General

• VRaySkinMtl material

VRayProxy

• Initial support for particles in Alembic files

VFB

• New color corrections - contrast, HSL, color balance

VRayOrnatrixMod / VRayHairFarmMod

• Added options for dynamic view-dependent hair tesselation

VRayOptionRE

• Added an option to save three-channel alpha in deep OpenEXR 2 files for compatibility with Houdini

VRayUserColor / VRayUserScaler

• Reading data directly from a Node's User Properties

VRayRT

• Support for RailClone instancing

Modified Features

General

• Right-click on a UI switcher allows to switch all rollups to Basic/Advanced/Expert views

• Updated to Embree 2.0

• V-Ray will now print a performance warning in the messages window if the 3ds Max bitmap pager is enabled

• Support for %d and %0nd tags in file names for irradiance maps, light caches, photon maps and caustics maps

VRayOCIOTex

• Added an "auto" option to try and automatically convert textures to linear space

VRayVRmatMtl

• Added a preview of the currently selected .vrmat/.vismat material in the Open File dialog when browsing for a file

• Added .tx and .tex as valid texture file names

VRayMultiSubTex

• Added an option to preserve the alpha of the sub-textures

VRayFur

• Ability to specify face material ID for the hairs

VRayClipper

• Added an option to exclude the light coming in result of cutted geometry

.vrscene Exporter

• Make .vrscene exporter's Export and render button render the whole sequence

VRayOrnatrix / VRayHairFarmMod

• Implement global hair tree support

VRayLight

• More robust sampling of small rectangle lights

VRayHairMtl

• Reduced noise on transparent hairs

VRayGLSLMtl / VRayGLSLTex

• Added the ability to type a shader directly in the Material Editor

VRayGLSL

• Added a __VRAY_HOST__ macro that expands to the version of vray.dll

Quick Settings

• Added the possibility to save custom presets

VFB

• Multithreaded file save with the "Split channels" option is disabled due to instabilities

VRayFakeFresnel

• Now exposed in the UI

V-Ray RT

• Improved refresh rate and responsiveness

General

• 3.0 slower than 2.4 in some cases

• Unnecessary repeated asset transfer after a texture is changed once

• VRayLightMtl is black in MultiMatte render element when using material ID

• Reflection/Refraction exclude lists in the V-Ray object properties didn't work with groups

• Fixed rare crash with progressive sampler

• Some bake elements have duplicate class names of other plugins

• Render mask did not work with the VRayStereoscopic helper

• Artifacts with motion blur and shutter efficiency less than 1.0

VFB

• Color clamp button selection state not saved when button not pushed

• The UI colors should match the 3ds Max color scheme

• When opening a scene with bloom/glare masks turned on, lens effects were not applied after the first rendering

VRayDistanceTex

• Setting tex_inside_separate_on:true for a VRayDistanceTex constructor from MaxScript causes system exception

VRayCarPaintMtl / VRayFlakeMtl

• Wrong material name in info message in 3ds Max 2013 and later

VRayHairInfoTex

• Did not work properly with Hair&Fur

Distributed Rendering

• Render servers failed to join a DR render

VRayBPTracer

• Image rendered with BDPT turns black when Glare effect is applied

Hair & Fur

• The "Visible to camera " option for distribution object was not inherited by Hair&Fur

VRayVRMatMtl

• Fixed issues with non latin characters in VRMat material

• Correct default values for TexCloth

• Loading some .vrmat files in scene caused 3ds Max to crash

• The vrmat editor preview should have gamma 2.2 applied

VRayLight

• Fixed issues with targets when creating new lights

VRayIES

• Fixed a rare crash when loading scenes with VRayIES

VRayProxy

• Fixed issues with Alembic with dynamic topology and visibility lists

VRayMtl

• "Affect all channels" didn't work with glossy reflections for some render elements

VRayClipper

• Strange result when used on Editable Poly with intersecting attached elements

VRaySun

• Should return the true intensity in the viewport if VRayExposureControl is active in Nitrous

VRayFur

• Fixed crash when accidentally rendering with the scanline renderer

Render Mask

• Drag and drop of textures to the render mask button was not working

VRayMetaball

• Negative particles rendered as positive

V-Ray RT

• Swirl texture prevented V-Ray RT from starting

• Rendering production while RT was running in VFB would lock RT properties until VFB is closed

• Saving images from V-Ray RT as production renderer didn't work with the V-Ray VFB enabled

• Fixed issues with Multi/Sub-object materials on dynamic geometry (instances)