V-Ray 5, update 2 hotfix 2 - now available (5.2.2)

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Here is our last release for this year, happy holidays to all!

V-Ray 5, update 2 hotfix 2 (V-Ray 5.2.2) is now available for download from our website.

New Features

V-Ray, VRayPhysicalCamera, V-Ray GPU

• Support for the texture mode of the lens distortion option in 3ds Max's Physical camera and VRayPhysicalCamera;

V-Ray

• VRayCryptomatte support for Refraction and Reflection; (don't forget to switch Affect All Channels for the materials you need)

Modified Features

V-Ray

• Add a "Manage Chaos License Server" button in Settings;
• Add a warning in the Analyze exporter tool about gif assets;
• Integrate the new RailClone API additions allowing non-geometric (light) objects instancing;
• Support for modifiers which affect Railclone objects in Standalone and Cloud;
• Add an option for V-Ray GPU IPR to use the Render states/counts/iterations/modes instead of the viewport ones;

V-Ray, V-Ray GPU

• Add an option for backface projection in VRayDecal;
• Improve VRayDecal viewport representation;
• VRayDecal to respect bounding box positions for ordering;
• Animatable VRayDecal parameters;
• Support for Phoenix Simulators and Particle Shaders in the V-Ray Atmosphere RE with V-Ray GPU;

V-Ray GPU

• Reduce kernel compilation times by up to 60%;

V-Ray Hair Mtl

• Change the default Compensate Energy in VRayHairNextMtl to OFF;

V-Ray Light

• V-Ray lights' settings to be set to default value with right click on the spinners;
• In creation mode the V-Ray light should inherit the parameter values of the previously edited light;

Bug Fixes

V-Ray

• UDIM textures with more than 99 tiles in one dimension do not work;
• Mapped fog color is not preserved on export with Preserve refraction in OverrideMtl;
• Uninstallation of Chaos Thumbnail Handler may cause errors if it fails to complete fast enough;
• Multiple VRayFastSSS2 materials do not export properly when they use the same VRayColor2Bump texture;
• Crash when changing decal angle parameters in Max 2019;
• VRaySoftbox's gradient handles are linked;
• Spinner controls steps in the plugins with Qt native UI are not adaptive;
• Anima characters not following walkway path on scene export;
• Switching between two instances of VRayBitmap does not update all parameters in the Compact editor;
• Wrong Lens Effects with Denoiser and Sharpen/Blur layers on big resolutions;
• 3ds max 2017 crash when creating lights from VRayToolbar;
• Anima Rigged characters' textures not rendering properly;
• Crash when using VRayDecal and Cryptomatte Render Elements;
• Closing the render settings window while GPU IPR is running resets Test resolution;
• The selected color space for OCIO is blank when using specific modified OCIO file in 3dsmax 2019;
• V-Ray not utilizing more than 64 threads in some cases on Windows 11;
• Bump is reversed in reflections;

V-Ray Material Library

• Create a new material library from a .max file doesn't work;

V-Ray GPU

• Black Light Cache prepass on high resolution renders;
• VRayDecal doesn't work with VRayFur and Ornatrix in V-Ray GPU;
• Different GI results with enable/disable render elements and HairNextMtl;
• Textured VRayDecal does not work with on-demand-mip-mapped mode ;
• The LPE don't capture the scattered self illumination of the EnvironmentFog or the VolumeGrid;
• Crash with multiple instances of VRayDecal;
• Crash in V-Ray GPU IPR when moving camera;
• GPU Light cache freezes with certain scanned materials;
• Memory leak with Light Cache Subdivs;
• Increasing the GI depth during GPU interactive rendering causes a crash with specific scenes;
• The Light Mix render element does not work correctly on GPU when the camera Auto Exposure is enabled;

V-Ray, V-Ray GPU

• Issues with Anti-aliasing (bucket sampler only) when using VRayCryptomatte mask and Multi/Sub-object material assigned to single object;
• VRayDecal V-Ray GPU IPR crash related to include/exclude lists

V-Ray, V-Ray GPU, VRayMultiSubTex, VRay Triplanar Tex

• VRayDecal doesn't work with texture randomizations;

V-Ray, VRayFur, VRayPhysicalCamera

• Composite map as a VRayDecal mask does not render on scene open;

VFB

• VFB1 history right click menu is bugged;

VRayGLSL, VRayOSL, VRayMDL

• Wrong tooltips with VRayMDLMtl;

VRayIES

• VRayIES lights custom shape override is not working when scene is reloaded;

VRayLight

• Dome light is created with wrong multiplier after scene reset;
• Wrong VRayLight type when picking different light from VRayToolbar while in creation mode;
• Dome light with units different from "Default" renders differently from the production renderer;

VRayVolumeGrid

• Crash during rendering the Helicopter Cosmos Asset and a Volume with Ray-traced scattering enabled;
• Memory leak of the uvw and nonDisplacedVertices buffers when rendering in mesh modes;

VRayMtl

• Enabling one of the new Translucency modes of the BRDFVRayMtl during interactive rendering causes issues;