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Build 5.20.23

Official release, update 2.3

Date – Apr 5, 2022

New Features

V-Ray

• Adaptive Bucket Splitting;
• Support for Max 2023;
• Ability to bake metalness and roughness;
• Add an option to include the Rest LightMix channel when saving to file;
• Add fit aspect ratio to material/bitmap functionality for VRayDecal;
• Add an option in VRayDenoiser for denoising the alpha;

V-Ray IES

• Expose IES light shape and size to MAXScript;
  

Modified Features

V-Ray

• Update Open Image Denoiser to version 1.4.2;
• Allow higher Max Size for GPU textures, when mode is set to Resize;
• Import for Cosmos materials with non-square textures;
• New Shortcut (N) in the VFB2 to EDIT notes in the History;
• Resumable rendering support for deep images;

V-Ray, VRayIES

• Make the VRayIES file button larger;

VFB

• Show more information when corrupted OCIO file is loaded regarding the error;

VRayOSL, V-Ray

• Support for vector-like structures;

Bug Fixes

V-Ray

• Crash with VRayMultiSubTex;
• V-Ray Material Library path is not updated after installation if provided by environment variable;
• V-Ray Standalone cannot load 3rd party plugins dependencies from arbitrary locations;
• Cosmos importer fails to import asset with VRay2SidedMtl;
• Viewport IPR option disappears from the viewport menus when using max.vray as a default setting (Custom default switcher menu);
• Crash when rendering a specific scene file with 3dsmax frame buffer;
• Render artifacts on the voxel borders of a V-Ray proxy geometry with Displacement modifier;
• Modifying denoiser parameters in VFB2 with OIDN denoiser switches the denoiser type to Optix;
• OCIO2 config might fail to load depending on locale settings;
• VRayMultiSubTex produces incorrect results with Random Hue and Sat when exported;
• Incorrect render time after enabling A/B compare and selecting an A image and then saving to history;
• Missing parameters for the VRayUnclampedColor element;
• Crash when loading .tx sequences in VRayBitmap;
• Add support for Anima4D models export with Motion Blur;
• Map connections are lost when drag and drop material from V-Ray Material Library to the Compact material editor slot;
• Animated TyFlow cache with UVWmodifier is not exported as expected;
• The "All" LightMix parameters values are not saved to presets and history;
• Error on render resuming after enabling or disabling DR;
• Crash in V-Ray IPR with Forest Color map and latest Forest Pro version;

V-Ray, V-Ray GPU

• Incorrect results with VRayDecal during IPR debug shading;

V-Ray GPU

• Skipped frame when rendering non continuous frame list with V-Ray GPU;
• GPU rendering not showing correctly with 3ds Max frame buffer;
• Crash when using Matte objects, VRayAlSurface and Glass ;
• VRayMtl in SSS with Matte object crashes in animation using V-Ray GPU;
• Crash with CUDA CPU on MacOS;
• Swapping GPU devices in the same 3Ds Max session crashes IPR and production rendering;
• GPU LC is slower to render with big resolutions;
• VFB Display correction is briefly reset while preparing for rendering with V-Ray GPU;
• Rendering with CUDA a scene with BakeView produces black output;
• V-Ray GPU does not bake all pixels when rendering to textures;
• Crash when rendering scenes of objects with translucent materials and a shadow catcher;
• Artifacts with layered VRayDecal objects;
• VRaySun disc is rendered with offset in V-Ray GPU lately;
• VRayDecal does not project VRayEdgesTex;
• Texture baking doesn't work correctly with GPU;
• Lighting discrepancy between CPU and GPU results when LightDirect is used with Intensity higher than 1;
• Shadow Radius parameter of Directional and Omni light does not work;

V-Ray Light

• Make rendering of instances of disabled lights instanced via VRayInstancer consistent between Max and Standlone;
• Random crash in V-Ray IPR when creating VRayLight;
• Disabling the affectSpecular and affectReflections options of a Dome light leads to inconsistent results;

VRayMtl

• Crash when creating a Physical material in slate material editor using 3dsmax 2018;
• VRayMtl shortmap buttons are representing wrong maps when older scene is loaded in Max 2018;

VRayOSL, V-Ray

• MDL displacement is not exported correctly;

VRayVolumeGrid

• VDB caches with invalid min/max channel value metadata are not handled;

VRayIES

• VRayIES lights' include and exclude lists broken in MXS;
  
  

Build 5.20.02

Official release, update 2.2

Date – Dec 16, 2021

New Features

V-Ray, VRayPhysicalCamera, V-Ray GPU

• Support for the texture mode of the lens distortion option in 3ds Max's Physical camera and VRayPhysicalCamera;

V-Ray

• VRayCryptomatte support for Refraction and Reflection;

Modified Features

V-Ray

• Add a "Manage Chaos License Server" button in Settings;
• Add a warning in the Analyze exporter tool about gif assets;
• Integrate the new RailClone API additions allowing non-geometric (light) objects instancing;
• Support for modifiers which affect Railclone objects in Standalone and Cloud;
• Add an option for V-Ray GPU IPR to use the Render states/counts/iterations/modes instead of the viewport ones;

V-Ray, V-Ray GPU

• Add an option for backface projection in VRayDecal;
• Improve VRayDecal viewport representation;
• VRayDecal to respect bounding box positions for ordering;
• Animatable VRayDecal parameters;
• Support for Phoenix Simulators and Particle Shaders in the V-Ray Atmosphere RE with V-Ray GPU;

V-Ray GPU

• Reduce kernel compilation times by up to 60%;

V-Ray Hair Mtl

• Change the default Compensate Energy in VRayHairNextMtl to OFF;

 V-Ray Light

• V-Ray lights' settings to be set to default value with right click on the spinners;
• In creation mode the V-Ray light should inherit the parameter values of the previously edited light;

Bug Fixes

V-Ray

• UDIM textures with more than 99 tiles in one dimension do not work;
• Mapped fog color is not preserved on export with Preserve refraction in OverrideMtl;
• Uninstallation of Chaos Thumbnail Handler may cause errors if it fails to complete fast enough;
• Multiple VRayFastSSS2 materials do not export properly when they use the same VRayColor2Bump texture;
• Crash when changing decal angle parameters in Max 2019;
• VRaySoftbox's gradient handles are linked;
• Spinner controls steps in the plugins with Qt native UI are not adaptive;
• Anima characters not following walkway path on scene export;
• Switching between two instances of VRayBitmap does not update all parameters in the Compact editor;
• Wrong Lens Effects with Denoiser and Sharpen/Blur layers on big resolutions;
• 3ds max 2017 crash when creating lights from VRayToolbar;
• Anima Rigged characters' textures not rendering properly;
• Crash when using VRayDecal and Cryptomatte Render Elements;
• Closing the render settings window while GPU IPR is running resets Test resolution;
• The selected color space for OCIO is blank when using specific modified OCIO file in 3dsmax 2019;
• V-Ray not utilizing more than 64 threads in some cases on Windows 11;
• Bump is reversed in reflections;

V-Ray Material Library

• Create a new material library from a .max file doesn't work;

V-Ray GPU

• Black Light Cache prepass on high resolution renders;
• VRayDecal doesn't work with VRayFur and Ornatrix in V-Ray GPU;
• Different GI results with enable/disable render elements and HairNextMtl;
• Textured VRayDecal does not work with on-demand-mip-mapped mode ;
• The LPE don't capture the scattered self illumination of the EnvironmentFog or the VolumeGrid;
• Crash with multiple instances of VRayDecal;
• Crash in V-Ray GPU IPR when moving camera;
• GPU Light cache freezes with certain scanned materials;
• Memory leak with Light Cache Subdivs;
• Increasing the GI depth during GPU interactive rendering causes a crash with specific scenes;
• The Light Mix render element does not work correctly on GPU when the camera Auto Exposure is enabled;

V-Ray, V-Ray GPU

• Issues with Anti-aliasing (bucket sampler only) when using VRayCryptomatte mask and Multi/Sub-object material assigned to single object;
• VRayDecal V-Ray GPU IPR crash related to include/exclude lists

V-Ray, V-Ray GPU, VRayMultiSubTex, VRay Triplanar Tex

• VRayDecal doesn't work with texture randomizations;
  

V-Ray, VRayFur, VRayPhysicalCamera

• Composite map as a VRayDecal mask does not render on scene open;

VFB

• VFB1 history right click menu is bugged;
  

VRayGLSL, VRayOSL, VRayMDL

• Wrong tooltips with VRayMDLMtl;
  

VRayIES

• VRayIES lights custom shape override is not working when scene is reloaded;

VRayLight

• Dome light is created with wrong multiplier after scene reset;
  
• Wrong VRayLight type when picking different light from VRayToolbar while in creation mode;
• Dome light with units different from "Default" renders differently from the production renderer;

VRayVolumeGrid

• Crash during rendering the Helicopter Cosmos Asset and a Volume with Ray-traced scattering enabled;
  
• Memory leak of the uvw and nonDisplacedVertices buffers when rendering in mesh modes;

VRayMtl

• Enabling one of the new Translucency modes of the BRDFVRayMtl during interactive rendering causes issues;
  

Build 5.20.01

Official release, update 2.1

Date - Nov 4, 2021

New features

V-Ray, VRaySun/VRaySky/VRayAerialPerspective

• Add atmospheric contribution options to the VRaySun light;

Bug fixes

V-Ray

• Crash when using VRayDecal and Cryptomatte RE;
• Graphical glitches after adding color correction to a VFB composite layer with Cryptomatte mask;
• Normal Bump maps crash 3ds Max when rendered in Material Editor swatches;
• Previous render clear mode does not work with most render masks;
• Crash when baking VRayAO with gpu;
• Crash with Anima 4D characters when Production render has been started after a Viewport IPR session;
• Cosmos material drag and drop doesn't work in 3ds Max 2018;

V-Ray GPU

• Crashes with VRayDecal in GPU IPR;
• Cryptomatte with progressive sampling - issues when there is denoiser channel added;

VRayDirt

• Slowdown when blending materials with displacement using VRayDirt as blend amount;

VRayMDL, VRayGLSL, VRayOSL

• Misplaced configuration files;

Build 5.20.00

Official release, update 2

Date - Oct 26, 2021

New features

VRayDecal

• An easy way of projecting one material on top of another;

VRayLight

• Add contribution per light for atmospherics;

Cosmos

• Cosmos Materials support;

VRay

• Override material preserve functionality option for material displacement;
• Override material preserve functionality option for Reflection/Coat/Sheen;
• Curvature texture support for isolating Convex or Concave values;
• VRayBlendMtl material to blend the displacement maps of the sub-materials;
• Add support for animation exporting for the OSL plugin in Max;

VRayMtl

• Implement the thin-walled mode of the VRayMtl on the GPU;
• Implement the new volumetric translucency modes of the VRayMtl on the GPU;

V-Ray, VRayInstancer

• Lights as source objects for the VRayInstancer;

.vrscene exporter / Chaos Cloud

• SiNi Software scattering plugins export;

• Anima 4D characters support for V-Ray GPU and Chaos Cloud;

• Dot-delimited frame number option in VRayStandalone;

V-Ray, VRayScene

• Initial USD support in VRayScene node;

VFB

• Add a Sharpen/Blur post effect layer;

• Integrate rendering log in the new frame buffer;

• Option to create an "effectsResult" channel when only Lens Effects layer is enabled (no Denoiser);

• Option to bake Lens Effects intensity into the Glare channel;

• Add an option for adding VFB color corrections to all render channels when saving to separate files;

• Add option to set shortcuts for all VFB2 menu items;

• Batch image processing in VFB2 for vrimg files;

• Ability to add color corrections to the VFB Background layer

VRayDisplacementMod

• Support for Creases modifier with VRayDisplacementMod subdivision;

V-Ray, VRayMultiSubTex, VRayTriplanarTex, V-Ray GPU

• Extend the randomization options in VRayMultiSubTex;

V-Ray GPU

• Implement support for the total lighting render element;
• Support for Sparse Volumes on GPU using Nvidia's NanoVDB library;

VRayIES

• Expose IES light shape and size to MAXScript;

VRayMultiSubTex

• Element recognition in VRayProxy;

VRayOSL, V-Ray, VRayGLSL, V-Ray GPU, VRayMDL

• Support for camera shaders;
  

VRayVolumeGrid

• Add Absorption color for the Volumetric Shader for CPU rendering;
  

V-Ray, V-Ray GPU

• Cryptomatte with progressive sampling;
  

Modified features

.vrscene exporter/Chaos Cloud

• Add a warning that default lights are unsupported when exporting scenes with no other lights;
• Warning that 3ds Max output is not being saved with Standalone when there is a Separate render channels output;
• Auto rename and add a warning if there are render elements with the same name;
  

Cosmos

• Set the default Cosmos browser width to 480 pixels;

• Switch Cosmos proxies to preview from file, when previews are available;

• Cosmos HDRI "Import" button should replace/set the map if a Dome Light is currently selected;

• Use whole mesh (and not the embedded) preview for certain assets (vehicles) on import;

• Cosmos Import Options remembered after 3ds Max is closed;

• Bring Cosmos browser to front if it is behind other windows and the user clicks the Cosmos Browser toolbar button

V-Ray

• Improved LPE material label system;

• Update Embree to 3.13.0;

• Apply color corrections to the RGB channel when saving;

• Remove the Subdivs parameter from V-Ray Light Lister;

• Remove Quick V-Ray render settings from the Customize UI;

• Add VRaySpecularMap and VRayReflectionMap bake render elements;

• Ability to specify a camera to determine reflections for texture baking;

• Missing parameters in the MAXScript vrscene export function;

• Preserve the cosmos dialog size (and position) after 3ds Max restart;

• Preview for UDIM textures in the realistic (Nitrous) viewport;

• Auto rename duplicate channel names when auto creating LightMix render elements;

• Display an error and abort the render if there are Progressive Caustics and DR set;

• Install thumbnail handler for the VRScans files with V-Ray;

• Consistent IPR scene update with IPR camera selected when View to Render has been locked;

• Improve the data window values when using Auto mode for the VrayOptionRE;

• VFB Lens effects were exported even when V-Ray VFB is disabled;

• Per frame export for animated parameters of Composite map;

• Better performance of dynamic geometry and tiled textures on many-core machines;

• Add a custom color option for background in VRayExtraTex render element;

• Implement Qt-based user interface for VRayMtl, VRay2SidedMtl, VRayALSurfaceMtl, VRayClipper, VRayColor, VRayFastSSS2, VRayProxy; 

• Particles rendering with Embree;

• Rename the VRay Asset Browser's 'Add to Scene' option to 'Add to Material Editor' or relevant;

• Improved anisotropy for the V-Ray material;

• Rename the VRay Asset Browser's 'Add all to scene' to 'Add all to material editor'

V-Ray GPU

• Use small buckets when rendering with CUDA CPU Only;

• VRayDirt with "Ignore Invisible Objects" enabled should not be affected by lights that are invisible;

• Spot Lights with narrow cones have wrong penumbra with V-Ray GPU compared to CPU;

• Improve VRayTexOCIO on GPU;

• Expose VRayTotalLighting RE in V-Ray GPU UI;
• Oversaturated rendering of Mix map when mapped with values above 1

V-Ray Toolbar

• Integrate Vantage Live Link with V-Ray for 3ds Max;

• Replace the Create VRayMetaballs button in V-Ray Toolbar with Create VRayDecal button;

V-Ray, V-Ray GPU

• Improve the machine info printed in the log in V-Ray Standalone or by the -version flag;

• Calculate LC only on the GPU when V-Ray GPU is used;

• Add support for tiled textures with large amount of tiles on V-Ray GPU;

• V-Ray GPU fails to load and render tiles texture with Mudbox filename format with lowercase $u and $v;

VFB

• Elapsed time is not showing in the VFB Stats tab when rendering in Bucket mode;

• Add a new function vfbcontrol #historysize that exposes current history size to MAXScript users;

• Add MAXScript command to transfer LightMix to scene;

• Add an icon for the "off" state of the VFB layers;

• The curve color correction in VFB2 shows visible banding for very low intensity images;

• Change the Source back to RGB in VFB if the VRayBackToBeauty element is disabled;

• Implement VRAY_VFB_GLOBAL_PRESET_FILE environment variable for the new VFB;

• Allow masks for Render element layers;

• Improve the Lookup table VFB2 correction;

• Cameras in Render Pull-Down button in VFB to be listed in a sorted order;

• Possible to load/save VFB2 shortcut configuration from/to file;

• VFB2 should remember collapsed state of history and layer widgets;

• Reset VFB position button in the Render Setup window;

• Disable Layer controls if the layer is disabled;

VRayCurvatureMap

• Option to ignore bump in VRayCurvature;

VRayDirt

• Streaks breakthrough for VRayDirt;

• Blur effect for streaks in VRayDirt;

• Ignore bump option for VRayDirt;

• Thin mesh mode for VRayDirt;

• Add output section to V-Ray Dirt texture;

V-Ray, VRayInstancer

• Support for reading custom data channels from Phoenix's PRT Reader in V-Ray Instancer;

V-Ray, VRayInstancer, VRayTriplanarTex

• Thinking particles instancing to support Data Channels from TP (tPDCbitmap);

V-Ray, VRaySun/VRaySky/VRayAerialPerspective

• Change the name of the "Improved" model in VRaySky to "PRG Clear Sky";

V-Ray, VRayTriplanarTex, V-Ray GPU

• Add "by node handle" randomization mode in VRayTriplanarTex;

• TriPlanar texture make textureable the "frame_offset" and "texture_rotation" parameters;

VRay2SidedMtl, VRayColor

• Implement the UI of VRay2SidedMtl and VRayColor in Qt;

VRayAO

• Ability to exclude objects / lights from VRayAO render element;
• Add the "Ignore invisible objects" option to the VRayAO pass;

VRayBitmap

• Add "auto" mode for the color transfer function in VRayBitmap;

• Open browse window with VRayBitmap creation in 3ds Max 2022;

VRayDenoiser

• Fall back to Intel Denoiser when there is no suitable hardware for the NVIDIA Denoiser;

• Add an option to the Denoiser to take under consideration that you are rendering 360 panorama;

VRayDistanceTex

• Add the possibility to remove multiple objects from VRayDistanceTex list;

VRayEnvironmentFog

• Gray out the mapping options in VRayEnvironmentFog when the current renderer is V-Ray GPU;

VRayFastSSS2

• Implement Qt UI for VRayFastSSS2 Material;

VRayLight

• Make the button for texture in VRayLight larger;

• V-Ray lights' settings to be set to default value with right click on the spinners;

• Remove some old stale options from the UI to reduce complexity;

• Hide the No Decay option of V-Ray lights for new scenes;

• VRayLights to only accept multiplier values above zero;

• Don't disable adaptive dome lights if all excluded for shadows objects are already invisible for shadows;

VRayLight, VRayMtl

• Extend the Drag and drop Cosmos HDRI textures;

VRayMDL

• Ability to suppress the MDL search path prompt;

VRayMtl

• Implement new physically correct GTR anisotropy based on linear stretching of the microsurface;

VRayOSL

• Add support for animation exporting for the OSLMap plugin in Max;

VRayPhysicalCamera

• Link the values for EV and ISO to update together in VRayPhysicalCamera;

VRayScene

• Make the Auto mode of "Flip Axis" in VRayScene node to work for USD files;

• Scale setting for VRayScene node;

VRayStochasticFlakesMtl

• Remove Subdivs parameter from VRayStochasticFlakesMtl's UI;

VRayToonMtl

• Remove Subdivs parameters from VRayToonMtl's UI;

VRayUVWRandomizer

• Minor UI improvements for VRayUVWRandomizer;

VRayVolumeGrid

• Speed up frame blending with Time Bend controls;

• Enable Probabilistic Volumetrics by default for new scenes;

• Sparsify VDBs exported by the Phoenix simulation or the cache converter;

• Probabilistic shading should have an effect only with V-Ray in 3ds Max;

• Enable GPU preview and velocity streamline preview in 3ds Max 2022;

• Allow animating of the Solid, Wetting and Voxel Mode Override node properties in 3ds Max;

• Move the Preferences and About dialog from the Simulator to the Phoenix FD menu;

• Make Huffman compression of particles multi-threaded and break up the channels into pieces like the grid channels;

• Make Zip compression of particles multi-threaded;

• Sequential Tab ordering of the dialog controls in 3ds Max;

Bug fixes

.vrscene exporter/Chaos Cloud

• VRayBitmap's Mono output set to Alpha doesn't work with Mix and Composite maps when exported;

• Anima Subscription models are not rendered properly with Standalone and V-Ray GPU;

• Wrong export of ColorCurveGrad.osl and SetFloat.osl;

• The cache size for tiled textures is not exported;

• Cache normals option in VRayDisplacementMod has no effect in vrscene;

• Discrepancy with VRayUVWRandomizer's Random by Instance ID and Random by Particle ID modes in V-Ray Standalone;

• Incorrect export to .vrscene of the mirror option in the Coordinates rollout;

• MultiTexture results in V-Ray Standalone don't match V-Ray for 3ds Max when randomizing by object;

• Forest Color results in V-Ray Standalone don't match V-Ray for 3ds Max when "random strength min" is greater than "random strength max";

• Scene with empty name is exported incorrectly as .vrsceneuntitled;

• Add a warning that VRayBitmap's Noise options do not render in Standalone;

• VRayUVWRandomizer random by name / by element distribution on geometry mismatch with V-Ray Standalone;

• No error code when exporting vrscenes to wrong paths;

• Access violation on "Export and Render" in case of issues with finding V-Ray Standalone installation;

• VRayMultiSubTex Random by Name distribution on VRayLight mismatch with V-Ray Standalone;

• Exporting .vrscene zip or folder to existing one merges the assets instead of overriding them;

• Archive as ZIP is greyed out if we open another scene to export;

• OpenSubdiv Preserve Geom Bnd/Preserve Map Bnd options are not exported to .vrscene;

• Wrong vrscene export - skipped switch material in blend;

• Displacement texture of VRaySwitchMtl sub-material is not exported;

• Some of the MultiSubTex modes are not properly exported to Standalone;

• Motion blur shutter efficiency is not exported;

• Disabling the 'generate render elements' option in the VRayDenoiser has no effect when exporting .vrscenes;

• vrscene export doesn't register VRayDisplacementMod amount animation;

• VRayDistanceTex with hidden reference object is not exported properly to vrscene;

• Animated Gradient ramp is not exported with .vrscene file;

• Show a warning for unsupported image filters when exporting to vrscene and Chaos Cloud;

• Discrepancy with VRayTriplanar's Random by Instance ID and Random by Particle ID modes in V-Ray Standalone;

• Negative anisotropy values are clamped to 0 in vrscene export;

• VrayEnvironmentFog with loaded animated atmospheric gizmo is not exported to .vrscene;

• Warnings during scene export fail backburner jobs;

• Incorrect scene export with Forest Pro with camera motion blur and forest camera density/scale checkboxes enabled;

• VRayMtl's animated map multipliers / color swatches are exported incorrectly;

• Animated self illumination multiplier of VRayMtl is not exported to Standalone/Chaos Cloud when a map is used;

• Mapped Fog color of VRayMtl is not exported properly;

• Per frame export for animated Phase parameter of VRayNoiseTex map;

• Per frame export for animated parameters of VRayNoiseTex map;

• Forest Pack 7 "Limit to visibility" feature doesn't work with animation export

Cosmos

• Cosmos import options window for 3ds Max 2018 is not properly scaled and moved;

• Cosmos importer settings should be persistent across 3ds Max sessions;

• Bump amount of imported Cosmos assets doesn't scale properly depending on the 3ds Max Units Setup;

• Wrong Cosmos gallery size in maximized browser window after reopen;

• Cosmos browser exceeds desktop height on higher desktop scale (250%);

Installer

• Installer displays wrong destination paths for 3ds Max 2022;

• Some of the shortcuts that V-Ray installs are not visible in the Windows Start Menu;

Phoenix

• Rendering animation to vrscene or on the Cloud during simulation will render only the first cache from the sequence;

• Transforms of Render Cutter, Glass geometry or Fade volume do not contain animation when exported to vrscene from 3ds Max;

• Rendering in Mesh Mode with Smoothing and Motion Blur enabled loses the smoothed normals in 3ds Max;

V-Ray

• Crash with camera shaders on process exit;

• Fish eye auto-fit option is ignored on vrscene export;

• Normals render element is wrong with texture baking when a bake camera is specified;

• Crash when successively deleting cameras in V-Ray Camera Lister;

• MaxScript error (and no export) with the VRMat converter when a VRayMultiSubTex is present in the shader;

• 3ds Max freezes on scene reset if there is a corrupted vrimg file in VFB2 image history;

• V-Ray Spawner is restarted on second V-Ray DR render;

• Typos in the usage text of Material Library Downloader;

• Crash with Slate material editor when the material renderer is V-Ray but the production renderer is another;

• Crash with printing warning on scene export having MultiScatter in the scene;

• vfbcontrol #historyload returns control back to the caller before the image is loaded;

• V-Ray Scene Exporter Analyze UI is messed if Cloud submitter is opened over it;

• Difference between material displacement with and without a modifier with the same settings;

• Register V-Ray menus writes in Program Files when no user settings are present;

• Crash when rendering specific scene with Physical materials in Standalone;

• Rendering with VFB2 in V-Ray Standalone prints QObject::installEventFilter message;

• Pixel aspect is not applied on render begin but only if toggling the pixel aspect option;

• VFB2 menu shortcuts are listed multiple times in 3ds Max 2018 and 2019;

• .vrscene exporter / Chaos Cloud's V-Ray path browse button doesn't work in 3ds Max 2022;

• Thinking Particles normal meshes (non instanced) are no longer rendering along with Instances or when Instancing is turned on in tP.;

• JSON validation when trying to load layer presets wtih MAXScript;

• Wrong render with V-Ray GPU when the frame being rendered is outside the active time segment;

• Error with Max Batch resulting from Cosmos importer connection on 3ds Max startup;

• Incorrect shadows on alembic file when including it to a light;

• Problem with reflections when baking VrayCompleteMap;

• Material IDs are not rendered properly on Thinking particles using instancing;

• ThinkingParticles are not rendered at all with Render Instance enabled if they don't have explicit Shape instancing;

• Standalone generates artifacts when switching the material slot (of a multi material) in animation;

• Create V-Ray Physical Camera command is missing in main menu;

• Exception when rendering with V-Ray GPU from viewport that is set to align with some light;

• VRayDRBucket render element could be denosied;

• Image file paths are not listed in the asset tracker for VRayBitmap texmap with <UDIM> tiles;

• Difference in displacement between 3ds Max and Standalone;

• VRayInstancer doesn't render VolumeGrid with motion blur enabled;

• Laggy Cosmos Browser when the create light operation in Max is still active;

• VRayInstancer, VRayMetaball, VRayPlane, VRayScene, VRaySphere are incorrectly named in the Modifier list in Max 2022;

V-Ray GPU

• V-Ray GPU crashes on render end in scenes with VraySun and disabled atmospheric effects;

• Remove Prepass samples option from GPU render settings;

• Gray out "Multiply color by opacity" option of the V-RayLightMtl when V-Ray GPU is selected as engine;

• Crash in V-Ray GPU IPR when switching GPU Light cache on/off and restarting IPR;

• Specific UDIMs are not supported on GPU;

• Crash with GPU Light cache from file on second render;

• GPU Light cache from file is not working;

• Simple scene renders much slower with adaptive dome light and specific dome texture;

• Crash with CUDA-CPU and k2 on the 3990x threadripper;

• Incorrect results with VRayMtl SSS translucency if the 'Scatter Radius' has zero components;

• VRayOCIO does not convert VRayColor;

• Missing highlight with thin-walled glossy refraction;

• Environment changes are not reflected in IPR with GPU LC unless another change is made after them;

• Artifacts with VRayClipper using C++/CPU rendering;

• Crash in hybrid mode with specific setup with refractive material, bucket sampler and kernel 2;

• Incorrect results with invisible lights behind objects with refraction glossiness;

• GPU crash with a specific setup including V-Ray UVWGenExplicit and BerconNoise;

• GPU Light Cache has 0 num samples in several test scenes;

• Error 700 with GPU LC and self illumination test scene;

• Endless GPU LC calculation with OptiX on RTX hardware;

• Animated VRayLight is not rendered on proper position;

• UVs break when using demand Mip-mapping with .tx files;

• Freezes during K3 on scenes containing ALSurface;

• Copying objects during Optix IPR is not considered;

• Artifacts in shadow when rendering scene with VRayFur;

• Light cache error when render is stopped during Light cache;

• Wrong alpha in specific scene when k3/ooc geometry is used;

• Wrong dirt in extra tex with k3/ooc geometry in specific scene;

• Wrong extra_tex render in specific scene when kernel3/ooc is enabled;

• Missing particles from nightly scene when k3/ooc geometry is used with V-Ray GPU;

• Wrong SSS render in nightly scene when k3/ooc geometry is used with V-Ray GPU;

• Multicamera VR does not render correctly with GPU in Standalone/Cloud;

• Artifacts when AL grid is loaded from light cache;

• GPU Light cache Error when aborting render during Loading bitmaps phase;

• The MultiMatte render element renders different result in V-Ray GPU compared to V-Ray;

• VRayLightMtl Compensate camera exposure not working properly on other than Standard camera modes in GPU;

• Crash with VRayExtraTex RE, visible lights and GPU Light cache;

• IPR crashes with GPU Light Cache when changing the Background color quickly;

• Incorrect VRayLightSelect RE with GPU light cache and multiple light selects containing the same light;

• Fireflies with refractive materials;

• Crashed various test scenes with Out of core on Linux with GPU;

• Darker GI with matte objects when matte for refl/refr is off;

• Artifacts in VRayLightSelect RE when rendered with LC GPU on multiple GPU machine;

• Exception with GPU Light cache and RTX with specific scene;

• Artifacts in IPR with GPU Light Cache when adding/cloning/moving point lights (like IES, Omni, Spot);

• Difference in rendering VRayMtl with sheen color inside VRay2SidedMtl in CUDA;

• Shutter efficiency has no effect on motion blur with CUDA;

• Adaptive Lights with Distributed Rendering and Point light artifacts;

• Render artifacts with shelled glass geometry intersecting the bounding box of the Volumetric grid on V-Ray GPU;

• Grid artifacts when rendering Particle Shader in Fog mode under the liquid surface with V-Ray GPU;

• V-Ray GPU crashes with enabled motion blur and "Default geometry type" set to "Auto";

• Crash when rendering VRayCarPaintMtl2 in animation;

• Objects render black on using Metalness with no reflection color;

• Crash on second render with GPU Light cache and Resumable rendering;

• Artifacts in IPR with GPU Light Cache when adding/cloning/moving point lights (like IES, Omni, Spot);

V-Ray GPU IPR

• Off in viewport for modifiers also disables them in V-Ray GPU IPR;

• Max switches to ticks for the whole duration of V-Ray GPU IPR;

• Freeze in V-Ray GPU IPR with GPU Light cache when moving camera or geometry;

• Incorrect IPR update with GPU LC when drawing render region in VFB;

V-Ray GPU, V-Ray

• Crash when sliding timeline during IPR session with hybrid mode, OOC and GPU Light cache;

V-Ray IPR

• V-Ray IPR restart loop with Anima 4D characters;

• POV viewport menu selection doesn't аffect IPR render view after selecting camera in VFB;

• Crash when stopping IPR after using debug shading with isolate selected material;

• Exposure control from VRay camera is not immediately applied in IPR when switching views;

• Environment (Physical camera) exposure control not updated during IPR;

V-Ray Material Library

• Material Library No preview for materials/libraries with non-standard names;

• Material browser preview data table is highlit on mouse hover without being interactable;

• Minimum width for the Asset preview window (Material Library);

• V-Ray Asset Browser (Material Library) to preserve the material name when added to the scene;

V-Ray Toolbar

• When loading application package from arbitrary location the toolbar icons are not loaded;

• Cosmos browser button(s) missing in 3ds Max 2016 & 2017;

V-Ray, VRayPhysicalCamera

• VRayPhysicalCamera with Exposure Value Mode is affected with 0 and negative shutter speed;

• Particles created by the simulation sometimes have invalid or repeating IDs;

V-Ray Bitmap to VRayBitmap converter

• Output selections of Bitmap are not transfered when converting to VRayBitmap;

VFB

• Non-latin characters not displaying properly in VFB Source:LightMix;

• V-Ray crashes when reading VFB2 Layer presets with unexpected format;

• Color correction layers are not disabled when Render element is selected in VFB;

• Crash when zooming a lot in image files with Exposure correction in VFB2;

• It is possible to drag color corrections above the display correction;

• VFB2 curve "Save As Type" file filter is incorrect;

• Curve or White balance pipette tool stays active after layer is disabled;

• Coat and Sheen specular render elements are visible into LightMix menu;

• Black VFB when aborting a subsequent render if Denoiser is enabled;

• VFB2 Layers tree is reset in V-Ray Standalone if quotation symbol is used in a layer's name;

• Reset all to default doesn't reset removed hotkey after Resolve conflict;

• Lens effects do not work correctly when using VRayStereoscopic helper;

• Overbright Lens Effects in an image with NaN pixels;

• Black buckets when loading a denoiser layer via an image in the History while rendering;

• VFB2 fails to load vrimg file in specific case when there is a rendered image and History is disabled;

• Incorrect values for render region in VFB2 with MaxScript control function;

• Crash when applying Curves correction in VFB2 when the loaded image has no RGB channel;

• Color picker window is not contained in the desktop boundaries;

• Possible incorrect output with disabled Post Effect layer;

VRay

• Opacity mapped objects are incorrect in VRayZDepth with Don't filter environment option enabled;

VRayBitmap

• UDIM files are not resolved when using User defined attributes in VRayBitmap;

• Different filtering of VRayBitmap if mapping source is a VRayTriplanarTex texture;

• UDIM textures with ${VAR_NAME} are not working;

• Regression in resolving paths from User defined attributes in VRayBitmap;

• Textures with <UDIM> and <UVTILE> tags and relative paths are not loaded in VRayBitmap;

VRayClipper, VRayPlane

• V-Ray Clipper with "Use object material" turned on crashes with Forest;

VRayCurvatureMap

• VRayCurvature map's name gets reset on scene reload;

• Difference with VRayCurvature in V-Ray Standalone;

VRayDenoiser

• VRayDenoiser's denoising engine dropdown is grayed out for machines without any dedicated GPUs;

VRayDirt

• VRayDirt set to Inner occlusion appears in Reflection RE with V-Ray Standalone;

• Debug shading Ambient occlusion mode is wrong for displaced geometry in V-Ray GPU IPR;

• Crash when VRayDirt with Streaks enabled is used for OverrideMtl and Preserve options;

VRayDisplacementMod

• Graphic UI elements mismatch and out of borders in VRayDisplacementMod;

VRayDistanceTex

• Discrepancy with Particle Systems and VRayDistanceTex between Max and Standalone/Chaos Cloud. Max rendering improved;

VRayEdgesTex

• Crash when rendering specific scene with VRayEdgesTex as bump and increased number of light cache bounces;

VRayEnvironmentFog

• Crash with incorrectly merged Environment's fog objects;
  

VRayEnvironmentFog, VRaySun/VRaySky/VRayAerialPerspective

• Wrong consistent render elements of scenes with VRayAerialPerspective;
  

VRayExposureControl, V-Ray

• V-Ray Exposure Control is not working with EV value from VRayPhysicalCamera;
  

VRayFastSSS2

• Crash when rendering rectangular 3ds Max light with VRayFastSSS2;

• Wrong effect of VRayScatterVolume with very high values of SSS color;

VRayGLSL, VRayOSL

• Crash when loading scenes with changed shader paths and null fingerprints;

VRayGLSL, VRayOSL, V-Ray GPU

• In OSL shaders some built-in global derivatives are wrong on GPU;

VRayIES

• Known system exception when loading ies files via MAXScript;

VRayInstancer

• Crash when rendering VRayInstancer with animated instanced object and motion blur;

• Crash with old scenes with VRayInstancer using Thinking particles;

VRayLightingAnalysis

• Incorrect (larger) lighting analysis illuminance values with area light sources;

VRayLightSelect

• Crash on render with V-Ray Light select RE and refractive matte object intersecting another geometry;

VRayMtl

• Crash with clear coat material and subdivided geometry and very high material reflection depth;

• NAN pixels with refractive material with negative Fog bias;

• Wrong Preserve refraction with Thin-Walled option;

VRayMultiSubTex

• It is not possible to set a number lower than 1 for ID of VRayMultiSubTex;

VRayMultiSubTex, V-Ray GPU

• Output of the randomized maps is clamped with VRayMultiSubTex;

VRayNormalMap

• Animation of VRayNormalMap map rotation parameter is not exported to vrscene;

VRayOSL

• Help text indented with spaces is not displayed correctly in VRayOSLTex;

• VRayOSLTex Clear doesn't remove the applied texture maps;

VRayPhysicalCamera

• VRayPhysicalCamera's Tilt corrections don't match the viewport;

VRayPluginNode

• VRayPluginNode unlinked textures are still rendered;

• VRayPluginNode UVW generators are not animated as expected;

VRayPluginNodeMtl

• Crash when setting Gradient Ramp map for VRayPluginNodeMtl BRDFStochasticFlakes Random color map;

VRayProxy

• Preview levels list becomes disabled and empty when switching display modes;

• Creating a new VRayProxy with "preview from file" uses the default cube for viewport selection;

• VRayProxy fails to show viewport preview when opening a scene;

VRayScannedMtl

• Difference in the clear coat layer of VRScans car paint materials between NEXT and 5;

VRaySoftBox

• VRaySoftbox should use the Base color swatch if a base map is not specified;

VRaySphere

• VRaySphere does not work with VRayInstanser;

VRayStochasticFlakesMtl

• Crash with VRayStochastic flakes and random hue in specific scene;

VRaySun/VRaySky/VRayAerialPerspective

• No effect of Sun invisible and Sun size multiplier options in VRaySky with specified VRaySun node;

VRayToonMtl

• The VRayToon effect does not work with some camera types and FOVs around 180;

VRayVolumeGrid

• Increase/Decrease Grid Resolution buttons scale the simulator size after merging a scene in 3ds Max 2022;

• Changing the frame during 3ds Max V-Ray IPR CPU distorts the Phoenix mesh when it has modifiers;

• Phoenix mesh renders incorrectly in animation with V-Ray Standalone when it has 3ds Max modifiers applied to it;

• Retiming particles without IDs causes them to disappear in blended frames;

• Particles rendered as Bubbles inside of a liquid mesh render darker when exported from 3ds Max to vrscene;

• All types of Phoenix previews are drawn on top of and occlude V-Ray's Viewport IPR in 3ds Max;

• Surface Channel of the Liquid Simulator resets to Liquid when rendering starts in 3ds Max;

• Re-timed particles using Time Bend Controls lose their ID channel;

• Out of memory Error during building mesh with Phoenix liquid when rendering a scene with V-Ray Standalone on Linux;

• The voxel preview in 3ds Max 2022.1 is multiplied by the object color;

• Active Body simulation with many bodies is very slow in 3ds Max with Macro Recorder enabled;

• Crash when rendering Phoenix Simulator with Export as Particle plugged into V-Ray Instancer's Particles list during simulation;

• Hiding all Phoenix nodes translates the instances when the Phoenix Simulator is used as Particles in V-Ray Instancer;

• The Beer and Ocean presets are rendering differently in V-Ray Standalone for 3ds Max and Maya;

• Phoenix GUI license is taken with 3dsmaxbatch.exe simulations;

• Crash when meshing grids nearing or over 2 billion voxels;

• Crash if A_StopSim() is called on changing the timeline frame during simulation in 3ds Max;

• Crash when constructing the scalar Speed channel of VDBs whose bounding box does not start at 0,0,0;

• Starting or restoring the simulation sometimes randomly fails on Threadripper 3990X;

• Crash when resimulating liquids to VDB, since Phoenix 4.10;

• Crash during IPR of a Particle Shader in Bubbles mode with Render as Geometry ON;

• Crash when exporting the ID channel of a particle system with more than 536'870'911 particles;

• The cache is appearing skewed in the Extended GPU Preview when the selected viewport is turned into the extended GPU Preview Window;

• Repeating Undo in the Phoenix MAXScript window will ultimately erase all the script;

• Splashes Foam on Hit Amount is named Size Distribution in Track View;

• Probabilistic volumetrics render particles in Point mode incorrectly when combined with Smoke;

• Fire and fire lights illumination are not visible in Reflection render element with V-Ray CPU;

• No motion blur from translation with more than 10 Simulators/V-Ray Volume Grids in Volumetric mode in 3ds Max;

• Maya viewport gets stuck when using a Particle Texture as a Surface Channel for meshing;

Build 5.10.03

Official Release, Update 1.3

Date 24 June, 2021

New features

New VFB

• Implement a functionality for adding VFB color corrections to all render channels with "Separate render channels" output;

Modified features

New VFB

• Sort the channels in the LightMix UI alphabetically;
• LightMix should not reset values whenever possible;

V-Ray Cloud

• Print warning for Blur value of Bitmap maps during the Submit to Chaos Cloud rendering analisys;
• Print a warning for modified texture blurriness value during the Submit to Chaos Cloud rendering analisys;

V-Ray

• Include V-Ray App SDK Python 3 binding in the installation;

VRayVolumeGrid

• Replace the 'Particle Mode' of the Volumetric Shader with single sample probabilistic shade;

Bug fixes

V-Ray

• Crash in the compact material editor with Shell materials;
• Crash on closing 3ds Max 2022;
• DR option Restart servers on render end is not loaded properly (since V-Ray 5, update 1.2);
• Loading a scene from the VFB history fails to load the units from the file;

V-Ray IPR

• Crash after render to texture while viewport IPR is running;
• Crash when adjusting TextMap during rendering;
• Crash when calculating VRayLightMeter/texture baking during rendering;
• Crash when rendering with specific Forest Pack scene having Corona material;
• Viewport IPR Safe Frame differences with 3ds Max 2022 hotfix 1;

V-Ray GPU IPR

• The entire render is restarted when Region render is stopped;

New VFB

• "vfbcontrol #loadimage" returns control back to the caller before the image is loaded;
• VFB window moves when loading different sized images on 4K monitors

VFB

• Test resolution cuts rendered image in the 3ds Max native frame buffer;

Chaos Cosmos

• Significant slowdown when saving a scene, when the Cosmos communication is blocked by firewall;
• The Cosmos browser slows down 3ds Max startup when Internet connection is absent;

VRayBitmap

• Options for disabling texture filtering are ignored;
• User tags do not work in file names;

VRayBlendMtl

• Duplicated slots in Slate Material Editor;

VRayCryptoMatte

• Crash when trying to use Cryptomatte mask in .vrimgs with duplicated Cryptomatte elements;
• Wrong cryptomatte manifest if geometries have unsupported symbols in their name;

VRayLight

• Adaptive dome light artifacts in scene with V-Ray Dome and multiple IES lights;

VRayProxy

• Crash when enabling Tessellate Hair with Alembic hairs and VRayVRMat material;

VRayVolumeGrid

• The results with colored transparency/absorption are incorrect in Volumetric Geometry mode;

VRayZDepth

• Colored lines and artifacts are produced over the z-depth image;

.vrscene exporter

• Negative texture values are clamped when plugged in a Composite map and in a V-Ray Displacement node;

VRayDenoiser/vdenoise.exe

• Blurry results with the NVIDIA AI denoiser;

Installer

• Chaos Cosmos service check if running is incorrect;

Build 5.10.02

Official Release, Update 1.2

Date 15 April, 2021

New features

V-Ray

• Add support for 3ds Max 2022. The installation is now using the Autodesk plugin package;

V-Ray GPU

• Add absorption color for the Volume Grid;

Modified features

V-Ray GPU

• Support for motion blur for the Chaos Phoenix's Particle Shader;

V-Ray GPU IPR

• Slow GPU LC preview when moving the scene during rendering;

New VFB

• Implement vfbcontrol history options;
• Shift "Render" button for "Render last" function;

VRayMtl

• The fog color should be enabled in Thin-walled mode;

VRayUVWRandomizer

• Incorrect textures previews (produces black solid color) in slate material editor;

.vrscene exporter

• Export scene offset = ON;

Bug fixes

V-Ray

• Crash when rendering with wrong version DR server;

V-Ray IPR

• Crash when consecutively hiding multiple imported identical Cosmos assets during rendering;

V-Ray GPU

• 3ds Max freezes when there isn't enough VRAM and GPU Light Cache is enabled;
• Adaptive lights grid renders visible artifacts;
• Crash with GPU Light Cache in hybrid mode after adding/removing light;
• Crash with VRayCarPaintMtl with flake size = 0;
• ETA is missing while rendering using GPU Light Cache;
• Objects are missing with GPU Light Cache enabled;
• Specific opacity texture is rendered incorrectly with On-demand mipmapping;

V-Ray GPU IPR

• Crash with GPU Light Cache;
• Crash with RTX when deleting VRayDisplacementMod's texmap during rendering;
• Light cache is not shown during calculation phase with viewport IPR;
• Undoing/redoing hide operations of multiple proxies during rendering causes crashes or endless kernel compilation;
• Unhandled exception in "Preparing direct light manager" when starting DR session;

V-Ray Cloud

• Forest Boundary Checking Edge mode doesn't render as expected; "

VRayLight

• Disc lights produce noisy shadows with Brute Force GI engine;

VRayMtl

• Material with thin translucency renders transparent inside VRay2SidedMtl;
• Missing highlight with thin-walled glossy refraction;
• Outlines appear at the edges of opacity maps;
• Wrong result with refraction glossiness values below 0.78;

.vrscene exporter

• Missing bump in OSL shaders;

Cosmos browser

• High CPU usage when the Chaos Cosmos Browser Service is not running;

Build 5.10.01

Official Release, Update 1.1

Date 17 March, 2021

Modified features

V-Ray

• Support for Autodesk 3ds Max 2022;

V-Ray GPU

• Out-of-core improved IPR update;
• Print device info for GPU Light cache;

V-Ray Cloud/V-Ray Standalone

• Faster initialization of meshes with static 3D displacement;

VRayCryptoMatte

• Add ability to work with VRaySwitchMtl;
• Add ability for Cryptomatte to read Multi/Sub-object materials;

VRayMtl

• Expose the VRayMtl thin-walled refraction option in the UI;

.vrscene exporter

• Multiple standard cameras export;

V-Ray Material library browser

• Fix issue with recursive search in the refresher script;

Bug fixes

V-Ray

• Crash rendering scene with ForestPro 7;
• Crash when a VRayBumpMtl is applied on an object and another VRayBumpMtl is used as an Override Mtl;
• Error building Embree voxel tree when "Conserve memory" is enabled in certain scenes;
• Increased memory consumption with displacement in specific cases;
• No illumination on surrounding geometry from PhoenixFD/VRayVolumeGrid's Fire Lights;
• Underwater lighting is missing when the camera is under the water;

V-Ray IPR

• Incorrect rendering during IPR when switching from None to Volumetric/SSS translucency in VRayMtl;
• VRayPhysicalCamera Tilt & Shift is incorrect since 5.1.00;

V-Ray GPU

• Crash with big light cache subdivs;
• Texture on objects with normal displacement appear smudged with on-demand mip-mapping;

VRayCryptoMatte

• Regression with node custom attributes;

VRayDisplacementMod

• Crash with on specific geometry with Editable poly modifier;

VRayICC

• .icc files are not loaded through the DR assets transferring;

VRayLight

• Random modes for textures applied to VRayLight copies produce non-randomized lighting;

VRayMtl

• Crash when setting reflection/refraction depth too high;

VRayProxy

• Animated Alembic files do not show animation in viewport;
• Newly created proxies with "preview from file" use the default cube for viewport selection instead of the preview geometry;

VRayUVWRandomizer

• Crash when switching between different texture instances;

.vrscene exporter

• Archive as ZIP is greyed out if we open another scene to export;
• Archiving to zip or directory merges the assets instead of overriding them;
• Missing geometry in exported scenes when there is a VRayDistanceTex and VRayDisplacementMod on EditablePoly;
• Tile UV mapping of Bercon Tiles is not working properly;

V-Ray Material library browser

• "Open ME on apply" doesn't work with drag&drop;
• "Use Real World Scale" doesn't work with user added libraries;
  
  

Build 5.10.00

Official Release, Update 1

Date 23 Feb, 2021

New features

V-Ray

• Progressive caustics mode;

V-Ray GPU

• Light cache calculated on GPU;
• Add support for blending the sun with the horizon with the Improved sky model;

New VFB

• Layers masking based on Cryptomatte, integer and color render elements data;
• Add stamp layer support;
• Custom White Balance support for color picker and tint;
• Support for animated sequences for Background layer using <frameNum> tag;
• Add an option to bake the RGB primaries conversion;
• Add horizontal/vertical offset for Background layer;
• History render settings loading and comparing;
• Image Info for the history images;
• Save color corrections to a LUT file;

Chaos Cosmos

• Add support for Chaos Cosmos assets within 3ds Max;

VRayMtl

• New translucency modes for based on VRayScatterVolume;

VRayAO

• Add a render element for ambient occlusion;

VRayBackToBeauty

• A render element that expands to the render elements needed for back to beauty compositing;

VRayCoat/VRaySheen

• Render elements for compositing with VRayMtl's Coat and Sheen layers;

VRayDenoiser/vdenoise.exe

• Integrate the Intel Open Image Denoiser;

VRayInstancer

• Support for Thinking Particles as source;

VRayLight

• Add support for additive dome lights;
• Add "Occlude other lights" option;

.vrscene exporter

• Export all camera objects to vrscene;
• Add options to archive and compress scenes with their assets;

V-Ray Camera Lister

• Add a lister tool to manage scene cameras;

V-Ray Material Library browser

• Add a tool for adding custom materials to the local library;

Modified features

V-Ray

• Improve VRayMtl's representation in the viewport;
• Option to render the Physical Material as VRayMtl;
• Preserve opacity, bump and refraction with Override material;

V-Ray GPU

• Rounded corners support with Out-Of-Core geometry
• Support for VRayDirt and VRayCurvature with Out-Of-Core geometry
• Support for VRayFastSSS2 with Out-Of-Core geometry
• Support for VRayALSurfaceMtl with Out-Of-Core geometry
• Support for VRayClipper with Out-Of-Core geometry
• Add support for normal maps in world space

V-Ray GPU/Chaos Cloud

• Support for Forest Color's Tint mapped by a texture;
• Support for tyFlow instances rendering;

VRayCryptoMatte

• Support for Multi/Sub-object materials;

Build 5.00.05

Official Release, Hotfix 2

Date 29 July, 2020

Modified features

New VFB

• Max Script access for OCIO settings with vfbcontrol;

V-Ray scene converter

• Converting CoronaBumpConverter to VRayColor2Bump;

Bug fixes

V-Ray

• An error is printed when rendering with disabled memory frame buffer option;
• Auto white balance renders differently when transferred to camera;
• Missing plugin error when loading scene saved with hotfix 1;
• More noise occurs with Blue noise sampling enabled for grid volumes;
• Crash with a specific scene upon opening in 3ds Max 2021, 2020, 2019;

V-Ray GPU

• Matte objects' primary Visibility is not working correctly;
• The VRayEnvironmentFog parameters (which are last on the list) are applied to all fogs;

V-Ray Dirt

• Ambient + inner occlusion mode results are darker than they should be;

New VFB

• An error is printed when rendering with disabled memory frame buffer option;
• Avoid IPR restart on zoom, resize and side panels collapse;
• Crash when opening old scene with empty New VFB OCIO settings;
• Window position can not be saved on a non-primary monitor;
• Window position is offset on rendering after every scene reset when the persistent settings are saved with collapsed history menu

Build 5.00.04

Official Release, Hotfix 1

Date 14 July, 2020

New features

VRayBackToBeauty

• Add render element that will expand to all beauty render channels;

Modified features

V-Ray

• Simplify the Image sampler options;

VRayBitmap

• View image button should work for .tx bitmaps;

VRayDistanceTex

• Add an option to not compute for the viewports;

VRayMtl

• Raise the default Refraction and Reflection Max depth to 8;

New VFB

• Add keyboard shortcut for Lock Pixel Coordinates ("L");
• Support for the color corrections and VRayDenoiser in V-Ray Viewport IPR;
• Zoom key combinations support;

Installer

• Progress of V-Ray Material Library download should display downloaded/total size in the installer;

Bug fixes

V-Ray

• VRayDisplacementMod's Subdivision not working far from scene origin;

V-Ray GPU

• Activating 3ds Max menus during IPR stops image updates in the VFB;
• Memory leak with VRayDistanceTex;

V-Ray GPU IPR

• Orthographic projection is not rendered properly with RTX;

VRayClipper

• Wrong objects in the exclude list when merged in scene;

VRayLight

• NaN pixels occur with textured adaptive dome light;

VRayToonMtl

• Overlapping MaxScript names of gradient parameters;

VRayTriplanarTex

• Incorrect motion blur;

VRayVolumeGrid

• More noise with Blue Noise Sampling enabled for grid volumes;

New VFB

• Artifacts with Filmic tonemap;
• Colorful halo with Lens Effects and positive Lightness values in the Hue/Saturation color correction;
• Crash on consecutive V-Ray GPU IPR restarts when selecting different layers;
• Crash on scene open when the scene was saved with legacy VFB LUT color correction;
• Different convert to composite result if the first light is turned off;
• Large color values are not formatted properly in pixel info;
• Missing color corrections/post effects on image copied to clipboard;
• Resize on region IPR when an image has been previously loaded from history;
• Show corrected colors doesn't work;
• Switching from OCIO to sRGB and back loses the OCIO settings;
• Window position can not be saved on a non-primary monitor;

VFB

• "Too many open files" error when loading many LUT files;

Installer

• Downloading the V-Ray Material Library does not work with network paths starting with "\\";
• The install log is empty when an error occurs;

Build 5.00.03

Official Release

Date 16 June, 2020

New features

V-Ray GPU

• Add support for the VRayNormalMap rotation parameter

VRayDirt

• Add Streaks generation options

New VFB

• Add magenta-green tint slider to the White Balance color correction
• History saved render settings loading and comparing

Modified features

V-Ray

• Add UI option to enable the MikkTSpace calculations from Global Switches
• Add UI option to switch back to the Native 3ds Max material swatches
• Optimize conversions between sRGB and ACEScg color spaces when using an OCIO configuration
• Faster calculation of VRaySun

V-Ray Cloud

• Animated parameters of VRayDistanceTex are not exported properly
• Animated position of geometry with large stationary interval differs

V-Ray Cloud/V-Ray GPU

• Add initial support for tyFlow instances rendering

V-Ray GPU

• Automatically disable Out-of-core rendering when the engine type is RTX
• Implement Box sampler type for VRayVolumeGrid

V-Ray GPU IPR

• Endless updates when having a camera with tweaked tilt and shift parameters

V-Ray Standalone

• No image buffer rendering is implemented with new VFB, still processed output is written

VRayDenoiser

• Remove "Generate render elements" UI option

VRayBitmap

• Automatically set the transfer function and RGB color space for normal maps

VRayLightSelect

• Add Subsurface mode

VRayMtl

• Add some tooltips
• Add fabric presets based on Sheen

VRayOSL

• Print warnings for unsupported OSL shader parameters

New VFB

• Add "None" option to hide the secondary color info in the status bar
• Add a progress bar for the loading of the History images
• Add image fitting types option and "Save in image" to the Background layer
• Group the History compare buttons in a single flyout button
• Implement renderer stats
• Preserve the original RGB channel when saving
• Save persistent settings independent on the scenes
• Support for color corrections and settings transfer for V-Ray Cloud

V-Ray Asset Browser

• Add "Use real world scale" and "Use triplanar mapping" options on import
• Rename the "ME" button to "Open ME on apply" to be more descriptive

V-Ray scene converter

• Put the converted material nodes in Slate Material Editor for displayed materials after scene conversion

V-Ray Toolbar

• V-Ray Toolbar to look relative to the vrenderXXXX.dlr directory for icon files to aid network installations

Bug fixes

V-Ray

• Body objects are always rendered with draft quality

V-Ray IPR

• Incorrect VRayMtl with displacement texture after IPR update

V-Ray Cloud

• Per-frame export for animated parameters of Noise map

V-Ray GPU

• Crash or artifacts when VRaySwitchMtl uses the default submaterial (since Beta 1)
• Renders may get overexposed with VRaySun when changing scene units due to overflow

V-Ray GPU CUDA

• CPU bucket rendering crashes with On-demand mip-mapped textures
• Crash with Fractal_3.osl OSL shader
• IPR crashes when rendering Out-of-core with CPU device

V-Ray GPU RTX

• OSL maps crash with shaders with string outputs
• Random crash with particle system in the scene

VRayDisplacementMod

• Vector displacement produces wrong geometry with scaled objects

VRayIES

• Incorrect light cutoff when using the light shape for both shadows and illumination

VRayOSL

• Crash after deleting maps linked to VRayOSLOutputSelector
• Shader and VRayOSLOutputSelector output values are reset when path to the OSL asset is modified

VRayPhysicalCamera

• Transfer exposure to camera is not working properly with Exposure Value (EV) mode

VRayProxy

• Wrong VRayParticleTex shading with alembic particle color (since Beta 1)

VRayVolumeGrid

• .AUR files where the grid data is over 8GB are unreadable, fix requires Phoenix 4.20 and newer
• Meshes are rendering without motion blur and the Mesh preview is broken when a modifier is applied
• The resolved cache paths show huge numbers if looking at a frame outside the Timeline Origin - Play Length range

New VFB

• Crash when loading Layer presets (since Beta 2)
• Crash when saving all channels to .vrimg with LightMix, LUT and high resolutions
• MaxScript error that prevents rendering occurs when submitting scenes to Thinkbox Deadline
• Random crash with bucket rendering after multiple frames
• Render view not updated when compare is disabled with no image loaded
• Slowdown when rendering a scene with LightMix on V-Ray GPU
• Sometimes Lens Effects layer UI becomes disabled no matter the enable flag

.vrscene exporter

• Error when exporting a scene with empty mesh object
• Long string parameters containing escape characters get trimmed after 1023 symbols

V-Ray Material Preview

• 3ds Max 2021 hangs when creating Double Sided material in Slate Material Editor

V-Ray Toolbar

• Missing icons with light theme (since Beta 2)

Build 5.00.02

Beta Release

Date 28 May, 2020

New features

V-Ray

• Add light path expressions support through mode of VRayLightSelect;
• Add RGB primaries override for VRayBitmap option in the Color management;
• Implement blue-noise optimization for the DMC sampler;

V-Ray GPU

• Support for Environment and Self Illumination contribution for VRayLightSelect;

VRayNormalMap

• Add Map rotation parameter;

VRayPhysicalCamera

• Add EV parameter;

VRayProxy

• Support common particle interface (IParticleObjExt) for Alembic that can be used with VRayInstancer and Phoenix FD;

VRaySun

• Implement "Improved" Sky model;

VRayVolumeGrid

• Velocity streamline preview;

New VFB

•  Background color correction;
• Filmic tonemap color correction;
• Image search in the History based on the saved scene name and note text;
• Solo button Alt+mouse click enables only one light and toggles all the rest in LightMix;
• Special element "Rest" in LightMix that includes everything not in the other elements;
• Support for rendering without a memory frame buffer;
• Undo for Layers actions;

.vrscene exporter

• Add option to export only selected nodes;

V-Ray scene converter

• Implement a converter for Physical Material to VRayMtl;

Modified features

V-Ray

• Remove some old stale options from the Global switches;
• Remove the Use local subdivs from Global DMC along with the subdivs parameter of Brute force GI, materials and lights that was dependent on it;
• Simplify the Color mapping options;
• Simplify the Light cache options;

V-Ray GPU

• Add support for VRayUVWRandomizer stochastic tiling options;
• Optimize memory footprint for motion blurred geometry both on CPU and GPU;
• Skip degenerate faces when serializing the Embree tree;
• Support for matte objects through VRayObjectProperties;
• Support for VRayCarPaintMtl2 and VRayFlakesMtl2;

VRayALSurfaceMtl

• Prevent values for the SSS radius parameters that cause artifacts;

VRayMtl

• Add a "Default" preset;
• Use GGX shadowing for all NDF-based BRDFs;

VRayVolumeGrid

• Speed up and use less memory for blending frames having Grid Velocity with Time Bend controls;

New VFB

• Bucket outline improvements;
• Enable the denoiser for history and loaded images;
• Various usability improvements;

New VFB/VFB

• Render button to execute Render command instead of Render Last;

VFB

• Use all supported formats as default filter for loading image

Build 5.00.01

Beta Release

Date - Apr 29, 2020

New features

New VFB

• Add entirely new implementation of VFB with integrated Layers compositing

LightMix

• Add support for lights post-processing in the new VFB

V-Ray

• Support for rendering in ACEScg color space with option to recognize the texture color space from the file name
• Improve precision when rendering large scenes
• MikkTSpace support for tangent normal maps
• New version notifications in the new VFB and render settings About section
• Include the V-Ray AppSDK Python binding with the installation

V-Ray Asset Browser

• A material library browser utility for the V-Ray Material Library

V-Ray Material Library

• Add material library downloader working both standalone and as part of the installation

V-Ray Material Preview

• Render the material previews with a custom .vrscene

VRayMtl

• Add Coat and Sheen layers
• Add simple presets

VRayHairNextMtl

• Add simple presets

VRayCarPaintMtl2

• Add new car paint material with more precise flakes filtering and reduced memory usage

VRayUVWRandomizer

• Add a texmap that should be used solely with the VRayBitmap's and VRayTriplanarTex's mapping source input with stochastic tiling support

VRayMultiSubTex

• Add randomized hue, saturation and gamma variance options
• Add new Random by Face material ID/Object ID/Element modes

VRayBitmap

• Rename VRayHDRI to VRayBitmap

VRayCompTex

• Add new blending modes Color Shift, Color Tint, Blend Alpha Straight, Blend Alpha Premultiplied

VRayTriplanarTex

• Ability to be used as Mapping source for VRayBitmap

VRayPointCloudColor

• Add a map that supports PointCloud Color Channel

VRayLightSelect

• Support for environment lighting

Installer

• New installer experience with integrated bundled products: Chaos License Server, Chaos Cloud client and V-Ray Material Library

V-Ray GPU

• Add support for Out-of-Core codepath
• Support for 2D displacement
• Rendering of Phoenix FD Particle Shader in Fog mode
• Add support for OSL shaders
• Add support for Cellular map
• Add support for BerconTiles and Bercon Wood maps
• Implement a per-device GPU memory tracker
• Resumable rendering with progressive sampling