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Build 6.00.21

Official Release

Date - Dec. 13, 2022

 

Download V-Ray 6 for Houdini

 

New features

 

V-Ray

  • Integrated the Chaos Cosmos asset library for Houdini 19 and up, under Windows
  • Implemented the V-Ray Profiler
  • Implemented the V-Ray Memory Tracker
  • Added Adaptive Bucket Splitting
  • Implemented the V-Ray Enmesh for render-time generation of patterns over a mesh surface
  • Updated V-Ray IPR for better interactive feedback

Lights

  • Added V-Ray Procedural Clouds in the Sun Light
  • Added "Finite Dome" option to Dome Light
  • V-Ray Light Cache is now available in IPR
  • Added "Grouped Lights" option for Light Select AOV
  • Added "Volumetric Contribution" control for Lights
  • Added new "PRG Clear Sky" model for V-Ray Sun
  • Added support for Location/Date/Time in V-Ray Sun

Volumes

  • Added Volume Shader "Absorption Color" support
  • Added Volume Shader "Phase Function" (anisotropic scattering) support
  • Added support for Vector fields for the Volume Grid Shader

Materials

  • Added Thin Film layer for V-Ray Material
  • Added new random walk scattering "SSS" and "Volumetric" modes for V-Ray Material Translucency
  • Added Coat and Sheen layers for V-Ray Material

Textures

  • Now shipping the "MakeTX" utility with V-Ray for Houdini
  • Implemented V-Ray Random VOP to generate a random value in the range of 0-1 based on an Float or Color input
  • Curvature texture can now work either in "Convex" or "Concave" mode
  • Added input sockets for arbitrary "rest" attributes for the TriPlanar texture

AOV

  • Added "Temporal Mode", "Hardware Acceleration" and "Denoise Alpha" options for the V-Ray Denoiser

VFB

  • Added "Panorama View" and "Proportion Guides" option for the V-Ray Frame Buffer

Export

  • Rest attributes for Alembics are read directly from the ABC file thus reducing export time
  • Significant time to first pixel optimizations for Alembic and VDB caches

Workflow

  • Implemented "Material Overrides" system for Objects under the V-Ray Renderer ROP

 

Solaris

 

V-Ray

  • Add V-Ray support for Solaris Render Region Tool
  • Add support for USDZ files
  • Added Plate Workflow support through the V-Ray Environment settings on the Dome Light LOP
  • Add texture tint/simple color correction controls for Dome and Rect lights
  • Implemented LPE light tags support for lights in Solaris
  • Add support for Motion blur based on velocity attribute
  • Add support for integer PrimVars with User Integer VOP
  • Add Deep Output support
  • Add support for "constant" PrimVars in Cryptomatte
  • Add Camera Overscan support
  • Add support for writing Cryptomatte data though husk
  • Add support for live volumes
  • Add V-Ray Environment Fog
  • Add Viewport Denoiser Result toggle
  • Add support for MaterialX position and normal output via husk
  • Add V-Ray Proxy support with V-Ray Proxy LOP
  • Add support for native Houdini volumes
  • Add "V-Ray Render Vars" LOP HDA similar to the Karma standard variables with presets for common AOVs
  • Add Hair Properties in Geometry Render Settings LOP
  • Add "Render as Disc" option for points in Geometry Render Settings LOP
  • Add NSamples/Velocity support
  • Add Bercon Noise support
  • Add Deep Output support for VDBs
  • Add support for Nested Instancing
  • Add Visibility Settings for Volumes in Solaris
  • Add Deep EXR options in Render Settings LOP
  • GPU crash to desktop with instanced geometry
  • Crash when the shader has wrong input connector type
  • Combine texture causes a crash
  • Crash when enabling and disabling the “instanceable” option of the Configure Primitive LOP
  • Hydra delegate crash to desktop in CentOS
  • Scene import (All) crashes in Python in Houdini 19.5
  • Crash to desktop with new GeomInstancer plugin
  • Meshlight causes "EXCEPTION IN CORE"
  • Crash when toggling any of the Render Geometry Settings LOP options
  • Light Linker not working
  • Preview shader is rendered grayscale - Linux only
  • Switching BRDFs inside the V-Ray Material Builder does not update the Viewport
  • Randomizer VOP does not work
  • Mismatch between Karma and V-Ray renders for points with “pscale”
  • V-Ray skips point with index 0 when rendering points
  • TexUserScalar does not work
  • Opacity of V-Ray material is not working when color output of ImageFile VOP is used
  • PrimVars/User Color on points is not rendered
  • Invisible parameter state of lights is ignored when changing delegates
  • Velocity blur for Volumes is not working
  • Remap texture does not work in "Color" mode
  • Impossible to select anything in the viewport when V-Ray is set as the Viewport Renderer
  • Adding a dot in the shader graph breaks the shader
  • Mesh Light Texture is not used or exported to the VRScene
  • Expose "Max. MipMap Resolution" in the Render Settings LOP > Options > Textures
  • Some parameters are not taken into account when saving Deep data
  • Missing "Affect Reflections" toggle on V-Ray light properties
  • Light material with "Direct Illumination" enabled does not update color changes in the Viewport
  • Displacement isn't present in final render through husk
  • Wrong default value export for "Preserve Map Borders" parameter when using subdivision
  • Hair when "Use Embree" is disabled is missing from the final render through husk
  • Chaining Switch VOPs does not work
  • Memory leak with husk and specific scene
  • LPE render var settings are not exported
  • Change render var format to color3f for color elements in VRayStandardRenderVars LOP
  • Image File VOP always uses "Inverse Gamma" as "Transfer Function"
  • "Use" options for Environment settings from Dome Light for GI/Reflect/Refract/Secondary Matte are not considered
  • Spotlight angle does not match Karma
  • Spotlight softness affects only shadows but the light borders are always sharp
  • Integer attributes are not supported
  • Material Output VOP does not trigger an update in Houdini 19.0
  • Missing vertex, face and normals lists for reference mesh when importing alembics with rest attributes
  • Vector primvars are not picked up
  • Render Settings LOP fails to load V-Ray UI due to ds file typo
  • Different color mapping between render passes
  • "Override Settings Globally" for Displacement is not working
  • Displacement VOP parameter "Use Global Settings" is ignored
  • Remap texture in "Float to Color" mode does not work with Blend material
  • Geometry goes missing after switching delegate to V-Ray to Karma and back to V-Ray
  • Viewport selection doesn't work
  • Overscan is not saved in husk's output EXR
  • V-Ray Remap node adds gamma shift
  • Empty viewport/render after switching delegates

 

Modified features

 

Alembic

  • Add support for SOP and OBJ level transform for Alembic primitives piped into a Mesh Light
  • Add support for Object Properties "Geometry Samples" for per frame particle Alembics with multiple subsamples

Chaos Cosmos

  • Ability to re-import the same model from Cosmos browser without using the same node
  • Keep the last imported object's node selected

IPR

  • Assigning a material to many objects while IPR is running is very slow and blocks the UI
  • Update V-Ray Softbox texture changes in IPR
  • Changes to geometry added as a gizmo for Fog effect causes the fog to disappear in IPR
  • Isolate for IPR in Light Lister does not show its status and it is impossible to find isolated light in a big list of lights
  • Add support for IPR Progressive spiral pattern similar to May and Max plugins
  • Remove V-Ray IPR ROP node - only keep Renderer ROP node
  • Export IPR "GI Depth" 16 bounces if V-Ray Material with Translucency mode SSS is present
  • Decouple IPR updates for surface and shader so e.g. displacement shader is not updated when changing the surface shader

Lights

  • Dome Light - hide Adaptivity parameter and enable Adaptive Dome by default
  • Light Mix - add support for HDAs when the light parameters are exposed at the HDAs top level
  • Light Mix - add "Name" parameter for Grouped lights mode

Materials

  • Hide the Volume Shader "Scale Opacity by Scene Units" option under Smoke tab
  • Disable "Compensate Energy" for Hair material by default
  • Rename "Use Subdivision from Material" to "Use Displacement from Override Material"
  • Pick Velocity Blur Multiplier fix for Volume Grid Shader for single vector fields
  • Update V-Ray Material Translucency parameter names when Type is changed from "SSS" to "Volumetric"
  • Set V-Ray Material Reflection and Refraction depth to default 8
  • Hide "Multiply by Particle Age" toggle on the Foam shader
  • Add support for VRScene material overrides with Rayserver Instancer and Pattern ID texture through "scene_name" shader override
  • Support SOP level material assignment to volumes
  • Extend shader import to support custom plugins
  • Expose input texture slots for "depth" and "amount" parameters for V-Ray Material Translucency
  • Add support for camera shaders to Physical Camera
  • Add support for exclusion flag in Material Overrides object list
  • Add support for bundles in Material Overrides object list
  • MtlX Switch to V-Ray

Textures

  • Rename new sky model to "PRG Clear Sky" from "Improved" to match V-Ray for Maya
  • Missing import for Tex Float Correct
  • Add UV mapping tab for V-Ray Procedural textures with some UVW presets
  • Remove "Lighting" mode from Gradient Ramp texture
  • The TriPlanar texture now has input slots for the "frame_offset" and "texture_rotation" parameters

OSL

  • Changing OSL code wipes all parameter values

Volumes

  • Update the Foam Shader UI
  • Delete old Volume Shader ramps code

Rendering

  • Expose "Minimum Shading Rate" parameter on the Renderer ROP
  • Expose "Metalness" and "Roughness" render elements
  • Add "Ignore Render Region" option under Renderer Export tab "Batch Render" section for VRScene export
  • Export proper Foam Shader "Advanced" tab visibility options when particles are in ROP node "Phantom" list
  • Set "oprelative" to "/obj" instead of "." for V-Ray Renderer ROP
  • Add option to set Renderer's "RGB Color Space" based on an environment variable
  • Add support for animated textures in the "Render Mask" option of the Renderer ROP
  • Add Renderer ROP option for multiple shader overrides for multiple object sets based on the Pattern ID workflow
  • Add a Render Settings Lights option to "Disable Light Visibility" with an operator list for specifying the lights to affect
  • Export the smoke volume to VRScene even if rendering of smoke is disabled to ensure the transform is inherited from the smoke field
  • Match default render settings with V-Ray for Maya and 3dsMax

V-Ray

  • Forbid loading of VDBs in the Volume Grid Cache SOP
  • Update Image File VOP defaults in V-Ray 5.2
  • 2D displacement per primitive needs to be supported by V-Ray.
  • Add support for Houdini 18.5.759
  • Dirt "Consider Same Object Only" option produces different results when used with packed primitives vs mesh geometry
  • Improve message for failing to find .vdb and writing raw data
  • Change default image file filter to "Sharp MipMap" for Image File VOP
  • Update Physical Camera Cinematic Shutter Offset/Angle default ranges
  • Change "VRScans" name to the "Chaos Scans"
  • Improve ACEScg workflow in V-Ray for Houdini
  • Update "Max. MipMap Resolution" parameter range
  • Reduce DWAA EXR compression RAM usage
  • Update the "Back To Beauty (Advanced)" AOV preset to ensure proper results automatically
  • Old scenes with physical camera show warning for missing parameters
  • Update V-Ray Renderer ROP shape in the palette

Exporter

  • Speed up export of instanced VDBs
  • Add optional warning for exporting large live geometries on export
  • Speed up VRScene export for instanced geometry

Installer

  • Remove installer python logic in favor of Houdini's houdini_python keyword in packages
  • Add method for accepting EULA when installing V-Ray with the ZIP builds

VFB

  • Add support for VFB control through environment variables

 

Bug Fixes

 

IPR

  • VFB2 isn't updating the V-Ray Log information
  • Debug flag does not work when a VOP node inside a Material Builder is assigned to the geometry
  • Animated Ocean Spectra Mask is not updated on frame change
  • Exporting a VRScene in "Export" mode directly after running IPR causes empty standalone renders
  • Renderer "Override Camera Resolution" option changes do not update IPR
  • Referenced Shader changes do not update IPR
  • Parameter changes for nodes inside Material Builder piped into Multi ID material do not affect IPR
  • Material Override when using Distance Texture is lost when starting second IPR session
  • Persistent updates or crash when changing a Volume Shader parameter assigned at the SOP level
  • Render Region disappears on Production render or IPR start
  • Material Overrides are lost when changing the Timeline frame during IPR when Extra Texture with the override object in its Exclude list is present
  • Removing a Decal object from the SOP network does not affect IPR
  • No updates for displacement assigned at the SOP level to Alembic primitives
  • Renderer ROP Objects list does not update IPR
  • Deleting objects or lights does not affect IPR
  • V-Ray Proxy SOP is not updated in IPR
  • Geometry goes missing during IPR if there are nodes that are linked to the camera transforms in the scene
  • Lost ExtraTexture elements after the first one, on frame change, and if they have the same object in Exclude List
  • Material assignments for Multi ID Material are lost when using an input Material Builder instead of BRDF
  • Slowly generated mesh is not updated
  • No update when enabling/disabling the ROP Material Override options
  • Geometry that is hidden when IPR is started remains invisible even when unhidden during IPR
  • Unnecessary refresh when changing folders on a BRDF node
  • Renderer Camera settings do not update IPR
  • Viewport does not update view changes
  • Light Instancer not updated
  • V-Ray Object Properties are not updated in GPU IPR
  • Rendered objects would occasionally disappear when making changes to their geometry or adding additional objects to the scene
  • Material assignments are ignored in for the entire scene if a debug flag is present on a VOP node
  • Displacement per primitive not always updated in IPR
  • "Render with Take" uses the correct take then refreshes and reverts to Main during IPR
  • Toon Effect is updated in IPR only once
  • Any changes done while IPR is running cause the Fog effect to disappear
  • IPR update broken in 5.x for Light Instancer
  • Velocity blur is not updated when changing "Shutter Speed" of Physical Camera
  • Sun parameters do not update Sky texture for IPR when used in a Dome Light
  • Hang if VFB IPR button is clicked multiple times before IPR starts
  • Crash with partitioned alembic when using Motion Blur and Displacement
  • Crash with Alembics using Displacement and Material AOVs
  • Random crash during IPR or when attempting to start a production render
  • Crash when toggling on/off the Mesh Light's "Use SOP Geometry" option
  • Crash when changing the "Motion Blur Multiplayer" on the Volume Shader
  • Setting "Screen Window Size" to negative during IPR crashes V-Ray and Houdini
  • Crash when starting IPR first then Production Render if "Cache Bitmaps" is enabled
  • Crash when disabling the V-Ray Physical Camera during IPR in "Render View" or Viewport
  • Crash if starting a production render after an IPR session

Rendering

  • OSL crash when redrawing UI after render
  • Crash with Light Mix on render start
  • Crash rendering groomed fur/hair with V-Ray
  • Crash when attempting to render a volume without volume shader assigned to it
  • Karma hangs on GUI sequence renders when V-Ray is installed
  • Freeze on production render start with Rayserver Instancer and Displacement
  • Crash if render is quickly started, stopped and started again multiple times
  • "-imgFile" flag for standalone rendering causes double output
  • VFB is brought to foreground on every frame when rendering a sequence, even when Houdini is minimized
  • Wrong frame token exported when using $F4 tag for textures
  • Per-primitive displacement does not render correctly
  • Add support for vray_renderable packed attribute
  • Texture for Dome light is not exported when using a referenced Image File VOP
  • Geometry nodes in an Object network inside a parent Geometry node are rendered even when the parent Geometry node has visibility disabled
  • Color AOV name expression is not evaluated for VFB
  • Material Overrides do not work for more than one object in pattern list
  • Forced hidden object with material override does not have material in render
  • Overscan disables render region
  • When using shader overrides with VRScene SOP the render becomes darker
  • NUMA slowdown when rendering Alembics
  • Double camera export when using a Switcher to change the render camera per frame
  • VFB Render Region in viewport is not always rendered
  • Render Region resizes unproportionally when Camera Resolution is increased
  • "Visible in Refraction" causes wrong render output when a glossy material is present
  • Baked volumes in VRScene produce empty renders in some frames
  • Render Mask in "Object" mode does not work
  • Physical Camera missing "specify_focus" export causes wrong DoF renders

GPU

  • V-Ray Material Translucency parameters are grayed out for GPU but should not be anymore
  • Wrong Light Linking export for GPU
  • Matte Surface not working in GPU render for poly geometry
  • Lighting discrepancy between CPU and GPU results when Direct light is used with Intensity higher than 1
  • Square artifacts on using Adaptive Dome light on GPU
  • CPU instead of RTX mode is started
  • Image sequence as texture not rendered on GPU
  • Attributes for shading with User Color and User Float do not work for Alembic hair and particles on the GPU
  • Freeze with specific volume when using GPU
  • Crash with a specific setup including V-Ray UV Explicit and BerconNoise

V-Ray

  • In a newly created blank scene using certain python code provokes a crash
  • Crash with Light Mix "To Scene" option when using lights that are not inside an HDA
  • Crash in a specific scene with adaptive lights
  • Crash on Python module load on Linux
  • UDIM tag in the output image name is missing when baking a single UDIM tile
  • Fixed an OCIO slowdown in 5.10.20
  • Decal include and exclude lists work on single objects only - multiple objects are ignored
  • Wrong filename output when using an expression sampling a point attribute with Python
  • Add support for time-dependent values for image output file name and folder path
  • State of "Enable Large Mesh Warning" toggle is not saved
  • Camera motion blur not working with specific builds
  • Difference in Ocean surface render compared to Mantra
  • Empty export for "Exclude List" in Extra Texture AOV
  • Wrong default values for OCIO texture
  • Wrong output for Remap texture in "Value" to "Value" mode
  • Object Properties SOP overrides own settings when chained in a Geometry network
  • Wrong animated visibility output for objects
  • Swapped logic for "Use Main Line Controls" toggle
  • Set "Adaptive Dome" to enabled by default for Dome light
  • Object Level transformations are ignored for Motion Blur when "Use Velocity Blur" is enabled
  • Displacement does not accept negative "Amount" values
  • Environment Fog does not work with specific builds
  • "Geometry Samples" option for Motion Blur for Points has no effect
  • Fixed issue causing truncated paths when over 255 characters are used on Linux
  • Wrong output for Integer to Float texture
  • Added support for per-face string attribute sampling with the PatternID texture
  • Added support for V-Ray Scenes for Texture Baking
  • Added support for Cryptomatte by attribute for crowds
  • Wrong output for Multi ID Texture when using "Round to Integer" option
  • Fixed Volume Grid Cache SOP is ignored by Renderer "Force Objects" list
  • Fixed Python issue causing empty "About V-Ray" window

VFB

  • Light Mix in "Manual" mode does not pick up Light Select elements
  • Do not tint RGB channels when displaying them isolated
  • ".cube" files specified in the OCIO config for the OCIO View Transform are not used
  • Background layer does not work
  • Using an EXR as Background image with "As Foreground" enabled causes the image to go black

Lights

  • Light Lister "Isolate" button does not work
  • Light Select wildcard "*" for lights parameter returns all scene nodes causing a slowdown with heavy geometry
  • Light Mix - Dome Light "Intensity" and "Color" are not updated when inside a locked HDA
  • Light Mix crash when attempting to send the changes "To Scene" if the lights are in a locked HDA

Materials

  • Material Library download fails if the provided disk path does not exist
  • Cryptomatte by material ID and material HDA
  • Displacement is not overridden when using multiple Material Overrides on the Renderer ROP
  • Parameters set with textures for OSL Material are ignored
  • Wrong material assignments when using animated Switch node and uploading to Chaos Cloud
  • Enabling Motion Blur breaks Material Overrides
  • Add support for Null VOP for Referenced Shader
  • Unlocked Depth and Scale Max value for V-Ray Material Translucency
  • Lag in V-Ray Material Builder VOP context when opening the nodes menu with Tab or RMB click
  • Add support for pattern based material overrides on the Renderer ROP through Pattern ID texture
  • Disabling "Primary Visibility" for object with Light material does not work
  • ROP's "Disable Light Materials" does not affect Light materials with Direct Illumination enabled
  • Material Override is applied to Mesh Light when using wildcard flag for selection
  • Enmesh material ignores custom attributes
  • Crash with material overrides enabled when a light is present in the scene and using a wildcard flag
  • Hang during Light Cache step when using Decal, Rect Light and Diffuse BRDF
  • Crash with HDA holding Volume Grid Shader VOPs made in 4.3 when loading the HDA in V-Ray 5 builds

Textures

  • Import of Remap texture selects "color" output regardless of what input it is connected to
  • Empty drop-down for OCIO tab in Image File VOP
  • OCIO node is missing input texture slot
  • Distance Texture Objects list is empty when a Subnetwork is specified
  • Some TriPlanar texture options do not work
  • Image File VOP "Transfer Function" parameter is ignored
  • Distance Texture ignores animated transform of target object
  • Update User Float and User Integer default attribute names
  • Wrong gamma applied to textures in Dome light when using ACES
  • Very small triangles are ignored when Texture Baking which causes artifacts
  • Adding an object to the Distance Texture "Exclude List" will disable its visibility globally

OSL

  • Particular texture file UI is not loaded
  • Warnings printed with specific scene with OSL

Alembic

  • Expression including frames and subframes on Alembics isn't working as expected with V-Ray Core 5.10.20
  • TriPlanar swimming coordinates when using "rest" attributes with Alembic file
  • Double motion blur for Mesh lights using Alembic as source geometry
  • Material Overrides do not work for multiple Alembic objects
  • Poor Cryptomatte element sampling over overlapping multimaterial Alembic when using Depth of Field
  • Triangular artifacts on packed Alembic when texture Filtering type is not set to None or Nearest
  • Primitive attributes are ignored for splines/hair
  • Add support for velocity sampling even when using single-file deforming Alembics
  • Primitive hair attributes are not interpolated correctly for Alembics
  • Shading artifacts with Random VOP when using float attribute in Alembic file

Volumes

  • Possible crash when shader for volume is not a Volume material
  • Immediate crash when Denoiser and Volume material with the Volumetric Z-Depth parameter set to 'Separate V-Ray Element' is added on volumes
  • Crash when try to convert particular VDB with the V-Ray VDB to AUR node
  • Immediate crash when importing big “.aur” files in V-Ray Volume Grid Cache

Instancing

  • Orientation of instances calculated from @N or @N + @up vectors is wrong
  • Invalid velocity handling for Rayserver Instancer when using Motion Blur
  • Shadow artifacts with Rayserver Instancer
  • Crash with SSS and multiple instances when using new instancing plugin
  • Crash with Light Instancer with scene containing 250 000 lights

Exporter

  • Remove file exists check when exporting packed disk primitive volume by path to speed up VRScene export
  • Slow VRScene export time for instances with Motion Blur
  • Slow export of animated cached VDBs
  • Very slow export and high memory usage for Mesh Light using deforming alembic as source geometry
  • Wrong export for frame($F2) token in texture path
  • Channel string reference for VRScene Export path on Renderer ROP with frame token causes wrong export
  • VRScene export for per frame Alembic files with time offset is not animated
  • Export Mesh Lights generated by Light Material with "Direct Illumination" enabled to Light Select element
  • No VRScene export for animated objects after first frame when Motion Blur is Enabled
  • Empty plugin export for Extra Texture element
  • Empty parameters export for Distance Texture - only Objects list is exported
  • Empty export for Renderer Image Sampler parameters
  • Float to Color is always exported, even when the float output is connected to a float input
  • Light Instancer is not exported when texture baking
  • Distance Texture object is not exported if part of an Override Material
  • Wrong Displacement export for "Vector Displacement" assigned through Material SOP at the SOP level
  • VRScene export - missing material AOVs with Alembics and Motion Blur when Offset is 0 and Duration is 1
  • Only first frame is exported to VRScene for animated objects in Distance Texture list if their visibility is disabled
  • Reflect/Refract mask are exported incorrectly
  • Crash if you use VRScene Shader Overrides without typing Scene Name
  • Material Overrides are lost for VRScene export after the first frame
  • "Clip Mesh" parameter for V-Ray Clipper is not exported
  • No export for Image File OCIO tab
  • Animated shader parameters are not exported for static meshes
  • Proxy Export not working in latest nightly builds
  • VRScene export for Mesh Lights with Alembics only uses the first frame of the sequence
  • Issues with Proxy export and particles
  • Multi-valued params are not exported
  • Light Textures - frame ($F) token is exported in the file path instead of evaluating the expression
  • Wrong export for Image File VOP into Layered texture causes no color output
  • Wrong UV set export for Image File VOP when exporting a .vrscene
  • When Mapping of Procedural textures is set to UV, parameters are not exported to .vrscene
  • Object Scale for V-Rya Enmesh is always exported as 1.0
  • Multiple plugin exports when generating per frame VRScene files
  • Crash on last alembic frame export when motion blur is enabled and using per-frame alembic files

VRayScene

  • Incorrect import of Remap Texture from a VRScene file exported from Maya
  • Incorrect import of volumeNoise (3D noise) from a VRScene file exported from Maya
  • VRScene "Unpack to Polygons" does nothing if a node named "vrayscene_unpack" is already present in the same SOP network
  • VRScene "Unpack to Polygons" does not create a material network
  • Crash when importing materials from .vrscene

Installer

  • Issues with silent installation + config.xml
  • Houdini 19.x can't open local help when V-Ray is installed due to QT lib errors

Chaos Cosmos

  • Update the packing script to ignore the missing Cosmos files
  • Cosmos Browser window does not store position
  • Assets import is creating overlapping nodes
  • Models are imported mirrored by X axis

OSX

  • Crash on start with Houdini 19.5.303

UI

  • Removed Hair Properties *Use Global Hair Tree" controls
  • Displacement Properties shelf tool does not work
  • Crash when clicking on the "Transfer Function" menu of the Image File VOP in Houdini 19.5
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