Enable usage as an interactive production renderer (IPR)

Enable the resuming of bucket renders from raw .vrimg files

Enable the resuming of progressive renders

Experimental implementation of adaptive lights

Optimize GI rendering

Support for direct output to Oculus Rift and HTC Vive

Object picking in VFB

Enable Set focus distance in the VFB for the selected camera

Aerial Perspective support

Support for matte materials shadow catcher

Support for the VRayStochasticFlakesMtl material

Initial implementation for on-demand mip-map texture in production rendering mode

Less CPU memory usage when rendering scenes with many textures

Less GPU memory usage when rendering scenes with many textures

Implement support for Render mask

Support for velocity render element

Better handling of geometry and materials updates during ActiveShade

Add Low GPU thread priority option

Support for additive mode of the VRayBlendMtl

Support for transparency for the layers of the VRayBlendMtl

Add support for VRayAtmosphere render element

Fixed differences in lighting between V-Ray RT CPU and GPU

Fixed differences in texture blending between V-Ray RT CPU and GPU

Support for Irradiance Map from file

Support for RenderID, ObjectID and MtlID render elements

Implement ground projection of VRayHDRI

Implement hardware acceleration support for lens effects

Implement Glossy Fresnel option

Include alSurface shader port for V-Ray in the installation

Support for user property tags in the proxy file name

Add ability to capture and render the back lighting

Add a render preset for Maya Fluids vdb

Support for Cap Mesh mode in V-Ray RT

Add control for panoramic pole merging for stereoscopic rendering (V-Ray RT MaxScript properties .top_merge_angle .bottom_merge_angle)

Dome light minor speed optimization

Display warning when View navigation in ActiveShade is selected without looking through camera

Increase the tooltip display times in the render settings

Remove the interpolated reflections/refractions options

Set the default value for the dynamic noise threshold for the progressive sampler to 80

Use adequate precision for render elements (full/half precision) in OpenEXR files

When using a dome light, matte objects have visible outlines unless GI environment is overridden with zero

Bundle License Server with the installation instead of the vrlservice.exe

The progressive sampler should finish the current pass when the given "Render time" is surpassed

Draw the alpha channel during the undersampling phase of the progressive sampling

Apply resolution changes without restarting the rendering

Add Select object and Get object material right-click options in the VFB

Add UI mode views switcher for V-Ray RT between Default and Advanced views

Make V-Ray RT to take the render state of the Laubwerk trees options, not the viewport

VFB output file paths are not exported in .vrscene file

View navigation in ActiveShade VFB is too fast

Support for the directionality attribute of the VRayLight in Plane mode

Ability to load precalculated Irradiance map GI cache files

Changes on materials with baked texture to be updated quicker

Faster rendering of materials with bump maps

Faster rendering with Bitmap output curves

Faster rendering of rounded edges texture

Print the message about not having OCL devices env var as a info, not warning

Print the OpenCL Driver version in the log

Print warning when there is a render element that's not supported on the GPU

Print warning when max sample level is set to 0

Raise the number of rays per pixel when the number of active pixels is too low

Solid reflective material getting alpha dropouts

Support for UVW coordinates type in VRaySamplerInfo render element

Make the GGX BRDF the default one and turn on glossy Fresnel by default

Move the reflect on back side option in the reflection section of the Basic rollout

The anisotropy controls should be disabled when the BRDF is set to Phong

Allow for the viewport preview to be overridden by another .vrmesh or Alembic file

Add rendering support for Mudbox exported .vrmeshes with Level-of-Detail

Interpolate geometry data for heterogeneous Alembic files with velocity channel

Optimized the preview read and update for animated proxies

MaxScript commands to show/hide history and color corrections panels of the VFB

Contrast curve should be applied in sRGB color space

Change the default values of the Lens Effects

Improve history images saving speed

Move the history image compare buttons from the main toolbar to history toolbar

The button for showing the messages log should bring the messages window to the front

White balance should be applied before exposure

Optimize plane clipper with empty exclude lists

A warning should be printed when the VFB is disabled

Check the sampler settings before starting a render and warn if incompatible

Add a MaxScript parameter for axial rotation

Enable support for multiple include paths in OSL

Speed up the texture sampling in OSL

Add ability to render licensed materials (library licenses)

Add support for Nitrous viewport preview

Add new fragment merge mode, where fragments are merged by render ID and z-depth

The blend and scale parameters should be animatable

Add an option to exclude an object in the V-Ray object properties

High-DPI support for the render curves and gradients

Improve the motion blur for atmospherics

Improve the velocity voxel preview

Optimize rendering with emissive lights, Ray-Traced self-illumination and complex geometry

Respect the maxRenderThreads setting in V-Ray during rendering

Support V-Ray's per-object motion blur duration override

When several points on diagram are selected, right click on one of them should affect all points

Add abort on OpenCL errors

The noise level channel can also be named "VRayNoiseLevel"

Creating VRayFur from the toolbar button should select the newly created fur object

Added an option to convert only selected objects

Renderer settings of V-Ray RT as production renderer are not exported

Crash on loading scene after rendering with time stamp

Remove the "(notUsed)" from the imageSampler_renderMask MaxScript properties

Unwanted GI caustics with refractive materials with affect shadows enabled

Tiled texture cache set message is flooding the log when using Slate Material editor

Composite texture with Output map on reflect and diffuse gives a different than production render result

Crash with Particle Flow and motion blur when sliding the time during ActiveShade session

Crash when there are materials with very long names and special characters

Effect ID of VRayMtl is not exported

Excessive progressive sampling AA filter memory consumption with ActiveShade rendering and render region

Exclude lists of VRayDirt don't work with HairFarm

Exporter doesn't resolve light cache file paths

Exporter is missing some of the VRayMtl and VRayFastSSS2Mtl features

Isolating geometry in a scene with duplicating nodes names and handles produces WndProc error with out of process rendering

Invalid geometric normal warnings with VRayLight and stereo cube camera

Static geometry of VRayDisplacementMod is not exported

There is no motion blur on VRayFur when applied to a geometry with a modifier

Motion blur samples are not applied to animated VRayPhysicalCameras unless they are set locally

Not all supported image filters are exported

Not exported opacity texture correctly if names are the same with other textures

Not updating the IFL sequences properly during time slider change

V-Ray trace sets are not exported

Auto update bitmaps is broken with in-process rendering

Crash when reading from large, 8k+ textures

Crash when switching Noise coordinates to Vertex color channel while rendering

Crashes on scenes containing textures with elliptical filtering

Crash with motion blur and Material IDs set

Different texture output with Color Map and tweaked Output Amount

Different bump compared to CPU with Mask map

Difference in shading VRayDirt in VRayTriplanarTex

Different indexes of Ornatrix hairs on each frame

Flicker when rendering animation with Backburner/Deadline with lights with include/exclude lists

GGX BRDF produce noise in Object ID render element in CUDA

IES lights with invalid paths to files sometimes are rendered wrong

Incorrect sun position when using VRaySun/Sky with specific procedural color correction textures

Mapped masks of Composite map don't work

Material shader tree does not reflect the materials changes in ActiveShade in all cases

Out of process V-Ray RT rendering crashes on frame change in a scene with duplicating nodes names

Random by Render ID mode of VRayTriplanarTex is not applied in bump

Render elements does not respect the transparency of materials

Render server crashes when rendering animation with lights with include/exclude lists

Undersampling artifacts occur on the bottom and right edges of the region during ActiveShade session

Using excessive host mem when there are a lot of textures in the scene

VRayColor2Bump in base material of VRayBumpMtl deactivates VRayEdgesTex

VRayLight type Disc produces different lighting when textured

VRayZDepth clamp zdepth option has no effect

Wrong blending between texture and color in Falloff texture

Wrong lighting with max ray intensity set to 1

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

"Failed to delete server scene file" DR warning appears but the file has been deleted successfully

GLSL and OSL plugins crash Max when the error message contains %

GLSL crashes when compiling embedded shaders

The BRDFGGX plugin and the GGX mode of BRDFVRayMtl produce different results

3D noises appear as stripes

Incorrect rendering of V-Ray OSL shaders when part of a VRayBlend material

Preprocessor-only output is polluted with diagnostic messages

Hair tessellation segments are not calculated correctly for orthographic views

Invalid geometric normal (000) for "HairVrShadeable" warning with Hair and Fur

Light portals appear noisier than rectangular lights due to undersampling

Opacity is not working with MultiMatteElement

Render to texture crashes with VRayFastSSS2 material

Rendering an animation with 2D displacement with VRayHDRI map with values greater than 1.0 causes the object to disappear on the second frame

Artifacts appear on the render channels drop-down control after show/hide history

color correction controls disappear and lens effects settings are misplaced if scrolled down and resized

Enabled color corrections cause major UI slow downs in ActiveShade mode

Incorrectly resized when loaded a scene and the side panels have been open

Raw output image file extension is not persistent

Render channels drop-down box progressively diminishing its height

Appears invisible in the viewport set to realistic preview

Bump map slot is not updated when plugging/unplugging a map in Slate Material Editor

Artifacts with animated object

Exclude list is not considered for generating VRayEdgesTex round corners

Generates artifacts on excluded objects with VRayFastSSS2/VRaySkinMtl

Generates darker result when clipping VRayFastSSS2/VRaySkinMtl in Raytraced mode

Falling back to CPU with very wide images

Crash in View-dependent mode in orthographic views

Crash with object-based VRayFastSSS2

Setting 2D displacement resolution to 1 crashes 3ds Max

Subdivision displacement in View-dependent mode is not calculated correctly for orthographic views

VRayFur does not generate proper defocusAmount render element with motion blur

Displaying parameters in the Compact Material Editor reinitializes ActiveShade rendering

Elliptical filtering is very slow with displacement

Crash when changing type in creation mode

Faceted results on subdivided meshes

Hair does not render when loaded through an XRef object

Hairs get occluded when light, camera and hairs are linked to an animated object

Automatically create proxies loads vrmeshes very slow

Incorrect normals geometry with mirrored transformation

Loading a specific Alembic file with particles crashes 3ds Max

NaN pixels with in the VRayRawShadow and VRayRawLighting render elements

Slow down when loading Alembic files with many meshes in 3ds Max 2017

Visibility lists are incorrectly refreshed

Multi-sampled motion blur produces artifacts on animated proxies

Doesn't work with the Vexus material from John Martini

Deleted VRaySun still appears in the VRaySky

Find VRaySun from an XRef'd scene when using VRaySky

Does not appear in the Material Editor when V-Ray RT/GPU is selected as render engine

Black color in Width map produces artifacts in the RGB and render elements

Crash when connected to bump slot through VRayNormalMap

Invalid bump normals warnings when source texture returns zero UVW coordinates

Normal maps are not rotated properly

Wrong tiling when plugged into bump map slot

3ds Max crashes when playing animation with Time Bend Controls mode set to Loop

Artifacts with Grid-based Self-Illumination

Bucket artifacts with a moving grid using Phoenix Light Cache together with motion blur

Different render result when rendering on CPUs with different number of cores

Each time a render diagram is expanded or collapsed, it is fitted again

Emissive lights are calculated in V-Ray RT even when the Fire channel does not exist

Geometry behind simulator occludes render elements

It is possible to open the right click menu when moving a point in the diagrams or gradients

Interface lag when looking at a missing frame from a very long cache sequence

Motion blur for volumetrics does not take into account Interval center

Per-axis zoom in the shading diagrams does not respect the cursor position

Rendering with motion blur and duration=0 will preprocess forever

Scene saved with the old curves in Simple Smoke mode always has Inactive transparency diagram

Scrubbing the timeline with animated Direct Cache index leads to 3dS Max crash

The Fire Color and Intensity curves should act as a whole when fitted

V-Ray RT won't render smoke shaded by Smoke channel

Volumetric Geometry mode creates holes in Alpha at geometry intersection when Jittering is enabled

When editing diagram handle coordinates, Smooth Bezier handles stop working properly

Wrong velocity scaling with imported volumetric simulation from Houdini

Rows are overlapping

Node transformation is applied only to the vertex channel but not to the normals channel

Crash with 8K OpenEXR files

Help button opens the system browser rather than default browser