Official Release

Date - July 03, 2019

Download - Build 4.12.02

New features

SamplerInfo

• Added a random by scene name mode to the sampler info additional outputs

Modified features

V-Ray

• Better sampling with few lights in the scene
• Texture filename will be printed if a tile fails to load for tiled textures

VRayProxy

• Faster loading of VRayMesh nodes in bounding box mode
• Increased the size of VRayMeshMaterial's shaders list control
• Ability to change visibility for multiple selected objects in the VRayMesh visibility lists

Cryptomatte/VRayProxy

• Fixed wrong manifest in Sub object name mode

V-Ray IPR

• Optimized defaults for CPU IPR

Bug fixes

V-Ray IPR

• Fixed wrong first frame when playblasting
• Fixed sampling artifacts with few lights in the scene

VRayHairMtl

• Fixed VRayHairMtl not composing back properly with consistent elements enabled

VRayEnvironmentFog

• Fixed environment fog not composing back properly with consistent elements enabled
• Fixed incorrect lighting with Environment fog and V-Ray Light Linker

Cryptomatte

• Fixed AA on multi-material objects when using material mode
• Fixed wrong Cryptomatte channel name when using DWA compression

XGen

• Fixed XGen not working on macOS when V-Ray is loaded before the XGen plugin

VFB

• Fixed saving to EXR from the VFB not saving the whole image when rendering a region
• Fixed a crash when saving from the VFB when using V-Ray Standalone

VRayLightSphere

• Scale was ignored when transform was controlled with an expression

VRayFur

• Fixed wrong texture projection with V-Ray Fur

AppSDK

• Fixed license issue when rendering through AppSDK on Windows

VRayScene

• Fixed visibility option not being respected when in a group

Maya batch

• Fixed "-im" command-line override not working with Render Setup layers

VRayTriplanar

• Fixed Triplanar appearing in the wrong category inside the Create Menu

V-Ray

• Fixed crash when rendering zero-sized regions with Light Cache
• Fixed a crash when closing Maya on macOS High Sierra

V-Ray GPU

• Fixed UDIM textures rendering black in IPR with on-demand mip-mapping
  
  

Chaos Cloud

• Fixed cloud button not working on older Maya versions