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Build 5.20.
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Official Release, update 2.12
Date Date - March 17May 11, 2022
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Improvements
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General
- Added support for Revit 2023
- Asset Editor updated to version 2.3.2
- V-Ray Vision updated to version 1.10.07
- Chaos Cloud client updated to version 1.16.3
- Chaos Cosmos Browser updated to version 2022.05.10
- Swarm updated to version 1.4.7.1002
Cosmos
- Added support for Cosmos 3D models containing color randomization
UX/UI
- Removed the Render Progress window in favor of the VFB Log tab
- Migrated the Swarm progress bar to the Swarm tab of the V-Ray Settings panel
- Disabled Scatter Scale randomization by default
- Improved behavior of the Appearance Manager expanders
- The Dome Light Intensity is automatically set to 1 when a Cosmos HDR image is used
- Enabled drag & drop of Scatter assets over the Appearance Manager host slots
Bug fixes
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General
- Revit filters are not properly applied to the rendering
- Error in the log when adding Cosmos asset light to the scene
- Unnecessary warning in the log for a missing Scatter plugin
- Purge does not reset edited Cosmos assets and Infinite Ground Plane
- Exception on render start after loading settings of another user
Interactive
- Crash after moving VFB while Light Gen is generating variants
- Exception when switching Top coat Reflectance of Revit Layered material from Texture to Slider or vice versa
- Crash after clicking on generate variants in LightGen tool
- Unnecessary update when an unused V-Ray material is renamed
- Linked replacements of In-place families are rendered misplaced on linked file moving
Cosmos
- Wall-based accessories sink to the opposite side of the wall when rendered
- 3D models from the Architecture category fail to import
- Unhandled exception when promoting a material of a deleted Cosmos 3D model
Geometries
- Proxy replacements of families containing nested RPCs are displayed twice
- Crash on rendering start when specific Scatter hosts or guests are used
- Scatter fails to distribute assets over the entire surface of the host
- Scatter disappears when several renders are started consequently
- Scatter Scale Multiplier doesn't work
- Scatter disappears on Spiral stairs host
- Exception when scattering a Planting guest on a Curtain System host
- Scatter instances are outside the bounds of a round host
- Scatter is not properly rendered when applied to a ceiling
Asset Editor
- Proxy mesh material slots are not shown when loaded from a *.vrmat file
- Broken preview and missing textures when promoting a Revit material containing textures
- Revit Layered material promoted to the Asset Editor is broken
Vision
- Crash when disabling Proxy Mesh replacement of RPC used as Scatter Guest
- The displayed Scatter configuration is different than the one rendered with V-Ray
- Scale is not respected when a Scatter Guest is replaced with a Proxy Mesh
UX/UI
- Typo in Purge V-Ray Settings message dialog
Build 5.20.22
Official Release, update 2.1
Date - March 17, 2022
Improvements
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General
Asset Editor updated to version 2.3.1
V-Ray Vision updated to version 1.10.05
Chaos Cosmos Browser updated to version 2022.3.11
License Server updated to version 5.5.5
- Hide in View setting is respected for elements from linked files
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- Added Free Flight option for the Fly navigation mode to not be constrained horizontally
- Default shadow quality is set to Medium
Bug fixes
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General
- Impossible to load vrmatmigrate.dll exception
- Attempted to read or write protected memory exception when starting a render multiple times
- Revit family replaced with a missing Cosmos asset is not rendered
- Linked replacements are ignored if the main file is new and has not been saved yet
- Cosmos assets are rendered in magenta if a project is opened by another user
- Cosmos wall- and ceiling-based assets are rendered misplaced
- Scatter does not appear on floors with modified sub-elements
- Exception when rendering a Scatter with a Guest family containing nested RPC
- VFB Display correction is briefly reset while preparing for rendering with V-Ray GPU
- Error on render resuming after enabling or disabling DR
- VRMat parser sometimes truncates floating point values when parsing .vrmat files
- IES lights render incorrectly in environment fog
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Official Release, update 2
Date - Feb. 2, 2022
Improvements
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General
- Asset Editor updated to version 2.3.0.
- V-Ray Vision updated to version 1.10.04
- Chaos Cloud client updated to version 1.15.3
- Chaos Cosmos Browser updated to version 2022.1.31
Added ability to render and override V-Ray replacements in linked files
- Added a tool for scattering objects on the surface of a selected object
- Added ability to establish a live-link connection to Chaos Vantage
- Added support for the latest RPC API available in Revit 2022
- Added support for the native Revit Undo/Redo commands
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Official Release, update 1.1
Date - August 26, 2021
Improvements
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General
- Asset Editor updated to version 2.2.1
- V-Ray Vision updated to version 1.00.08
- Chaos Cloud client updated to version 1.13.2
- Chaos Cosmos Browser updated to version 2021.08.23
- Handled disabled state of Revit filters
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- Modified alignment of Promote material button in Appearance Manager
- Improved some tooltips behavior
Bug fixes
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General
- Argument exception in Worksharing if multiple users import the same Cosmos asset
- “An item with the same key has already been added” exception in Interactive
- Exception when migrating VRayPlugins.json file from an older V-Ray version
- UI dialogs fail after reloading linked files
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Official Release, update 1
Date - July 14, 2021
Improvements
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General
- Batch Rendering in Chaos Cloud
- Integrated Light Gen tool
- Promote AutoGen Revit Prism material to Asset Editor
- Implemented Public API based on gRPC
- Asset Editor updated to version 2.2.0
- License Server updated to version 5.5.4
- Chaos Cosmos Browser updated to version 2021.07.14
- Set scene_name for Cosmos asset Node plugins in vrscene export
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- Pick material button is greyed out while material picking is in progress
- Irrelevant sky parameters are greyed out based on the selected sky model
- Improved display names of Cosmos assets in the replacements drop-down
Bug fixes
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General
- Crash when closing Revit with multiple open projects
- Cosmos assets disrespect Revit mirror tools when rendered
- NullReferenceException raised during export of a scene including Cosmos assets
- InvalidOperationException when stopping the render from VFB
- Wrong positioning of V-Ray Proxy Scenes when replacing in-place family instances
Rendering is noticeably slowed down in case of specific proxy mesh references
- Batch Rendering fails if V-Ray scene Export As Archive option has been enabled
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Official Release, hotfix 4
Date - May 25, 2021
Improvements
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General
- Asset Editor updated to version 2.1.3
- V-Ray Vision updated to version 1.00.06
- Chaos Cloud Client updated to version 1.12.0
- Chaos Cosmos Browser updated to version 2021.04.22
- V-Ray Swarm updated to version 1.4.6
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- Decreased browser window width
Bug fixes
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Interactive
- Crash after renaming and updating a V-Ray material used to override multiple Revit materials
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Official Release, hotfix 3
Date - April 22, 2021
Improvements
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General
- Support for Revit 2022
- Added Post-effects Update parameter to Settings Renderer tab
- Asset Editor updated to version 2.1.2
- Chaos Cloud Client updated to version 1.11.0
- Chaos Cosmos Browser updated to version 2021.04.12
- SevenZipSharp library replaced with System.IO.Compression.ZipFile
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- Cut Cosmos assets names in Objects tab and adjusted alignment
- Removed the automatic selection of render channels when Denoiser is enabled
- Improved the Denoiser/Lighting Analysis Update button style and behavior
- Removed Denoiser Use GPU parameter from the UI
Bug fixes
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General
- Null exception when exporting a vrscene containing Cosmos lights
- Issue with RPCs not rendering after a silent installation of Revit 2020
- InvalidOperationException when disabling V-Ray while Interactive is running
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Official Release, hotfix 2
Date - April 9, 2021
Bug fixes
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General
- TypeInitializationException on V-Ray enabling due to failed loading of System.Runtime.CompilerServices.dll assembly
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Official Release, hotfix 1
Date - March 29, 2021
Improvements
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General
- Asset Editor updated to version 2.1.1
- License Server updated to version 5.5.3
- Chaos Cloud Client updated to version 1.10.0
- Chaos Cosmos Browser updated to version 2021.03.22
- Cleaned up environment variables set for V-Ray
- Differentiate Revit LT vs. Revit from installed version
- Configure download location for V-Ray Materials Library during installation
- Set soft_shadows of IES lights to 2
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- Implemented model loading progress bar
- Optimized loading of textures with built-in mip-maps
- Optimized texture loading in scenes with many large textures
- Optimized geometry data loading. Heavy models are faster to load and view
- Improvements to navigation in Orbit mode as well as when resizing the Vision dialog
Bug fixes
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General
- Improper default V-Ray Materials Library download location
- Crash on migration of V-Ray 3.6 project materials
- Crash on render of IES Revit lights after specific Windows update
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Official Release
Date - Feb. 23, 2021
Improvements
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General
- Integrated Chaos Cosmos 3D content browser
- Asset Editor updated to version 2.1.0
- License Server updated to version 5.5.2
- Chaos Cloud Client updated to version 1.8.1
- V-Ray Swarm updated to version 1.4.5
- Added new version notifications
- Redesigned V-Ray settings storage mechanism
- Improved Worksharing (multiple users can work in the Asset Editor)
- Make Chaos Cloud client app installation mandatory and add check for version downgrade before triggering installation
- Changed the default value of GPU Resize Textures parameter in VRayPlugins.json to 0
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- Improved automatic exposure handling
- Added screen space reflections for transparent materials
- Added temporal image anti-aliasing
- Added support for V-Ray Material’s Clip opacity mode
- Added support for V-Ray Tri-Planar textures in One Texture mode
- Added support for Stochastic texture tiling of the UVW Placement map
- Removed Super Sampling option from the Image Export panel
- Added Frame Delay option to the Image Export panel
- Added High Quality Cosmos Assets option to Vision Settings panel
- Added Shadows Quality preset to Vision Settings panel
- Added support for V-Ray Sun Size parameter
Bug fixes
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General
- Failed to get RenderingAssetManager exception on project initialization
- Wrong transfer of materials during Worksharing
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Beta Release
Date - Dec. 3, 2020
Improvements
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General
- Asset Editor updated to version 2.0.1
- License Server updated to version 5.5.1
- Chaos Cloud client app updated to version 1.7.8
- Redesigned installer
- Implemented V-Ray Vision real-time viewer
- New V-Ray Frame Buffer (VFB2) with layer compositor
- Integrated Light Mix channel
- New toon workflow via global & per material Contour settings
- New and improved Quality presets
- Optimized transactions handling in Extensible Storage
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- Added support for 2D Displacement
- Added support for Cellular textures
Bug fixes
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General
- NullReferenceException when rendering a family
- Exceptions in projects referring to invalid file paths when acquiring a license
- Switching Current View hangs in case of inaccessible network path to textures
- Grpc.Core exception when opening existing projects one after another
- Issue with invalid floating point numbers
- Issue with vrscene export using temp paths for .ies files
- Revit hangs when opening Settings panel in Interactive
- Issue with global purge not affecting mapping
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