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V-Ray Next, hotfix 1

Official Release

Date - Oct 10, 2018

Download - Build 4.02.05

New features

V-Ray/V-Ray GPU

  • Add a parameter for additional control of the auto-exposure (camera_autoExposure_compensation)

V-Ray

  • Initial support for direct rendering of CoronaMtl and most materials from the Corona material library

 

Modified features

VRayDenoiser

  • Switch to Optix 5.1 for the NVidia AI denoiser

VRayGLSL/VRayOSL

  • Added keyboard shortcuts, compile and reset options to QuickShader UI

VRayHDRI

  • Improved performance for tiled .tx and .exr textures

VRayMDL

  • Add support for Ward BRDF in MDL plugin

VRayScene

  • Implement support for VRayCryptomatteElement

Bug fixes

Lens Analysis Tool

  • Crashes when analyzing a photo manually

V-Ray GPU

  • Blank images saved when used as texture baking renderer
  • CUDA error 700 when turning off Lights while rendering in IPR
  • Crash on the second frame in scenes with lots of animated plugins
  • Crash when cancelling a batch render in 3ds Max
  • Crash when deleting VRayLights in specific scene
  • Crash when deleting heavy geometry in specific scene
  • Crash with BerconNoise and VRayDisplacementMod during IPR
  • Crash with Displacement and Environment Fog during IPR
  • Crash with Ornatrix (since 4.02.01)
  • Crash with specific VRayProxy and displacement
  • Disable refresh interactive VFB button as it doesn't work correctly in IPR
  • IPR crashes with stereo mode set to Anaglyph(Red/Cyan)(Green/Magenta)
  • Noisy alpha channel with shadow catcher objects
  • Random crash when changing VRayLight options
  • Unexpected render result with non-spherical Dome VRayLight and matte shadows
  • Unhandled exception when moving the time slider with motion blur and OpenSubdiv
  • VRayDirt's "double sided" parameter is not working correctly
  • VRayHDRI with RGB multiplier in the Output rollout renders differently
  • VRayOCIO does not work with bitmaps
  • When there is just one light in the scene, adaptive lights v2 unnecessarily resets the progressive buffer
  • When using displacement, textures are affected by the texture format setting

V-Ray scene converter

  • Fix Opacity and Reflection Glossiness parameters conversion for CoronaSkinMtl
  • Fix Reference node space mode conversion for CoronaTriplanar

V-Ray

  • Artifacts with adaptive lights in a certain interior scenes
  • Crash when modifying VRayInstancer material and switching to another frame during IPR
  • Crash when rendering with DR (since 4.02.04)
  • Crash when starting IPR after resetting a scene with DR
  • Crash with region rendering with render elements and Previous render set to Darken
  • Different brightness in high-res renderings with Auto Exposure
  • Fix V-Ray Cloud scene submission broken animation export
  • IPR crashes with Alembic hair in specific scene after stop
  • Improve selection of VRayPhysicalCamera and VRayLight in the viewport
  • Separate render channels output files are not named properly when saving to separate folders (since 4.02.03)
  • Standard material diffuse texture and opacity map do not work with V-Ray Next
  • Stuck at "Building embree moving trees" with multi segment motion blur

VFB

  • Aspect ratio is changing when resizing VFB during IPR
  • Closing the VFB window while 3ds Max is saving a VFB image causes 3ds Max to crash
  • Image Info has to be cleared when loading a new image in VFB

VRay2SidedMtl

  • Crash with animated submaterial on the second frame in V-Ray GPU
  • Invalid colors with V-Ray Standalone when rendering scenes with two VRay2SidedMtl materials nested in each other

VRayDirt

  • Crash when undoing deletions of geometries that are in Include/Exclude lists

VRayDistanceTex

  • Crash during IPR (since 4.02.01)

VRayEnvironmentFog

  • Crash with VRayEnvironmentFog with overlapping gizmos with coinciding far sides

VRayGLSL

  • GLSL materials cause V-Ray GPU to recompile kernels on each start

VRayInstancer

  • Crash when rendering with Thinking Particles (since 4.02.03)
  • Fixed losing some particle groups during instancing

VRayOSL

  • Crash during IPR
  • Crash when selecting specific VRayOSLTex in material editor on scene open
  • Flipped textures with OSL maps on V-Ray GPU
  • OSL issues errors when output closures are not explicitly specified
  • Renders black in IPR if attached to VRayExtraTex

VRayPluginNode

  • Crash when a texmap used as a displacement map is being modified during IPR

VRayScene

  • Camera settings from vrscene interfere with the camera in 3ds max

VRayVolumeGrid

  • Caches containing a minus/dash sign before the # format can not be loaded
  • Caches containing digits after the # format can not be loaded
  • Crash when rendering with GPU as production after rendering with IPR
  • Multiple overlapping volumes do not blend correctly with V-Ray GPU

 

V-Ray Next

Official release

Date – 22 May, 2018

Download – Build 4.02.04

 

New Features

VRayMtl

  • Add "Metalness" parameter for easy support of PBR workflows
  • Add a texmap slot for the GGX GTR tail falloff

VRayLightSelect

  • Add "indirect", "indirect diffuse" and "indirect specular" modes

VRayOSL

  • Support for OSL scene attributes
  • Ability to attach textures to arbitrary OSL parameters

.vrscene exporter

  • Initial support 3ds Max 2019 native OSLMap

V-Ray

  • Add dialog to confirm file overwriting with Separate Render Channels
  • Support for the mesh vertex velocity internal interface in 3ds Max 2019
  • Add a button to transfer auto-exposure and/or auto-white balance to scene cameras
  • Add MAXScript functions to start and stop IPR with V-Ray GPU
  • Added Italian tooltip translation
  • Cryptomatte support for DWA compressed OpenEXR files
  • Update the SDK to make greater use of SSE instructions for 3D vector, color and matrix operations
  • Update Embree to version 2.13
  • Add options for auto-exposure and auto white balance in the Camera section of the render settings
  • Add tooltip translation support for various languages
  • Add scripts for the 3ds Max Scene Converter (2017 and newer) for various scene elements to V-Ray ones
  • Add drag-n-drop support for V-Ray asset files onto the 3ds Max window (.vrmesh, .abc, .vrscene, .ies, .aur, .f3d, .vdb, .vrlmap, .vrmap)
  • Require CPU with SSE 4.2 to support SIMD optimizations
  • Show render progress on the Windows taskbar buttons
  • Add a button to transfer auto-exposure and/or auto-white balance to scene cameras
  • Add MAXScript functions to start and stop IPR with V-Ray GPU
  • Added Italian tooltip translation
  • Cryptomatte support for DWA compressed OpenEXR files
  • Support for the mesh vertex velocity internal interface in 3ds Max 2019

V-Ray GPU

  • Add support for glossy Fresnel
  • Improved GPU 3D displacement
  • Initial version of GPU dedicated UI (to be further simplified in next versions)
  • Initial support for VRayEnvironmentFog (without textures)
  • Initial support of VRayVolumeGrid (brute force probabilistic volume sampling only)
  • Initial support for VRscans (VRayScannedMtl)
  • Support for Bercon Noise texture
  • Support for DoF with pinhole camera
  • Add support for adaptive dome light
  • Add support for volumetric rendering
  • Support for BRDF mode of VRayGLSL's PTX backend
  • Re-organized the UI options
  • Implemented new rendering architecture resulting in better performance

VRayLight

  • New adaptive dome light option to help speed up rendering of interior scenes and IBL in general (work in progress)

VRayHairMtl2

  • Implement initial version of a new hair shader with melanin color control

VRayDenoiser

  • Ability to denoise multiple render elements in a single pass (also added denoising on/off in various other REs)
  • Integrated the NVIDIA AI denoiser as an alternative denoising engine

VRayMDL

  • Ability to manage include paths through MAXScript
  • Support for UTF-8 resource file paths

VRayOSL/VRayMDL

  • Allow adding shader include paths from UI

VRayPluginNode

  • Initial implementation of VRayPluginNode material and texture

VRayProxy

  • Modifiers applied to VRayProxy objects are rendered correctly (the proxy is converted to a regular mesh)
  • Add support for Alembic 1.7 layers

VRayRenderTime

  • Per-pixel render time information render element (bucket sampler only)

VRayScannedMtl

  • Add triplanar mapping option

VRaySwitchMtl

  • Add switch material for selecting sub-materials based on a texmap value

VRayVolumeGrid

  • Integrate new velocity-based grid interpolation method
  • Support XForm modifiers in Volumetric render mode
  • Direct loading of sparse VDB caches without resampling
  • Support for relative cache paths in .vrscene files and the -remapPath option in V-Ray Standalone

vdenoise.exe

  • Implement GUI for use without command-line parameters

vrstconvert.exe

  • Add the deep reader and converter for .vrst files to V-Ray for 3ds max and Nuke installations

VFB

  • Add option to disable VFB resizing on image load

V-Ray Light Lister

  • Add control for VRayLights type

VRayLightingAnalysis

  • Implement VRayLightingAnalysis render element

Modified Features

V-Ray

  • Always use low thread priority in an interactive GUI session
  • Change the default motion blur "Interval center" to 0.0
  • Optimize object space bounding box calculation for meshes instances
  • Submit to V-Ray Cloud dialog implements scene analysis for incompatible features
  • Simplify code at key points by removing stale parts and avoid wasting time on branches
  • Better render time estimation for progressive sampling
  • Optimize the use of DR servers (early free servers at the end of a render so that they can join other jobs)
  • Reduce the number of samples in the light cache
  • Optimize intersection calculations with SIMD where possible
  • Faster calculation of surface normals for 3D displacement
  • Allow licenses with the server to be accessed through a network proxy
  • Remove the "Show GI Only" option from the render settings as it's obsoleted by the VRayGlobalIllumination render element
  • Print a warning if a node has different shadow and GI visibility flags as this causes artifacts with the adaptive dome light
  • Fixed NaNs when sampling texmaps after Beta 1
  • Remove the Photon Map GI engine from the UI
  • Remove from UI the prepass and object-based multiple scattering options from VRayFastSSS2
  • Make the automatic switch to effectResult channel optional
  • Update Alembic to 1.7.5
  • Use Visual Studio 2017 builds for all versions of 3ds Max

  • When rendering spherical cameras, the z-depth channel for deep OpenEXR images should be the distance from the camera

  • Changes to the auto-exposure options should be updated during IPR

  • Allow V-Ray to run with up to 1024 threads (up from 256)
  • Hide the VRayIlluminance render element, the new VRayLightingAnalysis render element should be used instead
  • Move the IPR options rollout to the V-Ray tab in the Render Setup and add a Start IPR button
  • Remove from the V-Ray log the message about failing to load a "default" preset
  • Reduce occurrence of "Invalid geometric normal" messages
  • Show a dialog to confirm file overwriting with "Separate Render Channels"

V-Ray GPU

  • Expose the "Undersampling" parameter and make it adjustable during IPR
  • Add support for basic UVW transformations for Bercon noise texture
  • Add support for the "Keep continuity" option
  • Add vendor information in the "C++/CPU" device type
  • Enable QMC for CUDA CPU
  • Gray-out texture button for direct illumination of the VRayLightMtl material
  • If there are no CUDA devices, "C++/CPU" should be used
  • Improve GPU Light Linker memory efficiency
  • Remove the warnings for non-physical features when exporting to a .vrscene
  • Support for material IDs higher than 255 in the 3ds Max Multi/Sub-object material
  • Faster VRayDirt & rounded corners in some cases
  • Support for VRayDirt "Consider same object only"
  • Better sampling of rectangle and mesh lights in some cases
  • Better sampling of glossy materials
  • Optimize GPU displacement/subdivision compile times
  • Improve normal mapping in procedural maps
  • Broadcast 3ds Max rendering notifications during production rendering
  • Export Ornatrix and HairFarm instances emitted by VRayInstancer
  • Remove ActiveShade rendering mode, IPR is to be used for interactive previews
  • Support for camera movement in VRayVelocity Render Element
  • Improve animation export times
  • Do not show render error messages forever
  • Change defaults in V-Ray GPU in Max to 5000 samples and 0.01 noise threshold
  • VRayFur does not update in animation
  • Scenes with unavailable network assets export very slow
  • Add support for auto exposure and white balance when using the light cache
  • Ignore light portals (use adaptive dome light instead)
  • IPR reacts to objects and lights movement immediately instead of waiting for mouse button release
  • Implemented motion blur support for GPU volumetrics

VRayInstancer

  • Instances are rendered with the particle materials instead of the instanced geometry material
  • Optimized instancing speed
  • Ability to instance Ornatrix and HairFarm objects

VRayFastSSS2

  • Improve the sampling to reduce noise
  • Remove from UI the prepass and object-based multiple scattering options

VRayProxy

  • Alembic instances/objects to work with MultiSubTex random by instance id

VRayScene

  • Add Lights support
  • Possibility to use shader names with MtlMulti/GeomStaticMesh

VRayVolumeGrid

  • Add warning message box when opening the deprecated AURA 1 caches
  • Right-align the text in the Show File Name window so the file name can be seen if the text overflows
  • Speed up and use less memory for Grid-Based Self-Shadowing of huge sparse OpenVDB grids
  • Speed up Grid Smoothing of OpenVDB grids
  • Speed up the Optimize Big Volumetric Grids pre-process of OpenVDB grids
  • Ability to horizontally or vertically stretch and flip the selection in curve controls
  • Implement stronger Approximate Scattering for brighter regions and lower scattering for the darker regions of the same volume
  • Improve temperature interpolation using the Precise Tracing method
  • Flickering when rendering Smoke Color based on a gradient with varying data range with Approximate Scattering
  • Option to control the minimum visible voxel opacity for the volumetric shader
  • Option to disable preview cache load during simulation or when not rendering
  • Rename Cache Start to Cache Origin and Play Start to Timeline Origin
  • Render negative Fire from caches imported from FumeFX
  • Multi-threaded *.aur cache import
  • VRayVolumeGrid: Merged the OpenVDB DLL into the VRayVolumeGrid plugin
  • Speed up rendering of scenes with VRayVolumeGrids in volumetric mode in 3ds Max
  • Resolve environment variables in VRayVolumeGrid paths during rendering rather than during export
  • Allow grid Channel Smoothing to be applied over channels with any value range
  • Apply the Smoothing Random Variation over all voxels regardless of the Smooth Threshold
  • Improve the loading speed of VDB files
  • Optimize loading of caches containing Velocity channel
  • Optimize the Preview Auto Range algorithm
  • Speed up velocity sampling during volumetric motion blur

VFB

  • Add "Image info" window for VFB history context menu
  • Add Exposure Highlight Burn color correction to vfbControl (#sethighlightburn/#gethighlightburn)
  • Add option to disable replacing # with frame numbers for separate render channels
  • Export color corrections settings for .vrscenes
  • Ability to load as background OpenEXR images with data window
  • Auto-fit for A/B images with different resolutions
  • Save 3ds Max scene path to history and add option to load the scene from the VFB history right-click context menu
  • Support for gamma 2.2 color correction in the VFB history
  • Switch the VFB to 3ds Max Qt instead of wxWidgets
  • Using '#' in the name of separate render channels output file is now expanded to frame number

V-Ray Toolbar

  • The hair material button creates VRayHairNextMtl;

V-Ray scene converter

  • Convert Mental Ray Lighting Analysis render effect to VRayLightingAnalysis render element
  • Enhanced Corona material and texmaps conversion
  • Convert 3ds Max light meters to VRayLightMeter
  • Add conversion from Autodesk Bitmap to VRayHDRI

  • Fixed "Highlight glossiness" handling when converting to VRayMtl material

  • Add option to convert cameras to V-Ray Physical camera

  • Convert 3ds Max Light Meters to VRayLightMeter

  • Support for some newly added Corona native materials and textures (CoronaHairMtl, CoronaSkinMtl, CoronaBitmap, CoronaDistance, CoronaRoundEdges, CoronaTriplanar)

.vrscene export

  • Add export times for various scene objects (i.e. Nodes/Nodes' meshes/Materials/Texmaps)
  • Export for VRayNoiseLevel render element
  • Export the Cryptomatte render elements
  • When exporting animations to vrscene and motion blur is OFF, export at exact frame times
  • Show a floating progress bar during scene export

VRayHDRI

  • Optimize memory usage for opaque and monochrome bitmaps (work in progress)

VRayMtl

  • Faster rendering of glass materials with diffuse components
  • Add "Compensate camera exposure" for Self-illumination
  • Remove the highlight glossiness parameter and the lock button

VRayPhysicalCamera

  • Reintroduce the V-Ray physical camera and update its UI
  • Disable vignetting by default
  • Reset to default values for the parameters when right-clicking on spinners

VRayDistanceTex

  • Optimize both viewport preview and rendering speeds

VRayFur

  • Add dynamic tessellation option
  • Add "Ignore scale" option for hairs width according to scale
  • Add "Lock to surface" option to keep the hair distribution to a specified frame

VRayGLSL/VRayOSL

  • Change range of GLSL/OSL anisotropy rotation parameter of GGX BRDF
  • Update OSL to 1.8

VRayIES

  • Add option to specify the actual light power of the source, instead of using the prescribed power from the IES profile

VRayLight

  • Change the Half-Length/Half-Width options to Length/Width for Plane light
  • Improved adaptive dome light sampling

VRayMultiSubTex

  • Add a random seed parameter
  • Add option for the VRayMultiSubTex texture to cycle through the textures

VRayMDL

  • Add support for "boolean" widgets
  • Make widget types case-insensitive
  • vMaterials autodetection
  • Improve anisotropy precision

V-Ray .vrmat converter

  • Add partial support for VRayLightMtl

ply2vrmesh.exe

  • Skip @subdivGeometry and @displaced in vrscene files with and directly convert the linked static mesh
  • Print more extensive bounding box information

vdenoise.exe

  • Ability to denoise multiple render elements in a single pass

  • Improved the GUI when started without parameters

  • The denoiser tool should preserve metadata in the output file

  • Ability to denoise four-component RGBA render elements
  • Enable denoising for the VRayAlpha render element

V-Ray/V-Ray GPU

  • Unified installation paths, added versions to the shortcut names, updated environment variables names

VRayPluginNode

  • Added export of the instantiated plugins for V-Ray GPU

VRaySimbiontMtl/VRaySkinMtl

  • Removed from the UI

VRayOSL/VRayMDL

  • Add shader fingerprint validation

img2tiledexr.exe

  • Detect opaque or monochrome images in the img2tiledexr tool

VRayHairMtl2

  • Add tint control for the primary, secondary and transmission components

VRayLightMeter

  • Improve the calculation speed and quality

VRayScatterVolumeMtl

  • Improved sampling

Bug Fixes

V-Ray

  • Adaptive dome light artifacts with "cast shadows" off
  • Artifacts with adaptive dome light when rendering with V-Ray Standalone
  • Crash with AXYZ ANIMA meshes and VRayVelocity render element
  • Embree crashes when building trees on machines with many cores
  • Error while building Embree tree when moving VRayFur in IPR
  • Exported scene from 3ds Max renders very slow in V-Ray Standalone due to excessive sampling of hairs
  • Less than normal samples are calculated with Use camera path with Irradiance map GI engine
  • Light Cache is about 3 times slower since V-Ray Next, Beta 2 compared to V-Ray 3.60 with transparent materials
  • Overbright pixels (fireflies) with adaptive dome light
  • Resumable rendering doesn't work correctly with adaptive dome lights and auto exposure
  • The final info message in the VFB is "Hair and Fur" if you have Hair and Fur in the scene
  • The output image vrayInfo/renderTime EXR attribute is not correct
  • Standard materials don't render correctly when nested in other materials
  • 3ds max Physical camera is not moving when MB samples are set to 2
  • Caustics on motion-blurred objects may be blurred incorrectly
  • Continuous reactivation of pixels at the end of the rendering with progressive sampling
  • Crash after exporting .vrmesh with a frozen geometry for preview mesh
  • Crash with matte objects, render elements and affect all channels for reflection
  • Improve Light cache saving on network locations
  • DR render client ignores server anouncement broadcast when host is added as 127.0.0.1
  • Embree generates artifacts in specific scenes
  • Random Hair&Fur strands render with the diffuse color instead of the plugged gradient or gradient ramp in that slot
  • Stuck render with one core at 100%
  • Unhandled exception error when camera motion blur is enabled in specific scene
  • Artifacts appear with irradiance map and light cache with adaptive dome light
  • Auto exposure produces black output with small regions
  • Changing the "Renderable" object property of an object is not updated in IPR
  • Crash when calculating light cache in scenes with Forest Colour texture with multiple maps
  • Crash when rendering a scene with matte reflections
  • Crash when baking textures with Motion Blur
  • Crash with XRef scenes and IP
  • Displaced geometry normals are incorrect during light cache calculation
  • Render to texture overrides elements with black outputs when disabled
  • MAXScript auto-load script error with 3dsMax2018.4
  • Noisy glossy refraction with BF\LC and Retrace turned on in the attached scene
  • Physical camera exposure controls are applied when have V-Ray Physical camera with Exposure enabled
  • RGBA elements in multichannel EXR files are not loaded properly
  • Subimage name for "beauty" subimage in multipart EXR just an empty string, set to "rgba"
  • Specific scene with relatively long faces renders slower with Embree
  • The exit color for refraction is not working with old scenes
  • Update GLSL shader examples to use the new style of passing uniform textures
  • V-Ray Cloud submission dialog issues with HiDPI monitors
  • Very high memory usage with out-of-process rendering on nearly empty scene
  • VRayLightSelect produces black pixels with glossy materials with black fog color
  • Fix an issue with the progressive image sampler when rendering extremely bright scene
  • Arch&Design material inside a VRay2SidedMtl material renders black
  • Build of Embree acceleration structures cannot be canceled
  • Crash in IPR with VRayMultiSubTex plugged in VRay2SidedMtl on VRayInstancer instanced objects
  • Crash with MultiTexture on VRayLight
  • Geometry with cloth simulator modifier causes crashes in some scenes
  • Incorrect render elements in the deep output when using "By Render ID and Z-depth" merge mode
  • Noisy render with adaptive dome light in specific scene
  • Some files are inappropriately installed to 3ds Max folder in standalone render server installation
  • The browse window for override material in Global switches opens twice
  • The refraction color at distance combination of the Arch&Design material doesn't render
  • VRayProxy disappears when motion blur "Geometry samples" is set to 1

V-Ray Standalone

  • Standalone: Lens effects from vrscene are not applied with -display=0 option
  • Crashes with specific scene with MDL materials and Scanned materials

V-Ray/V-Ray GPU

  • 3ds Max crashes if Start IPR button is hit during render warmup
  • Non-uniform scaled rectangle light emits in the wrong direction

V-Ray IPR

  • Crash when modifying Multi/Sub-Object sub material on VRayInstancer instanced objects
  • Crash with VRayDisplacementMod with texture map
  • Not keeping the aspect ratio when Fit to VFB is enabled
  • 3ds max crashes to desktop when VRayScannedMtl is reloaded during IPR rendering
  • Some crashes with VRayVRmatMtl in certain scenarios with VRayScene
  • 3ds max crashes to desktop when VRayScannedMtl is reloaded during IPR rendering
  • Some crashes with VRayVRmatMtl in certain scenarios with VRayScene

V-Ray GPU

  • A3ds Max UI becomes unresponsive after disabling VFB region rendering during IPR
  • Adaptive lights render noisier a specific scene
  • Artifacts with adaptive dome lights
  • Artifacts with VRayAerialPerspective in specific light setup
  • Auto exposure's "Transfer to camera" button does not work
  • Black outlines with refractive VRayMtl and VRayFastSSS2
  • Bump is always tiled
  • Color correction remap does not work properly
  • Crash at every frame after the first one with environment map assigned both to the environment and a dome light
  • Crash on calculating mip-map levels for missing bitmaps
  • Crash when changing materials in VRayOverrideMtl
  • Crash when scrubbing the time slider due to material anisotropy
  • Crash while resizing the VFB during IPR session
  • Crash with a specific scene with VRayClipper
  • Crash with MultiSub material when deleting invisible to camera geometry during IPR
  • Crash with specific VRayProxy without normals and displacement
  • Crash with VRayEdgesTex in opacity slot in specific material setup
  • Crash with VRayFur with "Lock to surface" and "Ignore scale" enabled
  • Custom output channels of Color Correction are not exported properly
  • Different render of reflective material when Dome Light's "Cast shadows" is off
  • Effects result is missing when saving through 3ds Max Output
  • Extend stereoscopic rendering options (Eye distance, Focus method, Swap left/right, Follow VR headset)
  • Forest Color is not working when used with only default color and no texmaps
  • Inconsistent Forest Color randomization between DR slaves
  • Incorrect fog color of VRayEnvironmentFog when light's shadows are turned off
  • Incorrect output FOV with Sperical panorama camera with overriden Vertical FOV in 3ds max 2019
  • Instanced VRayProxies with VRayInstancer are missing in the first frame of V-Ray GPU production animation
  • Occasional crash when working with Physical Camera in IPR session
  • On-demand mip-mapped textures render with lower resolution on GPU when used in Bump, Displacement and Metalness
  • Refraction with nested volumes is wrong
  • Rendering differently spherical camera
  • Scene loads slower compared to CPU
  • The "*_tex_mult" parameters of the SettingsEnvironment plug-in are ignored
  • The "RGB and alpha source" rollout settings in VRayHDRI are ignored
  • The "Use roughness" option in VRayMtl has no effect
  • Unhandled exception when modifying one of the VRayInstancer lists during IPR
  • Unhandled exception when rendering with disabled VFB
  • Unahndled exception with Particle flow and motion blur in a scene with zero vertices meshes
  • Very small triangles disappear from the rendering
  • VRayDirt's "double sided" parameter is not working correctly
  • VRayScannedMtl is black during the mip-map on demand loading phase
  • VRayScannedMtl renders black in specific scene
  • VRayScannedMtl with triplannar mapping produces artifacts with specific geometry
  • Wrong opacity with VRayBlendMtl and VRay2SidedMtl
  • "Visible to camera" does not work with volumetrics
  • Remove "non-physical" warnings
  • GPU CUDA AA Gaussian not matching CPU;
  • Animatable parameters for VRayGLSL, VRayMDL and VRayOSL
  • Animated radius of sphere light is not exported for VRayLight
  • Artifacts in VRayLighting render element with Aerial perspective and Highlight burn below 1.0
  • Artifacts with denoiser and VRayStochasticFlakesMtl
  • Black color applied instead of diffuse when VRayHDRI tag tiled image is not found
  • CUDA error 716 on a scene with Velocity render element and spherical VRayLight
  • CUDA error 719 with specific scene with VRayClipper
  • Changing the verbose level of V-Ray log is evaluated only with launching a production render
  • Crash with Bercon Noise in displacement with two or more devices
  • Crash with mapped opacity and on-demand textures with 382 drivers
  • Crash with on-demand textures
  • Crash when hiding/unhiding geometry while rendering
  • Crash when turning on and off a rect/mesh Light
  • Crash when rendering backwards sequence
  • Crash when tweaking values in Output
  • Different rendering of some of the falloff types in Falloff Map
  • Displacement is not disabled from the Global switches in production rendering mode
  • Displacement subdivides the geometry more than it should when Physical camera is used
  • Exception after moving a VRayTriplanarTex with VRayNormalMap from bump slot to another
  • Exception with MultiTexture in VRayLight
  • Exposure is not updated when switching between cameras
  • Flickering in animation with 3ds Max animated Noise modifier
  • Material fog bias with ActiveShade rendering
  • Memory leaks with animation and geometry with modifiers
  • Missing reflections on VRayBlendMtl with reflective base material, non-reflective coat material and additive mode
  • NaNs in Light select render element when using Light cache
  • Out-of-process rendering crashes with simple scenes loaded in the VRayScene node
  • Parented lights in groups don't work in VRayLightSelect render element
  • Problems with Fit resolution to VFB and changing the Max resolution during ActiveShade
  • Scene with particles crashes when scrubbing the time slider during ActiveShade
  • The viewport representation of Body objects (CAD) is rendered during ActiveShade
  • Unhandled exception when rendering a sequence with a VRayVRmatMtl
  • UV tiling breaks if there is Output node between VRayHDRI and VRayColor2Bump
  • VRayDirt "affect alpha" option not supported
  • VRayMDL is not updated in ActiveShade when the file in attached VRayHDRI is changed
  • VRayMDL is rendered black out-of-process
  • VRayMtl opacity not working with image sequence
  • VRayStereoscopic helper is not working
  • VRayTriplanarTex for bump doesn't respect UVW scale
  • Wrong result with VRayStereoscopic camera when Override FOV is enabled
  • Wrong anisotropy effect in specific scene
  • Wrong progress information for Light cache calculation
  • Additional bump through VRayBumpMtl is not working with VRayScannedMtl
  • Alpha values above 1 with VRayEnvironmentFog and Dome VRayLight (affect alpha)
  • Artifacts with scaled VRayLight
  • Bug with alpha channel on VRScan displacement
  • Crash in specific scene with complex material setup
  • Crash on the second render with specific scene with mip-mapped textures
  • Crash with subdivision displacement
  • Crashes with VRayFur with motion blur
  • Crash when Hair Texture uses "Distance Along Strand Absolute" with V-Ray Fur
  • Crash when resizing the VFB in IPR hybrid rendering mode
  • Crash with VRayMultiSubTex with Gradient Ramp
  • Crash when copying displaced geometry
  • Crash with a heavy scene
  • Directional double-sided VRayLights light distribution is not even with VRayEnvironmentFog
  • Difference when rendering VRayBlendMtl with Additive (shellac) mode enabled
  • Different render of VRayNormalMap
  • Export for EXR settings (Option RE)
  • Investigate an issue with GPU Displacement in a specific scene
  • Memory leak with animation and geometry with modifiers
  • Missing reflections on refractive VRayMtl with fog color different than (255, 255, 255) and VRayEnvironmentFog gizmo
  • Multi/Sub-object material applied to Node with hairs renders black
  • Object is rendered grey, without applied material
  • Production render sequence output is saved twice
  • Reduce VRayProxy print SD tree info in the log based on the verbosity level
  • Tiling factor of VRayScannedMtl is not respected
  • Unhandled exception with specific VRayVRmatMtls
  • V-Ray exposure control is not working with Physical Camera
  • VRayEnvironmentFog doesn't render properly in GPU when scatter GI is used
  • Wrong shadows in a scene with proxies with transparent materials
  • Adaptive dome light seems to render darker and slower in specific scene
  • Changing the render resolution during GPU IPR does not work
  • Crash during rendering with cloth and empty VRayDisplacementMod modifiers and motion blur
  • Crash with instanced HairFarm object during IPR
  • Difference in exposure between the first frame and the others with custom camera aperture
  • Do not export disabled VRayClippers
  • Exception with Hair&Fur modifier
  • Fog color is ignored when "affect shadows" option of VRayEnvironmentFog is off
  • High values for water level in VRayDisplacement cause crash
  • Incorrect render of VRayScannedMtl with VRayReflection render element
  • Incorrect values set for "Rays per pixel" and "Rays bundle size" parameters when spinner is right-clicked
  • Incorrect VRayAtmosphere render element when fog emission color is different than default black color
  • Missing OpenVR/Oculus VR preview modes
  • On-demand mip-mapped textures render with lower resolution
  • Render mask texture button is not working properly with drag and drop
  • VRayScannedMtl materials with height map render incorrect
  • Wrong reflection glossiness with MultiTexture

VRayDenoiser

  • "Update" button is not working as expected during IPR
  • VRayDenoiser/vdenoise.exe: Denoising produces blurry artifacts when threshold is set to 0.0

VRayFastSSS2

  • Material in Raytraced (refractive) mode is lit by excluded V-Ray light with Cast Shadow disabled
  • Parameters are not updated in the UI lately when color mode is set to "Scatter coefficient + Fog color"

VRayGLSL

  • "vr_Position" returns wrong results
  • Wrong normals in GLSL shaders
  • Wrong shadow calculation when used as opacity map;
  • Blurred textures with scaled UV coordinates with V-Ray GPU
  • Enabling and then disabling the Quick Shader disables the preview of the material and makes it render black
  • Parameters without loaded values in a specific scene cause crash with V-Ray GPU

VRayHairNextMtl

  • NaN pixels caused by negative value for the diffuse amount parameter
  • Randomization dye hue parameter renders differently with V-Ray GPU
  • The subdivs parameter should be dimmed when "Use local subdivs" is disabled in the Global DMC settings

VRayInstancer

  • Wrong instances rotations with PRT source particles
  • Add support for objects with Ornatrix/Hairfarm hairs
  • Different instances rotations with PRT Source objects for source particles
  • Wrong particles animation when .vrscene is exported with frame range
  • Crash with Krakatoa particles

VRayLightMeter

  • Missing text ("Error" instead of "Error tolerance") in the UI for 3ds Max 2016 and older versions
  • Wrong results for very small grid sizes

VRayLightSelect

  • Fix artifacts in with adaptive dome light when mode is different from "Full"

VRayOptionRE

  • Add "Whole image" ability to the "exr data window" option to save the whole image even if a region is rendered
  • No OpenEXR extra metadata is written

VRayOSL

  • OSL shading system leaks memory
  • The 'camera:fov' OSL attribute must be in degrees
  • VRayOSLTex crashes if attached to VRayEnvironmentFog
  • Crash with unsupported OSL widgets for certain types of tweaks
  • Maps unlink from OSL nodes when scene and its local assets are moved together to another location

VRayPluginNode

  • Using in IPR may leave render license engaged

  • Crash when changing Plugin type while rendering with V-Ray GPU

VRayProxy

  • Preview cache is not cleared when override is specified

  • Crash when loading a file after the preview cache had been enabled and 3ds Max was reset
  • Hair and particles are not displayed in viewport after their preview is cached
  • Reads mesh files even when they are cached
  • Viewport preview is not affected when a new scale factor is set after the preview has already been cached
  • Modifying the Alembic mesh Start path should update the proxy preview cache

VRaySoftBox

  • Gradients UI controls are not working since V-Ray Next, Beta 2

VRayVolumeGrid

  • Enabling GI has no effect with "Disabled" scattering on volumes with V-Ray GPU

  • Even when there aren't active render elements warnings appear in the V-Ray messages

  • Incorrect motion blur on moving grid with a static or moving camera locked to it with V-Ray GPU

  • Incorrect render result due to Channel Smoothing option set to Temperature with V-Ray GPU

  • Light Cache renders differently on GPU compared to CPU in Volumetric Geometry mode

  • Shadow Strength parameter doesn't work with scattering set to "Ray-traced" with V-Ray GPU

  • The VRayVelocity render element is not rendered in Volumetric Geometry mode if Motion Blur is off

  • Wrong render of VDB caches which have a background value outside the tree min-max range

  • "fire_opacity_mode" parameter isn't exported to vrscenes
  • After loading a cache, CPU usage remains high on machines with many threads
  • Artifacts when rendering overlapping containers in Volumetric Geometry mode
  • Crash when rendering a simulator without a cache with Velocity render element enabled
  • Crash when rendering in Mesh mode with Surface channel set to Texture
  • Crash when rendering converted grid to Editable poly
  • Crash when Rendering->Surface Channel is set to Texture and Mesh Preview is enabled
  • Errors when saving and loading presets
  • Frame offset in Loop mode between Phoenix and V-Ray Volume grid
  • Keyed Playback Mode parameter doesn't render as expected during sequence render
  • Loop overlap only works when load nearest if missing is enabled
  • Sequence render with V-Ray and Fire Lights keeps showing the lights after the cache sequence ends
  • Missing RGB for Liquids on some frames when using Play Speed less than 1.0 and the Velocity method
  • No confirmation box when overwriting presets
  • Warning about using local machine Input path for distributed rendering even if the path is UNC but starts with forward slashes
  • Crash after using Make unique operation on VRayVolumeGrid instances
  • Crash on render after deleting an instance
  • Crash when cloning (shift + click with the move tool)
  • Crash when setting a VRayVolumeGrid as a Clipper mesh
  • No scene shadows if Visible to Camera is disabled in Volumetric Geometry mode
  • Fire/Smoke in Volumetric Geometry mode does not render at all when Min Visible Opacity is set to 0.0
  • Alpha Channel and Smoke Opacity aren't correct when rendering volumetric with V-Ray GPU
  • Can't load OpenVDB files whose "file_voxel_count" metadata is 0, though they contain active voxels
  • Fire Opacity multiplier is not taken into account in V-Ray GPU
  • Light cache computation with enabled Probabilistic Volumetrics is slower compared to V-Ray CPU
  • Minimum Visible Opacity does not work with V-Ray GPU
  • Rendering a sequence with several VRayVolumeGrid instances with V-Ray GPU shows only one of them after the first frame
  • Rendering fire in Own Opacity mode with Smoke Color Disabled on V-Ray GPU does not match V-Ray's
  • Volumes that contain the render camera aren't visible with V-Ray GPU
  • Wrong velocity direction and motion blur with OpenVDB files from FumeFX
  • Wrong velocity scale when importing OpenVDB files from Maya Fluids

VFB

  • 3ds Max crashes when copying an image from VFB to the clipboard and then copying text from Layer/Scene explorer

  • Image shifts one pixel up/down when dragging the separator line during horizontal A/B compare

  • Using the drop-down channels list causes crash when renderring with disabled memory frame buffer, but with raw output preview enabled

  • A/B comparison distorts the images when panning
  • Inconsistent message when the History Directory path is empty
  • Occasional crash when closing 3ds Max with VFB A/B compare enabled
  • Crash when opening certain EXR images with ROI
  • If the scene name is too long to fit in History Details, all other lines of text are not displayed
  • V-Ray GPU rendering statistics appear skewed after render stop
  • Bucket rendering with extreme downsizing does not fill the whole image in the buffer
  • Crash when loading scene from VFB History
  • Qt VFB (3ds Max 2018 and up) has issue with numeric characters

.vrscene exporter

  • Composite texture with layers with no texture attached produces invalid vrscene files
  • Default values for settings are now exported if neither V-Ray nor V-Ray GPU is selected as the current renderer
  • The correct V-Ray Standalone version is now selected for "Export and render"
  • The opacity mode of VRayMtl is now exported

V-Ray Bitmap to VRayHDRI converter

  • Tiled EXR conversion tool (img2tiledexr.exe) discovery error

V-Ray scene converter

  • Some camera settings are not transferred when converting Standard Camera to Max PhysicalCamera or VRayPhysical camera

V-Ray Toolbar

  • 3ds Max crashes when creating a mesh lights from grouped objects

vdenoise.exe

  • The denoiser tool doesn't preserve the pixel aspect
  • Crash if an incomplete or broken file is passed
  • The denoiser tool crashes when the input images are non OpenEXR or vrimg
  • Resize the denoiser window on denoising to match the screen resolution

VRayClipper

  • Clipping geometry shows up with ambient occlusion
  • Wrong lighting for Fur objects inside clipped geometry

VRayDisplacementMod

  • Broken geometry edges at UV-borders
  • Crash when rendering animation with subdivision displacement

VRayLight

  • Mesh light does not respect geometry flipping in V-Ray GPU
  • Plane type light from X-Ref scene saved with earlier version is loaded half size after Beta 1
  • Negatively scaled disc lights emit in both directions with Double-sided disabled

VRayLightMtl

  • Direct illumination enabled doesn't produce correct results when illuminating Standard material

VRayMtl

  • Crash with enabled Abbe number and Full mode VRayLightSelect
  • Fog color is ignored if VRayDisplacementMod is present

VRayMDL

  • MDL assets are not transferred to DR slaves
  • Message boxes are shown in quiet mode
  • Subsurface absorption issues
  • Crash when rendering with full light select
  • Blurred textures with scaled UV coordinates
  • Rendering very bright with reduced ray depth

VRayScannedMtl

  • Artifacts when rendering with Light cache on specific scene
  • All maps (paint, filter, ior, etc.) are not affected by the parallax displacement
  • Constant increase of the consumed memory during the rendering of certain material
  • Crash when using UV adjustment with certain object
  • Edge displacement appears inclined when the UV tilling multipliers do not match exactly the sample aspect
  • Edge displacement does not produce equal result in all ray directions
  • Geometry with smooth or shell modifier produces holes behind the displaced edges
  • Renders black when seen through the translucency texmap of VRay2SidedMtl
  • Viewport preview of the VRScan does not match the render
  • VRscans materials slow down the viewport animation
  • When no UV mapping is present, the light cache cannot sample the material
  • Environment and effects exposure control has effect even when not Active
  • Remove Subdivsion parameter
  • Disable the UI parameters that are not working in V-Ray GPU when set as current renderer

VRayToon

  • Is always applied on VRayLights
  • Crash with third-party geometry plugins
  • V-Ray Toon line dissappears with big FOV camera values

V-Ray Light Lister

  • Disable subdivisions of the lights when Use Local subdivs is unticked

ply2vrmesh.exe

  • Crash with specific nodes from vrscenes with applying both velocity and transformations
  • .ply files form ZBrush do not convert correctly

V-Ray GPU CUDA

  • The Distance Blend mode of the VRayFalloff texture doesn't work

VRayDirt

  • Excluded object affects rendering of objects with inverted normals after Beta 1

VRayFur

  • Crash with enabled tessellation and motion blur

  • Crash if fur is applied to non-geometry objects

VRayHairMtl2

  • Very slow rendering of hairs with opacity
  • Hair renders darker when the light cache is enabled

VRayHDRI

  • Color bleeding on the UV space edges with disabled tiling

VRayPhysicalCamera

  • Automatic vertical tilt is not updated during animation
  • Environment and effects exposure control has effect even when not Active
  • Lens file distortion is not working

VRaySwitchMtl

  • Mismatching material indices
  • Incorrect width of the parameters rollout on high DPI displays

.vrscene export

  • Improve file write times

  • Geometry animation is not exported when Geometry samples are set to 1

vrimg2exr.exe

  • Option -info does not print "V-Ray information" data

V-Ray GPU CUDA

  • Crash when lights are turned off and back on during IPR

VRayDistanceTex

  • The texture for the distance parameter of VRayDistanceTex overrides the distance value

VRayEnvironmentFog

  • Crash with animation in specific scene

VRayMtlSelect

  • Render element is not correct when rendering deep images