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Official Release

Date - January 25, 2023

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

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New features

Textures

Fancy Bullets

  • Support for for repeat/offset u/v for 2D Placement texture from Maya when used in bump.



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Modified

Rendering

Fancy Bullets

  • Improved the metalness of a material to better match V-Ray.

  • Improved reflective caustics.

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  • Improved the calculations for light power by area.

 

 

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Fixes

Import/Load

Fancy Bullets
  • Crash when importing/loading with animated proxy containing hair geometry.

Texture

Fancy Bullets

  • Crash with EXR file loaded as a V-Ray Normal map in Bump slot material.

  • Texture blurriness when W coordinate is different than 0.

Lights

Fancy Bullets

  • New Default Vantage sun being created each time a non-vrscene is appended.

  • Light intensity to accept only positive values.

Auto-exposure

Fancy Bullets

  • Difference in image brightness when using Auto-exposure and different rendering resolutions.

  • Visual artifacts with fog and Auto-Exposure.

UX/UI

Fancy Bullets

  • Restoring of maximized main window.

  • Active pixels overlay not showing active pixels.

  • Stereo Spherical and Stereo Cube camera types not updating correctly render resolution based on aspect ratio.

Command line

Fancy Bullets
  • Command line rendering with video output file generates separate files.

Rendering

Fancy Bullets
  • Camera types not taken into account, when using sequence rendering.

Batch rendering

Fancy Bullets
  • Wrong FOV for cameras of the render Queue.
Fancy Bullets
  • Render animation with Chaos Vantage, from 3Ds Max, doesn't start rendering when a Live link connection is not established.