Add V-Ray Denoiser Render Element

ExtraTexInt / ExtraTexFloat Render Element similar to ExtraTex, but for integer/float textures

Support for integer user attributes

Add another deep fragment merge mode, "None", where fragments are not merged at all

VRayMultiSubTex texture like in 3ds Max

Add a section in the render settings for controlling the cache size for tiled textures

Rendering support for PartIO Visualizer (see http://www.disneyanimation.com/technology/partio.html)

Added support for spriteNumPP parameter of particle systems

Support for animating the "Eye Distance" and "Focus Distance" parameters of the V-Ray Stereoscopic Camera

Initial support for bump mapping with procedural textures

Orthogonal camera support

Support for colored flakes texture

Filter color for the VRayAerialPerspective

Per spline texture mapping

Support for foam particles in Maya 2016

Faster rendering with the light cache

Faster rendering of objects visible behind multiple panes of glass

Enabled support for processor groups by default

Support for the -rep option of Maya batch rendering command

Made the 2016 Material Viewer to use low thread priority

The default tessellation mode for displacement/subdivision is now "pre-tessellated"

Better warning messages when unsupported texture is connected to some plug

Faster light updates

More responsive updates

Region changes without restarting the render are now possible

Decreased the initial resolution for undersampling

Improved auto texture resizing for better memory usage and quality

Support for the Bias attributes for VRayDirt

Improved importance sampling algorithm, removed the "texture subdivs" parameter

Try to preserve already attached materials when changing the proxy file

Hair preview

Support for visibility overrides

Support for render layer material overrides

Added attribute for ground blending

Added vertical offset for the sky texture

Faster strand generation for fur

Improved sampling for GGX BRDF

Exposed the opacity for VRayMtl for lookDev view in the Property Editor

Warnings related to visibility lists now print more information

Extended the Create V-Ray Toon button to allow VRayToon node selections

Added dropdown for selecting UV set in V-Ray baking options

Added support for the Light Editor in Maya 2016.5

Added a parameter to limit the minimum width of hair strands

Fixed negative pixel values in specific scenes

Fixed random render results on a specific scene with Embree enabled

Fixed differently colored surface patches with 2D displacement mapping in specific scene

*.exr image files were saved with incorrect pixel aspect ratio metadata

The default OpenSubdiv depth is now 2

The Renderable camera list is not refreshed

Using GPU as production with DR will print a warning

Fixed wrong shading for light cache with displacement, subdivision and VRayProxy

Fixed slow rendering of motion-blurred hair with light cache

Fixed high memory usage with proxies, hair, particles, displacement and subdivision in animation

Fixed crashes and leaks with displacement, subdivision and proxy

Fixed V-Ray IPR viewport rendering only a region in the lower left corner

Fixed VRayScene node randomly failing to load IES files

Node visibility was not handled properly

Fixed error when loading files with "." in the name

VRayScene node was deleted with the Delete History command

Relative paths are only resolved for the first loaded .vrscene

Fixed fatal error with imported .vrscene files and Render Stats

Fixed slow rendering for Alembic files with motion blur enabled (specific scene only)

The GPU preview didn't work properly with instancing

The GPU Mesh preview should disable the Alembic subdivision

Added support for V-Ray user attributes when displaced/subdivided

The shader names were not always set correctly with "use full names"

Fixed wrong hair vertices in GPU preview

Bucket rendering with Fixed/Adaptive sampler was very slow in MacOS ElCapitan

Now shows up in the Atmospheric Render Element

Multiply by light color doesn't work in temperature mode

Multiply by the light color option always renders green light

Fixed infinite recursion with SSS2, raytraced single scatter and surfaceLuminance

Scene renders differently with render elements enabled vs. disabled

Fixed wrong result with mapped Hilight Glossiness

Fixed very high memory usage while rendering in V-Ray IPR viewport

Fixed crash when deleting VrayFur properties node while rendering in IPR

Fixed not refreshing connections when a material is drag-and-dropped from Hypershade in 2016

Fixed material connections not refreshing with Copy Tab

Fixed issues with the Maya Attribute Editor

The VRayTriplanar texture doesn't properly show it's UV placement attribute

Fixed issue with multiple VRayFalloff textures attached to a material

The voxel preview did not update when changing loadNearest and flipUpAxis

Frame blending did not work properly with VRayVolumeGrid grid that changes size

Fixed animation rendering garbage after the cache sequence ends

Fixed wrong shading with Geometry Volumetric render mode in MultiMatte render element

Two VRayVolumeGrid in a vrscene sharing a cache with offset animation rendered the same frame

Fixed wrong Instancer primary visibility per particle override with specific scene

Fixed invalid colors with the Cook-Torrance BRDF

Fixed Material override extra attributes not updating properly in a specific case

Fixed Material override extra attributes not refreshing when accessed from VRaySwitchMtl

Fixed wrong exit code when VRAY_TERMINATE_ON_FRAME_END is enabled and a license error occurs

Command-line width/height override flags were not taken into account

Fixed crash when trying to render as VRayMetaball

Better support for Bifrost Aero