Add support for 3ds Max 2017 including support for Physical Material, support for MultiTile in V-Ray RT, support for ColorMap in V-Ray RT, initial HiDPI scaling support within VFB

Enable GI by default

Add another deep output fragment merge mode, "None", where fragments are not merged at all

Add "layers" type to override material exclude list

Add refraction filter bake element

Lower tessellation rate for out-of-view hair and displaced/subdivided geometry to save RAM in heavy scenes

Move the VRayHDRI's Tiled textures options from the material editor's interface to the V-Ray's Settings tab

Print a warning if "Show GI only" is enabled

Implement a new render element that contains a denoised version of the image:

• The Denoiser can take advantage of hardware acceleration

• The denoised result can be adjusted after a render is complete

• The denoised result is updated periodically during progressive rendering

• The render elements required by the denoiser are automatically added

A new command-line tool for denoising still images and animations with frame blending

Add support for Orthographic camera

Add support for bump with procedural Noise texmap

Print the memory usage in the VFB statistics

Add option to enable auto-saving to history if the render completed normally (i.e. is not aborted)

Add option to keep the VFB history folder relative to the current project path

Add "filter color" parameter

Add an option to select luminous intensity in candelas (cd)

Add option to override the node properties of the source objects

Add textured flakes support

Add support for vertical placement of the left/right views in addition to side-by-side

Add random modes: "By particle ID"/"By instance ID" support

Implemented ability to pop out and enlarge the render diagrams

Implemented different interpolation types per point in the render diagrams

Implement motion blur clipping by the Cutter geometry for non-Mesh modes

Show progress bar instead of "not responding" during export to .vrscene

Convert rectangle/sphere/disc photometric lights without web profile to the corresponding V-Ray lights

Attempt to uninstall previous installation without registry record

Installation options can be set from the command-line

Store the textures names used by OBJ files into user attributes

Make it possible to run V-Ray from a remote location

Faster rendering with the light cache

Blend the "Fixed" and "Adaptive" sampler UI into a "Bucket" image sampler

Enable support for processor groups and more than 64 CPU cores by default

Rename "Color threshold" to "Noise threshold" in the Adaptive image sampler

Add texmap shortcut buttons next to colors for plugins with automatically generated UI

Add UI mode views switching for the Image Sampler rollout

Make the DR settings window with persistent size

Remove the "Adaptive subdivision" sampler from the UI

Slow rendering of objects visible behind multiple panes of glass

The log messages window text and background match the 3ds Max color scheme

Streamline the UI rollouts

When assigning a new VRayHDRI or a Bitmap texture through the UI, automatically browse for a file and set the mapping to spherical environment

Add information about the current noise threshold to the render statistics

Enable region changes without restarting the render in RT

Enabled by default the rendering of Proxies, X-ref, Particle systems, Displacement and Motion Blur

Make override material independent for production and ActiveShade renderers

Optimize export of scenes with many instanced geometries with many faces

Add "bias" spinners support for VRayDirt

Improvement automatic texture resizing, leading to reduced memory usage and better quality

Optimized rendering of VRayBlendMaterial

Speed up loading of resized textures to the GPU

Warn the user if all the GPUs they have are used for rendering

Added a button to open the V-Ray messages window

Show warning when images cannot be saved in the history

The MaxScript command "vfbcontrol #clearimage" should not trigger confirmation dialog

Automatically calculate the "precision" parameter for 2d displacement mode

Enable the "static geometry" option by default

Bring back for 3ds Max 2016 and newer

Faster hair strands generation

Implement drag and drop of texture files from Windows Explorer to the file edit field

Improved GGX/GTR sampling to reduce fireflies

The "Anisotropy" spinner has a lower step

Optimize rendering using cached voxels

Improved importance sampling algorithm, removed the "texture subdivs" parameter

Treat "num flakes" as square root of the number of flakes

Add "blend angle" and "horizon offset" options to the user interface

Add option for changing the mesh preview color

Convert the 3ds Max Normal Bump map to VRayNormalMap

3ds Max freezes when exporting a .vrmesh file with the lock selection toggle enabled

Artifacts in objects outline upon saving to *.hdr file when image filter is set to VRaySincFilter

Crash upon rendering VRayIES lights

Crash when rendering an object with changing topology and VRaySamplerInfo render element with Forward/Backward occlusion type

Noisier results with "Clamp output" and "Sub-pixel mapping" enabled

Double stamp is printed when saving through 3ds Max output

Fixed artifacts with NormalMap

Freeze after rendering with displacement

Misspelled additional parameters in some materials and textures

NaN pixels when rendering matte geometry with Hair and Fur

RAW image output file extension is not memorized between sessions

Scenes with more than 64 render elements crash

The %numpasses and %numsubdivs keywords are written as 0 in multichannel OpenEXR files

The items from the viewport quad menus are not restored from the "V-Ray menu registration" button

Crash when adjusting a NoiseMap attached to V-Ray OSL shader

Crash when switching between CUDA or OpenCL and VRAY_OPENCL_PLATFORMS_x64 is not set

Crash with VRayDistanceTex and FFD modifier

Displacement map is not working when the host material is used as base in VRayBumpMtl

Machine with disabled "Use local host" option DR takes render node license

Matte rendering is not working with Forest Pro objects

Moving a light during ActiveShade causes two light re-exports

Override material is not working on Forest Pro and Rail Clone geometry

Render to texture saves black image when set as production renderer

VRayFur's "Placement" options are not working

When rendering Active Shade with Render Mask selected - changes to selection are not updated

Crash when trying to select objects in the 3ds Max ActiveShade frame buffer

Crash when rendering with motion blur, Particle Flow and Multi/Sub-Object material

Crash with rendering out-of-process and render region

Textures in VRayMtl's Self-Illumination slot are clamped (0-1)

VRayNormalMap plugged into the texmap slot of VRayDisplacementMod is not considered

Crash with multiple UV sets on dynamic geometry

Different VRaySky horizon compared to V-Ray RT CPU

Fixed memory leak and crashes with displacement, subdivision and VRayProxy

Fixed loading Light Cache from file depending on the current frame

Fixed wrong bump mapping with VRayColor2Bump

Fixed high memory usage with proxies, hair, particles, displacement and subdivision in animation

Size and offset of "Use real-world scale" are not working when the mapping is "Planar from World XYZ"

Motion-blurred hair with light cache is rendered very slow

MultiTexture and VRayMultiSubTex can work as input to other textures

VRayMultiSubTex is not modified when processed through another texmap

Wrong shading for the Light Cache with displacement, subdivision and VRayProxy

Projector textures in direct lights do not render properly

Crash with auto-save to the history after Render To Texture

Saving an image to the history from V-Ray RT does not save the scene file name

Saving image results in broken filename when not ASCII

Window position is saved when cloning the renderer

SSS/Skin sub-materials cause difference in final result between active/inactive Render Elements

Limited actions (drag/cut/copy/paste) on base material slot

Black surface of the section of the clipped geometry with "Affect lights" disabled

The "show subtriangles" option is not working

Garbage data produced for normals with the VRaySamplerInfo render element

Old scenes should be left in "Prepass-based illumination map" mode

The "Save/Load flythrough map" prepass modes are missing from the user interface

3ds Max crashes when the value for per area or per face is set too high on very large geometry

Tiling occurs with Curl options

Artifacts (splotches) when hdri image is set in the 3ds max environment slot

Viewport preview is very slow with large bitmaps

Incorrect velocity information is generated

Open EXR file renders black when used for IBL

"Store With Irradiance Map" does not work well with Use Local Subdivs off

Crash when rendering with Scanline or Raytrace texmap

Indirect illumination is wrongly evaluated

Animated diffuse color is not updated in the viewport

Crash when changing to Scanline renderer if opacity map is set and material editor is open

Difference in bump map rendering with older versions

Diffuse texture is not working with Particle Flow operator "Position Object/ Density by Material /grayscale"

Settings rollout name is wrong

Tweak dropdown controls forget their position when switching between different textures

MaxScript objects return "Object" class name instead of "VRayProxy"

Wrong Alembic particle/hair width

Texmap slots are not updated on map change with Slate Material Editor

Crash with high resolution renderings when autosave is enabled

Not appearing in the VRayMtlSelect render element

Fixed black dot artifacts when rendering using "Volumetric Heat Haze" mode

Frame blending does not work properly with adaptive grid

Imported VDB files have wrong orientation in V-Ray RT

The viewport GPU preview disappears when changing frames with a single cache

Mesh preview crashes on 3ds max 2016 and newer with Nitrous DX9

Multi Matte Element is not filled in "Volumetric Geometry" mode

VDB levelset caches render with inverted normals and winding

VRayProxy with displacement modifier is exported as static mesh

Handling invalid nodes

Rollouts disappear when loading custom preset

Is swapping the MtlIDs