Official Release
Date - March 30, 2022
New Features
Textures
- Support for normal maps
Clay mode
- Added white/clay mode override in the Material tab with options to preserve original material's reflection, refraction, bump, opacity and self illumination Details
Ambient occlusion
- Added global ambient occlusion option in the Lights tab
Details
Sun animation
- Implemented Animated Geolocated sun and Sun track in the animation editor for easy sun time lapse animation
Details
Menu
- Added New option in the File menu to create a new empty scene
Details
Navigation
- Support for 3DConnexion SpaceMouse controller
Supported output formats
- Implemented .jpg/.jpeg file type output
Modified
Ambient light
Added ambient light color swatch Details
- Increased ambient light intensity limit to 1000000
UX
Implemented 'Camera enqueu mode' in Render setup dialog to add all scene cameras at once in the render queue Details
- 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
Fixes
.vantage file
- The .vrscene environment texture is not used when loading a .vrscene with an associated .vantage file
Memory
Memory leak when HQ rendering with denoiser
Live link
- Changing a VRayLight from Plane to Dome not updating correctly
Camera
- Crash when renaming a camera
Geometry
- Crash when deleting objects