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Build 6.20.05

Official release, Update 2

Date - Feb 15, 2024


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New features

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V-Ray

  • Add new instancing backend for lower time to first pixel and optimized scene size
  • Implement multi-threaded "Compiling geometry" step for polygon meshes
  • Houdini 20: GCC 11 build support
  • Add support for Houdini 20.0.590 production build
  • Add support for Houdini 20.0.547 production build
  • Update V-Ray Core to 6.2
  • Make single installer for all supported minor HDK builds, per major HDK version
  • Image File VOP "File Path" parameter promotion
  • Add Preserve Geometry Borders support

Solaris

  • Add support for Resumable rendering
  • Toon environment effect support
  • Add support for Unpacking nested instancers to improve time to first pixel
  • Implement Python Post Translate

Lights

  • Add Light Attenuation controls


  • Add "Path Guiding" for Light Cache GI to the V-Ray Render Settings
  • Add "Adaptivity Clamp" option to the V-Ray Render Settings
  • Add "Directional Strength" paramter for V-Ray Rect Light
  • Add "Adaptivity Prepass" parameter for Brute Force GI
  • Add "Light Select Matte" toggle for isolating shadows over matte/holdout surfaces with Light Select AOV
  • Add "Direct Diffuse Shadow" and "Direct Specular Shadow" modes for Light Select AOV
  • Add custom OCIO control for providing a config file under the Units tab of the V-Ray Render Settings
  • Add Phase Function control for the V-Ray Fog Effect
  • Allow for separate material assignment for V-Ray Fur when using Displaced geometry as the source
  • Add support for Per Area distribution type for V-Ray Fur with live geometry
  • Expose V-Ray Fur "Lock to Surface" and "Reference Frame" for "Per Area" distribution type
  • Add "Bump Delta Scale" control for the V-Ray Material
  • Add support for Renderer ROP Material Overrides for Volumetrics
  • Add N attribute sampling support through User Color VOP
  • Add "Min.Pixel Size" render setting to support very small lights that are far from the camera
  • Support for Cryptomatte by attribute for Alembic primitives
  • MtlX: Add GPU support for Mtlx Image's Signature type
  • Add support for positive and negative axis textures for the TriPlanar texture
  • Add "real_world_scale" parameter for the V-Ray Plane SOP
  • Add V-Ray Decal Displacement parameters
  • Add support for VDB vector fields for Smoke Color
  • Add support for SOP level V-Ray Object Properties for packed disk primitive VDBs
  • Solaris: add support for vec3 and float3 volumes for smoke color
  • Solaris: Add support for live volumes
  • Solaris: Add support for V-Ray Clipper through the Render Geometry Settings LOP
  • Solaris: Add OSL support
  • Add ability to assing V-Ray Object Properties at the SOP level
  • Add support for V-Ray Material metalness and roughness render elements
  • Add support for the "Preserve Geometry Borders" toggle for Subdivision
  • Add support for Light Select for Environment Fog with texture attached to it
  • Add support for Houdini's native Parameter VOP
  • Add proxy preview type in VRayScene import
  • Add export for V-Ray crease data with subdivision
  • Add support for crease data for meshes
  • Add support for shader overrides based on "scene_name" for Rayserver Instancer
  • Add CUDA/RTX support for the Random VOP
  • Add support for Bitmap Buffer frame overrides allowing linear/loop/ping-pong/hold playback of texture sequences
  • Add support for Instance node "Point Motion Blur" parameter
  • Add support for subnetconnector node
  • Solaris: Implement "Trace Sets"
  • Generate velocity out of vertex animation for Velocity AOV if not present
  • Solaris: Use V-Ray Camera settings for viewport IPR
  • Solaris: Instance detection to reduce time to first pixel and RAM used for rendering
  • Solaris: Added COP nodes support
  • Solaris: Write denoiser gen. render elements through Hydra
  • Solaris: Add an option whether to use reference points or not
  • Solaris: Support for Cryptomatte primvars for instanced particles
  • Solaris: Support for Cryptomatte primvars for instanced hair
  • Solaris: Initial implementation of V-Ray light filters
  • Add Render Channel Color support for Sheen and Coat
  • Add Render Channel Glossiness support for Sheen and Coat
  • Solaris: Faster output for beauty render element
  • Solaris: Add support for barn door parameters
  • Support for VRScene unpacking with RenderStats, Wrapper or Multi ID material export from 3ds Max
  • Add Volume Shader Velocity Smoothing "Threshold" and "Similarity" options
  • Export the V-Ray Material SSS to the SSS render element instead of Refraction
  • GPU: Add support for object properties reflection/refraction mask in RTX mode

Modified features

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  • Solaris: Add UsdUVTexture scale/bias support
  • Solaris: Ensure smooth normals on crowd cache
  • Cosmos: use space_multiplier for proper scaling of imported object
  • Set Cosmos asset materials using a Material SOP instead of assigning the material at the object level
  • Single Installer: add folder check
  • Add support for Renderer ROP Material Overrides for Volumetrics
  • Expose the "Scale Opacity by Scene Units" option of the Volume Shader so Smoke Alpha can be based on scene units rather than voxel count
  • Hide BRDFHair3 from the GUI
  • MaterialX: Export all outputs present in TexFloatOp to TexAColorOp
  • Add missing "Position Across Strand" output for the V-Ray Hair Sampler
  • Show the"Use Focus Distance from Camera" parameter for the Depth of Field settings of the V-Ray Renderer ROP
  • Expose the UV Bercon Variance Offset, Size and Angle as textureable parameters
  • Enable IPR info logging by default
  • Specified VFB History folder should be automatically created if not present on disk
  • Combine Light materials and Lights with duplicate names in a single element when using Light Mix in "Instanced Lights" mode
  • Solaris: Do not clamp velocity by default
  • Apply Enmesh from Cosmos import on all selected object nodes
  • Noise pattern may remain the same for a few frames even with "animated noise pattern" option enabled
  • Ability to promote parameters for textures in VO context
  • Bump2Glossiness: rearange the UI
  • Add support for automatic UV channel handling for VRScene materials from Houdini to 3ds Max
  • Solaris: Strip instance prototype material path __Prototype_ prefix
  • Solaris: Slow translation of V-Ray shaders
  • Solaris: Improve viewport volume speed
  • Calculate min/max displacement and cusp in frameBeginsable history autosave when rendering animation
  • USD: Add standalone V-Ray 6 builds
  • Set /obj V-Ray light node shape to 'light' and color to yellow on creation
  • Vantage: Instanced geometry is not loaded from live link to Vantage
  • Allow post translate scripts to change VFB settings and layers

Bug fixes

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  • Solaris: toggling control on one of the Volumetrics settings triggers the VFB
  • Wrong UI definition for SettingsOutput::img_saveCryptomattesSeparately
  • LightSelect : shadow select modes are missing in Type dropdown menu
  • Solaris/USD : "Use Blend Input" of TexFalloff breaks the IPR
  • Solaris: TexFalloff is not updating in IPR
  • Solaris: Light linker IPR update
  • Solaris/USD: lightlinker does not respect instances
  • Solaris: Render hair and smooth normals on Crowd assets as Karma does
  • Solaris: TexSoftbox ignores vignette
  • Solaris: lightlinker does not respect include/exclude when subobjects are used
  • Solaris: rectlight has wrong control parm definition for directional_strength
  • Solaris: error when try to create vraystandardrendervars
  • Solaris: Light Filters go missing in Viewport rendering when changing the node display flag
  • Crash with GeomMayaHair plugins with different time samples
  • SettingsLightCache parameter defaults
  • Installer button for telemetry "Help make V-Ray better" is missing
  • Installer will hang if you run the V-Ray installation while Houdini is open
  • Solaris: Crash with the p_ref AOV
  • Solaris: Cylinder light flickers on every frame
  • Solaris: V-Ray light filter has stopped working
  • MaterialX: MtlX Mix VOP in "Surface Shader" mode has no effect
  • Instanced light transforms are ignored
  • Very small lights will flicker or completely disappear from final render
  • Solaris: when no lights are present in /stage, a default light with very high intensity is generated for husk with Houdini 20.0.506
  • Houdini 20: V-Ray Material builder is not shown in the menus by default
  • MtlX: UVtiling and UVoffset parameters of MtlX Tiled Image are not working with V-Ray
  • Volumes in Volumetric Geometry mode disappear when object level transform is different from Hang on sequence render end on Linux with hython and volumes when passing a python file with a list of Houdini files to render
  • Hang when rendering volumes with Motion Blur starting Nov. 23, 2023
  • Solaris: Discrepancy between Production and Interactive when rendering volumes
  • Failing NodeJS scripts for the cloud builds from stable/houdini/6.1 branch
  • Aperture offset with data window doesn't work
  • Render Region in Solaris is wrong in Houdini 20
  • environmentFog as Node::volume renders black/grey when domelight shadows are ON
  • Hair crash/hang when there are repeating vertices
  • "Mix. Map" is always exported and used for V-Ray Mix texture, making the "Mix Amount" parameter redundant
  • Wrong export and rendering for UV Projection for Solaris and vanilla Houdini
  • Compiling geometry in V-Ray Standalone with specific scene takes high amont of time
  • Solaris/USD : MtlX Geometry Property Value stopped working
  • Enabling the "W Coord" for Hair will cause the Z component of custom attributes to be overriden when read with UserColor VOP
  • Solaris/USD : user_attributes_bin not exported in latest nightlies
  • Solaris/USD : instances stopped working
  • Solaris/USD : VolumeVrayToon rendered white even that correct color is written into USD
  • Solaris/USD : BRDFLight doubleSided and emitOnBackSid has no effect
  • MaterialX: a lot of mtlx textures failed after latest mtlx changes
  • Solaris/USD : expose occludeLights parameter for Rectandle, Disc and Sphere lights
  • Different displacement on Linux and Windows on a triangle fan with a degenerate triangle
  • macos: Qt errors with Husk
  • Ocean Spectra's pointmask doesn't work correctly when the grid is offset
  • Solaris: Artifacts in Noise Level AOV when rendering through Husk using the Bucket Sampler
  • Blank Velocity pass when Displacement is enabled
  • Solaris - Motion Blur and Depth of Field are disabled by default for Husk
  • BRDFScanned: file parameter has wrong value
  • Disabling the Render Stats "Cast Shadows" option has no effect for self-shadowing when used in a Material Override shading network
  • MacOS: Immediate crash on render and/or VRScene export
  • Solaris/USD : attenuation parms for lightmesh have wrong names
  • Ocean Spectra "cusp" output has varying intensity during animation rendering causing a flickering effect
  • Cosmos: textures of cosmos assets not rendered starting with builds from July 12
  • Cosmos: Missing textures  asset materials)
  • Solaris/USD: osd_subdiv_enable is enabled for cube mesh
  • Solaris/USD: wrong bitmap path when <frame04> in file name
  • Solaris/USD : attenuation control for lightmesh are not exposed
  • Export Camera Screen Window X/Y parameter for each frame in the VRScene file
  • Inability to choose In / Out Color Space Parameters with aces-v1.3_ocio-v2.1 config
  • Ocean Spectra Wave Instancing - crash when "Radius" option is disabled
  • Ocean Spectra Wave Instancing artifacts when instance point radius overlaps for multiple points
  • Solaris - Camera Aperture Offsets are ignored when rendering through Husk with V-Ray
  • Significant rendering slowdown with Ocean Spectra displacement between Core 6.0 and 6.1
  • The Sun Light Clouds "Seed" parameter should default to "0" instead of "1024"
  • The first render after disabling "Override Camera Resolution" on the Renderer ROP is cropped incorrectly
  • normal_uvwgen not exported for BRDFBump and TexNormalBump
  • Potential unnecessary object cooking
  • Wrong alembic frame is loaded when using a looping sequence with Motion Blur enabled
  • Missing export for nodes inside Subnet VOPs when using a Parameter VOP to create the I/O sockets
  • Solaris: missing primvar export when Reference LOP "Make Instanceable" is enabled
  • Velocity AOV output is wrong when using a Digital Asset for the Render Elements parameter on the V-Ray Renderer ROP
  • Changes to Log Verbosity aren't being saved when changing it after ending IPR session
  • Support for the Alembic file format for V-Ray Fur
  • Render Elements are not exported separately when Write Deep Data is enabled
  • Animated Focus Distance parameter is not exported when Physical Camera is not present
  • Update V-Ray Fur distribution slider range
  • Alembic Velocity blur bounds are computed based on geometry time samples blur
  • Support for Displaced Geometry for V-Ray Fur
  • Solaris: IPR is not updated on shader parameters change
  • Wrong V-Ray Material SSS with Rayserver Instancer enabled
  • Solaris: V-Ray Dome Camera FOV is not correctly exported
  • Solaris: Materials always force create a preview shader
  • Solaris: Translate promoted parameters to the main shader primitive
  • SOP level material assignments are ignored for instanced Alembic primitives using Rayserver Instancer
  • LightMix: all materials are rendered as AOV when Light groups are Instanced Lights
  • V-Ray About Window is too big
  • Data conversion for socket type "color" to socket type "vector" fails
  • LPE: wrong contribution when light LPE tag is used
  • Solaris: VRayToon material is not working
  • EULA: installer does not save ".eulaAcceptedXXXXXX..." file , so second acceptance is required in Houdini
  • Solaris: VFB may be not shown for husk
  • Missing geometries with detectGeoCopies sometimes on linux
  • Plastic Translucent Cosmos Materials render incorrectly
  • ChangeLog: updated changelog in 6.1 RC3 is wrong
  • Textures' parameters do not show up in Houdini 19.5.605 on OSX
  • Cloud: job is not uploaded to cloud
  • Add VFH_TAG_ROP_IPR for ROP parameters which are not handled by IPR
  • Solaris: lights attenuation is not taken into account
  • Wrong parameter label for Transform Matrix Rotation Order control
  • Bump2Glossiness: not accessible in UI
  • GeomPlane: real_world_scale is not exported
  • VRayDecal: wrong displacement amount
  • V-Ray Renderer "Show Frame Buffer" button does not work until V-Ray is initialized through a render
  • Bump does not work when Attributes are added to the Triplanar
  • Solaris: Match multiple texture user tags
  • Invalid Plugin ID warning
  • Object Properties visibility settings have no effect for very small objects when Subdivision is applied
  • Cast Shadows option from V-Ray Object Properties does not work with static geometry when a material is assigned
  • Solaris: vector displacement options are not exported
  • Solaris: Instanced volume - invisible prototype
  • Solaris: export float AOVs for Denoiser "defocusAmount" and "noiseLevel"
  • Very slow forced materials translation
  • Mesh Light disappears on second frame of a sequence render in GUI rendering only
  • 3ds Max VRMat import of VRScene material coming from Houdini has no UV mapping
  • Solaris: TexPatternID missing attribute registration
  • Solaris: Duplicated frames when rendering specific USD with Husk
  • Velocity render element with motion blur disabled causes triplanar offset
  • Post Translate script effect is lost during IPR for Physical Camera, if changes to the camera parameters are made
  • Solaris: Render Region is sometimes not updated correctly until a camera move
  • Crash or Freeze when scrubbing the timeline while IPR is active
  • Environment Fog is missing from Light Select AOV if the fog is textured
  • GPU: Matte Shadows is wrong with Rect lights when Shadow Bias is very low
  • Slow export for VRScene files when batch rendering
  • Solaris: Performance issues on some configurations with certain Ocean setup
  • Solaris: Sampler bumpNormals output is wrong for rayserver
  • Solaris: TexSampler::random_by_polyShell does not work with rayserver
  • Solaris: velocity AOV with disabled motion blur
  • Solaris: Instanced objects Cryptomatte for Material Name and Material Path modes has wrong manifest
  • Pack Scene command throws an error with latest builds
  • Popping alembic transform when motion blur is enabled with Duration of 1.0 and Interval Center of 0.0 when exporting single VRScene for entire sequence length
  • Solaris: Discrepancy in Mapping compared to VMaya with a provided .USD
  • Specific tiled EXR file returns black color when applied as texture due to only channel present in file being rgb.R
  • LPE light tags are not treated as events which causes wrong output for tagged lights
  • GI from all lights is included in Light Select when using LPEs with Light Cache instead of Brute Force
  • TexOceanSpectra with motion-blur produces slightly different displacement than without motion-blur
  • Solaris: parts of the geometry are missing when render via husk
  • Solaris: display flag change makes all the geometry to become transparent
  • Wrong transforms in Hydra with specific USD scene
  • Installer: silent install is not working
  • IPR: decal displacement is not handled by IPR
  • LightMtl: texture as color multiplier produces different result than direct value
  • LightInstancer: Instancing of textured lights
  • Primary visibility for geometry with overlapping parts cuts to alpha
  • V-Ray Enmesh: add support for alembic as source and reference objects
  • V-Ray Enmesh: add support for packed source and reference objects
  • Installer: prevent installing over running V-Ray if Houdini or Husk are running
  • Instanced objects transform is ignored when using Light material with Direct Illumination t)
  • Solaris: Displacment VOP parameter "Use Global Settings" is ignored
  • ColorCorrectMaya is not exported to .vrscene when GPU is chosen
  • Solaris: Displacement - override settings globally not working
  • High memory usage and geometry compile time when using Alembic with instanced shapes instead of vrmesh
  • MaterialX Color Ramp has wrong output when used with a Geometry Property Value sampling the UVs of the geometry
  • Solaris empty viewport when using Distributed Rendering
  • VRScene Material Import fails due to missing plugins: MayaMultiplyDivide and TexPlusMinusAverage
  • Solaris: Changing the material connected to the output node of a V-Ray Material Builder VOP does not cause an update
  • VRayDirt's "Ignore Self Occlusion" does not work
  • Solaris - "Use" options for SettingsEnvironment from Dome Light for GI/Reflect/Refract/Secondary Matte are not used
  • Standalone: illumination masks exported from VFH not rendered in standalone
  • Incorrect motion-blurred displacement when expansion type is dynamic
  • Light Textures - <frame> token is exported in the file path instead of evaluating the expression
  • Deadline: ${FBATCH} is not evaluated correctly
  • Incorrect displacement for moving objects motion-blurred with geom_samples >= 3
  • Crowd: Smaller values of Random Clip Offset lead to wrong render results
  • Add OCIO to color space menu
  • Wrong results with latest V-Ray Next stable when Triplanar and ColorCorrection is used
  • Various issues with V-Ray windows on Linux
  • VFB - using an EXR as Background image with "As Foreground" enabled causes the image to go black
  • VFB - do not tint RGB channels when displaying them isolated
  • IPR: velocity blur is not updated when changing shutter speed of physical camera
  • Render Region resizes unproportionally when Camera Resolution is increased
  • IPR: Costant updates for volumes when changing shader params if Motion Blur On and rendering the last file in the VDB sequence
  • Solaris: custom volume used for smoke color is not rendered correctly
  • GeomParticleSystem plugin has the parameter "age_pp" twice
  • Square artifacts on using Adaptive DomeLight on GPU
  • Crowd: Missing delay in animation when rendering the whole sequence compared to smaller frame ranges
  • Exception in Core if you use .vrscene Shader Overrides without typing Scene Name
  • Wrong applying and mapping of imported via .vrscene materials
  • Wrong mapping after Unpacking to Polygons a .vrscene exported from 3dsMax
  • BakerTool: expose more controls in UI
  • Crowd: Discrepancy in animation result when rendering sequence and per frame in a specific scene - missing agents
  • Wrong material assignments when using animated switch node and uploading to Chaos Cloud
  • Solaris: options in Display Options > Renderer are not handled
  • Solaris: imposible to select anything in the viewport when V-Ray is set as viewport renderer
  • Solaris: float to color automatic conversion does not work
  • Missing texture animation export for particular scene on first export, if no GUI render is initiated
  • Solaris: crash when shader has wrong connection
  • Add native support of light labels in the LPE manager
  • Regression: In GPU mode materials are showing black when Merge SOP is used and Visibility is enabled
  • VFB rendering is making Houdini unresponsive on macOS Monterey
  • Ocean surface sometimes differs from the one in Houdini
  • Animated shader parameters are not exported for static meshes
  • Add support for RGBA Combine VOP for GPU
  • BitmapBuffer: <frame0*> support
  • Displacement via V-Ray TexTriPlanar results in holes in the geometry with specific scene
  • If you save the .hip file for the first time in the current session Use Project Path isn't enabling VFB History
  • Triangular artifacts on packed .abc when Bitmap Filtering type is not set to None or Nearest
  • Immediate crash when Denoiser and PhxShaderSim material with the Volumetric Z-Depth parameter set to 'Separate V-Ray Element' is added on volumes
  • Hang after render of packed geometry is finished and when exporting .vrscene
  • GI isn't working in IPR in latest nightly builds
  • The intensity parameter of the Rect Light has no effect when using V-Ray GPU if the light is textured and "Directional" is set to 1.0
  • Lighting discrepancy between CPU and GPU results when LightDirect is used with Intensity higher than 1
  • Screen Window Size is doubled when Motion Blur is ON or V-Ray RenderChannelVelocity is used
  • Animatable img_dir and img_file shouldn't be exported by submitting .vrscene to Chaos Cloud
  • Unpacking to polygons disrespects UVs from .vrscene files exported from 3dsMax
  • Rendering alembics is much more slower than rendering unpacked geometry on powerful CPUs
  • Houdini 18.5.633 : Failed to start network server: [loadLib] -1: dlopen failed:
  • Installation issues with the latest nightly builds
  • Forced materials * uses the wrong material from the Material builder
  • Segmentation fault in Py3 Houdini builds only
  • Enable Probabilistic Volumetrics by default
  • Missing bitmap color difference between CPU and GPU
  • Expression including frames and subframes on alembics isn't working properly with V-Ray Core 5.10.20
  • Zero Infinity Depth is broken when Filtering is enabled
  • OCIO in 5.10.20 is up to 4x slower then in 5.00.xx
  • Light Lister Refresh button isn't working on python 3 builds
  • Point attributes on .abc aren't working on GPU without unpacking it
  • Rendering alembics is more than 3 times slower than rendering unpacked geometry on powerful CPUs
  • n IPR VFB2 isn't updating the V-Ray Log information to the end
  • Empty About V-Ray window
  • Alembic: Expose face sets as map channels
  • Update V-Ray top node to work with new V-Ray 5
  • Use Project Path checkbox isn't enabling History in VFB
  • invisible VFB if V-Ray is used first in Solaris
  • Velocity is not applied in GPU rendering
  • Solaris: creating a V-Ray Material Builder in material library lop throws an error
  • V-Ray Clipper does not work for Lights
  • Mesh lights are clipped by V-Ray clipper even when "Clip Lights Geometry" is disabled
  • Solaris: creating a DomeLight causes a crash
  • LightMix: light type "Full"
  • Incorrect import of reMap value from a .vrscene file, exported from Maya
  • VFB gets smaller and smaller everytime render is started
  • UVs for textures generated by UVW Explicit are not used when the texture is used for Bump
  • LensEffects - effectresult element is missing in vfb and not saved in exr or as separate file
  • Falloff Curve is faulty set to Constant interpolation when TexFalloff texture is unpacked from an imported .vrsene file
  • LightMesh - does not handle path to sop node
  • Unpacking to polygons provokes error and crash with a specific .vrscene
  • Start V-Ray in Server Mode issue on OS X
  • Linux:  VFB2- color selector for lights in LightMix is not opened/visible
  • Starting a render disables the VFB2 history and clears the history folder path
  • VFB2 resizes by itself on render if the layer panel is collapsed
  • VFB constantly loses focus on OSX and gets hidden behind the main Houdini window
  • Disable light materials option of the V-Ray Renderer has stopped working
  • Ignored ROP parameters when changing camera to animated one
  • Failed to create node for plugin TexBezierCurveColor when unpacking a vrscene from 3ds Max
  • Objects imported from vrscenes disappear randomly when rendering animation on the GPU
  • Attributes are not correctly interpolated for geometry with OpenSubdiv applied
  • stoping render with ESC when VFB is closed does not actualy stops the render
  • Errors when unpacking vrscene to polygons
  • Hair Properties geom_splines toggle breaks material assignments with Multi Material for GeomMayaHair
  • environment path with expression isn't evaluated correctly
  • V-Ray ROP inside an HDA is not handling referenced parm when HDA is locked
  • A big difference between material with and without dispersion
  • Crash when sent to cloud without camera
  • Light Instancer with 100k lights failed to render on Chaos Cloud
  • Textures assigned through image file path tokens referencing a string attribute are ignored when rendering on the Chaos Cloud
  • Hang or crash when assigning a COP network as texture during IPR on OSX
  • Connecting displacement during IPR is not updated on MAC
  • VRayClipper - result is not updated in IPR
  • VRayClipper - object node transformations are not handled
  • clicking on a parameter in material assigned to a hairgen object causes object to disapear in viewport
  • Alembic with baked shop_materialpath loses its material when subdivided via GeomMeshFile
  • Baked maps for mesh with normals tputs black elements
  • UV Channel Named exports UVWGenProjection when used directly in ImageFile
  • Wrong results for Normals and BumpNormals AOVs when rendering with GPU
  • Wrong message printed in console when a bitmap is not found in a network location
  • Environment Fog is missing in Light Select element when Deep Output is enabled
  • Stop button on the VFB does not kill network location requests for files or textures with network paths
  • Preview of .vrscene with many proxies is very slow - add proxy preview type and cache data in preview
  • camera choosen in render view is not taken into account, ROPs camera used instead
  • IPR: per-primitive displacement changes primitives which affects, when parameters are changed
  • IPR: object imported into subnet disappear when material parameter is changed
  • Textures provided to TexOSL as input are not evaluated
  • vrscene viewport preview is broken on Windows
  • VFB gets smaller and smaller every time it shows
  • Differences between CPU renders differently than CPUIPR/CUDA with high MaxDepth in refractions
  • Geometry node's Render>Geometry>Point scale parameter is not considered when rendering packed alembics
  • The position of an animated camera is not updated when changing the timeline frame during an IPR session
  • IMG/COP is not updated in IPR
  • IPR - volume is rescaled when some of the VolumeGrid parameters are changed
  • Crash in a specific scene with adaptive lights
  • Crash when rendering particular vrscene with Standalone on Linux=
  • GPU: BRDFHair inside MtlMutli is not rendered
  • No image output if the scene is not saved to a file too.
  • Forced hidden objects are not rendered
  • VFB disappears when deselecting the Houdini window on Linux
  • SettingsLightLinker include_exclude_light_flags are flipped for PhxShaderSim when rendering with V-Ray GPU
  • IPR not updating copied instances
  • Switch with expression is not updated in IPR
  • Channel Reference in redered image name is not evaluated correctly
  • ang when changing resolution in VFB IPR
  • Mesh and Hair merged in the same object breaks material assignmentsCreating lights and geos during IPR leads to some light include/exclude issues
  • IPR not handling geo level transformations with expression
  • Cryptomatte by attribute is not working on crowds
  • Deleting a light is not captured by IPR
  • IPR - first created light is not disabling the default one
  • Effect Environment in Aerial Perspective effect produce very different result compared to maya
  • IPR is not always updating regular mesh copied to simulated points
  • Crash to desktop when mesh geo is switched to a packed one
  • IPR breaks the rbdfracture SOP
  • IPR not handling SOP transforms
  • Houdini Digital Asset crash with "V-Ray Environment" or "V-Ray Render Elements"
  • Crash in VFB when switching between images in the History panel
  • Freeze with specific user scene by trying to select nodes on first IPR run
  • Crash when attempting to import a Cosmos asset
  • Crash in standalone sequence render of volumes from a single VRScene
  • Crash on render start with V-Ray 6 nightly builds from Dec. 01, 2023
  • Crash when changing MaterialX Image VOP's "Signature" parameter back and forth
  • Crash on export when particles with velocity are present in the scene
  • IPR: Crash changing frames
  • V-Ray Deadline: crash when wrong parameters are set
  • Crash when rendering with instanced lights and using LPEs
  • Crash error on Linux with V-Ray 6.1
  • GeomInstancer: Crash with LPE in particular case
  • Linux: Immediate crash on render and/or VRScene export
  • IPR hang if Render Node license is not present
  • Houdini 19.5.605 Crashes with Parameter Menu opened with a hot key on OSX
  • Houdini Crashes when Cosmos Assets are imported
  • IPR: crash on exit after an IPR session
  • Geometry compilation fails for specific Alembic file with Displacement assigned to it
  • Crash on exiting Stage/Houdini when a render is initiated in both Solaris and Regular
  • Hang when attempting to import a specific VRScene containing instanced alembics
  • Crash subdividing invalid topology
  • Core: Tessellated hair IPR update crash
  • Solaris: Tessellated hair IPR update crash
  • Crash when starting IPR before a production render with specific scene
  • OSL: instant crash when try to load particular osl file
  • Crash in IPR when modifying the render region while scene changes are synced
  • Solaris: crash when change renderFlag from materialX to vray material library lop
  • VRayProxy: Hang after second Render to Disk
  • crash when disbale physical camera settings during IPR in "Render View" or viewport
  • crash if start a render after an ipr session
  • Karma hangs on sequence renders when V-Ray in installed
  • Setting "Screen Window Size" to negative during IPR crashes VRay & Houdini
  • Solaris: crash when enable than disable instancable parm of configureprimitive LOP
  • NUMA Standalone render fails in scene with a lot of Alembic files that have a large number of attributes
  • Crash on last alembic frame export when motion blur is enabled and using per-frame alembic files
  • Immediate crash when importing big .aur files in V-Ray Volume Grid Cache
  • OSL: crash when redraw UI after render
  • Crash when Reflection Glossiness is present before Light Mix element in AOVs channels container
  • Crash with LightInstancer and 250K lights
  • In a newly created blank scene using certain python code provokes a crash
  • Solaris: Immediate GPU crash after using Instancer
  • Crash when importing materials from .vrscene
  • Exception in Core when using frag file in a TexGLSL as Extra Texture AOV
  • Crash after rendering with IPR after production render with LightMix in the scene
  • Crash when trying to render one or both pyro simulations in a particular scene
  • Alembic: Crash with polygon with 1 vertex
  • GPU crash with a specific setup including V-Ray UVWGenExplicit and BerconNoise
  • Crash or Hang when rendering a sequence with Phoenix Foam Shader assigned to particles
  • Crash after closing Houdini on Linux and OSX
  • V-Ray 5: Houdini will crash on OSX and Linux when using File -> Exit after rendering with V-Ray
  • Crash when enabling matte/shadow object properties options while GPU IPR is running
  • V-Ray 5: IPR crash when frame is changed
  • Crash when start IPR from VFB and VRay ROP is in HDA
  • Crash when IPR is stoped on Mac OS
  • Crash to Desktop if Volume Grid Shader is copied during an IPR session
  • Animated SettingsOutput "img_file" and "img_dir" can't be overridden with -parameterOverride
  • Export the smoke volume to PhxShaderCache even if rendering of smoke is disabled to ensure the transform is inherited from the smoke field
  • Solaris: displacement is not updated for changes to the input shading graph



Build 6.10.09

Official Release, Update 1

Date - June 12, 2023

 

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New features

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Chaos Cosmos

  • Add support for Chaos Cosmos Enmesh assets

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  • Add Finite Dome parameters
  • V-Ray Profiler Improvements
  • Houdini: Add NVidia AI Denoiser Upscaling and Panorama options for Denoiser

 


Solaris

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MaterialX

  • Emissive Materials in Light Select and Light Mix
  • Light Mix "To Scene" button has no effect for BRDFLight materials

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  • RenderVar LOP - expose extraTex "force_32_bit_output" in V-Ray Tab if sourceType is primvar
  • Support for Cryptomatte primvars from unpacked instancers
  • Add PhxShaderSim::scene_name export when volume shader is in volumetric mode for Cryptomatte
  • Faster output for beauty (C.*) LPE render element
  • Add Hair Width Multiplier option to Render Geometry Settings LOP
  • Add an option whether to use reference points or not
  • Add beginning forward slash for Cryptomatte Node Path output
  • Use primvars from prototypes instead of instancer template points when available
  • Support for Cryptomatte primvars for instanced particles
  • Support for Cryptomatte primvars for instanced hair
  • Slow translation of V-Ray shaders
  • Displacement - override settings globally not working
  • Fixed - Displacment VOP parameter "Use Global Settings" is ignored
  • Add overscan support
  • Fixed - Dome Light Finite Dome options missing in UI
  • Fixed - RenderVar sampler:pointReference not rendered for hair
  • Fixed - Respect USD Texture Gamma control in Solaris
  • Hydra: Export only used primvars
  • Fixed - Fast movements in the V-Ray scene view are showing only the initial and final positions of the objects
  • Fixed - Black zDepth when using specific settings
  • Always export Probabilistic Volumes controls to SettingsOptions or update plugin default to enabled
  • Fixed - Wrong render when Data Window NDC of RenderSetings LOP has different values for minX/Y or maxX/Y
  • Fixed - No AOV output starting with nightlies from Jan 09 2023
  • Fixed - Wrong result when using nested instances with Retime Instance LOP
  • Fixed - Wrong color mapping for textures coming from Maya due to export of color_space instead of transfer_function for BitmapBuffer plugin
  • Fixed - Adding primvar aov causes hair width value to be exported divided by 2
  • Fixed - Render is stretched when using overscan
  • Fixed - Pixel shift when overscan or regionrender
  • Fixed - Visibility properties has stopped working on meshes since january27
  • Fixed - Velocity AOV with disabled motion blur
  • Fixed - Velocity and interval center
  • Fixed - Domelight intensity - wrong expression
  • Fixed - TexSampler::random_by_polyShell does not work with rayserver
  • Fixed - Instanced objects Cryptomatte for Material Name and Material Path modes has wrong manifest
  • Fixed - Render Region is sometimes not updated correctly until a camera move is made
  • Fixed - Transform applied to volumes used as prototypes is ignored for instances
  • Fixed - Default Color for Image File VOP has no effect
  • Fixed - Empty Deep Output file path causes V-Ray to fail saving a rendered image
  • Fixed - GPU render settings are not exported
  • Fixed - No motion blur for lop level animated object
  • Fixed - Wrong render region with physical camera in Solaris
  • Fixed - OSL: Missing input parameters
  • Fixed - Curves and ramps in VolumeGrid Shader are not translated
  • Fixed - Smoke volume does not have color
  • Fixed - Instances has no moblur with particular scene
  • Fixed - Transform of a single instanceable volume primitive is ignored
  • Fixed - Clicking the render region tool "Clear Render Region" button with Physical Camera enabled causes wrong camera transform
  • Fixed - Parts of instanced geometry go missing randomly with specific scene on Linux
  • Fixed - Normal bump not rendered
  • Fixed - Vector displacement options are not exported
  • Fixed - "Invalid property name error.!" for a lot of shaders
  • Fixed - Volumes are not rendered because of missing parameters of PhxShaderSim
  • Fixed - Displacement texture file path is not handled
  • Fixed - Object properties shadows_visibility is ignored by vrproxy
  • Fixed - GeomInstancer crash
  • Fixed - Meshlight causes "EXCEPTION IN CORE"
  • Fixed - Mesh light crash
  • Fixed - Change display flag from meshlight to its geo causes a crash
  • Fixed - LightLinker causes a crash with builds after January 27
  • Fixed - Crash when change renderFlag from materialX to V-Ray material library lop
  • Fixed - Crashes when Environment Fog as a material is present in the scene

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Modified features

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Cloud

  • Add new V-Ray Sky Clouds options for density, seed and contrails

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  • Update changelog - V-Ray 6 for Houdini Beta Release
  • Add support for point integer attributes for shading
  • Pick support for Houdini 19.5.534 for the stable builds for V-Ray 6
  • Mac OS notarization for V-Ray for Houdini builds
  • Set "Thread Priority" to "Lowest" by default
  • Standalone -frames=range is broken if path keyframes are used

 


Bug fixes

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Alembic

  • Option to use velocity only
  • Cryptomatte "Per Attribute Value" does not work for Alembics

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  • Crash when attempting to import material from a specific VRScene

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Build 6.00.21

Official Release

Date - Dec. 13, 2022 


New features

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V-Ray

  • Integrated the Chaos Cosmos asset library for Houdini 19 and up, under Windows
  • Implemented the V-Ray Profiler
  • Implemented the V-Ray Memory Tracker
  • Added Adaptive Bucket Splitting
  • Implemented the V-Ray Enmesh for render-time generation of patterns over a mesh surface
  • Updated V-Ray IPR for better interactive feedback

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  • Add an option to remove resumable file after successful render

 


Solaris

 

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V-Ray

  • Add V-Ray support for Solaris Render Region Tool
  • Add support for USDZ files
  • Added Plate Workflow support through the V-Ray Environment settings on the Dome Light LOP
  • Add texture tint/simple color correction controls for Dome and Rect lights
  • Implemented LPE light tags support for lights in Solaris
  • Add support for Motion blur based on velocity attribute
  • Add support for integer PrimVars with User Integer VOP
  • Add Deep Output support
  • Add support for "constant" PrimVars in Cryptomatte
  • Add Camera Overscan support
  • Add support for writing Cryptomatte data through husk
  • Add support for live volumes
  • Add V-Ray Environment Fog
  • Add Viewport Denoiser Result toggle
  • Add support for MaterialX position and normal output via husk
  • Add V-Ray Proxy support with V-Ray Proxy LOP
  • Add support for native Houdini volumes
  • Add "V-Ray Render Vars" LOP HDA similar to the Karma standard variables with presets for common AOVs
  • Add Hair Properties in Geometry Render Settings LOP
  • Add "Render as Disc" option for points in Geometry Render Settings LOP
  • Add NSamples/Velocity support
  • Add Bercon Noise support
  • Add Deep Output support for VDBs
  • Add support for Nested Instancing
  • Add Visibility Settings for Volumes in Solaris
  • Add Deep EXR options in Render Settings LOP
  • GPU crash to desktop with instanced geometry
  • Crash when the shader has wrong input connector type
  • Combine texture causes a crash
  • Crash when enabling and disabling the “instanceable” option of the Configure Primitive LOP
  • Hydra delegate crash to desktop in CentOS
  • Scene import (All) crashes in Python in Houdini 19.5
  • Crash to desktop with new GeomInstancer plugin
  • Meshlight causes "EXCEPTION IN CORE"
  • Crash when toggling any of the Render Geometry Settings LOP options
  • Light Linker not working
  • Preview shader is rendered grayscale - Linux only
  • Switching BRDFs inside the V-Ray Material Builder does not update the Viewport
  • Randomizer VOP does not work
  • Mismatch between Karma and V-Ray renders for points with “pscale”
  • V-Ray skips point with index 0 when rendering points
  • TexUserScalar does not work
  • Opacity of V-Ray material is not working when color output of ImageFile VOP is used
  • PrimVars/User Color on points is not rendered
  • Invisible parameter state of lights is ignored when changing delegates
  • Velocity blur for Volumes is not working
  • Remap texture does not work in "Color" mode
  • Impossible to select anything in the viewport when V-Ray is set as the Viewport Renderer
  • Adding a dot in the shader graph breaks the shader
  • Mesh Light Texture is not used or exported to the VRScene
  • Expose "Max. MipMap Resolution" in the Render Settings LOP > Options > Textures
  • Some parameters are not taken into account when saving Deep data
  • Missing "Affect Reflections" toggle on V-Ray light properties
  • Light material with "Direct Illumination" enabled does not update color changes in the Viewport
  • Displacement isn't present in final render through husk
  • Wrong default value export for "Preserve Map Borders" parameter when using subdivision
  • Hair when "Use Embree" is disabled is missing from the final render through husk
  • Chaining Switch VOPs does not work
  • Memory leak with husk and specific scene
  • LPE render var settings are not exported
  • Change render var format to color3f for color elements in VRayStandardRenderVars LOP
  • Image File VOP always uses "Inverse Gamma" as "Transfer Function"
  • "Use" options for Environment settings from Dome Light for GI/Reflect/Refract/Secondary Matte are not considered
  • Spotlight angle does not match Karma
  • Spotlight softness affects only shadows but the light borders are always sharp
  • Integer attributes are not supported
  • Material Output VOP does not trigger an update in Houdini 19.0
  • Missing vertex, face and normals lists for reference mesh when importing alembics with rest attributes
  • Vector primvars are not picked up
  • Render Settings LOP fails to load V-Ray UI due to ds file typo
  • Different color mapping between render passes
  • "Override Settings Globally" for Displacement is not working
  • Displacement VOP parameter "Use Global Settings" is ignored
  • Remap texture in "Float to Color" mode does not work with Blend material
  • Geometry goes missing after switching delegate from V-Ray to Karma and back to V-Ray
  • Viewport selection doesn't work
  • Overscan is not saved in husk's output EXR
  • V-Ray Remap node adds gamma shift
  • Empty viewport/render after switching delegates
  • Add OSL support
  • Pixel shift when rendering with overscan or using region render
  • Denoiser does not work
  • Wrong render region top coordinate
  • RenderVar sampler:pointReference not rendered for hair
  • Volumes rendered to disk through Husk have no emission
  • Wrong transforms in Hydra with specific USD scene
  • Coat and/or Sheen element breaks all the elements when render to MPlay
  • Hydra USD wrong render - "darg", "earg" and "targ" parameters for volume shader are not exported to USD
  • Error when V-Ray delegate is started on scene open instead of OpenGL on Linux
  • Parts of the geometry are missing when rendering via Husk
  • Volumes are not rendered because the cache path is not passed to PhxShaderSim
  • Vector Operations VOP does not export vector_a and vector_b parameters
  • Exposed the Extra Tex "force_32_bit_output" in the V-Ray Tab if sourceType is primvar for a RenderVap LOP
  • Added standalone precompiled V-Ray 6 USD builds
  • The AOV Bind VOP can now be used without a "bind:" prefix in the RenderVar LOP
  • Fixed Karma hanging on sequence renders when V-Ray is installed
  • Crash when Mesh light is present in the stage
  • Crash when changing the render flag from a MaterialX to a V-Ray material library LOP
  • Changing the display flag from a Mesh light to its source geometry causes a crash

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  • Add support for MtlX Adjust as HSV to V-Ray
  • Add support for MtlX Range
  • Add support for Mtlx Burn
  • Add support for Mtlx Difference
  • Add support for Mtlx Screen
  • Add support for Mtlx Dodge
  • Add support for Mtlx Minus
  • Add support for Mtlx Disjointover
  • Add support for tan function for vector3 and vector4
  • Add support for sqrt function for vector3 and vector4
  • Add support for sin function for vector3 and vector4
  • Add support for log function for vector3 and vector4
  • Add support for floor function for color3,4 and vector3,4
  • Add support for exp function for vector3 and vector4
  • Add support for Mtlx Divide
  • Add support for cos function for vector3 and vector4
  • Add support for ceil function for vector3 and vector4
  • Add support for asin function for vector3 and vector4
  • Add support for acos function for vector3 and vector4
  • Add support for Mtlx Overlay
  • Add support for Mtlx Plus
  • Add support for Mtlx In
  • Add support for Mtlx Mask
  • Add support for Mtlx Matte
  • Add support for Mtlx Out
  • Add support for Mtlx Over
  • Add support for Mtlx Sign

Modified features

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Alembic

  • Add support for SOP and OBJ level transform for Alembic primitives piped into a Mesh Light
  • Add support for Object Properties "Geometry Samples" for per frame particle Alembics with multiple subsamples

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  • Remove "Auto Transfer Function" toggle and script from Image File VOP

 


Bug Fixes

 

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IPR

  • VFB2 isn't updating the V-Ray Log information
  • Debug flag does not work when a VOP node inside a Material Builder is assigned to the geometry
  • Animated Ocean Spectra Mask is not updated on frame change
  • Exporting a VRScene in "Export" mode directly after running IPR causes empty standalone renders
  • Renderer "Override Camera Resolution" option changes do not update IPR
  • Referenced Shader changes do not update IPR
  • Parameter changes for nodes inside Material Builder piped into Multi ID material do not affect IPR
  • Material Override when using Distance Texture is lost when starting second IPR session
  • Persistent updates or crash when changing a Volume Shader parameter assigned at the SOP level
  • Render Region disappears on Production render or IPR start
  • Material Overrides are lost when changing the Timeline frame during IPR when Extra Texture with the override object in its Exclude list is present
  • Removing a Decal object from the SOP network does not affect IPR
  • No updates for displacement assigned at the SOP level to Alembic primitives
  • Renderer ROP Objects list does not update IPR
  • Deleting objects or lights does not affect IPR
  • V-Ray Proxy SOP is not updated in IPR
  • Geometry goes missing during IPR if there are nodes that are linked to the camera transforms in the scene
  • Lost ExtraTexture elements after the first one, on frame change, and if they have the same object in Exclude List
  • Material assignments for Multi ID Material are lost when using an input Material Builder instead of BRDF
  • Slowly generated mesh is not updated
  • No update when enabling/disabling the ROP Material Override options
  • Geometry that is hidden when IPR is started remains invisible even when unhidden during IPR
  • Unnecessary refresh when changing folders on a BRDF node
  • Renderer Camera settings do not update IPR
  • Viewport does not update view changes
  • Light Instancer not updated
  • V-Ray Object Properties are not updated in GPU IPR
  • Rendered objects would occasionally disappear when making changes to their geometry or adding additional objects to the scene
  • Material assignments are ignored in for the entire scene if a debug flag is present on a VOP node
  • Displacement per primitive not always updated in IPR
  • "Render with Take" uses the correct take then refreshes and reverts to Main during IPR
  • Toon Effect is updated in IPR only once
  • Any changes done while IPR is running cause the Fog effect to disappear
  • IPR update broken in 5.x for Light Instancer
  • Velocity blur is not updated when changing "Shutter Speed" of Physical Camera
  • Sun parameters do not update Sky texture for IPR when used in a Dome Light
  • Hang if VFB IPR button is clicked multiple times before IPR starts
  • Crash with partitioned alembic when using Motion Blur and Displacement
  • Crash with Alembics using Displacement and Material AOVs
  • Random crash during IPR or when attempting to start a production render
  • Crash when toggling on/off the Mesh Light's "Use SOP Geometry" option
  • Crash when changing the "Motion Blur Multiplier" on the Volume Shader
  • Setting "Screen Window Size" to negative during IPR crashes V-Ray and Houdini
  • Crash when starting IPR first then Production Render if "Cache Bitmaps" is enabled
  • Crash when disabling the V-Ray Physical Camera during IPR in "Render View" or Viewport
  • Crash if starting a production render after an IPR session
  • Crash in IPR when modifying the render region while scene changes are synced
  • Debug flag on Referenced Shader VOP has no effect in IPR
  • ROP Render Scripts are not executed for IPR
  • Settings for displacement coming from Override Material do not refresh in IPR
  • VFB Render Region does not work if you start IPR when it is disabled
  • Constant updates for volumes when changing shader params if Motion Blur On and rendering the last file in the VDB sequence
  • Enabling motion blur is not handled during IPR
  • Decal displacement is not handled by IPR
  • Imported VRScene ignores changes to Objects visibility list
  • Disabling a light's Node visibility flag during IPR will incorrectly disable the light

 


Rendering

  • OSL crash when redrawing UI after render
  • Crash with Light Mix on render start
  • Crash rendering groomed fur/hair with V-Ray
  • Crash when attempting to render a volume without volume shader assigned to it
  • Karma hangs on GUI sequence renders when V-Ray is installed
  • Freeze on production render start with Rayserver Instancer and Displacement
  • Crash if render is quickly started, stopped and started again multiple times
  • "-imgFile" flag for standalone rendering causes double output
  • VFB is brought to foreground on every frame when rendering a sequence, even when Houdini is minimized
  • Wrong frame token exported when using $F4 tag for textures
  • Per-primitive displacement does not render correctly
  • Add support for vray_renderable packed attribute
  • Texture for Dome light is not exported when using a referenced Image File VOP
  • Geometry nodes in an Object network inside a parent Geometry node are rendered even when the parent Geometry node has visibility disabled
  • Color AOV name expression is not evaluated for VFB
  • Material Overrides do not work for more than one object in pattern list
  • Forced hidden object with material override does not have material in render
  • Overscan disables render region
  • When using shader overrides with VRScene SOP the render becomes darker
  • NUMA slowdown when rendering Alembics
  • Double camera export when using a Switcher to change the render camera per frame
  • VFB Render Region in viewport is not always rendered
  • Render Region resizes unproportionally when Camera Resolution is increased
  • "Visible in Refraction" causes wrong render output when a glossy material is present
  • Baked volumes in VRScene produce empty renders in some frames
  • Render Mask in "Object" mode does not work
  • Physical Camera missing "specify_focus" export causes wrong DoF renders
  • Crash rendering groomed fur/hair with V-Ray in a specific scene
  • Freeze on production render start with Rayserver Instancer and Displacement
  • Immediate crash when pressing Render after upgrading to MacOS Big Sur 11.2
  • Standalone - wrong frame loaded for Alembic in Distance texture when rendering with -frames argument
  • VFB Compare settings are lost when starting a new render
  • Wrong render in Houdini with TriPlanar texture applied to Alembics with rotation in Y
  • Missing texture animation export for particular scene on first export, if no GUI render is initiated
  • Empty render for live volumes when Motion Blur is enabled
  • Alembics exported with object level transforms have double transformations when rendered
  • Volume emission not rendered in Beauty ("C.*")LPE
  • Randomly missing UDIM textures with specific scene

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GPU

  • V-Ray Material Translucency parameters are grayed out for GPU but should not be anymore
  • Wrong Light Linking export for GPU
  • Matte Surface not working in GPU render for poly geometry
  • Lighting discrepancy between CPU and GPU results when Direct light is used with Intensity higher than 1
  • Square artifacts on using Adaptive Dome light on GPU
  • CPU instead of RTX mode is started
  • Image sequence as texture not rendered on GPU
  • Attributes for shading with User Color and User Float do not work for Alembic hair and particles on the GPU
  • Freeze with specific volume when using GPU
  • Crash with a specific setup including V-Ray UV Explicit and BerconNoise
  • Extra Texture AOV include list does not work for particles

  • TriPlanar texture with rest attributes does not work for live geometry and Alembics

  • Missing bitmap color difference between CPU and GPU

  • Color Correct (Maya) texture is not exported to .vrscene when GPU is chosen

  • Crash when rendering a mesh with attributes sampled in the shader and motion blur enabled

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  • Remove file exists check when exporting packed disk primitive volume by path to speed up VRScene export
  • Slow VRScene export time for instances with Motion Blur
  • Slow export of animated cached VDBs
  • Very slow export and high memory usage for Mesh Light using deforming alembic as source geometry
  • Wrong export for frame($F2) token in texture path
  • Channel string reference for VRScene Export path on Renderer ROP with frame token causes wrong export
  • VRScene export for per frame Alembic files with time offset is not animated
  • Export Mesh Lights generated by Light Material with "Direct Illumination" enabled to Light Select element
  • No VRScene export for animated objects after first frame when Motion Blur is Enabled
  • Empty plugin export for Extra Texture element
  • Empty parameters export for Distance Texture - only Objects list is exported
  • Empty export for Renderer Image Sampler parameters
  • Float to Color is always exported, even when the float output is connected to a float input
  • Light Instancer is not exported when texture baking
  • Distance Texture object is not exported if part of an Override Material
  • Wrong Displacement export for "Vector Displacement" assigned through Material SOP at the SOP level
  • VRScene export - missing material AOVs with Alembics and Motion Blur when Offset is 0 and Duration is 1
  • Only first frame is exported to VRScene for animated objects in Distance Texture list if their visibility is disabled
  • Reflect/Refract mask are exported incorrectly
  • Crash if you use VRScene Shader Overrides without typing Scene Name
  • Material Overrides are lost for VRScene export after the first frame
  • "Clip Mesh" parameter for V-Ray Clipper is not exported
  • No export for Image File OCIO tab
  • Animated shader parameters are not exported for static meshes
  • Proxy Export not working in latest nightly builds
  • VRScene export for Mesh Lights with Alembics only uses the first frame of the sequence
  • Issues with Proxy export and particles
  • Multi-valued params are not exported
  • Light Textures - frame ($F) token is exported in the file path instead of evaluating the expression
  • Wrong export for Image File VOP into Layered texture causes no color output
  • Wrong UV set export for Image File VOP when exporting a .vrscene
  • When Mapping of Procedural textures is set to UV, parameters are not exported to .vrscene
  • Object Scale for V-Rya Enmesh is always exported as 1.0
  • Multiple plugin exports when generating per frame VRScene files
  • Crash on last alembic frame export when motion blur is enabled and using per-frame alembic files
  • Empty export for Extra Texture element
  • Hang after second V-Ray Proxy export
  • ".vrscene" file path is truncated to 256 characters on Linux
  • Stray points are exported both as vertices for GeomStaticMesh and as particles for GeomParticleSystem
  • Wrong Image File VOP transfer_function export when OCIO is enabled on Image File VOP
  • Mac: Exporting animated proxy into a single file would occasionally cause Houdini to become unresponsive

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VRayScene

  • Incorrect import of Remap Texture from a VRScene file exported from Maya
  • Incorrect import of volumeNoise (3D noise) from a VRScene file exported from Maya
  • VRScene "Unpack to Polygons" does nothing if a node named "vrayscene_unpack" is already present in the same SOP network
  • VRScene "Unpack to Polygons" does not create a material network
  • Crash when importing materials from .vrscene

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