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V-Ray Next, Update 1.2

Official Release

Date - Mar 27, 2019

Download - Build 4.10.03

New features

V-Ray

  • Initial support for 3ds Max 2020

 

Modified features

V-Ray

  • Support for IES files containing the comma (",") symbol in the light's description

 

Bug fixes

V-Ray

  • Blowup and Auto Region Selected produce stretched results
  • Crash when exporting vrscene to a non-existing directory
  • Direct light selects are always propagated through refractions
  • Drop action should fall back to default
  • MaxScript error occurs with viewport menus when V-Ray is downgraded to an older version with no viewport IPR support
  • Separate VRayCryptomatte REs names are not exported to .vrscene
  • Wrong keyframes export to .vrscene, breaking animation rendering

V-Ray GPU

  • Viewport IPR has wrong perspective when switching the active viewport from orthographic projection
  • VRayDenoiser is not always applied on the complete pass
  • VRaySamperInfo render element is not exported
  • Wrong Object XYZ texture mapping for Volume grids rendered

VFB

  • Color corrections panel is missing when is maximized during IPR session
  • Lightness color correction with values close to zero lead to artifacts in Lens Effects results

VRayPhysicalCamera

  • Vertical shift is reset in the viewport preview

VRayProxy

  • "Expand # to frame number" doesn't work in the viewport

VRayVolumeGrid

  • Volume grids loaded from OpenVDB caches that contain internal rotation render clipped with V-Ray GPU

.vrscene exporter

  • Crash when trying to export vrscene to a non-existent folder
  • Decimal separator changes randomly on every export in a specific scene

Installer

  • Silent uninstall does not work for V-Ray Next

 

V-Ray Next, Update 1.1

Official Release

Date - Dec 18, 2018

Download - Build 4.10.02

Modified features

V-Ray

  • Reduce messages about invalid bump normals

V-Ray IPR

  • Do not calculate render elements (except denoiser) for viewport IPR

V-Ray GPU

  • Consistent lighting render elements

VRayFastSSS2

  • Hide "single scatter"'s Raytraced (refractive) and Raytraced (solid) modes when V-Ray GPU is current renderer as they are incompatible

VRayProxy

  • Alembic meshes exported from Phoenix for 3ds Max 2019 can now be rendered with motion blur

VRayVolumeGrid

  • Add empty grid size and resolution options to the user interface
  • Optimize volumetric rendering when Smoke Opacity is modulated by a texture

 

Bug fixes

V-Ray

  • Artifacts in alpha channel with many transparent objects
  • Incorrect lighting elements on matte objects when "Consistent lighting elements" option is enabled
  • Lighting elements are not propagated through refractions with consistent lighting elements enabled
  • Lighting from VRayLightMtl with direct illumination is missing in consistent render elements output

V-Ray IPR

  • Crash with VRayProxy when switching rendering between viewport and VFB
  • Unhiding by category is not updated
  • Viewport IPR option is missing in non-English 3ds Max instances

V-Ray GPU

  • Alembic VRayProxy copies randomly disappear (since 4.10.01)
  • Artifacts with matte and Adaptive Dome light
  • Crash when rendering animation sequence with DR and animated lights
  • Crash when stopping viewport IPR during compiling kernels phase
  • Gradient Ramp stops working when moving the time slider in V-Ray GPU IPR with motion blur
  • Production rendering of a sequence with deleted particle source for VRayInstancer returns error (since 4.10.01)
  • VRayProxy updating animation stops when its Object ID is changed during IPR (since 4.10.01)

VRayFur

  • Animated parameters are not exported
  • Wrong placement with selected faces in .vrscenes

VRayLight

  • Some spinners in the UI for disabled properties

VRayMDL

  • Materials with material.ior that depends on a material parameter crash in V-Ray GPU IPR

VRayOptionRE

  • Crash to desktop when render element is placed last in the list

VRayPluginNode

  • Crash to desktop with VRayPluginNodeMtl in 3ds Max 2013 (since 4.10.01)

VRayScannedMtl

  • Different buckets in VRayDiffuseFilter and VRayReflection from DR hosts

VRayVolumeGrid

  • The warning about DR and local paths is still appearing even when there is no volume grid in the scene

ply2vrmesh.exe

  • The -velocityAttrName parameter does not work for Alembic input files

 

V-Ray Next, Update 1

Official Release

Date - Nov 29, 2018

Download - Build 4.10.01

New features

V-Ray/V-Ray GPU

  • Add Nitrous viewport IPR support

V-Ray GPU

  • Add bucket rendering support
  • Add support for the Cryptomatte render element when in bucket mode
  • On-demand texture mode support for IPR
  • Support for VRayMtl refraction dispersion

V-Ray Cloud

  • Lighting Analysis render element support

VRayGLSL

  • Ability to read vertex color and vertex alpha from within shaders

VRayInstancer

  • Add instancing mode "By particleInteger"

VRayNoiseTex

  • A new texmap based on VRayPluginNode that renders the same both on V-Ray and V-Ray GPU and in V-Ray Standalone

VRayHairNextMtl

  • Added Glint and Glitter controls

VRayPhysicalCamera

  • Rolling shutter effect for motion blur

VRayVolumeGrid

  • Add a .getFrameInfo() MAXScript function that retrieves the currently loaded frame info string
  • Add support for NVLink for GPU Volumetrics rendering
  • Add support for textures in GPU volumetrics
  • Implement render and preview of instanced nodes
  • Support for instancing volume grids and Particle Shaders using VRayInstancer in 3ds Max
  • Support for Scene and Object XRefs

VFB

  • Add "Save in image" option to the LUT color correction
  • Add Weight parameter for the LUT color correction
  • Add an option to save image color corrections to raw .exr and .vrimg files
  • Reworked lens bloom and glare lens effects calculation

 

Modified features

V-Ray

  • Lens effects memory and speed improvements
  • Improve lighting render elements consistency, automatically enabled for new scenes and when using the adaptive dome light
  • Improve light cache preview
  • Hide the legacy VRayMap
  • Print a warning when using the irradiance map with full light select elements
  • Add Chinese tooltip translations
  • Add a parameter for additional control of the auto-exposure (renderers.current.camera_autoExposure_compensation)

V-Ray IPR

  • Support for most atmospheric effects in IPR mode
  • Improve interactive responsiveness with heavy scenes

V-Ray GPU

  • Improved image sampling with many (more than 1k) samples efficiency
  • Add support for RGB Tint and RGB Multiply textures
  • Faster calculations VRayFastSSS2 materials
  • Grey out the unsupported subdivs and cutoff parameters for lights, materials and textures
  • Reduce memory usage with motion blur
  • Speed up loading of 8-bit textures
  • Support for "Affect background" with the bucket sampler
  • Faster geometry updates during IPR
  • Add a warning if there is an unsupported render/bake element
  • Add Alembic visibility_list support for VRayProxy
  • Add support for GrowFX

V-Ray Cloud

  • Add support for the Waves texmap
  • Export color corrections settings in .vrscene files
  • Support for Dent Map

VRayDisplacementMod

  • Improve "Keep continuity" option to weld seams at vertices too

VRayHDRI

  • Support for the <frameNum> tag

VRayInstancer

  • Improve speed during scene preparation

VRayGLSL/VRayMDL

  • Add support for "C++/CPU" CUDA devices rendering

VRayOrnatrixMod

  • Implement Ornatrix v6 support for optimized hair data access
  • Utilize the width data from the new OX Change Width modifier

VRayOSL

  • Implemented the supported wrap modes
  • Add more parameters to the vray_subsurface closure

VRayPluginNode

  • Add a short description info based on the plugin description

VRayProxy

  • Read proxy files on demand so that only visible proxies are loaded

VRayScene

  • Instancer is not shown in the viewport

VRayLightSelect

  • Add Include/Exclude list by layer selection

VRayOptionRE

  • Ability to update the exr metadata parameter in VRayOptionRE with a per-frame MaxScript callback

VRayUnclampedColor

  • Remove the "color mapping" parameter

VRayVolumeGrid

  • Expose the grid-based motion blur algorithm from Phoenix FD 3.00.01 for use via the 'mbgrid' script parameter
  • Support for the new transformation model of OpenVDB caches from FumeFX 5

VFB

  • Add docking support for the main window (enabled by the VRAY_VFB_DOCKABLE environment variable)
  • Use text labels for the flyout buttons
  • Lens effects size to accept values lower than 1.0

V-Ray Toolbar

  • Align the newly created camera from "V-Ray Physical Camera" button

V-Ray Bitmap to VRayHDRI converter

  • Improve responsiveness and conversion speed
  • The "Half" precision option should be on by default

vdenoise.exe

  • Ability to apply lens effects from .vrscene files

VRayDenoiser

  • NVIDIA AI denoiser uses less GPU memory for denoising

 

Bug fixes

V-Ray

  • Warning messages about invalid bump normals should be printed just once per material
  • Reduce slowdown due to repeating attempts to load missing texture files in case many materials refer them
  • Very slow elliptical filtering with tiled textures
  • Crash with region rendering, with render elements and Previous render set to Darken
  • Crash with Forest Pro with VRayLightMtl with Direct illumination enabled
  • Rare crash with infinitely recursive processing of 3ds Max progress bar events
  • Different brightness with high-resolution renderings with Auto Exposure enabled
  • Crash when rendering VRayLightMtl and VRayExtraTex with the same MultiTexture
  • Artifacts with adaptive lights in different situations
  • The "Direct visualization" option for caustics doesn't work
  • Starting a production render after IPR may cancel immediately in some scenes
  • Artifacts with Phoenix FD Ocean with Ocean Displacement
  • BerconTile map has wrong mapping rendering from .vrscenes
  • Different buckets with DR and Auto Exposure
  • DR may have watermarks if network is unstable due to license failure
  • Update change of geometry type per object (static or dynamic geometry) from the V-Ray object properties while rendering
  • NaN pixels in VRayReflection render element
  • Random crash when cancelling a batch render in 3ds Max
  • Turning Frame Stamp off in the Render Setup is not working if it's on in the VFB
  • Tooltip translations are not applied to VRayLight and the V-Ray render elements

VRayLight

  • Artifacts in VRayShadows and VRayGlobalIllumination render elements with adaptive dome light or adaptive lights
  • Adaptive dome light artifacts in specular in specific situations with max ray intensity enabled
  • Artifacts with matte objects (matte for refl/refr = off) and adaptive dome light
  • Artifacts with long and thin (like 7000x3) rectangle light
  • Transparent objects with "cast shadows" off render black when there is a dome VRayLight behind them
  • Dome light affects objects inside other objects with matte turned on
  • Crash when rendering with a MAXScript plugin derived from VRayLight

VRayDenoiser

  • Super bright lens effects when using the NVidia AI denoiser with very noisy images

V-Ray IPR

  • Crash when removing vertices or polygons while IPR is running and motion blur is enabled
  • Crash when modifying a texmap attached to VRayDisplacementMod
  • Crash when undoing deletions of geometries with VRayDirt
  • 3ds max crash when using VRayMetaball
  • Stalling the whole UI in scenes with many VRayScannedMtls
  • Crash when scrubbing the timeline in a scene with VRayMetaball
  • Changes to VRaySphereFade parameters are not updated
  • Random crash when restarting rendering with VRayOSL
  • Crashes when modifying geometry during rendering
  • Crash with animated Alembic files when dragging the time slider
  • "Hidden lights" option is ignored
  • Different exposure when using the Physical camera exposure Control and after toggling the Exposure option off-on with VRayPhysicalCamera
  • Set focus distance doesn't update the DOF effect with VRayPhysicalCamera
  • Rendering gets stuck when rendering XMesh object
  • Black output with more than one VRayDenoiser render elements

V-Ray GPU

  • Crash on the second frame with scenes containing lots of animated plugins
  • When there is just one light in the scene, adaptive lights unnecessarily resets the progressive buffer
  • Crash when loading new scene and IPR is still running
  • Unhandled exception when aborting IPR during VRayProxy loading
  • Crash when view dependent displacement is used with orthographic projection
  • Unhandled exception when VRayPlane is shaded with a VRayLightMtl with Direct illumination enabled
  • Wrong path expansion for IFL files if the full path to the IFL is not present
  • V-Ray raw image file is saved as 16-bit EXR regardless of the saving settings if VRayOptionRE is not present
  • IPR with DR hangs if you drag the time slider
  • "RGB Level" of Output map has no effect on Mix map unless "Enable color Map" is checked
  • VRayMtl with GGX brdf has incorrect glossiness in some situations
  • Sequence rendering stops after few frames on scene with Falloff map
  • VRayLight set to "Disc" produces wrong intensity when using the lumens unit
  • Environment ZDepth color does not match V-Ray
  • Black zdepth pass with "use camera clip boundaries" enabled and the physical camera's clipping planes disabled
  • Artifacts with VRayScannedMtl with "Edges Displacement"
  • Artifacts with adaptive lights
  • Artifacts with adaptive lights and animation sequence
  • Animated intensity of VRaySun is not taken into account in IPR
  • Artifacts with displacement in scene with very narrow faces
  • Geometry with VRayEdgesTex with "Show subtriangles" enabled renders black
  • ExtraTex with Ramp driven by facing ratio internally uses no interpolation between positions
  • Invisible Dome VRayLight is visible through VRay2SidedMtl with refractive VRayMtl and transparent VRayMtl
  • Noisy alpha channel with shadow catcher objects
  • Difference in GI generated by matte objects using BF or LC with glossy reflections
  • The temperature attribute of the VRayRectLight doesn't work when the light is set to be a "Disc"
  • Support for VRayLightMtl's Opacity
  • Incorrect VRayPlane bump mapping
  • Wrong IPR render with specific scene with render elements
  • Fireflies with VRscan car-paint with flakes
  • VRayFastSSS2 on GPU gives additional specular artifacts
  • Flickering between the first and rest of the frames with Forest Pro and Mesh VRayLight
  • VRayRefractionMap, VRayRefractionFilterMap, VRayExtraTexMap result is blank when baking textures
  • The "Dim distance" parameter doesn't work with Dome Lights
  • Cuda error 700 with VRayHairMtl with VRayHairInfoTex set to "Random by strand index"
  • Displacement AutoBump for GPU does not produce correct results
  • Issues with textures with either dimension larger than 32768 pixels
  • The Invert option of nested Output rollout/map renders wrong
  • Invert output option of VRayHDRI texmap is not properly considered when used with multiple materials
  • Backburner marks job as failed when there is an error in V-Ray messages for unsupported material
  • Wrong render of VRayFur and Ornatrix objects when using VRayUserColor map
  • VRayFastSSS2 is producing artifacts when a texture with black areas is loaded as a scatter radius texture
  • VRayDiffuseFilter render element for VRayFastSSS2 is rendered incorrect
  • VRayLightSelect render element for VRayFastSSS2 is rendered incorrect
  • Wrong render of edgesTex on subdivision surfaces
  • Artifacts with VRayScannedMtl and Bump multiplier
  • VRayEdgesTex not showing up in diffuse channel with IPR
  • Random crash with specific heavy scene with animation
  • Tint override in Forest Color is ignored when there is texture randomization
  • Unhandled exception when changing SSS materials during IPR
  • Crash with certain GLSL materials in BRDF mode
  • Crash when loading with a scene where geometry map channel info is inconsistent with face count
  • SSS artifacts on voxel edges of proxy object due to different voxel splitting on GPU
  • Crash when rendering animation with VRayProxy with multiple voxels
  • Black transparency effect in a scene with a lot of geometry stacked behind each other
  • Matte doesn't work with Multi/Sub-object materials
  • Textures from IFL are not updating correctly during IPR
  • Animated clipping plane of VRayPhysicalCamera is not exported to .vrscene
  • Crash on update with animated meshes with motion blur during IPR
  • If there are unsupported elements baking output is wrong due to messed elements order
  • Unhandled exception with VRayPlane or VRayFur converted to mesh light
  • If V-Ray is the current render engine, V-Ray GPU utilization settings are exported with wrong values
  • Composite map with empty layers is not exported correctly
  • Noise threshold reports are misleading
  • Forest Pack "Limit to Visibility" is not properly exported to .vrscene when the camera is animated
  • Body object is always exported with draft quality
  • Maxscript command vrayUpdateIPR() stops the IPR

V-Ray Cloud

  • Export stats dialog should not be closed on scene node deletion
  • Animated tilt and shift parameters of physical cameras are not exported in .vrscenes
  • Animated color of the Falloff map is not exported
  • Animated VRayPhysicalCamera target movement is not exported
  • Flipped textures in VRayOSL
  • Camera animation discrepancies with V-Ray
  • Export VRayWireColor render element
  • VRayNormalMap assigned to VRayBumpMtl is not exported
  • No motion blur is rendered on the last frame when exporting an animation frame range
  • Vector displacement in "Object" mode produces wrong result
  • Invalid colors when rendering scenes with two VRay2SidedMtl materials nested in each other
  • Mesh VRayClipper doesn't work if the mesh has animated parameters
  • Animated parameters of VRayMtl are not exported
  • Physical cameras with offset pivots are not exported properly
  • Ornatrix feathers are not exported
  • Animated intensity of VRayIES lights is not exported
  • Animated Multiplier of VRayLights is not exported
  • Animated VRaySun position is not exported
  • Export for VRayMtlID render element in .vrscene files
  • Texmap plugged into a texture slot of the Tiles map is rendered even if turned off
  • Displacement turned off in the V-Ray Global Switches still renders
  • Wrong material rendered when Falloff map is used
  • Animated VRayPhysicalCamera "Zoom factor" is not exported
  • Forest Pack object with "Visible to Camera" disabled still renders
  • Animated slice modifier resets Material object ID's when exporting animation in .vrscene
  • Difference in render result when using MultiTexture
  • Different result with V-Ray for invisible spherical VRayLight and VRayEnvironmentFog
  • Material editor sample slots rendering slows down the vrscene export
  • Wrong render time in V-Ray log when material editor is opened during IPR
  • Wrong export of the Gain parameter of ColorMap
  • Saving V-Ray raw image file and Separate render channels options are not exported
  • Shutter offset of the Physical camera is not exported properly
  • Exporting a .vrscene without animation always includes "//Frame at time 1" in the .vrscene file
  • The option to lock the dome light texture orientation to the dome light viewport icon not taken into account when exporting animated .vrscene
  • "Lights" option in Global Switches is ignored

VRayALSurfaceMtl

  • Opacity slot not exported in .vrscenes
  • Endless render when the SSS1/2/3 radius values are set to 0

VRayDistanceTex

  • Crash when using the material editor while a Phoenix FD simulation that is evaluating a VRayDistanceTex is running
  • Not working with particle systems loaded in its objects list
  • Texmap is affected only by renderable objects in V-Ray GPU

VRayFur

  • Different bend direction between V-Ray and V-Ray GPU

VRayFurStyler

  • Crash when copied/cloned

VRayGLSL

  • Error when merging scenes with GLSL shaders
  • Anisotropy has wrong mapping and rotation
  • Shaders with uninitialized samplers crash with V-Ray GPU
  • GLSL materials cause V-Ray GPU to recompile kernels on each start
  • Shaders use too much memory per thread
  • vr_RayFlags has incorrect value with V-Ray GPU
  • Vector displacement in "Object" mode does not work with V-Ray GPU

VRayGLSL/VRayMDL/VRayOSL

  • Cloned or copied plugin may result in error

VRayGLSL/VRayMDL

  • LLVM produces code for Skylake processors that causes crashes
  • Crash with specific shader rendering with V-Ray GPU

VRayHDRI

  • Undo doesn't work for Bitmap field

VRayIES

  • Cloning a light causes it to render incorrectly

VRayInstancer

  • Instances are rendered with the particle materials instead of the instanced geometry material

VRayMDL

  • Param block error on scene load
  • Crash when the material of the node is changed
  • Empty material crashes 3ds Max when rendering with V-Ray GPU

VRayOrnatrixMod

  • Crash with VRayHairNextMtl and motion blur
  • ObjectSpace data per vertex of the hair is not working in V-Ray Next
  • Per-vertex mapping for hairs' texmaps

VRayOSL

  • Randomly rendering black
  • Local assets are not found when rendering with V-Ray GPU
  • OSL additional paths not working in 3ds MAX
  • Crashes in V-Ray IPR
  • Bitmap texture buttons don't work in Slate Material Editor
  • UI shows string popups as texture buttons

VRayPluginNode

  • Ability to use V-Ray PluginNodeTex in bump and displacement material slots
  • ObjectXYZ and WorldXYZ mapping modes
  • Plugins with texture inputs don't have an input to load a bitmap file
  • Mtl plugins have no inputs
  • Material with BRDFCarPaint and BRDFStochasticFlakes renders black with V-Ray GPU
  • Crash with TexFalloff or TexCellular when assigned to material
  • Plugin parameters have reverse tab order of UI controls
  • Wrong initial render with MtlOverride plugin
  • Gaps along the boundaries of TexBitmap plugin
  • Animated parameters are not saved with scene
  • Parameters' tooltips and ranges are not correctly set
  • Texmap buttons are not immediately updated in 3ds Max 2013-2016

VRayProxy

  • Crash when opening a scene with Аlembic preview file
  • Preview cache sometimes prevents proper rendering with Alembic offset
  • Tooltip text listed in Parameter Wiring dialog

VRayScene

  • Crash with .vrscene sequence and missing first file
  • Crash when using UV-coordinates from an imported .vscene
  • VRayExtraTex with a bitmap is blurred on objects from the .vrscene
  • Viewport representation of VRayLights from vrscenes is wrong

VRayVolumeGrid

  • Missing buckets with moving volume grid in Volumetric Geometry mode and motion blur
  • Render Cutter in Isosurface mode of a volume grid with VRayMtl with Affect Shadows blocks GI rays for geometry inside the Cutter with V-Ray Next
  • Incorrect light intensity with Approximate Scattering using V-Ray GPU
  • Random crash when rendering a volume grid in Volumetric Geometry mode with V-Ray Velocity Render element
  • VRayVelocity render element doesn't work in Volumetric Geometry mode
  • Exception Compiling Geometry when attempting to start IPR in Mesh, Ocean Mesh or Cap Mesh mode
  • Volume renders wrong on CPU when the grid is moving with the camera and Motion Blur and the Phoenix Light Cache are used
  • Buckets in VRayLightSelect render element when rendering in Volumetric Geometry mode with Phoenix Light Cache enabled
  • Rendering a scene containing a volume grid and a Phoenix FD Simulator causes a crash with V-Ray GPU
  • Even when there aren't active render elements warnings appear in V-Ray messages
  • Incorrect preview when volume grid's pivot point is offset
  • Voxel preview of temperature around 200 Kelvins with As Fire enabled draws bright red and pink voxels
  • Warning: Emit light isn't supported on V-Ray GPU

VFB

  • Crash when enabling Bloom/Glare while A/B compare is enabled
  • Lens effects Threshold parameter value is reset on scene open
  • LUT color correction is not loaded properly from 3ds Max scene files
  • Blank VFB when comparing images from history after effectResult is generated
  • Freezes randomly if playing with it while rendering
  • Maximized VFB returns to previous size on render start on 3ds Max 2018-2019
  • Buckets shift slightly when completed

V-Ray scene converter

  • Standard materials are converted to VRayMtl with unlocked highlights and reflection glossiness

VRayDenoiser/vdenoise.exe

  • NVIDIA AI denoiser is not releasing the GPU memory after the denoise calculation