Official Release

Date - Apr 16, 2020

Download - Build 4.30.02

New features

V-Ray

• Added V-Ray Scene export through the Maya export menu;
• Notifications for new V-Ray versions;

VRayScene

• VRayObjectProperties can now be used with VRayScene objects;

Modified features

VRayMtl/Viewport 2.0

• Improved viewport performance
  
  

Maya Fluids

• Ability to control the light emission of Maya fluids when rendered with the Phoenix shader;

VRayHairSampler

• Added output for the distance across the hair width;

Bug fixes

V-Ray

• Fixed deep EXR always using 16-bit floats;
• Fixed scene resetting in mayapy when loading V-Ray;
• Fixed packing to vrscene to work when offline;
• Fixed a slowdown with the ramp texture with textured ramp positions;

VRayAlSurface

• "Consider all objects" now only considers other objects with VRayAlSurface applied;

VRayProxy

• Fixed slow playback of proxies from network share;
• Fixed V-Ray Proxy not working correctly with named UV sets;

V-Ray IPR

• Fixed a crash with RTX in IPR in the viewport when no devices are selected for rendering;
• Fixed a crash with debug shading when adding a texture to a Dome Light;

VRmat

• Fixed Vrmat not finding assets;

VRayOSLMtl/VRayOSLTex

• Fixed OSL shader ignoring a connected multiplyDivide;
• Fixed a crash when compiling OSL on i9 9980XE processors

V-Ray GPU

• Fixed a crash with GPU IPR with distributed rendering when unhiding an object;
• Fixed incorrect Anisotropy uvw transformation;
• Fixed a crash when rendering with NVLink with more than 2 cards;
• Fixed black render with the Bucket sampler when the AA Filter size is set below 1.41;

XGen

• Fixed light linking not working for xgen hair with .vrscene cache;

Viewport 2.0

• Fixed slow Viewport 2.0 performance on OSX;

VRayFastSSS2

• Fixed back-to-beauty compositing for the VRayFastSSS2 material;

VRayEnvironmentFog

• Fixed slow rendering with VRayEnvironmentFog with Scatter GI;

VRayMeshLight

• Fixed slow rendering with MeshLight in animation;

VRayFur

• Fixed a random crash with VRayFur;

V-Ray GPU/EnvironmentFog

• Fixed a crash with EnvironmentFog when switching from bucket to progressive rendering;

V-Ray GPU/VRayProxy

• Fixed a crash when rendering VRMesh files with more than 16 map channels;

VRayVolumeGrid

• Fixed relative cache paths not working as relative to the Maya project;

VRayRectLight

• Fixed fireflies when the light shape is set to disc;