V-Ray 5, update 2 hotfix 3 - now available (5.2.3)

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V-Ray 5, update 2 hotfix 3 (V-Ray 5.2.3) is now available for download from our website.

New Features:

V-Ray

• Adaptive Bucket Splitting;
• Support for Max 2023;
• Ability to bake metalness and roughness;
• Add an option to include the Rest LightMix channel when saving to file;
• Add fit aspect ratio to material/bitmap functionality for VRayDecal;
• Add an option in VRayDenoiser for denoising the alpha;

V-Ray IES

• Expose IES light shape and size to MAXScript;

Modified Features:

V-Ray

• Update Open Image Denoiser to version 1.4.2;
• Allow higher Max Size for GPU textures, when mode is set to Resize;
• Import for Cosmos materials with non-square textures;
• New Shortcut (N) in the VFB2 to EDIT notes in the History;
• Resumable rendering support for deep images;

V-Ray, VRayIES

• Make the VRayIES file button larger;

VFB

• Show more information when corrupted OCIO file is loaded regarding the error;

VRayOSL, V-Ray

• Support for vector-like structures;

Bug Fixes:

V-Ray

• Crash with VRayMultiSubTex;
• V-Ray Material Library path is not updated after installation if provided by environment variable;
• V-Ray Standalone cannot load 3rd party plugins dependencies from arbitrary locations;
• Cosmos importer fails to import asset with VRay2SidedMtl;
• Viewport IPR option disappears from the viewport menus when using max.vray as a default setting (Custom default switcher menu);
• Crash when rendering a specific scene file with 3dsmax frame buffer;
• Render artifacts on the voxel borders of a V-Ray proxy geometry with Displacement modifier;
• Modifying denoiser parameters in VFB2 with OIDN denoiser switches the denoiser type to Optix;
• OCIO2 config might fail to load depending on locale settings;
• VRayMultiSubTex produces incorrect results with Random Hue and Sat when exported;
• Incorrect render time after enabling A/B compare and selecting an A image and then saving to history;
• Missing parameters for the VRayUnclampedColor element;
• Crash when loading .tx sequences in VRayBitmap;
• Add support for Anima4D models export with Motion Blur;
• Map connections are lost when drag and drop material from V-Ray Material Library to the Compact material editor slot;
• Animated TyFlow cache with UVWmodifier is not exported as expected;
• The "All" LightMix parameters values are not saved to presets and history;
• Error on render resuming after enabling or disabling DR;
• Crash in V-Ray IPR with Forest Color map and latest Forest Pro version;

V-Ray, V-Ray GPU

• Incorrect results with VRayDecal during IPR debug shading;

V-Ray GPU

• Skipped frame when rendering non continuous frame list with V-Ray GPU;
• GPU rendering not showing correctly with 3ds Max frame buffer;
• Crash when using Matte objects, VRayAlSurface and Glass ;
• VRayMtl in SSS with Matte object crashes in animation using V-Ray GPU;
• Crash with CUDA CPU on MacOS;
• Swapping GPU devices in the same 3Ds Max session crashes IPR and production rendering;
• GPU LC is slower to render with big resolutions;
• VFB Display correction is briefly reset while preparing for rendering with V-Ray GPU;
• Rendering with CUDA a scene with BakeView produces black output;
• V-Ray GPU does not bake all pixels when rendering to textures;
• Crash when rendering scenes of objects with translucent materials and a shadow catcher;
• Artifacts with layered VRayDecal objects;
• VRaySun disc is rendered with offset in V-Ray GPU lately;
• VRayDecal does not project VRayEdgesTex;
• Texture baking doesn't work correctly with GPU;
• Lighting discrepancy between CPU and GPU results when LightDirect is used with Intensity higher than 1;
• Shadow Radius parameter of Directional and Omni light does not work;

V-Ray Light

• Make rendering of instances of disabled lights instanced via VRayInstancer consistent between Max and Standlone;
• Random crash in V-Ray IPR when creating VRayLight;
• Disabling the affectSpecular and affectReflections options of a Dome light leads to inconsistent results;

VRayMtl

• Crash when creating a Physical material in slate material editor using 3dsmax 2018;
• VRayMtl shortmap buttons are representing wrong maps when older scene is loaded in Max 2018;

VRayOSL, V-Ray

• MDL displacement is not exported correctly;

VRayVolumeGrid

• VDB caches with invalid min/max channel value metadata are not handled;

VRayIES

• VRayIES lights' include and exclude lists broken in MXS;