3.40.02

Official Release

Date – March 29, 2017

Download – Build 3.40.02

Improvements

OSX computers can now be used as Swarm nodes for distributed rendering
Added Render Interactive button to the V-Ray toolbar
Added a Denoiser Progressive Update Control. This option enables the Denoiser to do incremental updates while the Progressive Production engine is rendering
Implemented a better way of displaying and managing viewport aspect ratio and Safe Frames
Implemented a Randomize Scene Material IDs tool - Automatically assigns random material ID Colors to all the scene materials
The Online License Server installer can now be executed silently
Improved V-Ray 2 to V-Ray 3 automatic migration script
Spherical animation rendering is now supported
The eye distance for Stereoscopic rendering has been set to 6.5cm
The Motion Blur toggle has been moved to the Animation roll-out and can be accessed when using VR cameras
Applying materials to V-Ray Proxy object top component level is now possible
When a V-Ray Proxy object is imported in SketchUp its corresponding Multi-Material is automatically applied to it
VFB Lens Effects settings now remember their state and parameter values, when the scene is re-rendered
The Render History Settings window now appears in front of the VFB window
Improved memory management when switching between projects, without restarting SketchUp

Visible SketchUp Outliner is no longer slowing down the Initializing Renderer stage
The V-Ray installer works properly, even when SketchUp is not installed in the default location on OSX
SketchUp material colors now translates correctly, when a BRDFDiffuse layer is topmost in a material shader
The V-Ray material diffuse color is no longer incorrectly set to the SketchUp average texture color
The VR Cubemap combined with Stereo rendering no longer produces unexpected results
The field of view is now correctly set when rendering animations
The field of view is now correctly set when Two-Point Perspective is enabled
The field of view is now correctly set when Parallel Projection is enabled
Fixed bump map mode for Silk library materials. The mode was changed from Normal map (Object space) to Bump