General

• New progressive image sampler

• Simplified main renderer user interface: basic/advanced/expert views for some rollouts; help shortcut buttons

• Extensive optimizations for render speed, especially when using brute force GI

• The Intel Embree library is now integrated into the V-Ray core for static and motion-blurred geometry

• Probabilistic light sampling for scenes with many lights

• Support for render texture mask and render subset from selected objects

• Added reflection/refraction trace sets in the V-Ray object settings dialog

• New streamlined installer

• New "Max ray intensity" parameter to help deal with fireflies in glossy reflections

• New VRayLUT, VRayICC and VRayOpenColorIO textures

VRayPhysicalCamera

• Support for bitmap aperture and optical vignetting

VFB

• Ability to write deep images (OpenEXR 2/vrst/vrsm)

• Support for OpenColorIO color correction

• Lens effects can be applied directly in the VFB

VRayHDRI

• Support for <UDIM> and <UVTILE> tags

• Support for tags in the bitmap file name based on the node user properties

VRayOrnatrixMod

• Optimized rendering and reduced memory usage

VRayProxy

• Ability to render hair from Alembic .abc files

VRayOSLMtl / VRayOSLTex

• New material and texture with support for the Open Shading Language

VRayVRmatMtl

• VRayVRmatMtl material for rendering .vrmat/.vismat files

VRayFastSSS2

• Option for geometry-based sampling for the illumination map

VRayMetaBalls

• New geometric object

VRayClipper

• New geometric object

VRay Quick Presets

• V-Ray toolbar with a button that shows the Quick Presets window

VRay RT GPU

• Support for most render elements

VRayBPTracer

• Initial support for vertex merging

Modified Features

General

• Updated the OpenEXR library to OpenEXR 2

• Optimized the loading of irradiance map files over the network

• The irradiance map prepass now uses the same render region sequence as the main renderer

• Removed the light cache "Number of passes" parameter; this is now handled internally

• "Right Click - vrscene exporter" now uses the V-Ray RT translator instead of MaxScript

• Dynamic bucket splitting towards the end of the image

• Correct "raw" elements for easier compositing (needs the regular and the filter elements to be present too)

• Added "shutter efficiency" option for motion blur

• Multi-threaded saving of images when using "Split render channels" option

• V-Ray lights now support external atmospherics renderers (AfterBurn/FumeFX)

VRayPtex

• Updated the Ptex library to the latest version

• Rewritten the Ptex library texture cache for better multithreading on many-core machines

VFB

• Ability to switch between the most recent images in the history using the 1-9 keys

• Ability to switch between render elements in the VFB using PageUp and PageDown

• The history thumbnails in the VFB now have sRGB color correction if the sRGB setting is enabled

• Support for the "track mouse" option in the VFB for stereo renders

• "Compare" button to toggle comparison view on/off

• Add right-click menu on the border for custom border color selection

VRayExposureControl

• Affect the Nitrous viewports in 3ds Max 2013 and later

VRayMtl

• The "fix dark edges" option is now "on" by default for newly created materials

VRayPhysicalCamera

• The "Show cone" option now respects the pixel aspect ratio

• Added an "auto guess vert. shift" option to keep the vertical shift when moving the camera

VRayDisplacementMod

• Added support for hidden faces for displaced and subdivision surfaces

• Added "static geometry" and UV smoothing options, as well as option to use fast displaced normals

VRayHDRI

• Added "View map" and "Reveal in explorer" buttons

• Ability to automatically generate .ifl files when picking a frame from an image sequence

VRayEdgesTex

• Added "Show subtriangles" option to show tesselation of displaced and subdivision surfaces

VRayHairInfoTex

• The "Random by strand index" option is now supported for VRayFur

VRayHairMtl

• The "Simpify for GI" option is now enabled by default

• Faster rendering of transparent VRayHairMtl material

VRayOptionRE

• Added an option to group g-buffer fragments by Z-depth rather than render ID

VRayColor2Bump

• Added a "bump delta scale" parameter

VRayColor

• Added a "color gamma" option that allows correction of the actual color used for rendering

VRayLight

• Added an "affect alpha" option for the dome lights

• Added an option to lock the dome light texture to the orientation of the light icon in the viewports

• Added the ability to change the wire color

VRayIES

• Support for motion blurred lights

VRayColor

• Added a "Temperature" color mode

ply2vrmesh

• Added support for material IDs in .obj files

vrimg2exr

• Added an option to truncate channel names to 32 symbols

General

• Fixed truncated error messages in the V-Ray log for missing textures in 3ds Max 2013 and later

• Some message boxes in 3ds Max 2013 did not display proper Unicode strings

• Set sensible limits to some parameters in 3ds Max

• Increase the max stdio file handles to the maximum possible (2048) on 3ds Max startup

• V-Ray loses its license when RPManager is running

• Low CPU utilization when the irradiance map prepass is calculating background

• The parameters of some render elements did not have proper names in Track View

• Crash/hang when checking/unchecking "V-Ray VFB" option in VRayMtlReflectGlossiness Render Element

• Hang on "Unloading geometry" when cancelling a render during "Presampling displacement"

VRayMtl

• Fixed incorrect (brighter) GI with glass objects with "affect shadows" enabled when they are in front of an area light

• Fixed rare bug with refractions due to precision loss

VRaySphereFade

• Could not edit the gizmo objects list through MaxScript

VRayToon

• Could not edit the exclude list through MaxScript

• Fixed various issues with the include/exclude UI

VRayLightMtl

• Fixed random lighting between renderings with DirectIllumination and CompensateExposure on

VRayLight

• Ability to set higher values for dome light texture resolution

• The light preview in the Nitrous viewport disappeared when the light size if very large

• Brighter glossy reflections of light portals

• Incorrect (brighter) GI with glass objects with "affect shadows" enabled when they are in front of an area light

• Inconsistency between GI on/off when an invisible sphere light intersects geometry

• Dome light looked pixelated in glossy reflections and refractions (light needs to be recreated for the fix)

VRayEnvironmentFog

• Fixed crash after deleting environment fog gizmo and rendering

VRayPtex

• Fixed issue on duplicated objects with modifiers

VFB

• The V-Ray LUT .cube textures does not load if the system decimal symbol is not "."

• Comments section of the VFB history changed the information when it was in Korean

VRayHDRI

• "RGB Offset" and "RGB Level" in the Output rollout had no effect until the Material Editor is opened

VRayDisplacementMod

• If model using the VrayDisplacementMod was X-Ref'd, the displacement is not considered

VRayMultiSubTex

• Issue with drag and drop on the texture button

VRayBlendMtl

• Fixed incorrect diffuse render element with blend material in additive mode inside a 2-sided material

• The "Use irradiance map" option from the base material is now used

VRayStereoscopic

• The helper should append .vrst extension to file names if no extension is specified