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Official Release

Date - March 30, 2022

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New Features

Textures

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  • Support for normal maps

Clay mode

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  • Added white/clay mode override in the Material tab with options to preserve original material's reflection, refraction, bump, opacity and self illumination
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    urlhttps://docs.chaos.com/display/LAV/Materials+tab

Ambient  occlusion

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  • Added global ambient occlusion option in the Lights tab
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    urlhttps://docs.chaos.com/display/LAV/Lights+tab

Sun animation

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  • Implemented Animated Geolocated sun and Sun track in the animation editor for easy sun time lapse animation 
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    urlhttps://docs.chaos.com/display/LAV/Sun+Light

Menu

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  • Added New option in the File menu to create a new empty scene
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    urlhttps://docs.chaos.com/display/LAV/LightsFile+tabMenu

Navigation

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  • Support for 3DConnexion SpaceMouse controller

Supported output formats

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  • Implemented .jpg/.jpeg file type output

 

 

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Ambient light

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  • Added ambient light color swatch

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    urlhttps://docs.chaos.com/display/LAV/Lights+tab

  • Increased ambient light intensity limit to 1000000

UX

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  • Implemented 'Camera enqueu mode' in Render setup dialog to add all scene cameras at once in the render queue

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    urlhttps://docs.chaos.com/display/LAV/Menus#MenusTools+Menu#ToolsMenu-qualityRendersetup

  • Shows .vantage file name in recent file list and title bar after saving scene
  • Camera clipping planes are now taken into account when determining the dolly/orbit/zoom pivot point
  • Abort button now aborts the entire render queue
  • Render dialog retains render queue when closed
  • Sequence mode is not allowed when no sequence is available

 

 

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Fixes

.vantage file

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  • The .vrscene environment texture is not used when loading a .vrscene with an associated .vantage file

Memory

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  • Memory leak when HQ rendering with denoiser
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  • Changing a VRayLight from Plane to Dome not updating correctly

Camera

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  • Crash when renaming a camera

Geometry

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  • Crash when deleting objects