General

• Redirected all help links to the new official help web site

• A V-Ray toolbar provides quick access to common V-Ray features

VRay RT GPU

• Support for VRayDirt, VRayFastSSS2, VRaySkinMtl materials

VRayEnvironmentFog

• Added an option for deep output to OpenEXR 2 and .vrst files

ply2vrmesh

• Added ability to convert particles from Alembic files to .vrmesh files

Modified Features

General

• For 3ds Max 2014, all related V-Ray files have been renamed to xxxx2014 (f.e. vrender2014.dlr, vray2014.dll etc)

• Added a "Divide shading subdivs" parameter in the image sampler to prevent V-Ray from balancing shading subdivs vs AA subdivs for those users that find it confusing

• Exposed in the UI the option for direct visualization of caustics calculations

• Added an option to control DOF/moblur subdivisions for the Adaptive subdivision image sampler

• When the maximum transparency level is reached, return the environment color rather than black

Hair & Fur

• Hair&Fur properties are taken from the source object (except the "Renderable" property)

VRaySkinMtl

• The material now respects the global "Linear workflow" option

VRayMetaballTex / VRayParticleTex

• VRayMetaballTex renamed to VRayParticleTex and can be used to read colors from Alembic particles

VRayLight

• Removed the "Ignore light normals" from the UI

• Dome lights are now always created with intensity 1.0 instead of the default 30

V-Ray RT CPU

• Internally uses the production renderer core running in progressive mode

V-Ray RT GPU

• Use different GPU code depending on the features used in the scene

• Faster loading of textures

VRayPhysicalCamera

• Bitmap aperture now has "affect exposure" option

• Renamed the "offset" and "shift" parameter to the more correct photographic terms "shift" and "tilt" respectively

• Added an option to prevent custom bitmap aperture from affecting exposure

VRayProxy

• Added an option to force remap mapping channels so that they always start from 1

VRayHDRI

• Added a "View image" button that opens a 3ds Max bitmap buffer with the texture

• Added support for single-channel TIFF and .tx/.tex files

VFB

• The numpad 1-9 keys can also be used to switch between recent images

• Ability to load arbitrary file formats

• Clicking on a slider for HSL, color balance or brightness/contrast now sets the value

• A color correction rollout can now be hidden or expanded by clicking on its title

General

• Different buckets with probabilistic lights and DR

• The "Max ray intensity" parameter could introduce color shifts

• Fixed rare crashes with tiled textures and dynamic geometry when the dynamic memory limit was reached

• Some V-Ray materials did not generate proper material IDs; Fixed crash with FumeFX render elements

• Added support for alpha channel from FumeFX render elements

V-Ray RT

• Fixed mixed up materials with RailClone objects

• Fixed issues with animated proxy objects

• Support for VRayBumpMtl

• Fixed crashes and corrupted 3ds Max window after closing ActiveShade in 3ds Max 2014 with Enhanced Menus enabled

• Right-click menu in ActiveShade could be flooded with "Missing" entries

• The scene translation time was counted as render time

• Wrong Z-depth render element with the "invert z-depth" option enabled

V-Ray RT CPU

• Fixed a crash with animated displacement

• Fixed incorrect results with <UDIM> tags

V-Ray RT GPU

• Fixed crashes when starting rendering

• ForestPro did not work correctly

• Reflection environment and background were added randomly to a light select element

• Invisible lights affected the Z-Depth render element

• Fixed artifacts with Multi/Sub material and VRayNormalMap on ForestPro objects

• The "compensate camera exposure" option for the VRayLightMtl material didn't work

VRayLight

• Fixed an issue with spherical lights when "Use texture" was enabled

• The options for previewing the directional parameter were not grayed out for non-rectangle lights

• Fixed a glitch when creating dome lights

• Incorrect rendering of non-uniformly scaled lights with directionality greater than 0.0

• When looking through a sphere light, black parts of the geometry could appear

• Fixed issues with dome lights with the "Lock to dome orientation" option enabled

• Textured dome lights could appear pixelated to the camera and in reflections

VRayProxy

• Alembic particles didn't work correctly with irradiance map and motion blur

• Alembic particles rendered black with light cache enabled

• Velocity render element didn't work with Alembic hair and particles

Distributed Rendering

• Saving of servers inside the scene file did not work

• Fixed multiple transfers of assets with Unicode characters

• Missing assets could incorrectly prevent other assets from being transferred to the render servers

VRayHDRI

• Modified bitmaps were not transferred properly to DR servers when "Transfer missing assets" was enabled

• Lists all supported image formats by default

VRayMetaBall

• Fixed a crash when a velocity render element was present in the scene;

Render Mask

• Irradiance map was calculated even for parts of the image not covered by the mask

Hair&Fur

• Mapped scale of Hair&Fur could take the entire RAM

VRayHairFarmMod

• Fixed flickering with motion blur when the hairs change the number of knots between frames

Embree

• V-Ray failed to load when 3ds Max was started with an affinity mask set from the command prompt

VRayIES

• Lights with different power from the default could produce different buckets in DR

• Fixed slow rendering compared to V-Ray 2.x

VRaySkinMtl

• The primary reflection glossiness map didn't work, just the numeric value

VFB

• Fixed a crash when trying to apply lens effects to an image loaded from the VFB history

• The HSL and color balance corrections were not saved in the 3ds Max scene

• Some of the new color corrections were not taken in account when displaying corrected pixel info

• The curves were not updated properly if the numerical input fields were used

• HSL color correction didn't work unless there is at least one other correction enabled

VRayOCIO

• The .ocio file was not read correctly if the system decimal symbol was comma

VRayLightMeter

• Fixed incorrect results due to probabilistic light sampling