General

• Added a new camera type "Spherical panorama" for equirectangular panoramas (similar to "Spherical" but allows manual control of the vertical FOV)

• The full version of V-Ray Standalone is now included in the installation

Distributed Rendering

• Option to exclude the local machine from DR rendering

• Options to automatically transfer and cache render assets to the DR servers (3ds Max 2010 and later)

VRayFastSSS2

• Raytraced mode for multiple scattering

VRayHDRI

• Added an option for ground environment projection

VRayProxy

• Support for Alembic 1.5

• Ability to specify starting path in Alembic files

VRayDisplacementMod

• Support for Ptex object-space vector displacement

Lens Analyzer

• Ability to analyze distortion in arbitrary images

Render Mask

• Added two new modes: include/exclude list and by layer name

VFB

• Option to automatically save each render in the history (enabled from the VFB history options dialog)

Modified Features

General

• "Reinhard" color mapping is now the default color mapping mode

• Added per-object motion blur duration setting in the V-Ray object properties dialog

VRayHDRI

• Faster shutting down of 3ds Max when "clear on render end" for tiled textures is disabled

VRayMtl/VRayFastSSS2

• Print information about which materials require prepass interpolation maps

VRayIES

• The light dimensions are now shown in scene units in the UI

VRayPhysicalCamera

• Newly created objects are named "VRayCam001" etc

V-Ray RT

• Now uses the V-Ray VFB when enabled in the production renderer

• Up to 5x faster initial scene transfer to render servers

• Automatic asset transfer to the render servers

V-Ray RT GPU

• Reduced noise on VRayBlendMtl materials

VRayProxy

• The default preview mode is "preview from file (faces)" as it's faster in Nitrous

Embree

• Now is always compiled with pure SSE2 so that it works on older hardware

General

• The V-Ray caustics Auto save option is errorneously named casutics_autoSave in MaxScript

• Fixed override issue with V-Ray object properties when selecting multiple objects

• The V-Ray log file was not redirected properly when loading a scene with modified log file path

• No shadows behind glass with "cast shadows" disabled

• VRScene exporter didn't work for SSS2 materials

• Deep OpenEXR 2 files continued to be written even after a render has been cancelled

• Distributed rendering didn't work after rendering with V-Ray RT

• Fixed crash with multi-threaded saving of render elements when using the "split render channels" option

Hair & Fur

• Multiple Hair&Fur materials swap randomly between different modifier instances in the same stack

• Crashes with VRayLightMtl material

VRayProxy

• Preview was always as faces instead of edges in Nitrous

• Alembic hair preview could not be selected in the viewport

• Convert file paths to UNC option didn't work for VRayProxy

VRayPhysicalCamera

• Greyed out "Autogrid" in latest builds

Quick Settings

• Slow update when changing the shading quick settings if Render Globals are open

VRayOSLMtl / VRayOSLTex

• Problems with OSL shaders with ',' as the system decimal symbol

VRayHDRI

• Convert file paths to UNC option didn't work for VRayHDRI

• The Browse button does not work if the texture file name contains <UVTILE> tag

• The "Show Map in Viewport" button was not working

VRayFastSSS2

• Phase Function = 1 produced NaN pixels

VRayBPTracer

• Crash when rendering VRayMetaball objects

• Materials with glossiness less than 1.0 rendered incorrectly

VRayStereoScopic

• Stereoscopic rendering through shade maps was not working in beta 1.1

VRayMetaball

• Fixed crashes when rendering with the V-Ray VFB

• Incorrect renders with the irradiance map

• Incorrect surface normals in some cases

• Fixed incorrect motion blur in some cases

VRayRenderID

• VRayRenderID render element: XML output was not correct in 3ds Max 2013 and later due to Unicode

V-Ray Object Properties

• Fixed incorrect setting of properties when multiple objects are selected

VFB

• The entire history was reloaded when saving an image into the history