Official Release
Date - July 03, 2019
Download - Build 4.12.02
New features
SamplerInfo
- Added a random by scene name mode to the sampler info additional outputs
Modified features
V-Ray
- Better sampling with few lights in the scene
- Texture filename will be printed if a tile fails to load for tiled textures
VRayProxy
- Faster loading of VRayMesh nodes in bounding box mode
- Increased the size of VRayMeshMaterial's shaders list control
- Ability to change visibility for multiple selected objects in the VRayMesh visibility lists
Cryptomatte/VRayProxy
- Fixed wrong manifest in Sub object name mode
V-Ray IPR
- Optimized defaults for CPU IPR
Bug fixes
V-Ray IPR
- Fixed wrong first frame when playblasting
- Fixed sampling artifacts with few lights in the scene
VRayHairMtl
- Fixed VRayHairMtl not composing back properly with consistent elements enabled
VRayEnvironmentFog
- Fixed environment fog not composing back properly with consistent elements enabled
- Fixed incorrect lighting with Environment fog and V-Ray Light Linker
Cryptomatte
- Fixed AA on multi-material objects when using material mode
- Fixed wrong Cryptomatte channel name when using DWA compression
XGen
- Fixed XGen not working on macOS when V-Ray is loaded before the XGen plugin
VFB
- Fixed saving to EXR from the VFB not saving the whole image when rendering a region
- Fixed a crash when saving from the VFB when using V-Ray Standalone
VRayLightSphere
- Scale was ignored when transform was controlled with an expression
VRayFur
- Fixed wrong texture projection with V-Ray Fur
AppSDK
- Fixed license issue when rendering through AppSDK on Windows
VRayScene
- Fixed visibility option not being respected when in a group
Maya batch
- Fixed "-im" command-line override not working with Render Setup layers
VRayTriplanar
- Fixed Triplanar appearing in the wrong category inside the Create Menu
V-Ray
- Fixed crash when rendering zero-sized regions with Light Cache
- Fixed a crash when closing Maya on macOS High Sierra
V-Ray GPU
- Fixed UDIM textures rendering black in IPR with on-demand mip-mapping
Chaos Cloud
- Fixed cloud button not working on older Maya versions