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V-Ray 5, update 2.2
Official release
Date - Apr 20, 2022
Build 5.20.02
New features
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V-Ray
Adaptive bucket splitting;
- Maya 2023 support;
Added a transparency_level output to Sampler Info node and TexSampler plug-in;
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Chaos Vantage
Vantage Live-Link;
Modified features
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VFB
Made ON/OFF state in buttons in VFB2 visible;
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Automatically add Render Setup layer override for the enabled attribute of toggled Render Elements;
More robust IPR change detection while mouse dragging;
Bug fixes
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V-Ray
- Fixed crash with reflection exclude list in VRayObjectProperties;
- Fixed textures not updating in IPR when changing file path;
- Fixed loading a .tx textures with UDIM crashing Maya;
- Fixed illegible symbols in memory tracking log on Linux;
- Fixed a server-side distributed rendering crash involving Light Mix;
- Fixed an issue with standalone installation preventing starting a distributed rendering server on MacOS;
- Fixed a rare crash when using Alembic proxies in IPR;
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Fixed an issue with lens effects sometimes being computed wrong;
V-Ray 5, update 2.1
Official release
Date - Dec 21, 2021
Build 5.20.01
New features
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V-Ray GPU
- Support for the texture mode of the lens distortion option in Physical Camera;
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- Added an option for back side projection in VRayDecal;
Modified features
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Cryptomatte
- New more robust Cryptomatte implementation;
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- Proxies from assets are now with a nicer name;
Bug fixes
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V-Ray
- Fixed V-Ray not utilizing more than 64 threads in some cases on Windows 11;
- Fixed reversed bump in reflections;
- Support UDIM textures with more than 99 tiles in one dimension;
- Fixed unnecessary prompt for EULA in Maya 2018;
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- Fixed different GI results with enabled/disabled render elements and HairNextMtl;
V-Ray 5, update 2
Official release
Date - Nov 11, 2021
Build 5.20.00
New Features
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Cosmos
- Added Cosmos asset browser
- Cosmos Materials support
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- Implemented the thin-walled mode of the VRayMtl on the GPU
- Implemented the new volumetric translucency modes of the VRayMtl on the GPU
Modified Features
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V-Ray
- Notarized installation on MacOS
- Discontinued zip builds on MacOS
- Anima AXYZ animated textures are now working
- Added an option to force infinity color to black for ZDepth
- Updated Embree to 3.13.0
- Removed the GPU Light Cache option, it will now be always ON
- Made the proxy filter update on keystroke
- A prompt for EULA for interactive rendering after a zip or automated install
- Removed the Clamp Output option
- Removed the Sinc AA filter
- Removed the World Scale option for Light Cache
- Help link for Post Translate Python Script available in toolclip on hover
- Automatically add extension when adding tokens for Light Cache to match saved files
- Report time spent tracing photons during rendering with progressive caustics
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- Fixed animated Toon Edge Priority not working
Bug Fixes
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V-Ray GPU
- V-Ray GPU fails to load and render tiles texture with Mudbox filename format with lowercase $u and $v
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- V-Ray Sun renders wrong with Viewport IPR
V-Ray 5, update 1.2
Official Release
Date - Sep, 2021
Build 5.10.22
New features
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USD
- Support for MayaUSD 0.10.0, MayaUSD 0.11.0 and MayaUSD 0.12.0
Modified features
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V-Ray SDK
- Fixed faulty compilation of C++ third-party plug-ins ins since 5.10.20 causing random crashes;
Bug fixes
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V-Ray
- Fixed export and import of render elements from the V-Ray settings;
- Fixed runtime error with Python 3 when creating absolute override for visible layer;
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- Fixed wrong render with mayapy;
V-Ray 5, update 1.1
Official Release
Date - July 19, 2021
Build 5.10.21
New feature
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V-Ray
- Maya 2022 Python 2 support in the stable nightlies;
Modified features
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V-Ray Material Library
- Downloader tool support for Linux and MacOS as well;
- Support for drag'n'dropping library materials in the Hypershade and anywhere in the viewport;
- Adding the same material twice is now possible through "Add to scene";
- Applying the same material to another object is now possible through "Apply to selected object(s)";
Bug fixes
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VFB
- Fixed a freeze when loading a background image after rendering;
- Fixed single-channel EXRs not saving corrections;
- Fixed errors with test resolution when no VFB is used;
- Fixed "Clear Frame Buffers" option not working;
- Fixed purple banding with OCIO;
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- Fixed GPU light cache error when aborting render;
- Fixed crash with ExtraTex and GPU light cache;
- Fixed fireflies with refractive materials;
V-Ray 5, update 1
Official Release
Date - Jun 17, 2021
Build 5.10.20
New features
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V-Ray
- Cryptomatte in progressive;
- V-Ray Material Library in Maya;
- Progressive caustics mode;
- Maya 2022 support;
- New Opacity cutout command;
- Added an option to switch between world units and pixels as photon lookup radius for the caustics photon map;
- Now exporting pivot and parent transforms information in vrscene files for Vantage and V-Ray for Unreal;
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- Added support for sheen and coat in Viewport 2.0;
- VRayLayeredTex basic viewport preview;
Modified features
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V-Ray GPU
- Optimized CUDA CPU performance;
- Changed the default min/max subdivs values for V-Ray GPU Bucket rendering;
- Support for back side material IDs;
- Optimized IPR scene updates with OptiX;
- Implemented displacement in world space;
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- Add support for dirt and curvature attached to extra tex when OOC geometry is enabled;
Bug fixes
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Material importer
- Fixed empty UVWGen warning on importing Float textures;
- Fixed importing UVWGenObject when connected to auto generated VRayPluginNodeTex;
- Fixed Material importer flaw for materials with embedded bump attributes;
- Fixed importing the "gtr_gamma" attribute in the BRDFVRayMtl plugin;
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- Fixed vrimg2exr crashing in GUI mode on Linux when overwriting an existing file;
V-Ray 5, Hotfix 2
Official Release
Date - Sep 30, 2020
Download - Build 5.00.22
New features
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VRayProxy
- Allow clicking in the viewport to select proxy sub-objects
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- Implemented renderer stats in VFB2;
Modified features
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V-Ray
- Faster unloading of V-Ray when closing Maya;
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- Remove extraneous error when default project's name contains non-ASCII characters
Bug fixes
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LightMix
- Fixed crash when enabling light in IPR on refractive material with LightMix enabled;
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- Fixed slow startup when DR is enabled on Linux and macOS
V-Ray 5, Hotfix 1
Official Release
Date - Sep 30, 2020
Download - Build 5.00.21
New features
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SamplerInfo
- Added a frame index offset output for motion blur intervals larger than a frame
Modified features
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LightMix
- LightMix now supported in batch rendering
- Disabled lights no longer go into the light mix list
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- Fixed wrong export of "by render ID" random mode
Bug fixes
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V-Ray
- Fixed referenced scene causing Render Settings Common Tab UI to shrink
- Fixed packing to vrscene zip folder structure
- Fixed a crash when loading tiled EXR with size 1
- Fixed crash with Bifrost Aero scene
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- Fixed wrong capture of lights that are invisible in the final rendering
V-Ray 5
Official Release
Date - Aug 6, 2020
Download - Build 5.00.20
New features
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Installation
- Embed the License Server and the Cloud Client installations in the V-Ray for Maya installer
- Integrate the new installer in V-Ray for Maya
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V-Ray Scene Converter
- Convert lights for V-Ray
Modified features
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VRayProxy
- Added an option to export full path names for proxies
- Automatic conversion to the new VRayProxy node
- Check if the folder where the proxy will be saved exist before the export starts
- Enabled "Optimize for instancing" for proxy export by default
- Renamed the "One voxel per mesh" label for proxy export to "Optimize for instancing"
- Renamed -vrscenePreview to -vrsceneWholeScene in the ply2vrmesh option list
- Speed up the proxy export
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- Added support for explicit texture coordinates for the Texture sampler in Maya/Standalone
Bug fixes
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V-Ray
- Fixed slower render when started by clicking the VFB "render last" icon
- Fixed wrong bounding boxes on VRayScene preview
- Fixed new hair material not being affected when AcesCG color space is selected
- OSX: Fixed Installer failing to remove firewall exception
- Fixed artifacts with the adaptive dome light in the attached scene
- Fixed wrong object translations with flipAxis enabled in the VRayMesh preview
- Fixed very high memory usage when playing with VFB color corrections and the vfbControl command
- Fixed wrong VRaySun viewport preview when parent transform is scaled
- Fixed fatal error when rendering a refractive material in a specific scene
- Fixed OSL shader not taking into account the connected multiplyDivide node
- Fixed importing plugin object parameters for VRayPluginNode not working
- Fixed skipExistingFrame breaking the dome light texture when the first frame exists
- Fixed having V-Ray AppSDK installed prevents python in V-Ray for Maya working
- Fixed rendering hair ignoring per vertex map channels
- Fixed using uninverted normal bump option resulting in strange/wrong rendering
- Fixed error for swatches of file textures with filenames containing tags
- Allow longer names of render elements when saving in a .vrimg file from the VFB
- Fixed user attribute syntax with spaces around attribute name not working
- Fixed segmentation fault with alembic file on Linux
- Fixed instanced hair crashing when using VRayHairMtl
- Fixed error on importing vrscene with vrscene in geometry mode inside
- Fixed the Locator scale parameter not working on sphere and rectangular V-Ray lights in Viewport 2.0
- Fixed V-Ray could crash if reading maximum memory snapshot after plugins have been unloaded
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