V-Ray 5 for Rhino, hotfix 1 is now available!

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V-Ray 5 for Rhino, hotfix 1 is now available!

It can be download here:
download.chaosgroup.com

After installation, you will find more detailed info about the changes in the 'VRayForRhinoReleaseNotes' and the 'changelog' files:
.\Chaos Group\V-Ray\V-Ray for Rhinoceros\VRayForRhinoReleaseNotes.html
.\Chaos Group\V-Ray\V-Ray for Rhinoceros\changelog.txt

Konstantin

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V-Ray Vision

• Pen tablets can now be used for navigation in Vision
• Vision can now be interacted with fully through a remote connection
• An issue with loading 16-bit .tiff textures is resolved

Material Library

• Custom location for assets library can now be specified. Set the path in the ‘Asset Editor / Advanced Settings / Configuration / Remote Assets / Download Location’. Rhino restart is required for the new location to be used. Releasing the V-Ray license can be used as an alternative
• The initial assets update check can now be disabled using the ‘Asset Editor / Advanced Settings / Configuration / Remote Assets / Check for Updates’ checkbox. The setting remains disabled even between sessions, until manually toggled or until V-Ray is reinstalled. It is recommended that Check for Updates is disabled in case a network location is selected for the assets
• A correct message now appears in case lack of permissions is preventing the library from being downloaded or updated
• A warning icon no longer appears on the left of the ‘Materials’ library entry when the library folder does not exist on disk
• The default ‘Materials’ library is now automatically expanded to reveal its subfolders on initial load. The user-defined state persists between sessions from then on
• A number of issues caused by non-latin characters in the library path are resolved

Light Gen

• The custom assets library location specified in ‘Asset Editor / Advanced Settings / Configuration / Remote Assets / Download Location’ is also used for Light Gen assets
• Disabling the ‘Asset Editor / Advanced Settings / Configuration / Remote Assets / Check for Updates’ checkbox also affects Light Gen. It is recommended that Check for Updates is disabled in case a network location is selected for the assets
• A correct message now appears when lack of permissions is preventing the HDR environments from being downloaded or updated

Light Mix

• IES light adjustments can now be applied to the project. Note that the ‘To Scene’ function only works when the Group Instances Light Mix mode is used

Grasshopper

• Implemented Contours support. Toon Override materials loaded from the Rhino project or vrmat files can now be rendered in Grasshopper. A global contours option will be introduced in a later update
• Added a context-menu option to quickly set numeric values to V-Ray components’ color parameters

Other Improvements & Bug Fixes

• Notifications
  • V-Ray Version Notifier implemented. It uses the native operating system notification system to give you information when a new V-Ray update is available
  • A way for disabling the update notifications implemented. To do it disable the ‘Asset Editor / Advanced Settings / Configuration / Update Notifications’ checkbox
• Migrations
  • V-Ray Next scenes saved with CUDA or RTX engine selected or the interactive rendering mode enabled are no longer loaded incorrectly in V-Ray 5
• Asset Editor
  • The ‘Select Objects in Scene’ function can now be performed with multiple assets selected
  • ‘Data Window’ dropdown menu added to the exr output Image Options. It determines the way the VFB render region selection is handled when an output image is automatically saved
  • The lower limit of the Temperature slider in the Color Picker is changed to 900 to better reflect the starting point at which solid bodies begin emitting visible light
  • An issue preventing the Volumetric Environment settings to be reverted is resolved
  • The advanced camera Shutter Speed parameter value can no longer go below 0
  • An issue caused by quickly adding slots to the Multi-Sub texture is resolved
  • A speed optimization is done for the Material Preview Swatch in case Contour attributes are not used in the selected material
  • The Asset Editor no longer appears blank or empty when opening specific scenes
• Integration
  • The ‘Select Objects in Scene’ function can now be performed with multiple materials selected
  • Animated two-point perspective camera no longer mismatches the Rhino view
  • Fixed issue with camera updates during interactive rendering when a fixed focus distance is adjusted
  • An issue preventing images from being saved when the output file path contains non-standard characters is resolved
  • A number of issues caused by OS user name containing non-latin characters are resolved
  • Enabling material’s ‘Can be overridden’ option during interactive rendering no longer leads to a crash
  • Scene upgrade message once again correctly appears when opening projects saved with V-Ray 4.2
  • Proxy bounding box calculation is optimized. This results in faster proxy preview objects creation in both Rhino and Grasshopper
  • Rhino no longer crashes when a Bitmap texture creation is canceled before a valid file path is selected
  • Separate V-Ray Vision instances can be started for multiple Rhino instances
  • Clippers loaded in a worksession file no longer cause Rhino to hang
  • Adding or removing an attribute during interactive rendering no longer turns black
• V-Ray Core
  • Custom operating system display scale no longer causes the VFB to appear outside of the monitor bounds in some situations