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Support for Maya 2018

Added Cryptomatte Render Element

Initial support for Instancer in IPR

Changing the image resolution while rendering in IPR with the VFB is now possible

SamplerInfo Render Element

Toon Render Element

Support for Maya's Toon shader setup

Added an overscan feature in the render settings camera overrides;

Support for the Lens squeeze ratio of the Maya camera

Support for the float nodes in LookDevKit

Support for the exposure parameter of the File node

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

Added support for NVIDIA NVLink

GPU production with DR

Add support for Full Light Select render element on GPU

Ability to set CUDA devices from the Maya UI without restarting Maya

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

MDL materials support

Added clip and stochastic transparency modes to VRayMtl

Support environment maps for the reflections of VRay materials

VRaySky preview in VP2

V-Ray size and dimension units now respect the Maya scene units

ZDepth is always exported as 32-bit in multichannel EXR files

Improved memory usage when there are millions of instances in the scene

Faster rendering of proxies and instances when Embree is enabled

Added an option for clearing the render mask

V-Ray for Maya DR settings will be saved in a single XML file

The VRayShelf right click menu for VRayToon can now list all the available VRayToon nodes

The VRayShelf right click menu for VRayClipper can now list all the available VRayClipper nodes

Added Use V-Ray VFB option to the right click menu in the VFB icon on the shelf

The specific frames list for animation now allows spaces

Tree controls are now hidden when using Embree

Increased the default max paths per pixel to 10000 for IPR

Ability to specify a render region with relative 0 to 1 values in Maya batch and vrend

Changed Light Select type labels

Renamed Maya Fluids' Deep Output/Trace Sets option to Render as Geometry

Print what Maya version was used to export the vrscene

Better error messages when writing raw EXR files

Possibility to use shader names with MtlMulti/GeomStaticMesh

Improved logging for the progressive sampler

Read multiple UV sets from Alembic files exported from the Maya Alembic exporter

Reworked how controls update

Changed the default BRDF to GGX

MDL sample materials now included with the installation

Added Material ID attributes to the scannedMtl in Maya

Mappable scale attribute for the Triplanar texture

Deep EXR + Spherical Camera: Fixed wrong Z value for objects behind camera plane

Improved loading time of VRayVolumeGrid caches

Added -verboseLevel option to ply2vrmesh in order to limit the output

Option to get the strand length from hair sampler

Added V-Ray attributes to XGen Interactive Groomable Splines

Preview the refraction of the base material in a VRayBlendMtl

V-Ray shader previews now work in DirectX

Support transparency in the preview for VRayMtlHair3

VRayFur shader preview

Clamped opacity to 0.1 by default to avoid invisible objects

Fixed render layer token not working with specific setup

Fixed UserInteger not working as texture switch in MultiSubTex

simplexNoise now supports dynamic distortion

Fixed crash when duplicating and moving objects in RT

The <Camera> token is now parsed properly for displaying in the file name label

Viewport IPR: Fixed banding with low brightness when using SynColor

Rendering no longer resets the A and B images from the VFB history

Fixed error in mayapy with Maya 2017 no module vray.rendererCallbacks

Fixed renderable curves not rendering when visibility is keyed

Fixed wrong alpha-channel at VFB-borders when using texture render mask

Fixed object disappearing when Batch Rendering

Fixed deleting a V-Ray Proxy instance removing the vrayMeshMtl for proxy objects remaining in the scene

Can't render XGen on render layer other than default fixed

Fixed Maya scene getting marked as changed when the VFB is opened or loses focus

Divide shading subdivs should be hidden when use local subdivs is disabled

Fixed vrend command always returning success

Fixed VrayFurPreview not updating in Parallel Evaluation Mode

Multi-segmented motion blur: Computing particle velocities when possible

Fixed in-process IPR crashes with subdivision

Resuming a render with GI turned Off no longer triggers a warning for the Adaptive Lights

Fixed the PLUGINS variable in the installer ignoring the value entered by the user

Fixed zDepth render element infinity color when far color is white

Fixed crashes when baking UDIM textures in a specific scene

Fixed slow export of ramp texture with lots of color handles

Fixed black buckets when adding local machine with DR and Resumable rendering

Use default color instead of black for missing textures

Fixed some subtle bugs in chunked scene transfer before rendering and between frames

Reduced locking while rendering

Fixed first atmospheric effect result is added twice if the second effect is aerial perspective with active set to false

Fixed increasing progressive sampler memory usage with each resumed frame

Fixed wrong progress during loading and saving progressive resumable files

Fixed alSurface's SSS produces NaNs

Fixed UVTiles at U index larger than 10 rendering gray

Fixed primary_visibility flag of the GeomStaticMesh plugin not working

Fixed VRayStereoscopic camera not working when rendered with GPU

Fixed OpenCL failing to start

Fixed GPU (CUDA) not rendering BRDFVRayMtl fog color texture

Fixed TexAColorOp in power mode not working as expected

Fixed CUDA Error 700 in specific scene

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

Removed the ocldeviceselect dependency to OpenCL.DLL

Fixed MtlMulti's mtlid_gen_float with Instancer not working

Fixed sphere lights with animated scale crashing when rendered with motion blur

Fixed Objects with VRayOverrideMtl and Visible to camera off still rendered in GPU

Fixed Blend material not rendering with OpenCL rendering

Fixed Crash with multi-gpu setups in specific scene

Fixed Glossiness driven by LayeredTex Alpha from Luminance rendering as 0 when the color is pure white

GPU did not render correctly V-Ray triplanar map when the texture used UV tiling more than 1

Fixed Artifacts with Adaptive lights, VRayLight exclude lists, and matte objects

Fixed Wrong alpha channel with VRayLights with Directional parameter above 0.0

Fixed Camera lens distortion not working when motion blur is ON

Fixed Geometry disappearing with VRayLightMtl and direct illumination

Fixed Color opacity option not working by V-Ray GPU mode

Fixed OpenCL failing to build and rendering not starting on Linux

Fixed Dome light visible in the alpha through matte object with opacity

Fixed Textures not rendering if the filename contains the $ symbol

Fixed Dome light affecting matte surfaces when rendered with CUDA

Fixed Reflection/Refraction not matte when rendered with CUDA

Fixed crash with shared VRayEdges textures between materials in specific scene

Fixed broken UVTile with missing file

Added support for arbitrary clipper exclude list items

Improved triangle intersection precision

Installer sets CUDA_CACHE_MAXSIZE to at least 256MB

Driver 380+ caused some scenes to render bitmaps with wrong uv

Fixed zDepth RE infinity color

OpenCL rendered black in active shade after a scene change

Fixed artifact in the zenith of the sky with VRayAerialPerspective

Fixed crash when rendering with on-demand mipmapping

Fixed artifacts when using OpenCL with more than one device

Fixed crash when exiting Maya/V-Ray STD after CUDA was used on MacOS

Fixed wrong screen mapping for textures assigned to the Environment slot

Fixed IPR refreshing two times on any change

Fixed IPR restarting when selecting an object when Hypershade is open in Maya 2016+

Deleted images from VFB history are now recycled on Windows

Fixed wrong scaling of the channel box for HiDPI displays

Fixed no motion blur from Alembic with V-Ray subdivision

Fixed preview type for the vrscene not working

Fixed UNC path getting prefixed with the vrscene root on Linux

V-Ray now outputs Real Color for stereoscopy only when writing a shademap

Fixed random texture being assigned to the rectangle light file texture

Fixed lag in Viewport 2.0 when rotating dome light with texture when useTransform is enabled in placeEnvTex

Fixed fur disappearing in IPR on frame change

TLS limit is hit with 1000+ OSL nodes

Fixed OSL not respecting mipmap levels

The "Load nearest if missing" option is now working properly when previewing VRayVolumeGrid