Support for 3ds Max 2018

Add Full mode for light select elements and made it the default setting

Add material/node picking in VFB

Add right-click menu (real zoom, view navigation)

Added support for CPU rendering (c++/cpu device type)

Added support for NVIDIA NVLink

Add support for Full mode Light Select Render Element on GPU

Initial support for SSS in MDL

Ability to load progressive resumable files in the VFB

Add the ability to override textures in MDL parameter initialization with V-Ray plugins

Add an option to include or exclude render elements in deep files

Add an option to save render elements in separate folders

Add more material types to the V-Ray toolbar V-Ray Material button

Add warnings and abort the rendering if it fails to read tile data from tiled OpenEXR file

Disable subpixel color mapping when using adaptive lights

Distributed accumulation of the light contributions for adaptive lights

Error in VRayLightLister script with VertexPaint modifier

Faster rendering of proxies and instances when Embree is enabled

Grey out Motion blur samples when Use default moblur samples is checked

If there is only one instance of a mesh in the scene, it should always be static geometry

Improve parsing of many small .vrscene files in a single scene

Improved error messages for writing raw OpenEXR files

Rename the One voxel per mesh option in the V-Ray mesh export dialog to Optimize for instancing and enable it by default

Take into account the Skip Existing Images Max option when using V-Ray VFB

The default value for the "Dynamic memory limit" option should be 0 (unlimited)

V-Ray lights should draw black in the viewports when disabled

VRayRawShadow/VRayShadows/VRayMatteShadows render elements are incorrect with adaptive lights

Optimized scene updates

React to changes in the render mask; - if turned on from the beginning

Add MaxScript option (vrayExportRTScene incrBaseFrame:true ...) for incremental .vrscene export

Improve memory usage when there are millions of instances in the scene

Remove Coherent tracing option from the UI

When rendering production we should notify the scene nodes for every frame

VRayColor2Bump texture is no longer required in order to have bump with procedural textures

Enable VRayClipper and VRayDirt to mutually respect each other

OpenCL version supports AMD GPUs only

Optimized Gradient and Gradient Ramp textures

Print a warning that GPU only supports bitmaps in VRayTriplanarTex

Add frame number to the Render history images details

Add overlay for active right-click menu modes (Real Zoom, Select Object...)

Enlarge arrows on flyout buttons as they are very hard to see

World to camera and camera to world transformations are wrong

Support for alternative location of OSL include files

Add support for AutodeskPointClouldMtl Multiplier option

Renamed former modes to Direct ... to indicate they are concerning direct illumination only

Add UI support for MDL parameter annotations

Add support for object space

Improve MDL error handling in case of unexpected parameters

Implement proxy preview caching

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

Add a light multiplier parameter

Add primary visibility control to aerial perspective

Deep EXR output through Spherical Camera generates wrong Z value for objects behind camera plane

Add an option to use environment variables in cache files paths

Display the viewport label only when there is no cache loaded

New Bezier and Spline ramp points should follow the slope of the curve

Option to disable the Optimizing Volumetrics rendering pre-pass

Reduce the memory usage of the mesh preview and rendering

Add an -offset option to make it easier to use Backburner

Optimize vdenoise.exe hardware accelerated version

Enable Buffer size (in MB) values of 0 and greater than 8000 in the GUI

Adaptive light artifacts with low LC subdivs

Artifacts with VRayEnvironmentFog and adaptive lights in certain situations

Crash when rendering VRayFur on Body Object through VRayPhysicalCamera (3ds Max 2016 and earlier)

Crash when updating textures with external programs while ActiveShade is running

Crash with Data Channel modifier Curvature operator

Faceted shading when using standard lights with VRayShadow with big area shadow size and Box type

First atmospheric effect result is applied twice if the next effect is aerial perspective with active set to false

Missing shadows of proxies when motion blur is on and Embree for motion blur is off

Incorrect reflective caustics on matte surfaces

Object's Subdivs multiplier has no effect for VRayFur, Ornatrix and ForestPro

Progressive sampler memory usage increases with each resumed frame

Wrong environment mapping in reflections of matte objects

Wrong render of V-Ray lights in Render mask Layer mode

Wrong render progress during loading and saving progressive resumable files

Zero render image dimensions are set when rendering with 3ds Max frame buffer and VFB region is set

Add VRayToon invert parameter to the export of render element

Animated texmap output amount is not rendered correctly in animations with production rendering

Artifact with direct lights and VRayEnvironmentFog

Artifact with volume grid and direct lights with shadow radius enabled

Changing the sampling parameters during interactive rendering breaks the sampling

Crash when opening the Material Editor with bitmap textures during ActiveShade session

DR server may become unusable if the file stream reception from the client is interrupted

Disappearing geometry with VRayLightMtl and Direct Illumination on during ActiveShade session

GLSL textures do not render

Missing first segment of RailClone object rendered with DR

Rendering never finishes when rendering animation with DR and no local host

Resumable rendering overwrites the render elements separate saved images for the skipped frames with the last frame's ones

Scenes with animated lights crash on second frame when rendered in production with DR

The static geometry option of VRayDisplacementMod is not exported properly when the displacement mode is subdivision

The first frame of animated FOV in PhysicalCamera renders wrong

VRayLightMtl Direct illumination subdivisions are not taken into account

VRayToon causes refraction fog color rendered more intense

Wrong progress bar with Production rendering

Rendering is restarted when OCIO is enabled/disabled in the VFB

Adaptive Lights are not updated after change in region/resolution during ActiveShade

Adaptive Lights space is always allocated even when adaptive lights are disabled

Add support for arbitrary clipper exclude list items

affect_alpha for dome light does not work for refraction rays

Animation stuck on the third frame in specific scene (out of process)

Artifact in the zenith of the sky with VRayAerialPerspective

Artifacts with Keep continuity of VRayDisplacementMod and VRayScannedMtl

VRayBlendMtl material not rendered with OpenCL rendering

CUDA clamps VRayLightMtl with assigned VRayColor

Camera lens distortion is not working when motion blur is ON

Camera position is not updated when using a Camera Map Per Pixel map in a scene with an animated camera

Can't make bump working with rounded edges and composite tex in Max

Crash with particular scene in V-Ray GPU in Max

Crash with render to texture in Max

Crash with shared VRayEdges textures between materials in specific scene

Different results with VRayClipper and Camera rays only option enabled

Dome light is visible in the alpha through matte object with opacity

Driver 380+ causes some scenes to render bitmaps with wrong UV

GI is calculated in with RT GPU mode, even when OFF

GPU LightCache reports increasing memory usage between frames when rendering animation

GPU renders black when BRDFVRayMtl::fresnel=1

Gradient color changes in VRaySoftBox are not handled properly

Improve triangle intersection precision

Installer should set CUDA_CACHE_MAXSIZE to at least 256MB

Memory leak with VRayMDLMtl

Objects with VRayOverrideMtl and Visible to camera off are still rendered in RT GPU

OpenCL renders black in active shade after a scene change

Reduce CPU usage when RT is paused

RT GPU (CUDA) doesn't render BRDFVRayMtl fog color texture

Reflection/Refraction are not matte when rendered with RT CUDA

Remove double adding to normals RE

Sometimes V-Ray may enter a deadlock when rendering with CUDA

Sphere lights with animated scale crash when rendered with motion blur

Stage 2 error with Forest Pack scene

Take into account the UVW generator when baking textures

TexAColorOp in power mode not working as expected

Textures are not rendered if the filename contains the "$" symbol

The Color opacity option has been suspended by V-Ray GPU mode

The Use pixel aspect button in the VFB doesn't work when rendering with GPU

The VFB is not getting reset after AL are built for GPU in Production rendering

VRayDenoiser produces artefacts on VRayProxy in the denoised result when DR

VRayDirt with bias is flickering in animations

VRayPhysicalCamera optical vignetting is not rendered with CUDA

VRayTriplanarTex was not rendered correctly with tiled UVs greater than 1

Washed out effect of Soft Light blending in Composite texture

Wrong alpha channel with VRayLights with Directional parameter above 0.0

Wrong progress bar with GPU Production rendering

Canceling copying of textured light causes crash in specific scene

IPR didn't stop when the VFB was closed

Random rendering start failure

Wrong 2D displacement with scene manipulations

There are files generated in the folder c:\user\vlado on DR render servers

VRayHDRI with Ground projection is not correctly projected on a plane that exactly coincides with the VRayHDRI ground

Textures with Ground projection enabled are not correct on matte objects when visible through reflection

Not working with VRayLightSelect render element

Missing shadows with dynamic geometry

Unhandled exception when mesh type clipper is used with 3ds Max standard lights and shadows

Crash when copying exclude lists, containing deleted nodes, through MaxScript

Exclude lists stop working properly after some modifications

Crash when rendering VRayFur placed on Body objects defined by splines (with any camera and from viewport)

Differences in scale between Particle Flow rendering natively and instanced

Export to .vrmesh of objects with large number of instances never completes

VRayInstancer does not render materials with bitmaps properly on the instanced geometry

Light meter object cannot be picked

Crash during rendering

All flyout buttons are not expandable during post-effect calculations

CC sliders' numeric value edit boxes are not scaled properly on HiDPI screens

Middle button panning gets disabled when there is the Pixel Info window open

Panning out of the VFB with real zoom on sticks

Pixel info shows values for the wrong image when Compare A|B is swapped

effectsResult channel is created even in create Render Elements only mode

Crash after scene reset

Exporting and rendering a scene causes crash with out-of-process V-Ray RT

Hard-coded textures in MDL materials render black

Index of refraction calculations are broken

Loading an mdl file after mdl_filename has been cleared through MaxScript crashes 3ds Max

Material parameters of enum types are not overridden

Materials with df::tint modifier have wrong shadows

NaNs are generated when shading degenerated faces

Not exported when inside a blend material

Opacity maps cause rendering artifacts

Stopping a render, resetting the scene and rendering again causes unhandled exception

Random crash on opening the Compact material editor

Wrong Face IDs with Alembic meshes

Broken normals with VRayMtl

Renders too dark

Crash on rendering end

Nodes with modified material in Snippet editor disappear in V-Ray RT renders

Nested refractive spheres don't get intersected correctly

The toon effect does not respect trace sets

VRayLight type Dome is completely covered with toon color in Orthographic renders

Unhandled exception when rendering with UDIM tiles

Artifacts when rendering overlapping containers in Volumetric Geometry mode

Black artifacts rendering with Light Cache when the container is inside refractive geometry with gray fog color

Can't use Stoke MX Field_texmap to control the smoke opacity channel

Exporting a .vrscene with VRayVolumeGrid calculates light and particle pre-passes

First frame is skipped when looped

Opening a cache file with a negative frame index does not load the rest of the sequence

The Loop Overlap option is not exported to V-Ray RT and .vrscene from 3ds Max

VRScenes exported from 3ds Max always have Probabilistic Volumetrics forced On

Grouped lights are not displayed

Denoising on GPUs fails in a specific situation