V-Ray 6 for Rhino, update 2.3 is now available!

[Peter.Chaushev]

V-Ray 6 for Rhino, update 2.3 is now available!

It can be downloaded at:
download.chaos.com

This update brings:

• Fixes for issues related to conversion of Rhino materials to V-Ray and handling of V-Ray materials in the Rhino viewport are resolved
• Improved UI toolbars and script access support in Rhino 8
• Various fixes and improvements introduced to the Cloud rendering scene submit workflow
• Additional Improvements and fixes that cover workflows related to interactive rendering, NVIDIA AI Denoiser, Proxy and V-Ray Scene imports, overall stability, and more

Full release notes are available after installation at %PROGRAMFILES%\Chaos Group\V-Ray\V-Ray for Rhinoceros\VRayForRhinoReleaseNotes.html
or online at https://docs.chaos.com/display/VRHINO/V-Ray+6

[Peter.Chaushev]

Improvements & bugfixes

• Improved V-Ray toolbar icons in Rhino 8. The quality of the icons is now consistent when varying their size. A dark-theme specific icons set is also included
• The file path verification in the Export V-Ray Scene and Export V-Ray Proxy windows is improved
• Entering sleep mode no longer severs the communication between V-Ray and Rhino
• Asset Editor and other V-Ray windows now always open in the center of the Rhino window by default
• An issue preventing Hue from being set to 0 or 1 in the Color Picker is now resolved
• Deleting multiple maps of the same texture type simultaneously no longer causes a crash
• An issue causing Blend materials from vrscene files to not import properly via the V-Ray Scene Importer is resolved
• An issue preventing the Dirt texture's Ignore Self-occlusion option from functioning correctly is resolved
• An issue causing incorrect viewport representation of Rhino compound materials with V-Ray sub-materials is resolved
• Conversion of a Rhino material with nested V-Ray materials within no longer causes the sub-materials to be duplicated
• An issue preventing Rhino's Rendered View option "Shadows only" from functioning is fixed
• An issue preventing changes to V-Ray materials from being registered if they are slotted within Rhino Blend or Double Sided materials is resolved
• V-Ray Decal is no longer identified by Rhino as a bad object
• An issue causing textures within Rhino materials converted to V-Ray to disappear is resolved
• An issue causing a crash when adding and moving a Proxy Mesh during Interactive rendering is resolved
• An issue preventing the update of the Scatter's preview when changing guests probability, is now resolved
• Sending LightMix changes to a Light with a slotted texture no longer produces additional nested textures
• An issue preventing the import of Instancer geometries from Proxy Scene files is resolved
• A crash upon merging Cosmos assets during Interactive Rendering is resolved
• A crash caused by importing Enmesh assets from Cosmos during Interactive rendering is resolved
• An issue causing the NVIDIA AI Denoiser's Upscale option to be enabled for each Denoiser type is resolved
• An issue with enabled NVIDIA AI Denoiser's Upscale option breaking the preview of a Cloud job and a Viewport rendering is resolved
• An issue preventing Cloud rendering job name from being populated when restarting the submit process is resolved
• Fixed an error appearing when Cloud jobs are submitted multiple times in a row
• Attempting to upload an image via the Chaos Cloud Collaboration window before rendering no longer produces an error. A warning is shown instead
• Improved notification for missing Chaos Cloud application
• Cloud window no longer causes an error to appear briefly when closing Rhino
• Canceling a Cloud job submittal shortly after launch no longer causes an error
• Fixed an issue with V-Ray Scene files containing a Dome light with modified control points rendered in Chaos Cloud or V-Ray Standalone
• Added script access support for Python 3.9 and C# 9.0 in Rhino 8
• Grasshopper’s V-Ray Camera component ‘Get Active Rhino Viewport’ and ‘Look through Camera’ functions are now accessible via script