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Build 3.70.01

Official Release

Date - Apr 17, 2019

Download - Build 3.70.01

New features

V-Ray

  • Initial support for 3ds Max 2020

Bug fixes

V-Ray

  • Blowup and Auto Region Selected produce stretched results
  • Decimal separator changes randomly on every export in a specific scene
  • Render to texture overrides elements with black outputs when they are disabled

VRayALSurfaceMtl

  • Endless render when VRayAlSurfaceMtl uses SSS radius value set to 0

VFB

  • Crash when opening VFB in a scene saved with V-Ray Next Update 1
  • Rendering with region placed over loaded .vrimg, clears the outside part

 

Build 3.60.05

Official Release

Date - Nov 19, 2018

Download - Build 3.60.05

New features

V-Ray

  • Cryptomatte support for DWA compressed OpenEXR files

VRayVolumeGrid

  • Add a getFrameInfo() MAXScript function that retrieves the currently loaded frame info string
  • Support XForm modifiers in Volumetric render mode

Modified features

VRayHDRI

  • Improved performance for tiled .tx and .exr textures

V-Ray

  • Support for the frameNum tag in VRayHDRI
  • When rendering spherical cameras, the z-depth channel for deep OpenEXR images should be the distance from the camera

VRayMDL

  • Improve anisotropy precision in MDL

VRayScene

  • Implement support for VRayCryptomatteElement

VRayVolumeGrid

  • Allow grid Channel Smoothing to be applied over channels with any value range
  • Apply the Smoothing Random Variation over all voxels regardless of the Smooth Threshold
  • *.aur cache latest format support and multi-threaded import
  • MaxScript interface for getting grid data and loading render presets directly from the volume grid nodes
  • Support for the new transformation model of OpenVDB caches from FumeFX 5
  • Particle Shader rendering of PFlow particles in VRScenes

Bug fixes

V-Ray

  • Artifacts with adaptive lights in a certain interior scenes
  • Less than normal samples are calculated with Use camera path with Irradiance map GI engine
  • MAXScript auto-load script error with 3dsMax2018.4
  • Noisy glossy refraction with BF\LC and Retrace turned on in a specific scene
  • Improve selection of VRayPhysicalCamera and VRayLight in the viewport
  • V-Ray Standalone crashes with specific scene with MDL materials and Scanned materials
  • Unhandled exception error with particles and camera motion blur enabled
  • Unhandled exception when rendering matte reflections

V-Ray RT

  • Changing the "enabled" parameter of a light is not updated properly
  • Difference in render result with V-Ray Cloud when using MultiTexture
  • Flickering in animation with 3ds Max animated Noise modifier
  • V-Ray exposure control is not working with Physical Camera
  • Sequence render output is saved twice

VRayFastSSS2

  • Material in Raytraced (refractive) mode is lit by excluded V-Ray light with Cast Shadow disabled

VRayGLSL

  • Error when merging scenes with GLSL shaders
  • LLVM produces code for Skylake processors that causes crashes
  • Shaders use too much memory per thread
  • Wrong shadow calculation when used as opacity map

VRayScene

  • Crash with .vrscene sequence and missing first file

VRayToon

  • Toon line disappears with big FOV camera values

VRayVolumeGrid

  • Caches containing digits after the # format can not be loaded
  • Caches containing a minus/dash sign before the # format can not be loaded
  • Caches with particle groups render the mesh for each group
  • Can't load OpenVDB files whose "file_voxel_count" metadata is 0, though they contain active voxels
  • Cannot render a simulator with modifiers
  • Particle shader particles exported to vrscene are not rendered
  • The VRayVelocity render element is not rendered in Volumetric Geometry mode if Motion Blur is off
  • When exporting to a .vrscene the 'etmult', 'brdfscatter', 'bounces', 'difmul', 'fadebylevel', 'displvelfade', 'usecolormap' and 'colormap' parameters are missing
  • Wrong velocity direction and motion blur with OpenVDB files from FumeFX

VFB

  • 3ds Max crashes when copying an image from VFB to the clipboard and then copying text from Layer/Scene explorer
  • Freezes randomly if playing with it while rendering

V-Ray Standalone

  • Lens effects from vrscene are not applied with -display=0 option

 

Build 3.60.04

Official release

Date – Nov, 2017

Download – Build 3.60.04

Modified Features

V-Ray

  • The V-Ray log file contains information on the V-Ray plugins that are loaded

  • More user-friendly licensing error messages

V-Ray GPU

  • Support for V-Ray Dirt Consider same object only

VFB

  • Add checkbox to keep the aspect ratio of the VFB background image


Bug Fixes

V-Ray

  • Caustics on motion-blurred objects may be blurred incorrectly

  • Color corrections should not be applied to certain render elements

  • Crash on rendering consecutive frames when rendering within a Windows service

  • Crash with matte objects, GI and diffuse materials

  • Deactivate VRayDenoiser when rendering without memory frame buffer

  • Holes in unfiltered ZDepth pass with Golaem crowds

  • Issues with specific IES lights profiles with orientation and symmetry

  • Missing Brazilian Portuguese localization defaults for 3ds Max 2018

  • Reflect on back is ignored when BRDF type is GGX and glossiness is less than 1.0

  • Render setting are not printed properly in vraylog.txt

  • Some controls in the UI of materials and textures have darker background in 3ds Max 2017 and later

  • When quiet mode is on - don't display messages about exceptions

V-Ray IPR

  • 3ds Max crash with empty VRayScene object in IPR

  • 3ds Max crash when VRayScene with override material is selected for mesh light creation

  • Crash when copying VRayLights with a texture

V-Ray RT

  • Fire Opacity Mode parameter isn't exported to .vrscenes by VRayVolumeGrid

  • Add missing modes to VRaySamplerInfo render element

  • Alpha as Gray for the RGB Channel Output of the bitmap node is ignored

  • Displacement map in VRayMtl is making the VRayPlane invisible

  • Region render warning pops up while DR is disabled

  • SamplerInfo render element should not affect sampling

  • Wrong Relative to bbox displacement

  • Wrong region rendering in loaded scene with saved region

V-Ray GPU

  • Crash with specific scene with clipped geometry

  • Crash when rendering a scene with Composite texmap

  • Graphic driver stops responding on a specific scene using CUDA and freezes 3ds Max

  • Wrong screen mapping for textures assigned to the Environment slot

VFB

  • Compare V-Ray Settings VFB option fails to compare some parameters lately

  • Copy to clipboard should copy the final corrected image with the background

  • Glare lens effect is not applied if OCL initialization fails during hardware accelerated lens effects

  • The VFB should respect the EXR data window (ROI) for VFB Background image

  • Wrong exposure applied with saved settings

V-Ray Fur

  • 3ds Max crash after undo creation from the panel

VRayHairFarmMod

  • Material diffuse texmap is not rendered on Hair Farm hair

VRayInstancer

  • Wrong motion blur when using PRT Source objects for particle source

VRayLight

  • Some irrelevant options of the Dome light must be greyed out

VRayMDLMtl

  • Artifacts with normal bump

  • Crash when default texture files are not found

  • Fix bump normal modification for GGX

  • Incorrect rendering of vMaterials\Design\Plastic\Transparent.mdl

  • Incorrect rendering of with vMaterials\Design\Gems\tourmaline.mdl

VRayNormalMap

  • Incorrect result with displacement

VRayOSLMtl/VRayOSLTex

  • Crash when entering a string in a string tweak

  • Wrong render of VRayOSLMtl with sub-texmaps in scene with both OSL materials and texmaps present

VRayToon

  • Outline bordering different elements of the same object is rendered differently in V-Ray RT

VRayTriplanarTex

  • Artifacts appear when rendering noisy bitmap texture used for bump

VRayVolumeGrid

  • Keyed Playback Mode parameter doesn't render as expected during sequence render

  • After loading a cache or simulating, CPU usage remains high on machines with many threads

V-Ray Light Lister

  • Error appears on Refresh after undo creation of light instance

 

Build 3.60.03

Official release

Date – July 28, 2017

Download – Build 3.60.03

Modified Features

V-Ray RT

  • Submitting network rendering jobs with region render enabled should issue some warning when production rendering


Bug Fixes

V-Ray

  • Black buckets when adding local machine with DR and Resumable rendering

  • "Invalid geometry normal" warnings with RailClone and Embree since V-Ray 3.60.02

  • Rare crash when transferring assets for DR

  • Saving all image channels after an RT render and MultiMatte MtlID render element leads to error message

V-Ray GPU

  • Do not transfer anisotropy data always, when there is V-Ray material

VRayOrnatrixMod

  • Hair with mapped radius renders as if there was no map

  • Not considering vertex or strand channel assigned to control radius in Ornatrix

  • Wrong W coordinate at the hair tip endcap

VRayOSLMtl/VRayOSLTex

  • OSL does not respect mipmap levels

 

Build 3.60.02

Official release

Date – July 12, 2017

Download – Build 3.60.02

Modified Features

V-Ray

  • Environment variables to control V-Ray log file location and copy it into the 3ds Max log (VRAY_SYSTEM_LOG_FILE, VRAY_LOG_CC_TO_DEBUGGER)

  • Increase the upper bounds of the Max Transp. Levels parameter

  • Submitting network rendering jobs with region render enabled should issue a warning

VFB

  • Add MAXScript VFB position control function (vfbControl #pos)

V-Ray Toolbar

  • Reset the flyout button to V-Ray Material

VRayMDLMtl

  • Add the ability to attach Bitmap texmap to shader tweaks 

VRayMultiSubTex

  • Display the actual IDs for VRayMultiSubTex node slots in the Slate Material Editor

 

Bug Fixes

V-Ray

  • Crash when saving VRayCryptoMatte through VFB's save buttons

  • Disappearing geometry with VRayBlendMtl, Motion Blur, and Forest Pack

  • Each time 3ds Max 2018 is started V-Ray Toolbar reappears

  • Receive GI multiplier is not working in Full mode VRayLightSelect render element

  • The 3ds Max Hair and Fur modifier doesn't render in 3ds Max 2018

V-Ray RT

  • Crashes when using Forest Color in Forest Pack with VRayProxy

  • Nested VRayLightMtl with direct illumination enabled is not rendered with V-Ray RT

V-Ray GPU

  • Artifacts when rendering using OpenCL with more than one device

  • NaNs occurring in VRayLightSelect render element when using Light Cache

VRayCryptoMatte

  • Incorrect hashes are generated for objects with non-Latin characters

VRayMDL/VRayOSL/VRayGLSL

  • Shader tweaks are not animatable

  • World to camera and camera to world transformations are wrong

VRayMDLMtl

  • Wrong rendering of nested volumes with different IOR

VRayOrnatrixMod

  • Ornatrix hair does not render with V-Ray RT when loaded through an XRef object

VRayOSLMtl/VRayOSLTex

  • Edit boxed for string parameters are not working

V-Ray scene converter

  • Special characters in XML values should be escaped

 

Build 3.60.01

Official release

Date – Jun. 26, 2017

Download – Build 3.60.01

New Features

V-Ray

  • Support for 3ds Max 2018

  • Add Full mode for light select elements and made it the default setting

V-Ray IPR

  • Add material/node picking in VFB

  • Add right-click menu (real zoom, view navigation)

V-Ray GPU CUDA

  • Added support for CPU rendering (c++/cpu device type)

  • Added support for NVIDIA NVLink

V-Ray GPU

  • Add support for Full mode Light Select Render Element on GPU

  • Initial support for SSS in MDL

VFB

  • Ability to load progressive resumable files in the VFB

VRayMDLMtl

  • Add the ability to override textures in MDL parameter initialization with V-Ray plugins

 

Modified Features

V-Ray

  • Add an option to include or exclude render elements in deep files

  • Add an option to save render elements in separate folders

  • Add more material types to the V-Ray toolbar V-Ray Material button

  • Add warnings and abort the rendering if it fails to read tile data from tiled OpenEXR file

  • Disable subpixel color mapping when using adaptive lights

  • Distributed accumulation of the light contributions for adaptive lights

  • Error in VRayLightLister script with VertexPaint modifier

  • Faster rendering of proxies and instances when Embree is enabled

  • Grey out Motion blur samples when Use default moblur samples is checked

  • If there is only one instance of a mesh in the scene, it should always be static geometry

  • Improve parsing of many small .vrscene files in a single scene

  • Improved error messages for writing raw OpenEXR files

  • Rename the One voxel per mesh option in the V-Ray mesh export dialog to Optimize for instancing and enable it by default

  • Take into account the Skip Existing Images Max option when using V-Ray VFB

  • The default value for the "Dynamic memory limit" option should be 0 (unlimited)

  • V-Ray lights should draw black in the viewports when disabled

  • VRayRawShadow/VRayShadows/VRayMatteShadows render elements are incorrect with adaptive lights

V-Ray IPR

  • Optimized scene updates

  • React to changes in the render mask; - if turned on from the beginning

V-Ray RT

  • Add MaxScript option (vrayExportRTScene incrBaseFrame:true ...) for incremental .vrscene export

  • Improve memory usage when there are millions of instances in the scene

  • Remove Coherent tracing option from the UI

  • When rendering production we should notify the scene nodes for every frame

V-Ray GPU

  • VRayColor2Bump texture is no longer required in order to have bump with procedural textures

  • Enable VRayClipper and VRayDirt to mutually respect each other

  • OpenCL version supports AMD GPUs only

  • Optimized Gradient and Gradient Ramp textures

  • Print a warning that GPU only supports bitmaps in VRayTriplanarTex

VFB

  • Add frame number to the Render history images details

  • Add overlay for active right-click menu modes (Real Zoom, Select Object...)

  • Enlarge arrows on flyout buttons as they are very hard to see

VRayGLSL / VRayOSL

  • World to camera and camera to world transformations are wrong

VRayOSL

  • Support for alternative location of OSL include files

VRayInstancer

  • Add support for AutodeskPointClouldMtl Multiplier option

VRayLightSelect

  • Renamed former modes to Direct ... to indicate they are concerning direct illumination only

VRayMDLMtl

  • Add UI support for MDL parameter annotations

  • Add support for object space

  • Improve MDL error handling in case of unexpected parameters

VRayProxy

  • Implement proxy preview caching

VRayStereoscopic

  • Add new fragment merge mode, where fragments are merged by render ID and z-depth

VRayScatterVolumeMtl

  • Add a light multiplier parameter

VRayAerialPerspective

  • Add primary visibility control to aerial perspective

VRayStereoscopic

  • Deep EXR output through Spherical Camera generates wrong Z value for objects behind camera plane

VRayVolumeGrid

  • Add an option to use environment variables in cache files paths

  • Display the viewport label only when there is no cache loaded

  • New Bezier and Spline ramp points should follow the slope of the curve

  • Option to disable the Optimizing Volumetrics rendering pre-pass

  • Reduce the memory usage of the mesh preview and rendering

vdenoise.exe

  • Add an -offset option to make it easier to use Backburner

  • Optimize vdenoise.exe hardware accelerated version

vrimg2exr.exe

  • Enable Buffer size (in MB) values of 0 and greater than 8000 in the GUI


Bug Fixes

V-Ray

  • Adaptive light artifacts with low LC subdivs

  • Artifacts with VRayEnvironmentFog and adaptive lights in certain situations

  • Crash when rendering VRayFur on Body Object through VRayPhysicalCamera (3ds Max 2016 and earlier)

  • Crash when updating textures with external programs while ActiveShade is running

  • Crash with Data Channel modifier Curvature operator

  • Faceted shading when using standard lights with VRayShadow with big area shadow size and Box type

  • First atmospheric effect result is applied twice if the next effect is aerial perspective with active set to false

  • Missing shadows of proxies when motion blur is on and Embree for motion blur is off

  • Incorrect reflective caustics on matte surfaces

  • Object's Subdivs multiplier has no effect for VRayFur, Ornatrix and ForestPro

  • Progressive sampler memory usage increases with each resumed frame

  • Wrong environment mapping in reflections of matte objects

  • Wrong render of V-Ray lights in Render mask Layer mode

  • Wrong render progress during loading and saving progressive resumable files

  • Zero render image dimensions are set when rendering with 3ds Max frame buffer and VFB region is set

V-Ray RT

  • Add VRayToon invert parameter to the export of render element

  • Animated texmap output amount is not rendered correctly in animations with production rendering

  • Artifact with direct lights and VRayEnvironmentFog

  • Artifact with volume grid and direct lights with shadow radius enabled

  • Changing the sampling parameters during interactive rendering breaks the sampling

  • Crash when opening the Material Editor with bitmap textures during ActiveShade session

  • DR server may become unusable if the file stream reception from the client is interrupted

  • Disappearing geometry with VRayLightMtl and Direct Illumination on during ActiveShade session

  • GLSL textures do not render

  • Missing first segment of RailClone object rendered with DR

  • Rendering never finishes when rendering animation with DR and no local host

  • Resumable rendering overwrites the render elements separate saved images for the skipped frames with the last frame's ones

  • Scenes with animated lights crash on second frame when rendered in production with DR

  • The static geometry option of VRayDisplacementMod is not exported properly when the displacement mode is subdivision

  • The first frame of animated FOV in PhysicalCamera renders wrong

  • VRayLightMtl Direct illumination subdivisions are not taken into account

  • VRayToon causes refraction fog color rendered more intense

  • Wrong progress bar with Production rendering

  • Rendering is restarted when OCIO is enabled/disabled in the VFB

V-Ray GPU

  • Adaptive Lights are not updated after change in region/resolution during ActiveShade

  • Adaptive Lights space is always allocated even when adaptive lights are disabled

  • Add support for arbitrary clipper exclude list items

  • affect_alpha for dome light does not work for refraction rays

  • Animation stuck on the third frame in specific scene (out of process)

  • Artifact in the zenith of the sky with VRayAerialPerspective

  • Artifacts with Keep continuity of VRayDisplacementMod and VRayScannedMtl

  • VRayBlendMtl material not rendered with OpenCL rendering

  • CUDA clamps VRayLightMtl with assigned VRayColor

  • Camera lens distortion is not working when motion blur is ON

  • Camera position is not updated when using a Camera Map Per Pixel map in a scene with an animated camera

  • Can't make bump working with rounded edges and composite tex in Max

  • Crash with particular scene in V-Ray GPU in Max

  • Crash with render to texture in Max

  • Crash with shared VRayEdges textures between materials in specific scene

  • Different results with VRayClipper and Camera rays only option enabled

  • Dome light is visible in the alpha through matte object with opacity

  • Driver 380+ causes some scenes to render bitmaps with wrong UV

  • GI is calculated in with RT GPU mode, even when OFF

  • GPU LightCache reports increasing memory usage between frames when rendering animation

  • GPU renders black when BRDFVRayMtl::fresnel=1

  • Gradient color changes in VRaySoftBox are not handled properly

  • Improve triangle intersection precision

  • Installer should set CUDA_CACHE_MAXSIZE to at least 256MB

  • Memory leak with VRayMDLMtl

  • Objects with VRayOverrideMtl and Visible to camera off are still rendered in RT GPU

  • OpenCL renders black in active shade after a scene change

  • Reduce CPU usage when RT is paused

  • RT GPU (CUDA) doesn't render BRDFVRayMtl fog color texture

  • Reflection/Refraction are not matte when rendered with RT CUDA

  • Remove double adding to normals RE

  • Sometimes V-Ray may enter a deadlock when rendering with CUDA

  • Sphere lights with animated scale crash when rendered with motion blur

  • Stage 2 error with Forest Pack scene

  • Take into account the UVW generator when baking textures

  • TexAColorOp in power mode not working as expected

  • Textures are not rendered if the filename contains the "$" symbol

  • The Color opacity option has been suspended by V-Ray GPU mode

  • The Use pixel aspect button in the VFB doesn't work when rendering with GPU

  • The VFB is not getting reset after AL are built for GPU in Production rendering

  • VRayDenoiser produces artefacts on VRayProxy in the denoised result when DR

  • VRayDirt with bias is flickering in animations

  • VRayPhysicalCamera optical vignetting is not rendered with CUDA

  • VRayTriplanarTex was not rendered correctly with tiled UVs greater than 1

  • Washed out effect of Soft Light blending in Composite texture

  • Wrong alpha channel with VRayLights with Directional parameter above 0.0

  • Wrong progress bar with GPU Production rendering

V-Ray IPR

  • Canceling copying of textured light causes crash in specific scene

  • IPR didn't stop when the VFB was closed

  • Random rendering start failure

  • Wrong 2D displacement with scene manipulations

DR

  • There are files generated in the folder c:\user\vlado on DR render servers

VRayHDRI

  • VRayHDRI with Ground projection is not correctly projected on a plane that exactly coincides with the VRayHDRI ground

  • Textures with Ground projection enabled are not correct on matte objects when visible through reflection

VRayALSurfaceMtl

  • Not working with VRayLightSelect render element

VRayClipper

  • Missing shadows with dynamic geometry

  • Unhandled exception when mesh type clipper is used with 3ds Max standard lights and shadows

VRayDirt

  • Crash when copying exclude lists, containing deleted nodes, through MaxScript

  • Exclude lists stop working properly after some modifications

VRayFur

  • Crash when rendering VRayFur placed on Body objects defined by splines (with any camera and from viewport)

VRayInstancer

  • Differences in scale between Particle Flow rendering natively and instanced

  • Export to .vrmesh of objects with large number of instances never completes

  • VRayInstancer does not render materials with bitmaps properly on the instanced geometry

VRayLightMeter

  • Light meter object cannot be picked

VRayDisplacementMod

  • Crash during rendering

VFB

  • All flyout buttons are not expandable during post-effect calculations

  • CC sliders' numeric value edit boxes are not scaled properly on HiDPI screens

  • Middle button panning gets disabled when there is the Pixel Info window open

  • Panning out of the VFB with real zoom on sticks

  • Pixel info shows values for the wrong image when Compare A|B is swapped

  • effectsResult channel is created even in create Render Elements only mode

VRayMDLMtl

  • Crash after scene reset

  • Exporting and rendering a scene causes crash with out-of-process V-Ray RT

  • Hard-coded textures in MDL materials render black

  • Index of refraction calculations are broken

  • Loading an mdl file after mdl_filename has been cleared through MaxScript crashes 3ds Max

  • Material parameters of enum types are not overridden

  • Materials with df::tint modifier have wrong shadows

  • NaNs are generated when shading degenerated faces

  • Not exported when inside a blend material

  • Opacity maps cause rendering artifacts

  • Stopping a render, resetting the scene and rendering again causes unhandled exception

VRayOSLMtl / VRayOSLTex

  • Random crash on opening the Compact material editor

VRayProxy

  • Wrong Face IDs with Alembic meshes

VRaySamplerInfo

  • Broken normals with VRayMtl

VRayScatterVolumeMtl

  • Renders too dark

VRayScene

  • Crash on rendering end

  • Nodes with modified material in Snippet editor disappear in V-Ray RT renders

VRaySphere

  • Nested refractive spheres don't get intersected correctly

VRayToon

  • The toon effect does not respect trace sets

  • VRayLight type Dome is completely covered with toon color in Orthographic renders

VRayVRmatMtl

  • Unhandled exception when rendering with UDIM tiles

VRayVolumeGrid

  • Artifacts when rendering overlapping containers in Volumetric Geometry mode

  • Black artifacts rendering with Light Cache when the container is inside refractive geometry with gray fog color

  • Can't use Stoke MX Field_texmap to control the smoke opacity channel

  • Exporting a .vrscene with VRayVolumeGrid calculates light and particle pre-passes

  • First frame is skipped when looped

  • Opening a cache file with a negative frame index does not load the rest of the sequence

  • The Loop Overlap option is not exported to V-Ray RT and .vrscene from 3ds Max

  • VRScenes exported from 3ds Max always have Probabilistic Volumetrics forced On

V-Ray Light Lister

  • Grouped lights are not displayed

vdenoise.exe

  • Denoising on GPUs fails in a specific situation