Build 2.50.01

Official release

Date - 14 May 2014

New features

• Support for 3ds Max 2015;
• VRayProxy: Support for Alembic 1.5;
• Added VRayBumpMtl material that allows to add bump to any other material;

Modified features

• VRayMultiSubTex: Added an option to preserve the alpha of the sub-textures;
• VRayProxy: Make the "Animation offset" parameter animatable;

Bug fixes

• V-Ray loses its license when RPManager is running;
•  V-Ray RT: The SettingsCurrentFrame was not exported in .vrscene files;
• V-Ray RT GPU: Fixed crash with static geometry rendering;
• VRayCarPaintMtl and VRayFlakeMtl: Wrong material name in info message in 3ds Max 2013 and later;
• VRayDisplacementMod: Fixed a very slow rendering when Noise texture with animated parameter was used;
• VRayDistanceTex: Setting tex_inside_separate_on:true for a VRayDistanceTex constructor from MAXScript causes system exception;
• VRayExtraTex: Cloning VRayExtraTex element didn't clone the include/exclude list;
• VRayIES: Fixed a rare crash when loading scenes with VRayIES;
• VRayIES: Fixed crash after VRayIES light was created in 3D snap mode and 3ds Max was Reset;
• VRaySphereFade: Could not edit the gizmo objects list through MAXScript;
• VRayToon: Could not edit the exclude list through MAXScript;
• VRayLightMtl: Fixed random lighting between renderings with DirectIllumination and CompensateExposure on;
• Fixed truncated error messages in the V-Ray log for missing textures in 3ds Max 2013 and later;
• Increase the max stdio file handles to the maximum possible (2048) on 3ds Max startup;
• Some bake elements has duplicate class names of other plugins;
• The V-Ray caustics Auto save option is errorneously named casutics_autoSave in MAXScript;
• VRScene exporter didn't work for SSS2 materials;

Build 2.40.04

Official release

New features

• Support for 3ds Max 2014;
• V-Ray RT: Support for MultiScatter instancing;
• V-Ray RT: Support for Phoenix FD 2.1;

Modified features

• V-Ray: Changed default settings of VFB's sRGB button, "Don't affect colors" option and "Gamma" value to suit Linear Workflow from the start;
• VRayCarPaint: Added support for displacement texture channel;
• VRayHDRI: Made file open dialog to remember the last used file type filter;
• VRayHDRI: The image file is now reloaded if it had been changed outside 3ds Max;
• VRayMtl: Added Self-illumination slot;
• Raw OpenEXR files now have ZIPS compression by default;

Bug fixes

• VRayProxy: Objects pointing to vrmesh files without extension did not render;
• V-Ray RT: Fixed crash when a texmap is attached to an disabled environment override slot;
• V-Ray RT: Fixed error during initialization when Auto update bitmaps is enabled;
• V-Ray RT: Fixed wrong DOF with physical camera;
• V-Ray RT GPU: Fixed crash with materials with mapped IOR;
• VRayIESLight: Fixed issue causing wrong override shape dimensions when loading, if the previous scene had different units setup;
• VRayMultiSubTex: Fixed issue preventing drag and drop operations for subtex with index greater than 20;
• VRayPTex: Fixed a crash at the end of a rendering;
• V-Ray Light Lister: Fixed error in 3ds Max 2014;

Build 2.40.03

Official release

Bug fixes

• VRayMtl: Incorrect render of translucency;
• VRayProxy: Fixed crashes when rendering proxies with point clouds and motion blur enabled;
• V-Ray RT GPU: Light portals did not render correctly;
• V-Ray RT GPU: VRayMtl opacity mapped with VRayColor texture did not work;

Build 2.40.02

Official release

Bug fixes

• VRayProxy: Fixed crashes when rendering proxies with point clouds;
• VRayProxy: Added an option whether to use point clouds if present in the .vrmesh file;
• VRayLight: Clicking the center of the light selected the line between the light and the target rather than the light itself;
• VFB: Fixed mixed language interface issue when rendering through BackBurner;
• Hair&Fur: Fixed crash at the end of the rendering with 3ds Max 2013 (unfortunately this reintroduces a memory leak);
• VRayFur: The level of detail parameters should use display units;

Build 2.40.01

Official release

Date - 21 January 2013

New features

• VRayHairFarmMod: Added support for rendering HairFarm 2.0 with V-Ray;
• VRayProxy: Support for Alembic .abc files;
• V-Ray RT: Support for instancing;
• V-Ray RT: Support for Forest Pro instancing;
• V-Ray RT CPU: Faster update when adjusting VRayLights;
• V-Ray RT GPU: CUDA speed optimizations and optimizations for GK110 cards;
• V-Ray RT GPU: Support for the ColorCorrection texture;
• V-Ray RT GPU: Support for the Mix texture;

Modified features

• V-Ray: Added include/exclude object lists for different color channels to the MultiMatte render element;
• V-Ray: Added option to the VRayExtraTex render element to avoid auto-renaming the element when the texture is changed;
• V-Ray: Default memory limit for dynamic geometry changed to 4000 MB for x64 versions;
• V-Ray: Fixed issue that was slowing down multi-core rendering for VRayProxy objects;
• V-Ray: Optimized multi-core rendering for OpenEXR textures;
• V-Ray: Optimized unnecessary velocity calculations when no velocity channel is needed;
• V-Ray: V-Ray components now register in the respective menus across different language 3ds Max builds;
• V-Ray RT CPU: Added support for VRayHairMtl;
• V-Ray RT CPU: Added support for VRayFur;
• V-Ray scene converter: Added mr_Sun/mr_Sky lights in export to VRaySun/VRaySky respectively;
• V-Ray scene exporter: Added subdivided geometry export;
• VRayEdgesTex: Improved the round corners algorithm;
• VRayAmbientLight: Made some of the parameters animated;
• VRayFur: Added "Level Of Detail" option to reduce geometry along the distance from the camera;
• VRayHDRI: Added "Color space" section and moved the "Gamma" option there;
• VRayIESLight: Added an option to override the IES shape;
• VRayIESLight: Made selecting both the light and it's target when clicking on the line between them;
• VRayLight: Added a preview of the "directionality" parameter of VRayLights in the viewports;
• VRayLight: Added "targeted" option for rectangle VRayLights;
• VRayLight/VRayIESLight: Added textured lighting in Nitrous viewport, for Dome light enabled by an environment variable VRAY_DOME_VIEWPORT=1;
• VRayMeshGeom: The sample plugin was extended to create V-Ray Standalone shaders on the fly;
• VRayMtl: Made "Fog color" mappable;
• VRayMtl: Made reflections to affect the alpha of matte objects;
• VRayMtlGLSL: Added ability to save and load compiled shaders;
• VRayMtlGLSL: Added cubemap texture support;
• VRayMtlGLSL: Added viewport color parameter;
• VRayMtlGLSL: Added vr_brdf_light builtin BRDF support;
• VRayProxy: Support for flipping of Z/Y axis;
• VRayProxy: Support for visibility lists for .vrmesh and .abc files;
• VRaySphereFade: Added support for box and cylinder gizmos;
• ply2vrmesh: Added option to specify the name of the velocity attribute (-velocityAttrName);
• ply2vrmesh: Added support for .hclassic and .bhclassic files produced by Houdini 12;
• ply2vrmesh: Added support for color sets from .bgeo files;
• ply2vrmesh: Added support for exporting the face and vertex normals in .geo and .bgeo files;
• ply2vrmesh: Added ability to store the V-Ray user attributes when creating a proxy;

Bug fixes

• Hair&Fur: Fixed crash when lit by VRayLightMtl with Direct Illumination on;
• Hair&Fur: Fixed incorrect result with VRayHairInfoTex texture in "Position along strand" mode;
• Hair&Fur: Fixed random swap of custom materials between different Hair&Fur modifiers when reloading a scene;
• Hair&Fur: Fixed memory leak after rendering a frame since V-Ray 2.3;
• imapviewer: Fixed crash when incrementally loading irradiance maps;
• V-Ray: Enabled by default all channels in the MultiMatte render element;
• V-Ray: Fixed crash when pressing the "Remove" button in the VRayLightSelect element with empty lights list;
• V-Ray: Fixed export of objects with ':' in the names, failing to compose file name;
• V-Ray: Fixed incorrect normals for ParticleFlow systems with ShapeInstance where the instanced object has explicit normals;
• V-Ray: Fixed issue causing random crashes when updating material swatches with VRayCarPaintMtl material or bitmap textures;
• V-Ray: Fixed issue causing white edges on matte objects lit with 3ds Max lights with area shadows;
• V-Ray: Fixed issue with V-Ray object properties not applied when changing more than one at a time;
• V-Ray: Fixed misspelled "caustics_autoSave" maxscript property;
• V-Ray: Fixed some warnings that appeared incorrectly due to 3ds Max 2013 Unicode support;
• V-Ray: Fixed standard lights' "Atmosphere shadows" option of doesn't work properly with area VRayShadows;
• V-Ray: Fixed UI issue with MultiMatte render element RGB channel names;
• V-Ray: Fixed V-Ray materials' to appear in the respective categories in the material editor;
• V-Ray RT: Fixed Maxscript access for .warn_unsupported property;
• V-Ray RT: Fixed VRayBlendMtl as coat of another VRayBlendMtl to render properly;
• V-Ray RT: Mirroring instance of VrayIES light using Offset spinner while running RT sent the light to wrong coordinates;
• V-Ray RT: GI multipliers by object which are greater than 1.0 were not working in RT;
• V-Ray RT CPU: Fixed artifacts in layered materials;
• V-Ray RT GPU: Fixed calculations precision on CUDA and OpenCL rendering causing artifacts;
• V-Ray RT GPU: Fixed crash with 8-bit texture mode and light textures;
• V-Ray RT GPU: Fixed OpenCL issue with wrong transparent shadows with motion blur;
• V-Ray RT GPU: Fixed OpenCL issue with motion blurred dome lights;
• V-Ray RT GPU: Scaled IES lights produced different result from the production renderer;
• V-Ray scene exporter: Fixed photometric lights conversion to IES lights;
• V-Ray scene exporter: Fixed Render Elements manager retrieval when selected ActiveShade rendering;
• VFB: Fixed issue with multithreaded ICC profiles loading, that could cause either miscalculations or crash;
• VRayCarPaint/VRayFlakesMtl: Fixed issue with the flakes layer not respecting the global reflection depth limit;
• VRayDisplacementMod: Fixed crash when "Edge length" option is set to 0,0;
• VRayDisplacementMod: Fixed incorrect displacement result on mirrored geometry when using Noise modifier and motion blur;
• VRayDistanceTex: Fixed to work as bump map;
• VRayFlakesMtl: Fixed wrong buckets when rendering with DMC sampler;
• VRayGLSLMtl: GLSL materials were receiving no GI when evaluating shaders executed in light loop mode;
• VRayHairMtl: Fixed random crash in case when applied to normal geometry;
• VRayHairMtl: Optimized material sampling;
• VRayIESLight: Fixed an issue preventing the light to be selected in the viewport with no IES profile assigned;
• VRayIESLight: Fixed "Autogrid" option in creation mode;
• VRayIESLight: Fixed crash when setting ies profile through MAXScript;
• VRayLensEffects: Fixed issue with remaining render elements in the VFB when the effect is deleted;
• VRayLight: 3ds Max crash with dome light;
• VRayLight: Fixed incorrect tab order of UI controls;
• VRayLight: Fixed issue causing the UI to disappear when switching the light type in 3ds Max 2013;
• VRayLight: Fixed issue causing the UI to malfunction when toggling "enable HW lighting" during creation;
• VRayLight/VRayIESLight: Fixed issue with enabling/disabling Nitrous viewport lighting;
• VRayLight/VRayPhysicalCamera: Fixed issue with instanced targeted Vray cameras and lights causing flickering of "target distance" parameter;
• VRayLightMtl: Fixed issue when in X-Ref'd scene with direct illumination mode on;
• VRayMtl: Fixed "Affect shadows" option to work with enabled caustics;
• VRayEnvironmentFog: The "fog height" parameter could not take negative values;
• VRayOrnatrixMod: Fixed issue concerning hairs collections with varying number of guide points per strand;
• VRayPhysicalCamera: Fixed the "Horizontal offset" and "vertical offset" options showing different result in the viewport and the render;
• VRayPhysicalCamera: Fixed issue with animated zoom and motion blur;
• VRayPlane: Fixed rendering with VRayBPTracer;
• VRayStereoscopic: Fixed shade map improperly generated file names;
• VRayBlendMtl: Displacement in the base material was not rendered;
• VRayFastSSS2: Fixed artifacts when rendering point-cached motion-blurred geometry with displacement;
• ply2vrmesh: Fixed crash during RealFlow .bin files conversion;
• ply2vrmesh: Fixed crash when converting .obj file containing face definitions with negative indexes;

Build 2.30.01

Official release

Date - 28 April 2012

New features

• Support for 3ds Max 2013;
• Support for the new shading features of Hair&Fur in 3ds Max 2013;
• VRayOrnatrixMod: support for Ornatrix 2.0;
• Added a "Matte for reflection/refraction" option to the VRayWrapperMtl material and the V-Ray object settings;
• V-Ray RT and V-Ray RT GPU: support for motion blur (transformation and deformation) both in ActiveShade mode and as a production renderer;
• V-Ray RT GPU: added a CUDA engine, in addition to OpenCL (64-bit builds only; requires a Fermi or Kepler card and the newest nVidia drivers);

Modified features

• VRayOrnatrixMod: support for Ornatrix thickness maps;
• Added the possibility to specify a preview mesh for the vrayMeshExport MAXScript function;
• Support for motion blur of V-Ray mesh lights;
• Reduced memory usage and increased speed for dynamic geometry (proxies, displacement etc) in specific situations;
• VRayHDRI: added crop/place options to VRayHDRI;
• VRayHDRI: added Output and curves rollout to VRayHDRI;
• vrimg2exr: added support for RLE compression method for OpenEXR files to vrimg2exr;
• VFB: the V-Ray VFB ICC color correction now takes into account the gamma value from the Color Mapping settings of V-Ray;
• VRayPTex: increased the default cache size for VRayPTex textures;
• V-Ray scene converter: now converts IES lights and mr sun/sky in a Daylight system;
• V-Ray RT GPU: support for sub-pixel filtering;
• V-Ray RT GPU: ability to use full resolution textures;
• V-Ray RT GPU: option to specify material texture bit depth to help control GPU memory usage;

Bug fixes

• V-Ray materials saved as using Realistic viewport preview did not show up in the Direct3D viewports;
• VRayOrnatrixMod: hair radius was clamped (very small values rendered thicker than they should);
• VRayHairInfoTex: fixed invalid material colors;
• VRayHairMtl: fixed occasional crashes;
• VRaySimbiontMtl: fixed a crash when creating a VRaySimbiontMtl in the material editor in 3ds Max 2012;
• Fixed crashes with Particle Flow and motion blur;
• Fixed crashes with motion blur on meshes with changing topology;
• V-Ray RT: VRaySoftBox texture didn't work in V-Ray RT;
• V-Ray RT: "Reload" button in VRayHDRI did not work properly in 3ds Max 2009;
• V-Ray RT: fixed a crash when closing the ActiveShade window with the "Auto update bitmaps" option enabled;
• V-Ray RT: Crashes when scrubbing the time line with the ActiveShade window open;
• V-Ray RT GPU: a VRaySun light illuminated the scene even if it was disabled;
• Textures in the V-Ray environment slots did not show up in the Asset Tracker;
• VRayLensEffects: fixed crashes in specific situations;
• The V-Ray DR spawner did not work without administrator privileges;
• VRayEnvironmentFog: fixed incorrect rendering with scaled mesh gizmos;
• VRayEnvironmentFog: fixed issues interface issues when switching between different VRayEnvironmentFog effects;
• VRayShadowMap: fixed artifacts when rendered with VrayEnvironmentFog;
• VRayProxy: Proxy sequences loaded with '#' characters did not render with motion blur;
• VFB: Rendering failed when any of the render effects was enabled and "Render to memory frame buffer" was turned off;
• VFB: The "Show V-Ray VFB" command did nothing if the VFB was minimized;
• VFB: Fixed UI freeze if compare mode was turned on in the VFB and the user tried to render;
• VFB: When the VFB history was closed, it reopened on the next render;
• VRayPTex: Fixed artifacts in the reflection render element when using VRayPtex textures;
• imapviewer: fixed slowdown when merging light maps;
• VRayColor2Bump: fixed an issue large render resolutions;
• VRayDisplacementMod: fixed possible cracks between different subdivision levels when using subdivision displacement;

Build 2.20.01

Official release

Date - 4 December 2011

New features

• VRayHairMtl specifically for fur and hair rendering;
• VRayOrnatrixMod modifier for direct rendering of Ornatrix hair;
• VRayHairInfoTex texture for additional hair shading effects;
• VRayPTex texture provides support for PTex files;
• MAXScript functions for access to the V-Ray VFB contents;
• V-Ray RT: added "Real zoom" option to the ActiveShade quad menu to modify the rendered region (zoom, pan) directly in the ActiveShade window;
• MetaSL support in VRayGLSLMtl and VRayGLSLTex;

Modified features

• V-Ray RT GPU: initial support for VRayBlendMtl materials;
• V-Ray RT GPU: rendering of VRayProxy objects;
• V-Ray RT GPU: support for affect diffuse/specular/reflection for VRayLights;
• V-Ray RT GPU: support for simple skylight portals;
• V-Ray RT GPU: support for textured area and mesh lights;
• V-Ray RT GPU: limited support for the Falloff map;
• V-Ray RT GPU: support for Tiles and other procedural textures (through baking to bitmaps);
• V-Ray RT: ability to use the 3ds Max bitmap proxy system for the ActiveShade;
• V-Ray RT: support for 32-bit ActiveShade buffer;
• V-Ray RT: add a "Reload" button for VRayHDRI that works with V-Ray RT;
• Distributed rendering: option to specify a maximum number of render slaves;
• Distributed rendering: when a slave completes a DR render, it will automatically try to join other running DR jobs;
• ply2vrmesh: added support for .bgeo files in ply2vrmesh;
• ply2vrmesh: added -info option to ply2vrmesh to print information about .vrmesh files;
• Irradiance map format (*.vrmap) has changed - map files from V-Ray 2.20 cannot be opened by previous V-Ray versions;
• imapviewer: added -incremental command-line option and "File > Incremental add" menu item for incremental merge of irradiance maps produced by V-Ray 2.20;
• imapviewer: added ability to load and display light cache files;
• VRayMtl: added "Affect channels" option for reflections;
• VRayGLSL: split into a VRayGLSLTex texture and a VRayGLSLMtl material;
• VRayGLSLMtl: support for built-in BRDFs;
• VRaySun: added filter color for VRaySun;
• VRayMultiSubTex: added option to specify the number of IDs in VRayMultiSubTex;
• VRayMultiSubTex: reworked the VRayMultiSubTex texture to use lists of properties, rather than separate parameters;
• VRayFastSSS2: ability to save/load illumination maps for VRayFastSSS2 material;
• VRayHDRI: add the "time" rollout for controlling IFL files to VRayHDRI;
• VRayHDRI: support for tiled mip-mapped TIFF files;
• VRayHDRI: optimized VRayHDRI bitmap performance;
• VRayIES: expanded the "Use light shape" option for VRayIES to allow the shape to affect light distribution;
• VRayBPTracer: support for distributed rendering;
• VRayBPTracer: support for the VRayLightSelect render elements;
• VRayDisplacementMod: added option to smooth UVs for subdivision displacement;
• VRayLensEffects: improved multithreading for VRayLensEffects;
• Optimized memory usage and multithreaded performance for dynamic geometry;
• Optimized the VRay2SidedMtl material for GI calculations when translucency is greyscale;
• Add an option to the VRaySamplerInfo render element and texture to wrap the UVW coordinates in the [0,1] range;
• VFB: added ICC color correction to the V-Ray VFB;
• VFB: added right-click menu to the items in the V-Ray VFB history;
• VFB: right-click menu option to add and edit comments in V-Ray History per image;
• VFB: ability to do A/B VFB comparison with a rendered image in the V-Ray VFB;
• VFB: the frame stamp is now saved to and loaded from the V-Ray VFB history images;
• When writing a raw .exr file, V-Ray will attempt to produce a scanline version of the file instead of tiled one;
• Added a glossiness render element, also for texture baking;
• Added a Clear option for the Previous render list in the System rollout;
• Changed the default image sampler to Adaptive DMC;
• Exposed the irradiance map preview mode parameter in the UI;
• Reduced flickering of the irradiance map and light cache when "Time independent" DMC option is disabled;
• Disable any HSDS modifiers before saving the scene for DR;
• SDK: switched to Intel C++ 12.1 compiler;
• SDK: shaders can provide their own sampling rays for GI;
• SDK: multithreaded expansion of dynamic primitives;

Bug fixes

• Nitrous: VRayHDRI did not show up in Nitrous viewports;
• Nitrous: support for the VRaySky environment texture in the Nitrous viewports;
• Nitrous: the first time the user selects "Show realistic material in viewports" the objects with this material disappear;
• The material texture maps were not shown in the Max2012 shaded viewport;
• DR: fixed hanging buckets in specific cases;
• DR: slaves with missing files continuously tried to re-join a DR render when "restart slaves on render end" was on and "Check for missing files" was enabled;
• DR: if a render slave failed to receive the entire irradiance map from the client it still continued the render producing wrong buckets;
• VRayBPTracer: region rendering did not work;
• VRayFastSSS2 did not work correctly with light exclusion;
• Assigning a texmap to material texmapslot caused a crash when the texmap was disabled;
• Exclude from shadow casting did not work for VRayIES lights;
• Fixed a crash when rendering with Particle Flow emitted from animated geometry;
• Fixed a crash with VRaySun when the scene is rendered with the scanline renderer;
• Fixed uneven motion blur for fast moving objects with many geometry samples;
• Scrubbing the time slider created keys for the FOV parameter;
• The .vrscene exporter script did not export the "cast shadows" property of lights correctly;
• The .vrscene exporter script did not detect animated textures properly;
• The .vrscene exporter script did not export correctly objects with animated topology;
• VFB: Pressing the "set A" or "set B" button when the VFB history is empty lead to a crash;
• VFB: Fixed a crash when importing specific .acv file;
• Relative path names for raw image files did not work;
• Crash with Particle Flow events in specific scene;
• VRayFlakesMtl material did not work with the VRayMtlSelect render element;
• Pixel Info window showed colors only for one image during A/B compare;
• Fixed artifact with light portals;
• The height parameter for VRayEnvironmentFog is now greyed out when there are gizmos attached;
• VRayEnvironmentFog did not allow to pick multiple gizmos and lights through the "Select by Name" dialog;
• Incorrect self-shadowing of hairs by themselves for VRayFur and the 3ds Max Hair & Fur modifier;
• Mapped VRayLightMtl does not work as direct light if the color is set to black;
• Hanging buckets with VRayBlendMtl material when one of the blend textures returns an invalid color;
• VRayStereoscopic shademap files were not closed after reading;
• VFB history did not display render times for history images;
• Disappearing geometry when VRayVelocity pass is used;
• Issues with the MAX.vray preset in 3ds Max 2012;
• AA filter type not saved in V-Ray presets;
• Loading a V-Ray preset does not respect the selected rollouts;
• Scripted materials are not handled properly when assigned as sub-materials;
• V-Ray RT: environment override slot in VRayMtl did not work with glossy materials;
• V-Ray RT: DOF did not work with animated cameras;
• V-Ray RT: gamma issues with the ActiveShade window;
• V-Ray RT: IFL sequences did not work with VRayHDRI;
• V-Ray RT: initialization error in stage 2 when Mix material is used as normal map;
• V-Ray RT: differences in RT with 3dsmax Composite map;
• V-Ray RT: environment override slot in VRayMtl materials doesn't work for glossy materials;
• V-Rat RT GPU: OpenCL code failed to compile with the latest nVidia drivers;
• V-Ray RT GPU: invisible dome lights were rendered as visible;

Build 2.10.01

Official release

Date - 3 May 2011

New features

• Separate VRayFlakesMtl material with just the flakes from the VRayCarPaintMtl material;
• Added VRayGLSL material for direct rendering of GLSL shaders with V-Ray extensions;

Modified features

• The V-Ray RT render server prints out some more information in GPU mode (useful for troubleshooting);
• Added access to the V-Ray material override exclude list from MAXScript;
• Support for the four FumeFX render elements;
• Ability to call the "Calculate" and "Save to CSV file" operations on the VRayLightMeter from MAXScript;
• The "Browse" button for the "Split channels" file name now opens the folder with the currently selected name (if any);
• Added an environment override slot for VRayCarPaintMtl material;
• Added bump slot for the base layer of VRayCarPaintMtl material;
• Ability to turn off "trace reflections" for separately for each layer of the VRayCarPaintMtl material;
• Added MAXScript function, vrayEditDRSettings(), to open the DR settings window;
• Added possibility to specify user command-line options to 3dsmax.exe when started from the V-Ray DR spawner;
• VRayMtlID and VRayObjectID render elements now have an option to generate colors instead of integers for proper antialiasing;
• XML output for the VRayRenderID render element;
• MAXScript-only option "dome_visibleOriginal" for dome lights to control filtering of the light texture for glossy rays;
• Added an option to VRayToon to compensate the camera exposure;
• Ability to map the radius in VRayDistanceTex with a texture;
• Option in VRayDistanceTex for a solid inside color;
• Custom V-Ray materials now work in the Hair&Fur modifier;
• Hair&Fur now produces the same object ID as the emitter object;
• The V-Ray bitmap to VRayHDRI converter script did not take into account the input gamma of textures;
• Crash with particular pre-render script that turns off V-Ray lights before rendering;
• VRayBlendMtl material blocks the material IDs of its sub-materials;
• V-Ray RT: Added support for RPManager material;

Bug fixes

• Noise with "Clamp output" option enabled produced noisy renders;
• Hilights from the base reflection layer of VRayCarPaintMtl material were darker than they should be;
• Slow rendering with many overlapping VRayProxy primitives;
• Randomly missing gizmos when rendering VRayEnvironmentFog;
• VRayLights that exclude an object could still affect that object through GI;
• Rendering with GI may use more detailed texture mip-map levels than necessary;
• VRayHDRI may not respect the specified memory limit for tiled textures;
• Crashes with particle systems with 3d displacement and motion blur enabled;
• Spikes with 3d displacement with "Keep continuity" enabled and particular bad geometry;
• Incorrect velocity element with VRayFur;
• Image copied from VFB to clipboard had the first column of pixels swapped for the last one;
• Loading an image in the V-Ray VFB with a different resolution did not work correctly;
• img2tiledexr used wrong formula when converting images from sRGB color space;
• vrim2exr did not preserve the pixel aspect information in the resulting .exr file;
• ply2vrmesh can convert RealFlow .bin files to .vrmesh files;
• VRayExposureControl was not accessible from MAXScript;
• Script error when there is a VRayPlane object in the scene;
• VRayPhysicalCamera in "Movie" mode was not exported correctly;
• Mesh lights were not exported with the .vrscene exporter script;
• Fringes on the edges of flakes in VRayCarPaintMtl material;
• Crash with VRayCarPaintMtl material when rendering of texture maps is globally disabled;
• Warning about "Retrace threshold" and "Use light cache for glossy rays" was printed even when not using the light cache;
• Exception after rendering when the "V-Ray raw image file" is chosen and the V-Ray VFB is not enabled;
• The V-Ray presets did not load if they were saved on a system where the decimal symbol is ",";
• The file save dialog for .vrimg/.exr files was not resizable;
• The VRayFastSSS2 material was not exported by the .vrscene MAXScript exporter;
• The VRayLightSelect element allowed the user to pick meshes instead of just lights;
• Incorrect velocity element when rendering Hair&Fur natively;
• The .dra file exported from the Hair&Fur plugin is now moved to the temporary 3ds Max folder instead of the root one;
• Wrong spelling for "affect specular" option in VRaySun;
• Slow rendering of VRayEnvironmentFog with animated Noise texture;
• V-Ray RT: Objects could disappear in animation;
• V-Ray RT: When used as production renderer, animation of deforming objects was ignored;
• V-Ray RT: Wrong exposure when physical camera type was "Move cam" or "Video cam";
• V-Ray RT: VRayEdgesTex was listed as incompatible with V-Ray RT;
• V-Ray RT: 3ds Max froze if V-Ray RT was working as an ActiveShade renderer and the user attempted to run V-Ray RT as production renderer;
• V-Ray RT: .vrscene export was not correct if the system decimal symbol was ",";
• V-Ray RT: When V-Ray RT was used as production renderer and max. paths per pixel was 0, it was always reset to 64;
• V-Ray RT: ActiveShade rendering is now paused when doing normal production rendering;
• V-Ray RT: Render restarted when changing a perspective view, even if the ActiveShade window was locked to using another camera;
• V-Ray RT: Scene was empty if motion blur was enabled;
• V-Ray RT: Problem with canceling batch render of animations;
• V-Ray RT: Adding new objects/lights is not reflected in the ActiveShade window in 3ds Max 2012;
• V-Ray RT: Standard camera FOV animation was not working;
• V-Ray RT: Support for the "Camera map per pixel" texture;
• V-Ray RT: ParticleFlow systems did not update when an animation with V-Ray RT as production renderer;
• V-Ray RT: Camera target distance was not updated correctly when rendering through Backburner;
• V-Ray RT: Issue with VRayLightMtl material inside a VRayBlendMtl material;
• V-Ray RT GPU: Textures for the color of VRayLightMtl material did not work;

Build 2.00.02

Official release

Date - 15 December 2010

Bug fixes

• VRayLights could render differently (brighter) from V-Ray 1.5;
• V-Ray RT: Right-clicking in the ActiveShade window to bring the quad menu could crash 3ds Max;
• V-Ray RT: Fog color in VRayMtl did not work in the CPU version;
• img2tiledexr would crash if it could not write the result due to permissions;
• Fixed noise with VRayBPTracer;
• Crash with VRayIES lights and VRayBPTracer;

Build 2.00.01

Official release

Date - 6 December 2010

New features

• VRayMultiSubTex texture to allow different colors/textures based on surface material IDs and object IDs;
• VRayExposureControl plugin for proper exposure of perspective and regular camera viewports;
• VRayLightMeter helper for lighting analysis;
• VRayCarPaint material with advanced metalic flake simulation;
• VRayLightSelect render element to hold the (direct) contribution of selected lights;
• VRayStereoRig that can be used together with the VRayStereoScopic helper to manually define the left and right cameras;
• VRayLensEffects render effect for producing realistic glow and glare;
• Filter Generator tool for generating glare maps for VRayLensEffects;
• VRayDistanceTex texture to measure the distance to arbitrary polygonal objects;
• VRayDRBucket render element to show which machine rendered a given bucket;
• Support for tiled mip-mapped OpenEXR files in VRayHDRI;
• img2tiledexr tool for mass conversion of textures to tiled OpenEXR files for use with VRayHDRI;
• Support for shade maps in the VRayStereoScopic helper;
• Support for dispersion for refractions in VRayMtl;
• Support for camera distortion based on .vrlens files;
• Lens Analyzer tool for generating distortion .vrlens files from photographs;
• Light lister for V-Ray lights;
• Added the various V-Ray components in the "Create" menu;

Modified features

Official release:

• Add caustic subdivs for standard lights to the V-Ray light lister;
• The "directional" parameter for rectangle VRayLights is now repmapped to a more usable range;
• Ability to choose texture interpolation in VRayHDRI;
• V-Ray RT: Progress bar update when V-Ray RT is used as production renderer;
• V-Ray RT: Added support for alpha channel;
• Ability to adjust render passes and bounces for VRayBPT;
• VRayMetaSL material is removed for the time being; it will be added in an udpate;

Beta 3:

• V-Ray RT can be used as production renderer (with support for V-Ray VFB);
• Ability to adjust the orientation of IES profiles in VRayIES;
• Added an indication for the orientation of the VRayLightMeter in the viewport;

Beta 2:

• Added ability to store the raw bloom and glare results from VRayLensEffects to separate render elements (with V-Ray VFB only);
• VRayLensEffects now works properly with any color mapping type (with V-Ray VFB only);
• V-Ray now uses auto number of light cache passes when it is specified as zero;
• Copying an image to the clipboard from the V-Rag VFB now preserves sRGB color correction;
• Added camera/reflection/refraction/shadow/GI visibility options for VRayEnvironmentFog;

Beta 1:

• Added option for directional distribution of rectangle VRayLights;
• Added the ability to copy the V-Ray VFB to cliboard using Ctrl+C;
• Ability to specify a mesh for proxy preview when creating the proxy;
• VFB output is now not saved when rendering in "iterative" mode;
• Improved raytracing precision;
• Ability to enter exact coordinate values for the color curves in the V-Ray VFB;
• All log files are saved in non-administrative folders;
• Ray distance parameter for the dome light;
• Added zlib compression to .vrimg files;
• Show information about the value of corrected colors in the V-Ray VFB;
• Ability to load .vrimg files in the V-Ray VFB;
• Ability to compare two images from the VFB history directly in the V-Ray VFB;
• Ability to save and load color correction curves for the VFB in Adobe PhotoShop format;
• Add a "retrace threshold" option to the light cache;
• The vrayMeshExport() MAXScript function can take a list of objects to export instead of using the selection;
• Ability to specify per-gizmo density falloff for VRayEnvironmentFog;
• Implemented correct blending of overlapping VRayEnvironmentFog gizmos;
• "Filter maps for GI" option is now enabled by default (saves memory with large textures);
• The static box for the "Split channels" file name truncates the front of the file name if too long;
• Ability to explicitly set and maintain the FOV of the physical camera;
• Option for the VRaySun to not cast shadows from atmospherics;
• Option to turn off speculars from VRaySun;
• Option in VRayLightMtl material to multiply the color by the transparency texture;
• Option to treat a mesh as static or dynamic geometry in the V-Ray Object Settings dialog;
• Option to disable tiling in VRayBmpFilter;
• Option to specify material effects ID for VRayMtl;
• Option to turn off camera motion blur;
• Option for z-depth render element to take the z boundaries from the camera clipping planes;
• Better viewport representation of the VRayIES lights in the hardware viewport;
• Implemented support for motion blur of regular particle systems, including Thinking Particles;
• Implemented the cutoff threshold for mesh lights;
• Added printing of messages in the V-Ray log when light cache and photon maps are saved successfully;
• "Compensate exposure" option to the VRayLightMtl material;
• Display for the field of view camera cones for the VRayStereoscopic helper;
• Option to override the viewing (focus) distance for the VRayStereoscopic helper;
• Option to select "interocular method" for stereo camera position in the VRayStereoScopic helper;
• V-Ray VFB history button is enabled by default;
• Implemented caching of thumbnails for .vrimg files in the VFB history;
• VRayDirt exclude list is now accessible from MAXScript;
• VRayLog.txt location by default is in the temporary folder of the current user (which is always writable);
• Added browse button in the .vrscene export MAXScript dialog window;
• Added .exr (OpenEXR) extension in raw output browse dialog;
• Option to the V-Ray scene converter script to turn reflections off or on for converted Standard materials;
• "Affect diffuse" and "Affect specular" options for the VRaySun;
• "Affect diffuse" and "Affect specular" options for VRayIES lights;
• Include/exclude list for the VRayExtraTex element;
• MAXScript access to the "Import as mesh" function of the VRayProxy objects;
• Modified the vrayMeshExport() MAXScript command to return the (list of) auto-created proxies;
• Option to flip y/z axes when converting .obj files with ply2vrmesh;
• Ability to select a VRayPhysicalCamera and its target when clicking on the line between the two;
• Implemented better coloring of the SamplingRate render element;
• Option not to expand # in .vrmesh file path to frame number for VRayProxy objects;
• Option in V-Ray toon to just show outlines and not interior edges;
• "Temperature" color mode for the white balance of the physical camera;
• "Render last" button in the V-Ray VFB;
• Options for VRayAmbientLight whether to affect direct illumination and GI;
• "gi distance" parameter to VRayAmbientLight;
• Option in VRayMtl to adjust the "Fog color" based on the current scene units;
• Buttons to lock the aspect ratio for V-Ray VFB resolution and to swap width/height button;
• Option to enable color mapping for the VRayObjectSelect render element;
• "Ray distance" parameter for the dome light;
• Option to dim reflections based on distance for VRayMtl;
• Somewhat faster rendering with many render elements;
• Ability to enter exact coordinate values for the color curves in the V-Ray VFB;
• GI subdivs multiplier in the VRayObjectSettings dialog;

Bug fixes

Official release:

• V-Ray RT GPU: Fixed slow performance with the 260.99 nVidia drivers and multiple GPUs;
• vrimg2exr did not work correctly with the -channel option and large images;
• Faceting with subdivision displacement;
• Rectangle VRayLights flipped along one of the axes did not render the correct side;
• VRayLights reflects black when "Base glossiness" of the VRayCarPaintMtl is set to 1;
• VRayBPT did not work with multi/sub materials;
• .vrimg files were not opened correctly with File > View image file;

Beta 3:

• Fixed crash with VRayBPTracer when Default lights are disabled;
• VRayBPTracer did not work with VRayBlendMtl materials;
• VRayLightMeter displayed the day light factor incorrectly;
• VRayExposureControl affected the rendering even if it was not active;
• Fixed noisy rendering with VRayExposureControl and gamma correction in the Color mapping settings;
• VRayStereoscopic did not work with VRayMtlID render element;
• V-Ray RT CPU: Support for the dim reflections option in VRayMtl;
• V-Ray RT CPU: Support for dispersion in VRayMtl;
• V-Ray RT GPU: Fixed an issue with environment maps on multiple GPUs;

Beta 2:

• VRayDistanceTex was broken;
• The "Compensate exposure" options in VRayAmbientLight, VRayLightMtl and VRaySphereFade did not work with the VRayExposureControl;
• Fixed dark results with VRayExposureControl in certain cases;
• Dispersion did not work with bump mapping;
• Irradiance map filename and auto save filename edit boxes did not get updated when changing the filename through MAXScript;
• The "Browse" button for the "Split render channels" parameter did not remember the file name;
• VRayMetaSL texture did not filter shader bitmaps;
• Caustics "Map file name" and "Map auto save file name" static boxes now truncate the front of the file name if too long;
• Ambient occlusion was calculated even if GI was disabled;
• .vrlens files are now declared to the Asset Tracker and also for missing files check;
• VRayLights that only affect reflections were slow to render;
• "Use light shape" option was causing shadow issues with excluded objects;
• Panning the VFB with the middle mouse button and the comparison line enabled did not refresh the comparison properly;
• The shade map in the VRayStereoscopic helper did not work with render elements;
• The stereo hepler shade map did not work properly with the VRayExposureControl;
• V-Ray RT CPU: VRayLightMtl material was always double-sided;
• V-Ray RT: VRayExposureControl was not working in the ActiveShade window;

Beta 1:

• The "Save render servers with scene" option did not work;
• Issue with GI when overriding the environment in VRayMtl;
• Exposure control plugins from the Environment dialog do not affect the background even if that option is enabled;
• Artifacts on shadow/light boundaries with Ward BRDF;
• Noisy VRayEnviromentFog shadow with Target Direct light in certain situations;
• Particle systems could not be exported as .vrmesh files;
• Issue with excluded hidden render nodes with VRayToon and DR;
• Installer timeout was too short for auto uninstall;
• VRayLightMtl material lost opacity texture when copied;
• VRayIES lights could reset the power setting in certain situations;
• Crash with animated proxy in ping-pong mode;
• The VRaySSS2 render element included GI even if its "Scatter GI" option was disabled for the respective VRayFastSSS2 material;
• Potential crash with VRayFastSSS2 and VRayCarPaintMtl at start of rendering;
• V-Ray will now always generate floating point 3ds Max buffer when using VRayLensEffects in order to preserve HDR information;
• Implemented eariler warning for existing .vrimg files before the actual rendering has started;
• VRayIES lights did not use the global light multiplier;
• UNHANDLED EXCEPTION: Creating ObjLightDesc for node Light01;
• Render clients were not failing over to the third license server;
• Problem with VRayFur and VRayPlane in the viewports;
• Crash when clicking on the VFB raw file "Browse" button with no text in the edit box;
• Crash with motion blur when default geometry is set to "Dynamic" and there are meshes with changing topology;
• Bug with Tab key in the VRayProperties dialog;
• Problem when rendering through backburner of a scene with V-Ray VFB history on a machine that does not have VFB history enabled;
• Issue with dimming of controls for VRayLights;
• VRayBlendMtl did not work with scripted materials;
• No velocity information was exported to .vrmesh files when object transformatons were animated;
• 3ds Max UI freeze if rendering with VFB clear confirmation dialog is shown;
• Crash when exporting multiple meshes to .vrmesh files;
• Issue with the "Reset Material Editor Slots" function in 3ds Max 2011 with the new slate Material Editor;
• Problems when using object settings across machines with different Windows regional setttings;
• "Automatically create proxies" option in the VRayProxy export dialog did not work for groups;
• Ability to save .vrimg files through the "Save" button of the VFB (just the visible render element);
• Added .vrimg as option for 3dsmax render ouput;
• Crash with VRayPhysicalCamera in 3ds Max 2009;
• Issues with the "Condense material library" function with the MAX.vray preset;
• Assigning a value to the file name parameter of VRayBmpFIlter texture did not work;
• Issues with scaling of spherical VRayLights;
• Loading of bitmaps is now skipped if "Maps" option is OFF;
• Relative file paths for the irradiance map did not work;
• Could not drag and drop to/from VRayMtlSelect render element material slot;
• Several V-Ray specific materials showed up in the "Standard" category of the material browser in 3ds Max 2011;
• Crash with the VRaySamplerInfo render element;
• Weird colors with VRaySun when it is below the horizon;
• The hilight glossiness of VRayMtl had the same localized name as the reflection glossiness;
• Don't start setvrlservice if installer is started from command line without GUI;
• %camera keyword in the frame stamp did not work with physical camera;
• Errors with region rendering to tiled .exr files;
• Crash with Hair&Fur modifier in "mr prim" mode;