V-Ray 5

V-Ray 5, update 1.2

Official Release

Date - Sep, 2021

Build 5.10.22

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New features

USD

Support for MayaUSD 0.10.0, MayaUSD 0.11.0 and MayaUSD 0.12.0

Modified features

V-Ray SDK

Fixed faulty compilation of C++ third-party plug-ins ins since 5.10.20 causing random crashes;

Bug fixes

V-Ray

Fixed export and import of render elements from the V-Ray settings;
Fixed runtime error with Python 3 when creating absolute override for visible layer;

VRayMtl

Fixed wrong result with Refraction Affect shadows when Refraction is textured;

VRayToon

Fixed toon outlines disappearing when zooming in with orthographic camera;

OpenSubdiv/VRayDisplacement

Fixed wrong results and random crashes when combining OpenSubdiv and VRayDisplacement;

V-Ray GPU

Fixed V-Ray GPU IPR not rendering default orthographic views properly;

VFB

Fixed a crash when reading VFB2 JSON property;

VRayMeshLight

Fixed VRayLightMesh not respecting Legacy Render Layer Overrides in batch;
Fixed Crashes with Mesh Lights and Legacy Render Layer Overrides in batch mode;

LPE

Fixed wrong render elements output when LPEs are used;

Viewport 2.0

Fixed wrong viewport preview with VRayLayeredTex used for Reflection Glossiness;

VRayScannedMtl

Fixed undeterministic result with triplanar and scanned material in Maya 2020;

VRayLayeredTex

Fixed wrong render with mayapy;

V-Ray 5, update 1.1

Official Release

Date - July 19, 2021

Build 5.10.21

New feature

V-Ray

Maya 2022 Python 2 support in the stable nightlies;

Modified features

V-Ray Material Library

Downloader tool support for Linux and MacOS as well;
Support for drag'n'dropping library materials in the Hypershade and anywhere in the viewport;
Adding the same material twice is now possible through "Add to scene";
Applying the same material to another object is now possible through "Apply to selected object(s)";

Bug fixes

VFB

Fixed a freeze when loading a background image after rendering;
Fixed single-channel EXRs not saving corrections;
Fixed errors with test resolution when no VFB is used;
Fixed "Clear Frame Buffers" option not working;
Fixed purple banding with OCIO;

VRay2sidedMtl

Fixed crash with black translucency in specific scenes;

V-Ray

Fixed some V-Ray metadata not written to EXR with batch rendering;
Fixed regression with non-ASCII characters in vrscene path with standalone;
Fixed Image format options UI opens on fullscreen in Maya 2022;
Improved rendering speed for Alembic files on many-core CPUs;

VRayBerconNoise

Fixed world texture mapping floating when camera is animated;

VRayBlendMtl

Fixed default viewport preview color for non-textured mode;

V-Ray/USD

Fixed instanced USD files not rendering properly;

VrayToon

Fixed incorrect inner edges with opacity;

V-Ray GPU

Fixed GPU light cache error when aborting render;
Fixed crash with ExtraTex and GPU light cache;
Fixed fireflies with refractive materials;

V-Ray 5, update 1

Official Release

Date - Jun 17, 2021

Build 5.10.20

New features

V-Ray

Cryptomatte in progressive;
V-Ray Material Library in Maya;
Progressive caustics mode;
Maya 2022 support;
New Opacity cutout command;
Added an option to switch between world units and pixels as photon lookup radius for the caustics photon map;
Now exporting pivot and parent transforms information in vrscene files for Vantage and V-Ray for Unreal;

VRayEnvironmentFog

Environment Fog colored transparency;

V-Ray/USD

Initial support for rendering USD files through VRayScene and Maya USD Proxy;
Initial support for in-memory rendering USD stages in Maya;
Support for animated and deforming mesh geometry animation with motion blur;
Support for V-Ray displacement from USD;
Support for V-Ray shaders encoded in USD;
Support for USDPreviewSurface;
Export V-Ray materials and shaders to USD;
Export displacement from shading group to USD;

V-Ray/GPU

Light cache calculated on GPU;
Added support for tiled textures with large amount of tiles on V-Ray GPU;
Rounded corners support with Out-Of-Core geometry
Support for VRayDirt and VRayCurvature with Out-Of-Core geometry
Support for VRayFastSSS2 with Out-Of-Core geometry
Support for VRayALSurfaceMtl with Out-Of-Core geometry
Support for VRayClipper with Out-Of-Core geometry

VRayMtl

New translucency modes for VRayMtl (based on VRayScatterVolume);
Thin-walled refraction option;

VFB

VRayStandalone with VFB2 support;
Now possible to change or remove VFB2 shortcuts;
Layers masking based on Cryptomatte, integer and color render elements data;
Added stamp layer support;
Custom White Balance support for color picker and tint;
Support for animated sequences for Background layer using <frameNum> tag;
Added an option to bake the RGB primaries conversion;
Added horizontal/vertical offset for Background layer;
Image Info for the history images;
Added the frame number to the VFB History image info overlay;
Save color corrections to a LUT file;

LPE

Changing light path expression now updates in IPR;

V-Ray Material Library

Added drag-n-drop support into the Maya viewport;

V-Ray/vdenoise

Integrated Intel Open Image Denoiser;
Added an option to select denoiser engine for IPR;

VRayRectLight, VRayMeshLight, VRayLightSphere

Added "Occlude other lights" option for V-Ray lights;

VRayProxy

Created vrayImportVRmeshGeom command to import proxies as Maya geometry;

V-Ray/VRayProxy

Added a filter for searching VRayProxy hierarchy;
Added import/export of VRayProxy material rules;

VRaySun/V-Ray GPU

Added support for blending the sun with the horizon with the Improved sky model;

VRayPluginNodeMtl

Support for float textures;

Material importer

Add support for importing float texture opacity map;
Add support for importing blend_method parameter of TexTriPlanar;
Add support for importing TexNormalBump;
Add V-Ray extra attribute for filter blur to the file node;
Add support for importing "out_intensity" and "out_alpha" texture output parameters;
Add support for importing plugin node float textures;
Add option to disable Maya-style alpha detection on file textures;
Material importer support for bitmap extra V-Ray attributes;
Support for VRayUVWRandomizer in material importer;
Added .vrmat support in material importer;

Viewport 2.0, Material importer

Add support for the ColorCorrection plugin as a Maya node;

Improvement - Viewport 2.0, VRayPluginNodeMtl

Passthrough viewport preview for some PluginNode textures;

V-Ray/VFB2

Added buttons for the R, G and B channels to the VFB2 toolbar;

V-Ray GPU

Added support for normal maps in world space;

VRayMultiSubTex

Added random by scene name to MultiSubTex;

Viewport 2.0

Added support for sheen and coat in Viewport 2.0;
VRayLayeredTex basic viewport preview;

Modified features

V-Ray GPU

Optimized CUDA CPU performance;
Changed the default min/max subdivs values for V-Ray GPU Bucket rendering;
Support for back side material IDs;
Optimized IPR scene updates with OptiX;
Implemented displacement in world space;

V-Ray

Move all V-Ray dll/so files to V-Ray's bin folder;
Dropped support for Maya 2017;
Material labels now work consistently with layered materials;
Support new texture colorspace in Maya 2022;
Calling the V-Ray Material Library browser when it already exists should bring the window to front;
Faster initialization of meshes with static 3D displacement in Standalone;
Failing to write to output image folder should be an error;
Now ignoring "Don't save image" option when submitting to Chaos Cloud;
Allow arbitrary values for the motion blur's interval center parameter;
Mixed filtering option for ZDepth;
Don't include the GPU stats when copying to clipboard from the VFB;
ExtraTex should no longer affect sampling by default;
Network assets will be used when local caching fails;

Improvement - V-Ray

Removed the auto scale buckets option;

VFB

Remember the last used location and format when saving an image from the VFB;
Keep VFB2 window in front/on top of Autodesk Maya;

VRayDirt

Added a multiplier for the radius in VRayDirt;

VRayMeshLight

Made VRayLightMesh available in Maya light editor;

VRayTriplanar

Replaced the "scale" parameter of the VRayTriplanar texture with "size" dependent on the scene units;

V-Ray/V-Ray GPU

Improved volume intersection & shading;
Added the IPR performance statistics to the VFB 2 Stats panel;

XGen

Deprecated the legacy XGen vrscene exporter;

Material importer

Load the lookdevKit if it is not loaded when importing a material;
Import TexLayeredMax to native node;
Native import for most used nodes;
Deduplicate identical shading graph parts;
Import VRayLayeredTex from VRayScene as a native Maya node;

V-Ray/USD

VRayLightMaterial is not exported to USD;
Render animated USD list attributes;
Render USD with multi material geometry exported from Maya;

Chaos Cloud

Vrscene packing should now relies on cloud client file naming;

V-Ray/VRayProxy

Undo support for proxy material overrides;

VRayCarPaint2Mtl/VRayFlakes2Mtl

Proper UI for Flake Random Color and Flake Scale Triplanar in Carpaint2/Flakes2;

V-Ray GPU/VRayDirt

Add support for dirt and curvature attached to extra tex when OOC geometry is enabled;

Bug fixes

Material importer

Fixed empty UVWGen warning on importing Float textures;
Fixed importing UVWGenObject when connected to auto generated VRayPluginNodeTex;
Fixed Material importer flaw for materials with embedded bump attributes;
Fixed importing the "gtr_gamma" attribute in the BRDFVRayMtl plugin;

V-Ray

Fixed VFB History loading very slowly when OCIO configuration is used for display;
Crash when rendering empty USD layer;
Different color space in USD file with bitmap for VRayMultiSubTex and VRayLayeredTex;
Wrong result from vfbControl when Display Correction is None;
Crash rendering USD file with VRayBlendMtl;
Fixed random artefacts on USD materials;
Fixed VRayUpdateAE error when selecting nodes from USD hierarchy in the outliner;
Fixed Dark coat over refractive VRayMtl;
Fixed color management configuration not working in 2022;
Fixed render settings startup JSON presets not working;
Fixed slower rendering and excessive memory usage with user attributes as bitmap tags;
Fixed slow carpaint2 and flakes2 swatch rendering;
The UVWGenRandomizer should not transform the UVs in any way when mode 0 is selected;
Fixed error building Embree voxel tree when "Conserve memory" is enabled in certain scenes;
Fixed Deadlock when building image planes for MipMap buffers;
Fixed output EXR and VRIMG files being written with the wrong group permissions on Linux;
Fixed scenes containing OSL shaders saved with V-Ray older than 5 giving an error;
Fixed difference between glossy and mirror caustic reflections from metallic surfaces;
Fixed Slow rendering with duplicated textures;
Fixed difference in DOF between in DR vs local;
Fixed Custom Color render element not working for alpha;
Fixed VRayCarPaintMtl2 coat IOR <1 not consistent in V-Ray and V-Ray GPU;
Viewport IPR: Fixed resizing Maya window changing camera zoom, depending on camera scale;
Fixed crash with corrupted PNG files;
Fixed Intel Open Image Denoise producing artefacts in the alpha;
Fixed crash with Instancer and Velocity RE;
Fixed wrong VRayMtl normal map in tangent space;
Fixed Incorrect LPE light selects with light cache (CPU);
Fixed OSL error with UNC include paths;
Fixed create Render Node window remaining on top when creating VRaySphereFade;
Fixed different TexRandom by face index between Windows and Linux/OSX;
Fixed open map with Irradiance Map Viewer not working;
Fixed memory leak when rendering vrscene which has been exported with VFB2;
Fixed scene with alembic hair and motion blur hangs on compile geometry phase;
Fixed wrong VRayDirt render when another node passes a value to textured parameter;

V-Ray/IPR

Fixed IPR not refreshing when manipulating MASH on instancer mode;

VRayProxy

Fixed the option for "Assign shaders by name" in VRayMeshMtl not working properly;

VFB

Fixed error when opening VFB2 for the first time;

V-Ray GPU/VRayBlendMtl

Fixed fireflies in additive mode with multiple coat layers;

V-Ray/USD

Fixed support for in-memory rendering USD stages in Maya;
Fixed <UDIM> tags not working;

VRayMtl

Fixed wrong render with thin-walled refraction option;

V-Ray GPU

Fixed slow GPU LC preview when moving the scene in IPR;
V-Ray GPU fails to load and render tiles texture with Mudbox filename format with lowercase $u and $v;
Fixed Light select and GPU light cache not rendering correctly;
Fixed crash with GPU Light cache from file on second render;
Fixed GPU Memory leaks after IPR updates when there is capraint2 material in the scene;
Fixed crash with RTX when deleting a map in VRayDisplacementMod during V-Ray GPU IPR;
Fixed texture on objects with normal displacement appearing smudged in GPU production renders with on-demand mipmapping;
Fixed specific opacity texture is often rendered incorrectly on GPU when mipmapped;
Fixed unhandled exception with V-Ray GPU IPR;
Fixed crash with Dome light, cpu light cache and bucket sampler;
Fixed darker GI with matte objects when matte for refl/refr is off;
Fixed artifacts when changing the region in IPR and using Adaptive lights;
Black artefacts on objects with mipmapped hi-res textures;
Fixed empty buckets with Hybrid rendering and LPE;
Fixed Matte is not working correctly with shadow linking;
Fixed RTX producing fireflies with specific scene;
Fixed crash on consecutive rendering with VRayClipper and VRayTriplanarTex;
Fixed consecutive SunLight updates crashing interactive CUDA renders;
Fixed crash with 32k textures in full size mode;
Fixed UVWGenChannel use_double_sided_mode option ignored by the GPU engine;
Fixed crash when using vrmesh file with more than 16 material and UV maps;

VRayCarPaintMtl

Fixed crash with VRayCarPaintMtl with flake size 0;

Viewport 2.0

Fixed V-Ray lights are not hidden in the viewport after being set to be hidden;
Fixed environment reflection viewport preview;
A hidden dome light no longer visible in viewport reflections;

VRayPluginNodeMtl

Fixed list items with defaults in VRayPluginNode disappearing after saving to Maya scene;

VRayProxy

Fixed animated alembic not caching the animation with the new proxy;
Fixed VRayProxy not packaged in a Maya archive;

VRayStochasticFlakesMtl

Fixed Carpaint2 and Flakes2 crash when updating material swatches;

vrimg2exr

Fixed vrimg2exr crashing in GUI mode on Linux when overwriting an existing file;

V-Ray 5, Hotfix 2

Official Release

Date - Sep 30, 2020

Download - Build 5.00.22

New features

VRayProxy

Allow clicking in the viewport to select proxy sub-objects

V-Ray GPU

Added reflection and refraction amount for matte objects

VFB

Implemented renderer stats in VFB2;

Modified features

V-Ray

Faster unloading of V-Ray when closing Maya;

VRayProxy

New proxy option for import is now on by default;
Improved conversion script to new proxy node;

Chaos Cloud

Remove extraneous error when default project's name contains non-ASCII characters

Bug fixes

LightMix

Fixed crash when enabling light in IPR on refractive material with LightMix enabled;

Bifrost

Fixed crash with Bifrost Aero scene;

VRayFastSSS2

Fixed NaN pixel values from SSS in some cases;

AppSDK

Fixed broken AppSDK distribution with V-Ray for Maya;

V-Ray GPU/VRayBlendMtl

Fixed fireflies in additive mode with multiple coat layers;

VRayToonMtl

Fixed toon edges override not working properly with bump mapping;

nParticles

Fixed wrong rendering with motion blur and distributed rendering;

VRayEnvironmentFog

Fixed wrong render with caustics;

VFB

Fixed crash with VFB2 when saving image before render has started;
Partially fixed VFB window disappearing behind Maya (still an issue on macOS)
Fixed VFB2 showing out of monitor bounds on high DPI monitors at 175% scaling

VRayProxy

Fixed black wireframe in proxy viewport previews;

V-Ray GPU

Fixed the disc of VRaySun not visible in V-Ray GPU;

V-Ray

Fixed negative values result when subtracting Light Select from Beauty
Fixed error when opening a scene with an object with VRayLightMesh properties
Fixed using overscan offsets the rendermask incorrectly
Fixed a crash with XGen when rendering a Velocity channel on non-moving hair

VRaySun

Fixed Maya crash when creating VRaySun light

V-Ray IPR

Fixed objects disappearing when creation history is deleted

VRayVolumeGrid/V-Ray IPR

Fixed IPR crash when stopping rendering on scenes with VolumeGrid

LPE

Fixed specular refractions cannot be distinguished from specular reflections behind them

VRayGLSLMtl/VRayGLSLTex

Fixed crash in certain cases when using "max" and "clamp" GLSL shader functions

VRayClipper

Fixed wrong render with VRayClipper attached to a scaled object

VRayMtl

Fixed turning off "Generate Caustics" option has no effect

V-Ray DR

Fixed slow startup when DR is enabled on Linux and macOS

V-Ray 5, Hotfix 1

Official Release

Date - Sep 30, 2020

Download - Build 5.00.21

New features

SamplerInfo

Added a frame index offset output for motion blur intervals larger than a frame

Modified features

LightMix

LightMix now supported in batch rendering
Disabled lights no longer go into the light mix list

VRayCarPaint2Mtl

New car paint material now production ready

VRayFlakes2Mtl

New flakes material now production ready

V-Ray GPU

Improved rendering speed for objects with primary visibility off

VRayUVWRandomizer

Fixed wrong export of "by render ID" random mode

Bug fixes

V-Ray

Fixed referenced scene causing Render Settings Common Tab UI to shrink
Fixed packing to vrscene zip folder structure
Fixed a crash when loading tiled EXR with size 1
Fixed crash with Bifrost Aero scene

VFB

Fixed VFB2 not restoring up on new render
Fixed the "Reset VFB position" functionality from the shelf with VFB2
Fixed New VFB picking up random values for settings on certain old scenes

MtlMulti

Fixed warning with when "ids_list" parameter is empty

VRayCarPaint2Mtl/VRayFlakes2Mtl

Fixed mapping channel not working
Fixed non-deterministic render

VRayProxy

Fixed Maya hanging when loading Alembic file with a large number of instances
Fixed VRayProxy2 still visible in the viewport after being hidden
Fixed wrong preview of Alembic sequences with motion blur

VRaySun

Fixed sun not taking time zone values above GMT +2

VRayMtl

Fixed bump multiplier for normal map in tangent space
Fixed incorrect bump map export with VRayUVWRandomizer

VRayHairNextMtl

Fixed non-deterministic render of hair

VRayFastSSS2

Fixed NaN pixel values from SSS in some cases

Chaos Cloud

Fixed error with non-ascii symbols

VRayToonMtl

Fixed wrong results with opacity mapped VRayToonMtl

VRaySky

Fixed Maya image plane blocking GI from environment
Fixed IPR not updating when changing filter color

Light Path Expressions

Fixed wrong capture of lights that are invisible in the final rendering

V-Ray 5

Official Release

Date - Aug 6, 2020

Download - Build 5.00.20

New features

Installation

Embed the License Server and the Cloud Client installations in the V-Ray for Maya installer
Integrate the new installer in V-Ray for Maya

VFB

New VFB with light mix and compositing capabilities
Old VFB can be re-enabled with VRAY_VFB2_ENABLED=0 environment variable

V-Ray

Added LightMix render element in Maya
Added new render elements for VRayToonMtl
Added JSON-formatted Light Select metadata to EXR files
Added render elements presets based on intended compositing workflow
Implemented blue-noise optimization for the DMC sampler
Implemented "Improved" sky model
Improved post translate Python script control
Light Path Expressions
LPE boolean operations ^, &, | and - on expression
Support ACEScg renderer color space

VRayProxy

New VRayProxy node

VRayMtl

Added a clear coat layer to VRayMtl
Added a sheen layer to VRayMtl

VRayBlendMtl

VRayBlendMtl with dynamic layers

VRayDomeLight/V-Ray GPU

Ground projection for Dome Lights

V-Ray GPU

Added support for Cryptomatte mode by Node Material Name
Initial support for Out-of-Core codepath
Initial Matte Next implementation
Per-device GPU memory tracker
Support for Environment and Self Illumination contribution for Light Selects
Support for the Spline interpolation types of Maya ramps
Support for Random by Name mode of VRayMultiSubTex
Support for the Secondary matte projections on the GPU
2D Displacement support

V-Ray Denioser

Denoising devices can now be selected with an environment variable

VRayVolumeGrid

Maya Mesh support for Cached Playback in Maya 2019 and 2020

V-Ray Scene Converter

Convert lights for V-Ray

Modified features

VRayProxy

Added an option to export full path names for proxies
Automatic conversion to the new VRayProxy node
Check if the folder where the proxy will be saved exist before the export starts
Enabled "Optimize for instancing" for proxy export by default
Renamed the "One voxel per mesh" label for proxy export to "Optimize for instancing"
Renamed -vrscenePreview to -vrsceneWholeScene in the ply2vrmesh option list
Speed up the proxy export

V-Ray

Light evaluation UI improvements
GI settings clean up
Cleaned up the Light Cache settings
Improved access to often used items in V-Ray menu
Removed "Generate render elements" option from Denoiser Render element UI
Enabled texture cache by default
Added support for Sheen and Coat parameters in VRayMtl to material importer
Removed the Auto Volume Shader option for Maya Fluids
Removed the Embree settings from the UI
Removed the skylight portal options for lights
Removed the Irradiance Map GI engine
Removed the Linear Workflow option
Enabled GI by default
Cleaned up the UI for lights
Removed the V-Ray Quick Settings
Removed the local subdiv settings and use automated shading sampling
Do not adjust intensity when changing light units for mesh lights
Improved drag and drop default connections onto the V-Ray Mtl material override extra attrbites
Added support for V-Ray list parameters in VRayPluginNode
Faster instancer export
VRayScene: Render Stats / Wrapper for Instancer2
UserAttibuteValue should not truncate integers larger than 24 bits
Volumes in VRaySwitchMtl should only use the volume plug
Removed V-Ray Swarm from the UI
Bitmap filenames from user attribute tags should not append project path

V-Ray GPU

Make V-Ray GPU use the memory of the Meshes directly from V-Ray containers without copying
Implement picking objects/materials for Optix
EXR and TIFF files are now referenced in memory based on hash metadata
Ability to enable or disable the global hair tree
Added support for instancing hair on GPU
Faster first startup on multi-GPU machines
Reduced memory usage when using RTX
Improved volume intersection and shading
Added log messages for NVLink usage
Updated the volumetric rendering on V-Ray GPU to be able to handle Volume grid and Environment Fog primitives simultaneously
Improved time-to-first-pixel when there's lots of nodes with user attributes
Reduced memory usage with OptiX when rendering with bucket sampler and on-demand textures

VRayProxy/ V-Ray IPR

Improved responsiveness when moving proxies in IPR

VRayHair3Mtl

Removed VRayHair3Mtl

VRayMtl

Energy preserving Metalness for colored reflections
Removed the exit colors and soften edge advanced options from VRayMtl

VRayToonMtl

Removed soften edge and exit colors from VRayToonMtl

V-Ray IPR

Removed the out-of-process IPR option

Viewport 2.0

Apply color management for file textures connected to lights in Viewport 2.0
Removed the Viewport display options for textures of lights

VRayFastSSS2

Removed the front and back lighting options from VRayFastSSS2

V-Ray/VRayProxy

Improved proxy loading performance
Improved alembic import times

VFB

Collapse the individual color corrections rollouts by default

VRayLightMtl

Greyed out the compensate exposure option of LightMtl when direct illumination is enabled

VRayVolumeGrid

Added support for explicit texture coordinates for the Texture sampler in Maya/Standalone

Bug fixes

V-Ray

Fixed slower render when started by clicking the VFB "render last" icon
Fixed wrong bounding boxes on VRayScene preview
Fixed new hair material not being affected when AcesCG color space is selected
OSX: Fixed Installer failing to remove firewall exception
Fixed artifacts with the adaptive dome light in the attached scene
Fixed wrong object translations with flipAxis enabled in the VRayMesh preview
Fixed very high memory usage when playing with VFB color corrections and the vfbControl command
Fixed wrong VRaySun viewport preview when parent transform is scaled
Fixed fatal error when rendering a refractive material in a specific scene
Fixed OSL shader not taking into account the connected multiplyDivide node
Fixed importing plugin object parameters for VRayPluginNode not working
Fixed skipExistingFrame breaking the dome light texture when the first frame exists
Fixed having V-Ray AppSDK installed prevents python in V-Ray for Maya working
Fixed rendering hair ignoring per vertex map channels
Fixed using uninverted normal bump option resulting in strange/wrong rendering
Fixed error for swatches of file textures with filenames containing tags
Allow longer names of render elements when saving in a .vrimg file from the VFB
Fixed user attribute syntax with spaces around attribute name not working
Fixed segmentation fault with alembic file on Linux
Fixed instanced hair crashing when using VRayHairMtl
Fixed error on importing vrscene with vrscene in geometry mode inside
Fixed the Locator scale parameter not working on sphere and rectangular V-Ray lights in Viewport 2.0
Fixed V-Ray could crash if reading maximum memory snapshot after plugins have been unloaded

V-Ray GPU

Fixed crashes when rendering with CUDA CPU
Fixed crashes when rendering with OOC and a dynamic mesh has velocity channel
Fixed crashes if it fails to initialize devices
Fixed crash during vray mesh export
Added support for more than 8 light select render elements when using light cache
Improved GPU loading time on scenes with many materials
Do not allow NaN colors read from EXR files into the renderer
Fixed wrong hue shift when using the colorCorrect node in Maya
Fixed random crashes when there is a particle system in the scene
Fixed Gamma and Alpha controls in the Maya colorCorrect texture not working on the GPU
Fixed crash with VRayBlendMtl additive option
Fixed crash when rendering very tiny hairs with length close to zero
Fixed rendering on GPU with NVLink crashing in specific scenario
V-Ray may crash when rendering with GPU and the GPU fails during initialization
Difference between Full Light Select RE and RGB with VRayFastSSS2
V-Ray standalone prints garbage on the first progress print
Artifacts in consecutive renders after modifying texture used in both displacement and shading
HDR Textures with really high values attached to lights can cause fireflies
Material index overflow on GPU causes artefacts in specific scene

VRayALSurface

Fixed SSS not computed for VRayALSurface materials seen through glossy refraction

V-Ray IPR

Fixed crash with Lens Effects and IPR set to interactive update

VRayBerconNoise

Fixed VRayBerconNoise Color1 and Color2 missing in Lookdev Hypershade template
Fixed Bercon Noise rendering differently in Maya 2015, 2016, 2016.5 and 2017

VRayProxy

Fixed crash with Maya's Evaluation Cache when changing VRayMesh preview type

VRayMultiSubTex

Fixed VRayMultiSubTex not looping through texture ids correctly

V-Ray GPU/VRayBlendMtl

Fixed random incorrect render of VRayBlendMtl with submaterials with bitmaps

Content

Space Tools

V-Ray 5, update 1.2

New features

Modified features

Bug fixes

V-Ray 5, update 1.1

New feature

Modified features

Bug fixes

V-Ray 5, update 1

New features

Modified features

Bug fixes

V-Ray 5, Hotfix 2

New features

Modified features

Bug fixes

V-Ray 5, Hotfix 1

New features

Modified features

Bug fixes

V-Ray 5

New features

Modified features

Bug fixes