Announcement

**Peter.Chaushev** · 17-02-2023, 03:53 AM

Improvements and bugfixes

Added support for SketchUp 2023
A new 'Rebuild All Viewport Widgets' menu action is added. It redraws all V-Ray viewport widgets in the scene eliminating discrepancies caused by accidental or manual widget geometry manipulation
Textured Cosmos materials with no Diffuse texture not get their size set correctly with a Helper Texture
License error messaging now redirects to the Chaos License Server web interface
A viewport preview for the camera clipping planes is implemented. Enable Clipping and change any of its parameters to see the viewport guides. Left-click anywhere in the scene while the clipping preview is visible to move the near clip plane
The performance of the Purge Unused Assets V-Ray feature is improved
Using the native SketchUp material purge action no longer affects merged Cosmos asset
Interactive rendering support for 'Always face camera' components is implemented. Note that this functionality remains disabled during live link with V-Ray Vision and Chaos Vantage
A number of issues related to SketchUp materials converted to V-Ray ones are resolved
An issue causing plain color materials used in Enscape library assets to be rendered with an incorrect gamma curve in V-Ray is resolved
Loading V-Ray in combination with multiple 3rd-party plugins (Skatter & FlexTools) no longers hinders SketchUp
Improved compatibility with a selection of 3rd-party plugins that were incorrectly modifying a specific V-Ray constant
An issue leading to an incorrect migration of projects created with V-Ray 3.6 and then imported in the current version is resolved
Light intensity changes done with the Interaction tool are now respected during interactive rendering
Picking a Depth of Field focus point ca now be done during interactive rendering
Bump effects no longer disappear during CPU interactive rendering when material parameters are adjusted
V-Ray’s dynamic-link library load order is improved to guarantee correct initialization under all circumstances
An issue preventing V-Ray Fur from growing correctly on a displaced surface in specific situations is resolved
Fixed an issue preventing V-Ray from being installed correctly for Windows users with specific non-Latin characters in their name
Loading a configuration file for silent installation no longer overwrites it after the process is completed
Hovering with cursor over the 'Extensions > V-Ray > Tools' menu label no longer causes SketchUp to become unresponsive
V-Ray GPU: Fixed an issue causing increased render time of specific scenes with the V-Ray CUDA GPU engine
macOS: An issue preventing SketchUp from quitting properly is fixed
macOS: The first use of the Interaction Tool for a light no longer activates the Paint Bucket tool
Script access: the legacy LiveScene class is removed and functionality transferred to VRay::Context
Added native Apple silicone (M1) support for the proprietary V-Ray UI components like the Asset Editor and Light Gen
Mathematical calculations can now be performed in all number field inputs. This includes basic operations like addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division (example: 100*0.2=20) but also more advanced operations like modulus, power, root, permutation, factorial, sine, cosine, etc.
The Pick Focal Point button no longer enters an active state when clicked. Instead it activates the tool for picking the distance once and then returns to its initial state
Errors caused by missing textures being replaced by raw bitmap buffers during Swarm rendering no longer cause the Log window to pop up
Errors caused by an attempt to save a Host Material to a custom Asset Library in the left fly-off panel no longer cause the Log window to pop up
Tag names are now respected when inputting a string in the outliner’s search box
The GPU device selection is no longer reset each time its dropdown is expanded
An issue causing all color slot sliders to move with an offset when the Sliders Color Space is set to Screen(sRGB) in the Configuration settings rollout is resolved
The Collaboration window is no longer blank when opened with no internet connection. A ‘Try again’ screen is shown instead
The Chinese version of the Sky’s Phase X and Phase Y parameter labels are now listing the correct unit of measure which is percent (%)

Vision

Chinese translation is implemented. This new translated version of the Vision UI is automatically selected when the Chinese version of V-Ray is active

Announcement

V-Ray 6 for SketchUp, hotfix 2 is now available!

V-Ray 6 for SketchUp, hotfix 2 is now available!

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