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Official Release

Date - May 21, 2024

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

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New Features

Geometry

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  • Support for importing and creating V-Ray Decal.

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    urlhttps://docs.chaos.com/display/LAV/Decal+Details

  • Support for nested V-Ray scenes inside V-Ray scenes.

Materials

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  • Support for "Thin walled" option in V-Ray material.

Textures

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  • Support for UDIM textures.

Color corrections

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  • Added white balance to color correction tab.

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

  • Loading most VFB color corrections settings from .vrscene files (Exposure, Filmic, White Balance, Hue/Saturation, Color Balance, LUT)

Camera

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  • Support for setting "Auto-exposure" and "exposure bias" from .vrscene or Live-link.

Lights

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  • Support for dome light "horizontal flip" option from Maya. 

UI/UX

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  • Search filter functionality in the Scene outliner.

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Animation editor

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  • Imported animated cameras in/out ranges setting

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  • Undo/Redo actions for animation editor.



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Geometry

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  • Improved Scatter generation and update for detailed target and area include/exclude meshes.

  • Improved denoising of deforming geometry.

UI/UX

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  • Scatter and fur objects can now be selected in the viewport.

  • Improved tooltips timing.

Denoiser

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  • Updated DLSS-RR to version 3.7.

Performance

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  • Improved playback performance with a small number of animated instances and a large number of non-animated instances.

  • Improved dynamic textures update performance.



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Fixes

Geometry

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  • Merging of animated scenes with different Up vector results in wrong orientation.

Chaos Cosmos

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  • Wrong rendering of Cosmos assets exported from Maya.

UI/UX

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  • Crash when modifying key shortcuts.

  • Disappearing popup dialogs for camera settings.

  • Hiding an object doesn't hide its descendants if they are procedural objects (scatter, fur, light).

  • NVENC failure when falling back from AV1 to H264 on older GPUs.

Installer

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  • Installer doesn't proceed when there is no V-Ray License Service installed.