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Adaptive lights

Resumable rendering

ALSurface shader support

In-Process IPR

Glossy Fresnel option

Added new Render mask mode: Isolate Selection

Support for Interactive Groomable Splines in Maya 2017

Implemented AOV callbacks for 2017 Render setup

VRayScene node can now use a sequence of .vrscene files and load them automatically on frame change

Added integer user attributes

Support for negative focus distance values for the V-RayStereoscopic camera

Added a switch texture to VRayMultiSubTex

Added a checkbox that disables render elements in IPR

Added raw filter elements for the diffuse, reflection and refraction channels

Added an ability to select scene objects from the VFB window

Added an option to select object material directly from the VFB window

Added an option to pick focus point by clicking on the VFB window

Support for adaptive lights in CUDA (both in production and in IPR)

Optimized the V-Ray Material in Maya

Support for the directionality attribute of the Rect Light

Support for Render ID render element in GPU

Support for Render mask

Support for matte materials shadow catcher

Ability to load precalculated Irradiance Map GI cache files

Support for velocity render element

Support for Atmosphere render element

Support for physical camera distortion

Added a low thread priority option

Added GPU support

Added GPU support

GPU support for the planar VRayClipper

Speed improvements for the Hypershade material viewer

Simplified image sampler options to bucket and progressive

No layer token will be added for absolute paths without an explicit token

Ability to delete/select VRaySun and VRaySky from the right click menu on the VRay shelf

Swatch rendering in parallel

VRayMesh file info in the VRayMesh node's UI

Print a warning when a texture with color corrections is used as normal map

The rollout borders now follow the size of the Render Settings window

Read user/group permissions from home folder when installing with sudo

The progressive sampler now finishes the current pass when the given Render time is surpassed

Fixed slow compile geometry phase on particular scenes

The noise level channel for vdenoise.exe can also be named VRayNoiseLevel

Denoiser now doesn't save the extra files when split channels saving is enabled

Add the ability to abort writing to vrscene files and also print the progress

Hint on how to see the vray -help when argument parsing has failed

Draw the alpha channel during the undersampling phase of the progressive sampling and V-Ray GPU rendering

Support for interpolating geometry data for heterogeneous Alembics with velocity channel

More responsive IPR: Abort immediately on scene change

Added on-demand texture loading in the GPU

Lower CPU memory usage when rendering instances

Lower CPU and GPU memory usage when rendering textures

Solid reflective material getting alpha dropouts

Optimized sampling of materials with bump maps

Optimized TexBezier texture

Optimized Rounded edges rendering

Support the Shadow option of MtlWrapper

Support for UVW coordinates type in VRaySamplerInfo render element

Native particles systems support (not only from Alembic)

Support VRayUserColor to be used for mapping channels

Fixed TexLayered not exporting alpha when [Alpha is Luminance] is on

Changes on materials with baked texture are going to be reflected quicker

Support for Maya projection zoom camera_view parameter

Implemented VRayClipper retrace

Optimized VDenoise OpenCL version

Print a warning that GPU only supports bitmaps in vrayTriplanar

Print the OpenCL Driver version in the log

Print a warning when max sample level is set to 0

Print a warning when there is a render element that's not supported on the GPU

The displaySRGB parameter is now exported to .vrscene.

Added Reset V-Ray VFB position option to the Show V-Ray VFB shelf button

Moved the history image compare buttons from the main toolbar to history toolbar

Changed the default values of the Lens Effects

Add VFB toolbar button for copying the current channel to clipboard

Improved random by render ID

Add abort on OpenCL error for vdenoise.exe

Add -verboseLevel option for vdenoise.exe

Add -frames option to the vdenoise.exe tool that allows to specify the frames to process

img2tiledexr now stores its version and build date into the converted OpenEXR files

Enable support for multiple include paths in OSL

Hide objects that are not visible directly from camera frustum

Redesigned the VRayScene Manager

Support for the multiplier parameters under the Additional Surface Properties rollout of the node

Follow the displace/subdiv settings

Support for light linking

Support for the exclude list of the VRayExtraTex render element

Support for Subdivs mult in the additional surface properties of the vrscene node

Fixed missing shadows with motion blurred curves loaded in V-Ray Proxy

Fixed static vrscene nodes with animated translations not producing motion blur

Fixed Color Correction plugin textures not working as DomeTex

Fixed white bitmaps being loaded with channel values greater than 1.0

Fixed an error when creating thumbnails using textures mapped to environment variable

Fixed a crash when loading a specific .vrscene file with alembic hair

Fixed the Light Meter locator not displaying in Viewport 2.0

Fixed VRaySun created from Maya Light Lister having no target

Fixed wrong UVs with Ornatrix

Locking the Enable/Disable light checkbox didn't allow to isolate another light

The Strip Paths option now strips paths for included .vrscene files

Fixed flickering when rendering with precalculated irradiance map in animation mode

Fixed uninverted normal maps not showing as uninverted in DR

Cached geometry between renders didn't detect changes to openSubdiv added to displacement node

The softMinValue and softMaxValue were not set for shaders created from V-Ray Plugin

Fixed a crash with samplerInfo as a material switch and V-Ray Proxy

Fixed IPR not working for VRay zip installation with spaces in the folder name

Fixed erroneous orange coloration of Render Elements enabled attribute when created on a new render layer

Maya image planes now work correctly in IPR

Fixed offset controls of ParticleTex UI

Removed irrelevant by node handle option from VRayMultiSubTex

Fixed error when Maya Assembly loads V-Ray Proxy representation

Fixed Ptex baking crash when baking an animation

Fixed incorrect dimming of buttons inside the DR settings window

Fixed a crash when V-Ray is set as renderer in the Hypershade's material preview

Fixed UV offset/distortion with UDIM textures at different camera angles

Fixed a crash when changing VRayObjectProperties parameter on a proxy when in IPR

Fixed Maya Fluids with Auto Resize having wrong texture mapping when the node is scaled

Fixed Maya Fluids with Auto Resize having wrong texture mapping in animation

Fixed PTex baking with V-Ray Proxy

Support for object visibility flags in Alembic files

Fixed ScriptJob getting called in loop on cameraChange event

Fixed transmission Parameters for Hair Material getting cut off in UI

Fixed tiled TIFF files never getting closed on Windows

Fixed post translate python callback value not being saved on close in Maya 2017

Fixed warnings when unloading V-Ray in MayaPy

Fixed a crash when baking PTex on proxy

Fixed proxy GPU preview not redrawing during playback in Viewport 2.0

GPU Production mode now takes the correct Brute Force GI Depth value

Fixed errors when referencing scene with VRayTexOSL nodes in it

Fixed incorrect Motion blur interval center for Alembic animation with changing topology

Fixed an error when opening the Ptex options window a second time

Fixed new transform node creation for already removed Proxy objects when scrubbing the timeline

Fixed wrong shadows with Ptex baking

Fixed BRDFVrayMtl rendering black when the refraction color is white

Fixed issues when importing VRayFlakes, VRayStochasticFlakes, and Mtl2sided materials from a 3Ds Max .vrscene

Fixed BlendMtl not importing correctly from .vrscene file from 3Ds Max

Fixed a crash when Hypershade is opened and there is a missing .vrmat file

Fixed broken Render mask controls

Fixed GI Ray distance slider missing with certain settings

Fixed a crash when starting IPR right after Viewport IPR

Fixed slow Viewport 2.0 updates when scrubbing the timeline with many proxies (not animated)

Fixed XGen cache script error when exporting to .vrscene

Fixed a memory leak with Ornatrix for Maya and V-Ray

Material preview renderer now pauses correctly when Viewport IPR starts

Fixed wrong motion blur with alembic via proxy containing coinciding objects

IPR now does not attempt to create folders for saving image output

Fixed Ornatrix Hair from Mesh Strips not respecting width settings

Fixed strange Motion Blur behavior with alembic files

Fixed an exception when rendering a scene with max threads more than physically available

Fixed VRayPlaceEnvTex horizontal and vertical rotation parameters not working in batch rendering

Missing motion blur on alembic with instanced geometry

Fixed a crash when subdividing proxy and wrong merging of mapping channels

Support drawing new XGen Interactive Groomable Splines with V-Ray materials in the viewport

Fixed separate export of vrscenes for materials, textures, and bitmaps when exporting the nodes wasn't checked

Fixed a crash and wrong renders with animated proxy and CUDA

Fixed a crash when creating frame expression as switch texture for MultiSubTex

Ornatrix UV coords were not exported sometimes

Fixed a crash on executing the vfbControl command with "-historycomment" argument

Added an option to get RenderElements names from their node names

Fixed non existing paths not being created relative to the project path on Linux and OSX

Fixed some machines not loading IFL files when accessing them from shared location

IPR didn't start if the frame is negative

Fixed missing alpha pixels with matte/shadow plane

Fixed fatal error when baking multiple objects with CUDA

Fixed overexposed lighting when rendering with V-Ray GPU

Fixed the specular contribution not getting adjusted by the fog attenuation

Fixed override data is not obtained by third-party plugins

Fixed Object ID override not working with VRayScatter

Override by type now doesn't mask override by name

Fixed Instancer from vrscene not being visible

Fixed set new material on Node not working

Fixed crash with Node without material

Fixed Node override info being stored only for first VRayScene instance

Multiple <*> patterns are now handled correctly

Maya's project path is now taken into account

Lights are now cloned for all instances

Fixed a crash with VRayScatter inside

Fixed animation overrides not working for loop mode

Fixed per particle rgbPP attributes on Instancer not rendering from a VRayScene node

Fixed the VRayScene node axis getting reset to 0,0,0 if Animation Overrides are enabled

Animation overrides were affecting the preview animation without Use Animation Overrides being active

Fixed GeomPlane not rendering

VRaySun and domeLight with texture have incorrect up vector

Fixed override by name

Overwriting a texture with another one using snippets was fixed

Fixed errors when loading a referenced scene with a VRayMesh without a preview node

Fixed Maya 2017 using 100% of 1 core when the VFB window is opened

Changing channels in VFB while docked and rendering is now possible

Fixed VFB region changing its position if Viewport IPR is started

Fixed vertical lines appearing in VFB when comparing rendered images

Fixed history Settings dialog being inaccessible for some desktop configurations

The Close button on the History settings window was not clickable

Fixed overlapping slider and components in the CC window

Fixed the VFB not respecting the VRAY_VFB_LUT_FILE env variable

Fixed artifacts with mesh as clipper

Fixed crashes with animated clipper with motion blur after rendering the first frame

Fixed bright pixels in the Specular render element with stochastic flakes material

Fixed black Viewport 2.0 preview with VRayDirt

VRayUserInt texture didn't work correctly with the VRaySwitchMtl material

Fixed Maya fluids not generating emissive lights

Fixed broken file conversion to EXR