V-Ray

• Support for 3ds Max 2015

• Added VRayPointParticleMtl material for shading point particles from .vrmesh/Alembic files

Modified Features

V-Ray

• Added option to the .vrmesh exporter to automatically create a Multi/Sub-Object material when exporting multiple objects in a single file

V-Ray RT

• Added lights include/exclude lists support

• Added statistics when using the VFB

• Implemented showing Safe Frame when rendering in a viewport

VRayProxy

• Added option to render particles as points

• Added option to enable/disable Alembic full names support in the visibility lists

• Added support for hair and particles color channels from Alembic

• Make the "Animation offset" parameter animatable

VRayBump2Normal

• VRayBump2Normal is now included in the V-Ray installation

VFB

• Added support for the "track mouse" option while rendering for progressive sampling and V-Ray RT

• The Lens Effects 3ds Max Effect plugin settings are now applied only when the 3ds Max rendered image window is used, as it clashes with the VFB Lens Effects settings

• Lens effects - the default glare type changed to "From render camera"

• When the "mono" button of the VFB is pressed, the computed intensity is now based on the selected R/G/B components only

VRayVRmatMtl

• Material exporter support for VRayBlendMtl

• Material exporter support for Checker and Falloff textures

V-Ray

• Prevent raw image output, when enabled but empty path is provided

• Reflection/Refraction trace sets' Clear button was cleaning both of the lists

• Reflection/Refraction trace sets were not working in inclusive mode

V-Ray RT

• Fixed a crash when undoing delete of Forest Pro geometry while Active Shade rendering

• Fixed support of Material Frequency Particle Flow operator when rendering as production renderer

• Progressive sampler settings were not exported in .vrscene files

• VRayParticleTex was not translated

• Region rendering with the V-Ray VFB did not work when using V-Ray RT as production renderer

• The translucency parameters of VRayMtl are not exported

V-Ray RT GPU

• Lens effects source channel was incorrect when re-rendering as production renderer

Hair&Fur/VRayOrnatrixMod/VRayHairFarmMod

• Fixed assigned materials order when rendering with multiple hair nodes and having some of them hidden

Embree

• Fixed a crash with XMesh and motion blur

Distributed Rendering

• Rendering in DR mode with "Use local host" unchecked demanded a render node license

• The "Save hosts in scene" option was not always working correctly when rendering with DR through Backburner

VRayBPTracer

• Bucket outlines left in VFB after rendering end

VRayDisplacementMod

• Fixed a very slow rendering when Noise texture with animated parameter was used

VRayGLSLMtl / VRayGLSLTex

• Fixed smoothstep output values outside the interpolation range

• Newly opened shaders were not added to the recent files history after clearing history

• Ensure all user defined global variables are initialized to zero

• Shader source files were not shown in the Asset Tracker

VRayOSLMTL / VRayOSLTex

• Newly opened shaders were not added to the recent files history after clearing history

• Fixed crash when assigned to dome VRayLight

• Shader source files were not shown in the Asset Tracker

VRayProxy

• Fixed crash with corrupt .vrmesh files with large number of voxels

• Fixed wrong rendering of multiple instances with particles/hairs

• Optimized loading of scene with many Alembic proxies

• Optimized preview voxel loading routine

• Skip proxy preview calculations if zero number of faces/hairs/particles is provided

VRayPtex

• Changing PTex cache size had no effect on rendering, 100 MB was always used

• Added an option for turning off anisotropic filtering for PTex textures

VRayStereoscopic

• Rendering shade map sequences could cause crashes

VRayLightIES

• Fixed crash after VRayIES light was created in 3D snap mode and 3ds Max was Reset

V-RayLight

• Fixed "Lock to dome orientation" option to work for nested textures

VFB

• V-Ray did not write .vrimg/.exr files if "Generate preview" was enabled, and "Memory frame buffer" was turned off

• The progressive sampler was not creating a raw .vrimg/.exr file

• The Lens Effects were not applied to images loaded from the history

• The Lens Effects were not stored in the output file

VRayExtraTex

• Cloning VRayExtraTex element didn't clone the include/exclude list

vrimg2exr

• Fixed batch conversion output names generation

miscellaneous fixes

• Global subdivs multiplier should be able to go down to zero

• Fixed a MaxScript system exception error when cancelling the creation of a VRayLight from the V-Ray toolbar

• Fixed issues with VRayLights and FumeFX with illumination map