V-Ray 5 - now available!

[matanov]

Hey guys,

I'm excited to announce that we've just released the official V-Ray 5. The builds are in the usual place.

All Beta licenses will be suspended. Trials will be reset so you will be able to get 1 month of free testing.

The Beta 5 forum will be locked as read-only for a couple of weeks before it gets archived. All V-Ray 5 communication will happen in the regular V-Ray for 3ds Max section.

Docs page.

Please have in mind that all 3rd party plugins won't work properly without V-Ray 5 compatible builds.

Known VFB2 limitations:

• VFB2 is still not ready in V-Ray Standalone, so you won't see the buffer while rendering. All images should be outputted as expected.
• Stereo is not ready
• Full MaxScript control is yet to be added

Change log after Beta 2:

Build 5.00.03 (V-Ray 5) (16 June 2020)
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New features:
(*) V-Ray GPU: Add support for the VRayNormalMap rotation parameter;
(*) VRayDirt: Add Streaks generation options;
(*) VFB2: Add magenta-green tint slider to the White Balance color correction;
(*) VFB2: History saved render settings loading and comparing;

Modified features:
(*) V-Ray: Add UI option to enable the MikkTSpace calculations from Global Switches;
(*) V-Ray: Add UI option to switch back to the Native 3ds Max material swatches;
(*) V-Ray: Optimize conversions between sRGB and ACEScg color spaces when using an OCIO configuration;
(*) V-Ray Cloud: Animated parameters of VRayDistanceTex are not exported properly;
(*) V-Ray Cloud: Animated position of geometry with large stationary interval differs;
(*) V-Ray Cloud/V-Ray GPU: Add initial support for tyFlow instances rendering;
(*) V-Ray: Faster calculation of VRaySun;
(*) V-Ray GPU: Automatically disable Out-of-core rendering when the engine type is RTX;
(*) V-Ray GPU: Implement Box sampler type for VRayVolumeGrid;
(*) V-Ray GPU IPR: Endless updates when having a camera with tweaked tilt and shift parameters;
(*) V-Ray Standalone: No image buffer rendering is implemented with VFB2, still processed output is written;
(*) VRayDenoiser: Remove "Generate render elements" UI option;
(*) VRayBitmap: Automatically set the transfer function and RGB color space for normal maps;
(*) VRayLightSelect: Add Subsurface mode;
(*) VRayMtl: Add some tooltips;
(*) VRayMtl: Add fabric presets based on Sheen;
(*) VRayOSL: Print warnings for unsupported OSL shader parameters;
(*) VFB2: Add 'None' option to hide the secondary color info in the status bar;
(*) VFB2: Add a progress bar for the loading of the History images;
(*) VFB2: Add image fitting types option and "Save in image" to the Background layer;
(*) VFB2: Group the History compare buttons in a single flyout button;
(*) VFB2: Implement renderer stats;
(*) VFB2: Preserve the original RGB channel when saving;
(*) VFB2: Save persistent settings independent on the scenes;
(*) VFB2: Support for color corrections and settings transfer for V-Ray Cloud;
(*) V-Ray Asset Browser: Add "Use real world scale" and "Use triplanar mapping" options on import;


(*) V-Ray Asset Browser: Rename the "ME" button to "Open ME on apply" to be more descriptive;
(*) V-Ray scene converter: Put the converted material nodes in Slate Material Editor for displayed materials after scene conversion;
(*) V-Ray Toolbar: V-Ray Toolbar to look relative to the vrenderXXXX.dlr directory for icon files to aid network installations;

Bug fixes:
(*) V-Ray: Body objects are always rendered with draft quality;
(*) V-Ray IPR: Incorrect VRayMtl with displacement texture after IPR update;
(*) V-Ray Cloud: Per-frame export for animated parameters of Noise map;
(*) V-Ray GPU: Crash or artifacts when VRaySwitchMtl uses the default submaterial (since Beta 1);
(*) V-Ray GPU: Renders may get overexposed with VRaySun when changing scene units due to overflow;
(*) V-Ray GPU CUDA: CPU bucket rendering crashes with On-demand mip-mapped textures;
(*) V-Ray GPU CUDA: Crash with Fractal_3.osl OSL shader;
(*) V-Ray GPU CUDA: IPR crashes when rendering Out-of-core with CPU device;
(*) V-Ray GPU RTX: OSL maps crash with shaders with string outputs;
(*) V-Ray GPU RTX: Random crash with particle system in the scene;
(*) VRayDisplacementMod: Vector displacement produces wrong geometry with scaled objects;
(*) VRayIES: Incorrect light cutoff when using the light shape for both shadows and illumination;
(*) VRayOSL: Crash after deleting maps linked to VRayOSLOutputSelector;
(*) VRayOSL: Shader and VRayOSLOutputSelector output values are reset when path to the OSL asset is modified;
(*) VRayPhysicalCamera: Transfer exposure to camera is not working properly with Exposure Value (EV) mode;
(*) VRayProxy: Wrong VRayParticleTex shading with alembic particle color (since Beta 1);
(*) VRayVolumeGrid: .AUR files where the grid data is over 8GB are unreadable, fix requires Phoenix 4.20 and newer;
(*) VRayVolumeGrid: Meshes are rendering without motion blur and the Mesh preview is broken when a modifier is applied;
(*) VRayVolumeGrid: The resolved cache paths show huge numbers if looking at a frame outside the Timeline Origin - Play Length range;
(*) VFB2: Crash when loading Layer presets (since Beta 2);
(*) VFB2: Crash when saving all channels to .vrimg with LightMix, LUT and high resolutions;
(*) VFB2: Random crash with bucket rendering after multiple frames;
(*) VFB2: Render view not updated when compare is disabled with no image loaded;
(*) VFB2: Slowdown when rendering a scene with LightMix on V-Ray GPU;
(*) VFB2: Sometimes Lens Effects layer UI becomes disabled no matter the enable flag;
(*) .vrscene exporter: Error when exporting a scene with empty mesh object;
(*) .vrscene exporter: Long string parameters containing escape characters get trimmed after 1023 symbols;
(*) V-Ray Material Preview: 3ds Max 2021 hangs when creating Double Sided material in Slate Material Editor;
(*) V-Ray Toolbar: Missing icons with light theme (since Beta 2);