V-Ray 5, update 1 hotfix 2 now available (5.1.2)

[matanov]

Hey guys,

V-Ray 5, update 1 hotfix 2 (V-Ray 5.1.2) is now available for download from our website.


New features


V-Ray

• Add support for 3ds Max 2022. The installation is now using the Autodesk plugin package;

V-Ray GPU

• Add absorption color for the Volume Grid;

Modified features


V-Ray GPU

• Support for motion blur for the Chaos Phoenix's Particle Shader;

V-Ray GPU IPR

• Slow GPU LC preview when moving the scene during rendering;

New VFB

• Implement vfbcontrol history options;
• Shift "Render" button for "Render last" function;

VRayMtl

• The fog color should be enabled in Thin-walled mode;

VRayUVWRandomizer

• Incorrect textures previews (produces black solid color) in slate material editor;

.vrscene exporter

• Export scene offset = ON;

Bug fixes


V-Ray

• Crash when rendering with wrong version DR server;

V-Ray IPR

• Crash when consecutively hiding multiple imported identical Cosmos assets during rendering;

V-Ray GPU

• 3ds Max freezes when there isn't enough VRAM and GPU Light Cache is enabled;
• Adaptive lights grid renders visible artifacts;
• Crash with GPU Light Cache in hybrid mode after adding/removing light;
• Crash with VRayCarPaintMtl with flake size = 0;
• ETA is missing while rendering using GPU Light Cache;
• Objects are missing with GPU Light Cache enabled;
• Specific opacity texture is rendered incorrectly with On-demand mipmapping;

V-Ray GPU IPR

• Crash with GPU Light Cache;
• Crash with RTX when deleting VRayDisplacementMod's texmap during rendering;
• Light cache is not shown during calculation phase with viewport IPR;
• Undoing/redoing hide operations of multiple proxies during rendering causes crashes or endless kernel compilation;
• Unhandled exception in "Preparing direct light manager" when starting DR session;

V-Ray Cloud

• Forest Boundary Checking Edge mode doesn't render as expected;

VRayLight

• Disc lights produce noisy shadows with Brute Force GI engine;

VRayMtl

• Material with thin translucency renders transparent inside VRay2SidedMtl;
• Missing highlight with thin-walled glossy refraction;
• Outlines appear at the edges of opacity maps;
• Wrong result with refraction glossiness values below 0.78;

.vrscene exporter

• Missing bump in OSL shaders;

Cosmos browser

• High CPU usage when the Chaos Cosmos Browser Service is not running;