V-Ray 6, hotfix 1 available for download

[matanov]

Hey guys,

V-Ray 6, hotfix 1 is now available for download from our website.

Build 6.00.06 (V-Ray 6, Hotfix 1) (July 28, 2022)

New features

• Keep the renderer settings when switching the production renderer between V-Ray and V-Ray GPU;

Modified features

V-Ray

• Proper alignment on placing cosmos walls and ceiling suited assets;
• Cosmos importer - decal autogrid/auto-placement;
• New icons for the Vantage Toolbar;
• Implement QT UI of Environment rollup;
• Implement Qt UI of VRayBitmap;

VRayMtl

• Texture slots for fog depth and translucency amount;

Bug fixes

V-Ray

• Evaluate diffuse and specular separately only for non-volume hits with VRayLight Affect atmospherics;
• Saving EXR directly from the VFB is not multithreaded (regression);
• Artifacts with matte object and invisible VRayLight;
• Reflections dim falloff does not work with matte object;
• Invisible lights are visible in front of Matte surfaces;
• Animated thickness parameters for thin film in VRayMtl are not exported;
• Crash in compact material editor when dragging VRayBlendMtl's coat material to a free slot;

V-Ray GPU

• Crash on GPU rendering when using splines as distribute-on objects;
• Optix crashes with Chaos Scatter and assigned surface color on the source object when the distribute-on object does not have any texture to be used as a base map;
• Specific scenes cause the GPU engine to crash;
• Clipped light geometry when 'Clip lights geometry' option is disabled and non-light geometry is in front of lights;
• Wrong VRayClipper material on clipped VRayLight objects when set to Use object material;

VFB

• Crash when picking VRayScatter for a Cryptomatte Mask;

VRayDirt

• DirtTex: "Distribution" parameter must be disabled only for the reflection modes;

VRaEnmesh

• VRayEnmeshMod's Crop box size resets with UnwrapUVW;
• VRayEnmesh produces wrong results when shaded with VRayTriplanarTex;
• VRayEnmesh ignores hidden polygons and renders the full mesh in its objects list;
• Limit the VRayEnmesh list to not accept the same object more than once;
• Rearrange the UI

VrayInstancer

• Black IPR rendering after refresh when using VRayInstancer;

VRaySun/VRaySky/VRayAerialPerspective

• VRaySun's Clouds not updating in IPR when used only in VRayDome;