Official Release
Date - April 20, 2023
New features
Materials
Basic support for VRmat materials.
Textures
Support for alpha from bitmaps used in V-Ray material's opacity, exported from Maya.
Support for all options of the Advanced mode of the Color Correction texture from 3Ds Max.
UX/UI
Separated environment related properties from Lights tab into a dedicated Environment tab.
Added 'Open Scene Location' to File menu.
Geometry
Support for Edge trimming option introduced in Chaos Scatter with V-Ray 6 for 3ds Max, update 1.1.
Modified Features
UX/UI
Added scrollbar to Lights and Camera tabs.
Fixed snapping manipulation precision.
Live Link UI mode - hides unusable tools and tabs when in Live Link session.
Delete button's icon changed.
Moved camera properties to default Undo Queue.
Allow the Delete key to be used in the viewport for deleting selected objects.
Remove 'Advanced Scene Settings' dialog from File menu, its settings are scattered in more convenient places(Camera tab, Render tab, Preferences dialog).
Merged 'Render animation with Chaos Vantage' and 'Render animation with Chaos Vantage, using Vantage UI' into a single 'Render Animation with Chaos Vantage' workflow.
Fixes
Clouds
- Tiling artifacts for thin layer of clouds.
Live Link
- Wrong undo actions for camera parameters during Live Link.
Lights
- Textured rectangle lights don't match V-Ray when the light units are not set to default.
UX/UI
- Deleting parent object in a hierarchy messes children's transformation and Undo history.
- Render resolution not updating automatically when render Setup dialog is opened.