3dsmax2014 FYI

[ToucanCreative]

Looks like the 2014 sp is up!

Have a link, because I sure can't find anything on this?

EDIT: Oh, I see you're talking about Vray 2.4.04 for Max 2014. Handy indeed!

[stevesideas]

Great news ! Thanks Chaosgroup.

[alexyork]

Great stuff. A changelog would be great, and a heads-up if there are any known issues.

[stevesideas]

Aren't changelogs included in the install ?

[stevesideas]

Here you go:

Build 2.40.04 official
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New features:
(*) Support for 3ds Max 2014;
(*) V-Ray RT: Support for MultiScatter instancing;
(*) V-Ray RT: Support for Phoenix FD 2.1;


Modified features:
(*) V-Ray: Changed default settings of VFB's sRGB button, "Don't affect colors" option and "Gamma" value to suit Linear Workflow from the start;
(*) VRayCarPaint: Added support for displacement texture channel;
(*) VRayHDRI: Made file open dialog to remember the last used file type filter;
(*) VRayHDRI: The image file is now reloaded if it had been changed outside 3ds Max;
(*) VRayMtl: Added Self-illumination slot;
(*) Raw OpenEXR files now have ZIPS compression by default;


Bug fixes:
(*) VRayProxy: Objects pointing to vrmesh files without extension did not render;
(*) V-Ray RT: Fixed crash when a texmap is attached to an disabled environment override slot;
(*) V-Ray RT: Fixed error during initialization when Auto update bitmaps is enabled;
(*) V-Ray RT: Fixed wrong DOF with physical camera;
(*) V-Ray RT GPU: Fixed crash with materials with mapped IOR;
(*) VRayIESLight: Fixed issue causing wrong override shape dimensions when loading, if the previous scene had different units setup;
(*) VRayMultiSubTex: Fixed issue preventing drag and drop operations for subtex with index greater than 20;
(*) VRayPTex: Fixed a crash at the end of a rendering;
(*) V-Ray Light Lister: Fixed error in 3ds Max 2014;

[alexyork]

Thanks! Looks like a good few bugs got squashed.

[dean davies]

Hi there,

I'm trying to get my head around this new vector map system as I have to apply a lot of different options of graphics that are usually created in illustrator by graphic designers or art workers. These graphics are usually applied to windows of the stores I visualise on UVW mapped planes, so I use Vray material with the diffuse map as the image & a black & white image as an opacity map.

Currently I use large format jpg images for diffuse & opacity map to get crisp edges, but without adjusting the diffuse map to bleed past the boundaries of the opacity map the pixelation "ghost's" around the edge where there is miss match of the two maps.

The perfect solution is to use the vector maps to replace the diffuse jpg & the opacity jpg, but I can not get the vector map to work as an opacity map within a Vray material.]

This new system would be great to replace my current method and speed up my process as sometimes I spend considerable time adjusting maps to get over the missmatch problem.

Has anyone had success with using the vector map i the opacity channel? Am I missing something obvious?

AH, sorted it, played with the alpha source and now the transparency is working, great addition in my eyes, going to save me so much time & effort!

[GoncaloP]

It seams that it's back again...

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Should I replace it with the old lightlister?

3dsMaxDesign 2014 & Vray 24004 64bit

[tashko.zashev]

It seams that it's back again...

Should I replace it with the old lightlister?

No, should work fine without errors with V-Ray build 2.40.04.

Could you try to delete the file "VRay-VRayLightLister.mcr" from folder C:\Users\Your_User\AppData\Local\Autodesk\3dsMaxDe sign\2014 - 64bit\ENU\usermacros?

3DS Max needs to be restarted after that.

[GoncaloP]

After delete the file and restart max it shows back again.

[tashko.zashev]

Ah, sorry my mistake.

Same folder : C:\Users\Your_User\AppData\Local\Autodesk\3dsMaxDe sign\2014 - 64bit\ENU\usermacros

You should have a file " _temp7556.mcr ", try to delete it and start Max again.

[GoncaloP]

Same folder : C:\Users\Your_User\AppData\Local\Autodesk\3dsMaxDe sign\2014 - 64bit\ENU\usermacros

You should have a file " _temp7556.mcr ", try to delete it and start Max again.

That does the job!
Thanks

[tashko.zashev]

Thank you for the update GoncaloP, I'm glad to hear that this solves your issue.