware

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  • Support for Intel Meteor Lake iGPU.

Batch rendering

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  • Render Setup options and render queue items are now stored in the .vantage file.
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  • Added Vantage Live Link settings dialog in 3Ds Max Vantage toolbar.
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UI/UX

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  • Implemented a warning and error count indicator in the status bar.

Rendering

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  • Implemented a Firefly filter.
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Modified

Geometry

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  • Improved GPU peak memory usage when loading the geometry for a scene.

  • Improved check for failed geometry allocations.

DLSS

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  • Improved DLSS - added 2.25x and 3x upscale modes (available when Secondary (when static) denoiser is set to Same as Primary).

  • Reduced memory usage.

Denoiser

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  • Improved OptiX denoiser quality. Added a Legacy mode option to revert to old OptiX behavior.

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  • Improved Intel denoiser: upgraded to 2.1.0, enabled GPU acceleration on Intel devices.

Scene States

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  • Properly update the Scene States helper message on undo/redo.

  • Update scene state button now creates necessary sub-states if ORIGINAL SCENE or SAVED SCENE is currently chosen.

  • Detected changes for scene states when modifying a New file.

Navigation

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  • Improved Orthographic camera navigation. Now Navigate around cursor ray hit and Navigate around selection work properly.

UX/UI

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  • Improved Viewport Fill - now filter is disabled when sharpness is set to 0.

  • Improved DPI scaling on 150% and similar ratios.



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Fixes

Geometry

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  • Crash when loading invalid Instancer2 with missing node reference.

UI/UX

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  • Bug with wrong UI slider ranges.

  • Wrong trimming of the scene animation track.

  • Auto-exposure and noise mask overlay while using Intel GPUs for rendering.

  • Wrong reloading of a saved .vantage file, with imported .vrscene.

  • Animated cameras from imported vrscenes are not loaded with animation after reload of .vantage file.

  • Wrong camera grouping on import.

Textures

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  • Missing texture UVs if their UVW generator is missing.

Output

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  • Wrong baking of Exposure bias in EXR when exposure correction is disabled.

  • Camera white balance not getting saved in EXR.