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Official Release

Date -April 29, 2025

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urlhttps://download.chaosgroup.com/?platform=47&product=63

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New Features

Lens effect

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  • Added lens effects from the V-Ray VFB.

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    urlhttps://docs.chaos.com/display/LAV/Color+Corrections+Tab#ColorCorrectionsTab-Lens

Materials

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  • Support for VRaySwitchMtl.

  • Support for compensate camera exposure in VRayMtl и VRayLightMtl.

Lights

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  • Support for light linking through include and exclude lists.

Textures

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  • Support for the parallax room shader used by wParallax(jiWindowBox_All_v1_10.osl, wParallax_SMP.osl/wParallax_ADV.osl) and Evermotion (Evermotion_wBox_VRay.osl).

  • Support for using video files as bitmap textures . Supported codecs are H.264, H.265, AV1, VP8, VP9.
  • Support for VRayUVWRandomizer's Random Flip U/V options.

Scatter

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  • Support for the temporal consistency option of Chaos Scatter.

Hardware

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  • Support for recent integrated AMD GPUs (16 or more CUs).

Environment

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  • Support for animated environment rotation from vrscene.

Statistics

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  • Implemented Texture and mesh statistics dialogs. 

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Performance

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  • Improved rendering speed up to 80% faster(scene dependent) with implementing Shader Execution Reordering (SER). Available on NVIDIA Ada and Blackwell GPUs.

Denoiser

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  • Upgraded OIDN to version 2.3.3, adding support for latest NVIDIA and AMD GPUs.

Color management

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  • Upgraded OpenColorIO to 2.4.2, adding support for ACES 2.0 configurations.

Clouds

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  • Improved support for clouds from Enscape exported vrscene.

Color corrections

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  • Improved Blur radius to better match the one in VFB.



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Fixes

Camera

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  • Warning about not found object for saved cameras in .vantage file.

  • Improperly distinguished imported Original Camera

Materials

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  • Reflection filter clamping to better match V-Ray.

Displacement

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  • Missing displacement when shift is non-zero and bounds are disabled.

Textures

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  • Dynamic textures not working correctly with vrscenes from Cinema4D (higher than necessary mip resolutions were used).