V-Ray for Maya 3.40.05 now available

[Mihail.Djurev]

There's a new update to V-Ray for Maya available for download on our website.
The new version includes several important bug fixes over 3.40.04. Here's the change log:

New features:
(*) V-Ray: Support for half-float TIFFs;

Modified features:
(*) V-Ray: Improved performance with dynamic geometry on machines with more than 32 cores;
(*) V-Ray: More robust detection of changed files for the bitmap cache;
(*) Ornatrix: Support for textured hair widths;

Bug fixes:
(*) Lighting render element: Fixed "Lighting" RE not generating correctly;
(*) MayaLightDirect: Fixed artifacts with soft shadows and shadow bias;
(*) V-Ray: Tiff files weren't closed properly on Windows;
(*) V-Ray: Fixed MultiMatte not working in VRayBlendMtl without MultiMatteID;
(*) V-Ray: Fixed crash with NURBS of first degree;
(*) V-Ray: Fixed wrong rendering of UDIM textures with frame offset;
(*) V-Ray: Fixed crash with viewport IPR panel in Hypershade;
(*) V-Ray IPR: Fixed slowdown when mouse tracking is enabled;
(*) VRayDenoiser: Fixed failure with hardware acceleration on very large images;
(*) VRayDisplacement/Subdivision: Fixed crash when baking to Ptex;
(*) Ornatrix: Fixed MacOSX support;
(*) VRayScannedMtl: Fixed watermarks appearing even with a license;
(*) VRayVolumeGrid: Fixed crash when loading a cache while IPR is running;
(*) VRayVolumeGrid: V-Ray maxRenderThreads setting will be respected during emissive lights creation;
(*) V-Ray GPU: Fixed bump issues with UDIM tiling;


Best regards,
Mihail Djurev,
V-Ray for Maya Team Lead

[FSGFX]

ooh thanks...

[Mihail.Djurev]

We released a hot fix for V-Ray for Maya. You can find it on our site, its version number is 3.40.06

Here's the change log:

Bug fixes:
(*) V-Ray: Fixed "error writing file" message when writing PNG with multimatte element set to material ID;
(*) VFB: Fixed line artifacts from the bucket brackets on OSX;

Modified features:
(*) V-Ray: Increased default texture cache size to 4000MB;


We advise switching to 3.40.06, especially if you render on a farm.