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Build 5.00.

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Beta Official Release

Date   - SeptNov. 1617, 2020

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New features

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V-Ray

• Support for rendering in ACEScg color space with option to recognize the texture color space from the file name

• Updated the V-Ray for Houdini installer so the V-Ray Material Library can be automatically set up in Houdini

• Added the V-Ray Material Library (Windows only)

• Added support for Post-Translate scripts in V-Ray 5 for Houdini

• Simplified Renderer ROP UI

• Added support for the V-Ray Memory Tracker

V-Ray GPU

• Add support for Out-of-Core codepath
• Support for 2D displacement
• Add support for OSL shaders
• Add support for the Cellular map
• Add support for the Bercon Tiles and Bercon Wood maps

VFB

• Add entirely new implementation of the VFB with integrated Layers compositing
• Added support for the Light Mix Render Element

Materials

• Added Coat and Sheen layers for the V-Ray Material
• Added a new car paint material with more precise flakes filtering and reduced memory usage

Textures

• Add a UVW Randomizer that should be used solely as Image File and Triplanar VOPs' uvwgen input with stochastic tiling support
• Added randomization options for the Multi ID texture
• Added a "Same Object Mode" option for the V-Ray Dirt texture

Lights

• Added an Illumination Mask option to the V-Ray Lights

Modified features

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V-Ray

• The "Light Path Expression" option under the Light Select element is now always available regardless of presence of the VFH_LPE_ENABLE environment variable
• V-Ray shading VOPs are no longer visible in the Material Builder context of 3rd party render engines
• Dropped support for Houdini versions below 18.0

V-Ray Proxy

• Updated the Proxy Export Simplification Type drop-down

Materials

• The Gallery files for the V-Ray Material Library now ship with the V-Ray for Houdini installation

Textures

• The Color Space parameter for files loaded in the Image File VOP is now automatically set up based on the file's name

• Added support for the "Reference Space" and "Reference Transform" options for the TriPlanar texture for world-space projections

• Added the "Random" and "Pattern ID" textures for V-Ray 5

Rendering

• Light Select elements with a Lights list pointing to non-existent scene lights will be ignored

Export

• Optimized scene export for scenes containing large numbers of lights in multiple subnetwork levels
• Added support for expressions in the Renderer ROP's Objects lists

• Added support for selecting subnetwork in the Light Select's "Lights" list

• Improved export time for instances with motion blur

• Added support for V-Ray Object Properties placed over a Geometry node holding a VRScene SOP

• Added support for exporting UV sets from unpacked alembic files even if the attribute type info is not "texturecoord"

Baking

• Added support for named UV sets for the Renderer ROP's UV Mapping type

Material Library

• Updated the material library

Bug fixes

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V-Ray

• Fixed a bug preventing V-Ray from loading on OSX
• Fixed a bug causing the Standalone V-Ray executable to fail on Windows
• Fixed V-Ray not loading on Linux
• Fixed a crash when rendering using Light Select Light Path Expressions
• Fixed a crash when closing the Volume Grid Shader custom ramps on OSX
• Fixed a bug causing textures with $F in the file name to not be evaluated correctly for production rendering
• Fixed a crash when the License Server is not installed and rendering is attempted

V-Ray GPU

• Fixed an 'Exception in Core' crash with CUDA and RTX
• Fixed a bug causing incorrect evaluation of attributes in the texture's path when rendering with CUDA or RTX
• Removed legacy message "Unsupported 2D Type for Displacement" printed in log when using V-Ray GPU

• Fixed a CUDA crash on Linux

• Fixed a bug causing displacement to fail when rendering with CUDA or RTX

• Fixed a bug causing attributes on particles to be ignored for shading

IPR

• The Subdivision toggle under the Displacement Properties does not update the IPR
• Changing any of the OCIO Texture's parameters does not update the IPR
• The Illumination Mask parameter is not updated in IPR

• Fixed an IPR crash after production rendering

• Fixed an IPR crash when starting IPR on frames other than 1

• Fixed an IPR crash when changing the timeline frame during IPR

• Fixed a bug causing IPR to halt when changing a parameter on the new Car Paint 2 material

VFB

• Fixed a crash on second render after adding a new layer in the compositor

• Fixed a bug causing inaccurate Render Region in production rendering

• Fixed a bug causing production renders to disable the history and clear the set up History folder path

• Fixed "Use VFB Background Image" option under the Renderer ROP not working with the new VFB

V-Ray Proxy

• Fixed crash on export with Proxy Export SOP

Export

• Fixed bad parsing for quotes in Light Select's Light Path Expression
• The Illumination Mask parameter does not behave correctly when the same light is present
• Fixed an incorrect export for the OSL Texture and OSL Material
• Fixed Exposure Value of Physical Camera is not exported
• Fixed Hair Properties' Render as Smooth Curves toggle breaks material assignments with Multi Material for hair
• Fixed a Deadline issue causing wrong export path for VRScenes in a specific case
• The Material ID VOP's "lpe_label" parameter was set up to export incorrect data type which caused wrong LPE output
• Some animated Renderer ROP parameters are ignored when the render camera is also animated
• Fixed a bug causing the V-Ray UVW Randomizer VOP to behave incorrectly when used with the V-Ray Triplanar texture

• Fixed a bug causing double export for the lights in the Light Select element producing incorrect results

• Fixed wrong parsing for Image File node's File Path parameter

Rendering

• Fixed VFB Render Region is discarded on render or IPR start
• Fixed UI locked after render is done or stopped when the Renderer ROP is connected to another node
• Fixed Bezier Curve texture produces values beyond 1 even if Extrapolate Beyond End Points is OFF

UI

• The "Pack Scene" button causes an error when looking for the V-Ray Log if the relevant environment variables are not present and the log file is missing
• Set Light Select default "Lights" parameter to "*" instead of empty string
• Added additional Sun Light options to the V-Ray Light Lister

VRScene

• Fixed a bug causing the "Unpack to Polygons" option to occasionally cause a crash
• Fixed a crash when creating a VRScene SOP if V-Ray is not initialized by creating a Renderer ROP
• Fixed a crash when creating a VRScans VOP if V-Ray is not initialized by creating a Renderer ROP

Cloud

• Fixed an issue causing upload of multiple jobs from multiple Renderer ROPs connected to the Chaos Cloud ROP to fail

Installer

• Updated the V-Ray Installer for OSX and Linux

Build 5.00.30

Beta Release

Date - Sept. 16, 2020

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