New adaptive sampling algorithm for better detection and clean-up of noise in the image

Added option for automatic subdivs calculations for materials and lights

Better GI distribution (more robust handling of reflective GI caustics) for interior scenes

Better sub-pixel filtering for the progressive sampler

Dynamic noise threshold for the progressive sampler for more even noise distribution

Internal spectral color space switched from CIE RGB to sRGB

General speed improvements

Ability to use the GPU for production rendering

Support for Ornatrix beta

Implemented raytraced rounded corners that work also at intersections of different meshes

New Multi Matte ID render element

Material select render element works with volume shaders assigned to shading groups

Write the VFB stamp information in the OpenEXR metadata

Support the standard Scene Assembly options in the Render Settings

Batch Render supports -iip (ignore image planes) flag

Support for animation (bezier) curves as remap texture nodes;

Support for Projection node

Support for VRay User Scalar/Color

Support for bitmap aperture to the physical camera

Support for VRaySwitchMtl

Initial support for GLSL texture shaders

Support for hair and particles from VRayProxy objects

Speed up loading of resized textures to the GPU

Ability to load color corrections from VFB history

Ability to export the color corrections settings as single LUT (.cube) file

New sky model (Hosek et al)

Added ground color parameter

New aerial perspective atmospheric effect

New texture that creates a falloff gradient based on the viewing direction, fresnel effect, etc.

New texture for triplanar mapping

New stochastic flakes material for car-paint like materials

Ability to clip against arbitrary meshes

Added a GPU preview mode for faster viewport performance and less memory consumption

Added a viewport preview of the grid content

Added ability to customize the import of the native vdb/f3d channels

Implement support for nameless VDB channels

Added support for importing VDB caches from FumeFX 4

Added options for probabilistic volume sampling

Enabled support for sRGB and gamma correction profiles

Added support for Hair, Cook-Torrance, GGX and subsurface BRDFs

GLSL shaders are now compiled to binary code through LLVM for increased render speed

The Ptex texture baking now works with V-Ray proxy objects

Ability to bake objects as a particle cloud to a .vrmesh file

Implemented support for signed integer TIFF images

Ability to override the visibility, object id, frame, user float/color of the instanced objects using per particle attributes

Added new output that returns random color per instance

Added support for displacement, subdivision and VRayUserColor

Added support for frame animation of archive

Added the ability to cache XGen collections to .vrscene and general export performance improvements

Support for the new Look Development shading nodes and simplexNoise in Maya 2016 Ext1

Optimized UI and new default Render Settings options

Faster rendering of particle system with sphere/point rendering mode

Ability to handle more than 1000 UDIM tiles per UDIM texture

Improved multi-threaded performance for UDIM textures

Better management of many tiled OpenEXR and TIFF files

Faster activation of the mouse tracking with the progressive sampler and RT

Updated the OpenSubdiv library to version 3.0 with faster subdivision performance

VRayLightMesh now supports OpenSubdiv subdivision

Object select render element can work with more than one object ID

Support for per instance unshared UV sets

VRAY_TERMINATE_ON_SEQUENCE_END environment variable that terminates the process after a sequence is finished rendering

Improved AMD GPUs support

Optimized bitmap memory management

Improved light cache with support for motion blurred hairs

Optimized the "Compiling geometry..." phase on scenes with many nodes

Optimized material rendering

Print warning for unsupported textures

Prevent kernel recompilations while RT is running

Added new options to the vfbControl command to fully control the VFB window form MEL

Use Maya's native open/save dialogs in the VFB

Added tooltip with the image comment to the images in the VFB history

Adding/removing render elements will not delete the contents of the frame buffer

Support for more then two motion blur samples with Alembic files

Faster point cloud rendering

Ignore the subdivision attributes of Alembic files when making a Maya mesh

The "Static geometry" attribute was renamed to "Geometry generation"

The translator default path now doesn't expand the layout

Added an option to globally turn on/off subdivision surfaces, hair, proxies, particles and plugin geometry

Added new "local space bump map" mode

The refraction now terminates rays based on the "Max transparency levels" option (it was hard-coded limit previously)

Added a disk shape option for the rectangle light

Introduced -mergeShaders switch to merge shaders from different files with equal names

Rendering .vrscene files over 4 GB with DR was not working correctly

Fixed infinite "Render interrupted" messages when rendering with IPR and no render machines are available

Fixed difference in rendering with motion blur, geometry samples > 2 in DR

The VRAY_TERMINATE_ON_FRAME_END environment variable now terminates the application properly with exit code 0

Improve the precision of mapping for 3D textures

Fixed rare crash when computing mip-map levels for non-square textures

Missing error when parting vrscene with missing include file

OpenSubdiv was not working with color sets

OpenSubdiv was crashing when subdividing faces with holes;Fixed random OpenSubdiv results with non-manifold geometry

Crash with OpenEXR files using custom data windowFixed UI issues with V-Ray windows on high resolution monitors

Support for the "Local" attribute of the place3dTexture

Fixed crash with NURBS when rendering with changing FormU/V

Fixed texturing with NURBS

The ramp texture didn't export proper .vrscene with mixed number/texture positions

Running vrend always printed "Error Cannot get the object for the current render layer", even if there is no error

Maya's particle "Tail Fade" parameter is not respected when rendering

Fixed the "Multi Matte" RE when used with blend material, the two sided material or renderable curves material

The Material ID of the base material was ignored when used in VRayMtlWrapper and VRayMtlRenderStats

Fixed the -crop option of the stand-alone

Fixed incorrect deep images when EXR Compression is None

Fixed "Affect Swatches" to not apply gamma when SynColor is on in Maya 2016

Fixed an issue with the Bifrost export when using network install

Opening a scene with material select render element was crashing sometimes

Fixed slow rendering with mb embree hair on Linux

The SSS prepass was rendered after the frame is done destroying the image, if the object-based illumination map is used

The stereoscopic camera was rendered wrong

The "Post Render Frame MEL" was not called, which caused issues with other plugins that are expecting it

Fixed slow refreshing with large resolutions

Disable writing the output image

Disable the gamma correction if running in Viewport 2.0 and the gamma correction there is turned on

Fixed registering as a viewport renderer in Maya when the OpenGL core profile is used

VRayFlakesMtl was rendered black in some cases

"Cast shadows" was not working

UDIM textures were not transferred for DR when using the GPU

Fixed wrong results with textured VRayLights

Texture baking could produce incorrect results after a regular render

Removed artifacts caused by overlapping faces on VRayProxy objects with motion blur

MultiMatte render element was not working when rendering with motion blur

Displaced geometry was not included in the light cache

Incorrect render result on machines with more than one GPU when Maya Gamma correct node is used

The decay rates of the point light was not supported

Fixed different results compared to CPU with refraction colours larger than 1.0

Fixed darkening in corners when using the light cache with "retrace" option

VRayFur didn't render with textures in the material

Portal lights blocked shadows from other lights

Scenes with very large light cache were rendered slow

Subdivision and displacement normals were flipped with negative scaling

Unsupported procedural textures were not baked into bitmaps

Optimized memory allocation when loading scenes with many textures

Fixed crash if you save a comment with more than 1024 symbols in the VFB history

Fixed crash with huge font sizes for the frame stamp

The history was not properly refreshed after autosave from IPR

Fixed issues with the order of the render element list

Light cache didn't add automatically extension to the cache file

Fixed wrong reflection filter render element with GGX BRDF

Black Diffuse color broke the Affect Channels for Refractions

Splotches with GI when SSS2 is layered with a reflective BRDF

Fixed crash in some cases

Fixed slow rendering with Transmission Glossiness Length and Width set to 1

VRayUserColor with UV set names didn't work

Fixed crash when a compile error message size exceeds 512

GLSL had access only to the first texture map

Fixed artifacs with particular geometry

Export a proper uvw generator instead of the default one

Wrong rendering when using more then 3 colors in the gradient

Displacement was not applied to the entire object when it has multiple shaders assigned

Fixed crash with VRay Edges used as displacement and "Show Subtriangles" option is ON

Node was not rendered without an assigned material

Node was not working with VRayVertexColor

Added velocity multiplier parameter for alembic proxies

Fixed a crash when exporting a scene with a lot of objects

Selecting both the transform and shape node of an object and exporting to proxy was making a duplicate of all the faces within the proxy file

Shape nodes were not correctly numbered when importing multiple proxies

Fixed slow OpenSubdiv subdivision with many voxels

The proxy import window didn't detect sequences with the <frameNN> token

Fixed crash with displacement on proxy that does not have smooth vertex normals

Fixed crash with motion blur and VRayVertexColor texture used as a texture for a mesh light based on a proxy

Fixed double illumination on SSS material covered by a transparent material when both are applied on the same proxy object

Fixed crash with alembic hair when colors are missing and the UVs doesn't match the number of vertices

Fixed crash with alembic file if it fails to load normally

Fixed slow change of the scene time for static meshes with "Geometry to load" set to "Maya mesh"

the normals render element didn't work with the trunc sampler or probabilistic sampling

Incorrect rendering of Maya fluids and VRayVolumeGrid with big step size

Fixed incorrect position changes with animated .vdb caches

Fixed rendering of speed channel from .f3d/.vdb caches

Fixed artifacts with grid-based self-illumination with DR

Field3D caches over 4GB were not loaded

Artifacts with baking of large scale scenes

Loading the default VRay settings in Maya does not reset the baking engine

Ptex baking surfaces with bump maps produced shading artifacts

The baking engine controls were not updated when a preset is loaded

Fixed issue when rendering in batch mode XGen collections inside a namespace

Fixed render canceling when there is XGen collection in the scene

Fixed the velocity channel with json bgeo files

Fixed missing error message when a bgeo file fails to load

Fixed issues when reading some obj files

Fixed broken files when converting with data window to 16-bit

Fixed issues with the installer when setting environment variables

The vrayRenderer.xml file is installed on wrong location under OSX

Fixed the GUI installer mode on OS X 10.11

Artifacts from the bucket brackets in VFB on Retina displays

The "Enable Overrides" Maya attribute from "Drawing Overrides" was ignored

If Maya is loaded from arbitrary location, clicking the folder icon (browse dialog) of the AE for V-Ray nodes, didn't work

Fixed the V-Ray shelf creation issue on some systems caused by XGen

Fixed various small issues with the Light Lister

Fixed crash with Yeti and velocity render element

Fixed rendering issue with Yeti and primary visibility turned off

The image plane was rendered even if it is not part of the current render layer