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Official Release

Date – Aug 02, 2018

Download – Build 4.03.02

 

New features

V-Ray GPU

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  • GPU-specific VRayMtl UI
  • GPU-specific render settings UI
  • Hide subdivs and cutoff parameters for lights, materials and textures when using GPU
  • Support for user attributes for use in bitmap paths
  • Maya lookdev nodes support in V-Ray GPU
  • Opacity support for VRayLightMtl

V-Ray

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  • Added a separate V-Ray menu in Maya
  • Added support for color choice texture


VRayHairNextMtl

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  • Added glints in VRayHairNextMtl


VRayScene

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  • Viewport 2.0 drawing


VRayToon

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  • Added per-material toon outline control
  • Added separate control over internal edges


VRayToonMtl

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  • Added a toon texture highlight option
  • Added highlight shape presets


Viewport 2.0/VRayMtl

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  • Added support for metalness in VRayMtl viewport preview

 

 

Modified features

V-Ray DR

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  • Added VRAY_DR_SOCKET_SEND_TIMEOUT environmental variable to control timeout in DR


V-Ray GPU

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  • Optimized memory usage of motion-blurred geometry
  • Sped up loading of textures
  • Warn the user if the settings used for production rendering are going to underutilize the GPU


V-Ray Swarm

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  • Initial implementation of Swarm functionality in Maya


V-Ray/VFB

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  • Optimized speed and memory usage of lens effects


V-Ray

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  • Deprecated Cuda engine on macOS and removed it from the UI
  • Deprecated OpenCL engine and removed it from the UI
  • Hide the subdivs controls in the light lister UI when use local subdivs is disabled
  • Improve VFB drawing performance
  • Optimized elliptical filtering speed with tiled textures
  • Optimized export of float to color


VRayMtl

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  • Added Use Roughness to the lookdev template for VRayMtl


VRayOSLMtl/VRayOSLTex

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  • Reintroduced OSL support for Linux
  • Reintroduced OSL support for macOS


VRayProxy

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  • Improved stability in parallel mode

 

 

Bug fixes

V-Ray

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  • Fixed Material Viewer not rendering V-Ray materials with the background turned off
  • Fixed camera projection with overscan
  • Fixed crash when opening a scene that references another scene with instanced V-Ray lights
  • Fixed fatal error with GPU IPR
  • Fixed switching between layers causing the intensity multiplier to be scaled
  • Fixed wrong GPU settings when exporting to vrscene
  • Fixed wrong license error reporting with unreachable network
  • Light linking with adaptive lights rendered wrong in some cases
  • Now outputting errors for wrong syntax in vrayconfig.xml

Cryptomatte

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  • Fixed Cryptomatte not working in material mode when "Allow negative shader collors" is off


Lens analyzer

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  • Fixed crash when analyzing a photo manually


V-Ray DR

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  • Fixed crash when switching between IPR and production
  • Fixed Maya crash with DR on early abort
  • Fixed crash when stopping IPR in DR while animation is running


V-Ray GPU

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  • Compiling Kernels will now properly appear in progress bar
  • Fixed 'cache normals' warning when using displacement on GPU
  • Fixed CUDA crash with MDL
  • Fixed Crash when deleting VRayLights in specific cases
  • Fixed Cuda error 700 when attaching a texture to a V-Ray light in IPR
  • Fixed Displacement AutoBump for GPU not producing correct results
  • Fixed crash in GPU init with hair in the scene
  • Fixed crash when deleting heavy geometry in specific scene
  • Fixed incorrect glossiness with GGX BRDF
  • Fixed invisible VRayDomeLight being visible through transparent VRayMtl
  • Fixed random crashes with Cuda on Linux
  • Fixed unexpected render result with non-spherical Dome VRayLight and matte shadows


V-Ray IPR/VRayProxy

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  • Fixed changing current frame causing re-export of VRayMeshMaterial


V-Ray IPR

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  • Fixed "Error: "Object 'renderViewpopupIprMenu' not found" when stopping IPR
  • Fixed Maya freeze when Viewport IPR has been stopped
  • Fixed crash in IPR when changing materials with hair sampler
  • Fixed stopping the IPR rendering caused Maya to hang in some cases


V-Ray/VRayClipper

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  • Fixed crash when creating VRayClipper on new Maya session in some cases


V-Ray/VRayStochasticFlakesMtl

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  • Fixed not being able to attach textures to float attributes of dynamic nodes


VRayCarPaintMtl

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  • Fixed different result from 3.6 with flake scale 0

VRayPluginNodeMtl

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  • Fixed missing dynamic attributes for materials


VRayProxy/VRayMeshLight

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  • Fixed a crash with moving proxy meshlight with primary visibility OFF


VRayScene/XGen

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  • Fixed wrong XGen hair data for motion blur


VRayScene

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  • Fixed BRDFVRayMtl in a VRayScene object producing white Reflection Glossiness render element when animation overrides are used


Viewport 2.0/VRayProxy

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  • Some proxies were not shaded properly in the viewport