V-Ray

• Add a button to transfer auto-exposure and/or auto-white balance to scene cameras

• Add MAXScript functions to start and stop IPR with V-Ray GPU

• Added Italian tooltip translation

• Cryptomatte support for DWA compressed OpenEXR files

V-Ray GPU

• Add support for adaptive dome light

• Add support for volumetric rendering

• Support for BRDF mode of VRayGLSL's PTX backend

• Re-organized the UI options

VFB

• Add option to disable VFB resizing on image load

V-Ray Light Lister

• Add control for VRayLights type

VRayDenoiser

• Integrated the NVIDIA AI denoiser as an alternative denoising engine

VRayVolumeGrid

• Support XForm modifiers in Volumetric render mode

V-Ray

• Fixed NaNs when sampling texmaps after Beta 1

• Remove the Photon Map GI engine from the UI

• Remove from UI the prepass and object-based multiple scattering options from VRayFastSSS2

• Make the automatic switch to effectResult channel optional

• Update Alembic to 1.7.5

• Use Visual Studio 2017 builds for all versions of 3ds Max

• When rendering spherical cameras, the z-depth channel for deep OpenEXR images should be the distance from the camera

• Changes to the auto-exposure options should be updated during IPR

V-Ray GPU

• Remove ActiveShade rendering mode, IPR is to be used for interactive previews

• Support for camera movement in VRayVelocity Render Element

• Improve animation export times

• Do not show render error messages forever

• Change defaults in V-Ray GPU in Max to 5000 samples and 0.01 noise threshold

• VRayFur does not update in animation

• Scenes with unavailable network assets export very slow

V-Ray/V-Ray GPU

• Unified installation paths, added versions to the shortcut names, updated environment variables names

.vrscene export

• Show a floating progress bar during scene export

VFB

• Switch the VFB to 3ds Max Qt instead of wxWidgets

VRayPluginNode

• Added export of the instantiated plugins for V-Ray GPU

VRayLight

• Improved adaptive dome light sampling

VRaySimbiontMtl/VRaySkinMtl

• Removed from the UI

VRayOSL/VRayMDL

• Add shader fingerprint validation

VRayVolumeGrid

• Multi-threaded *.aur cache import

• VRayVolumeGrid: Merged the OpenVDB DLL into the VRayVolumeGrid plugin

• Speed up rendering of scenes with VRayVolumeGrids in volumetric mode in 3ds Max

• Resolve environment variables in VRayVolumeGrid paths during rendering rather than during export

V-Ray scene converter

• Fixed "Highlight glossiness" handling when converting to VRayMtl material

• Add option to convert cameras to V-Ray Physical camera

• Convert 3ds Max Light Meters to VRayLightMeter

img2tiledexr.exe

• Detect opaque or monochrome images in the img2tiledexr tool

vdenoise.exe

• Improved the GUI when started without parameters

• The denoiser tool should preserve metadata in the output file

Bug Fixes

V-Ray

• Artifacts appear with irradiance map and light cache with adaptive dome light

• Auto exposure produces black output with small regions

• Changing the "Renderable" object property of an object is not updated in IPR

• Crash when calculating light cache in scenes with Forest Colour texture with multiple maps

• Crash when rendering a scene with matte reflections

• Crash when baking textures with Motion Blur

• Crash with XRef scenes and IP

• Displaced geometry normals are incorrect during light cache calculation

• Render to texture overrides elements with black outputs when disabled

• MAXScript auto-load script error with 3dsMax2018.4

• Noisy glossy refraction with BF\LC and Retrace turned on in the attached scene

• Physical camera exposure controls are applied when have V-Ray Physical camera with Exposure enabled

• RGBA elements in multichannel EXR files are not loaded properly

• Subimage name for "beauty" subimage in multipart EXR just an empty string, set to "rgba"

• Specific scene with relatively long faces renders slower with Embree

• The exit color for refraction is not working with old scenes

• Update GLSL shader examples to use the new style of passing uniform textures

• V-Ray Cloud submission dialog issues with HiDPI monitors

• Very high memory usage with out-of-process rendering on nearly empty scene

• VRayLightSelect produces black pixels with glossy materials with black fog color

V-Ray IPR

• 3ds max crashes to desktop when VRayScannedMtl is reloaded during IPR rendering

• Some crashes with VRayVRmatMtl in certain scenarios with VRayScene

V-Ray GPU

• Additional bump through VRayBumpMtl is not working with VRayScannedMtl

• Alpha values above 1 with VRayEnvironmentFog and Dome VRayLight (affect alpha)

• Artifacts with scaled VRayLight

• Bug with alpha channel on VRScan displacement

• Crash in specific scene with complex material setup

• Crash on the second render with specific scene with mip-mapped textures

• Crash with subdivision displacement

• Crashes with VRayFur with motion blur

• Crash when Hair Texture uses "Distance Along Strand Absolute" with V-Ray Fur

• Crash when resizing the VFB in IPR hybrid rendering mode

• Crash with VRayMultiSubTex with Gradient Ramp

• Crash when copying displaced geometry

• Crash with a heavy scene

• Directional double-sided VRayLights light distribution is not even with VRayEnvironmentFog

• Difference when rendering VRayBlendMtl with Additive (shellac) mode enabled

• Different render of VRayNormalMap

• Export for EXR settings (Option RE)

• Investigate an issue with GPU Displacement in a specific scene

• Memory leak with animation and geometry with modifiers

• Missing reflections on refractive VRayMtl with fog color different than (255, 255, 255) and VRayEnvironmentFog gizmo

• Multi/Sub-object material applied to Node with hairs renders black

• Object is rendered grey, without applied material

• Production render sequence output is saved twice

• Reduce VRayProxy print SD tree info in the log based on the verbosity level

• Tiling factor of VRayScannedMtl is not respected

• Unhandled exception with specific VRayVRmatMtls

• V-Ray exposure control is not working with Physical Camera

• VRayEnvironmentFog doesn't render properly in GPU when scatter GI is used

• Wrong shadows in a scene with proxies with transparent materials

V-Ray GPU CUDA

• The Distance Blend mode of the VRayFalloff texture doesn't work

VFB

• Crash when opening certain EXR images with ROI

• If the scene name is too long to fit in History Details, all other lines of text are not displayed

• V-Ray GPU rendering statistics appear skewed after render stop

VRayClipper

• Wrong lighting for Fur objects inside clipped geometry

VRayDirt

• Excluded object affects rendering of objects with inverted normals after Beta 1

VRayFur

• Crash with enabled tessellation and motion blur

• Crash if fur is applied to non-geometry objects

VRayGLSL

• Blurred textures with scaled UV coordinates with V-Ray GPU

• Enabling and then disabling the Quick Shader disables the preview of the material and makes it render black

• Parameters without loaded values in a specific scene cause crash with V-Ray GPU

• VRayLight

• Mesh light does not respect geometry flipping in V-Ray GPU

VRayHairMtl2

• Very slow rendering of hairs with opacity

VRayMtl

• Crash with enabled Abbe number and Full mode VRayLightSelect

• Fog color is ignored if VRayDisplacementMod is present

VRayMDL

• MDL assets are not transferred to DR slaves

• Message boxes are shown in quiet mode

• Subsurface absorption issues

VRayHDRI

• Color bleeding on the UV space edges with disabled tiling

VRayInstancer

• Wrong particles animation when .vrscene is exported with frame range

VRayLight

• Plane type light from X-Ref scene saved with earlier version is loaded half size after Beta 1

VRayVolumeGrid

• Crash after using Make unique operation on VRayVolumeGrid instances

• Crash on render after deleting an instance

• Crash when cloning (shift + click with the move tool)

• Crash when setting a VRayVolumeGrid as a Clipper mesh

• No scene shadows if Visible to Camera is disabled in Volumetric Geometry mode

• Fire/Smoke in Volumetric Geometry mode does not render at all when Min Visible Opacity is set to 0.0

VRayMDL

• Crash when rendering with full light select

VRayOptionRE

• No OpenEXR extra metadata is written

VRayOSL

• Crash with unsupported OSL widgets for certain types of tweaks

VRayPhysicalCamera

• Automatic vertical tilt is not updated during animation

• Environment and effects exposure control has effect even when not Active

VRayScannedMtl

• Environment and effects exposure control has effect even when not Active

• Remove Subdivsion parameter

VRaySwitchMtl

• Mismatching material indices

• Incorrect width of the parameters rollout on high DPI displays

VRayToon

• Crash with third-party geometry plugins

• V-Ray Toon line dissappears with big FOV camera values

vdenoise.exe

• Resize the denoiser window on denoising to match the screen resolution

.vrscene export

• Improve file write times

• Geometry animation is not exported when Geometry samples are set to 1

vrimg2exr.exe

• Option -info does not print "V-Ray information" data