Hello, The 3.20 builds are finally visible on the web site. There will be a patch next week that adds a Cube 6x1 camera with stereo support and some minor fixes. The changelog is as follows: Build 3.20.01 (official) (25 May 2015) ============== New features: (*) VRayVolumeGrid: Added support for rendering of fluid simulation data (Phoenix FD, Field3D and OpenVDB); (*) V-Ray: Added ability to add/remove DR servers on the fly from the Render Progress window; (*) V-Ray: The DR servers list is re-read whenever the vray_dr.cfg file is modified during rendering; (*) V-Ray: Added button to open the V-Ray messages log window; (*) V-Ray: Added camera object properties to control the number of transformation samples for camera motion blur; (*) V-Ray: Added support for 3ds Max 2016, including the new Physical Camera and Physical Camera Exposure Control; (*) V-Ray: MaxScript parameter to control the DMC random seed; (*) V-Ray: The V-Ray object properties allow to specify a given map channel as velocity channel (useful with some Alembic importers); (*) V-Ray: Provided tooltip descriptions for most of the renderer settings; (*) V-Ray RT CPU: Support for VRayEnvironmentFog; (*) V-Ray RT GPU: Added support for Composite map rendering; (*) V-Ray RT GPU: Added support for displacement; (*) V-Ray RT GPU: Added support for VRayMtl anisotropy; (*) V-Ray RT GPU: Added UDIM tag support; (*) V-Ray RT GPU: Implemented QMC sampling for CUDA engine; (*) V-Ray RT GPU: Initial support for texture baking; (*) V-Ray RT GPU: Support for spherical panorama cameras; (*) V-Ray RT GPU: Added support for 3ds Max Spot and Omni lights Decay and Near/Far Attenuation parameters; (*) V-Ray RT GPU: Added support for textures output Bezier curve output color correction; (*) VRayProxy: Added better methods for generating viewport preview meshes based on mesh simplification; (*) VRayProxy: Added Show whole mesh viewport display option; (*) VRayProxy: Support for exporting the VRayInstancer as a .vrmesh file preserving the instancing; (*) VRayStereoscopic: Support for stereo spherical/cylindrical panorama cameras; (*) VFB: Added ability to load the render settings for an image from the history window; (*) VFB: Can be zoomed in/out with the regular +/-/* keys (useful for remote access from mobile devices); (*) VRayCurvatureMap: A new texture similar to VRayDirt; useful for detecting mesh curvature; (*) VRayFur: Faster rendering; can now be accelerated by Embree; (*) Hair&Fur: Faster rendering; can now be accelerated by Embree; (*) VRayInstancer: Added ability to override node and V-Ray object properties of the source objects; (*) VRayInstancer: Added parameters to control the random seed, render percentage; (*) VRayInstancer: Added an experimental option for multithreaded instance generation (only for the V-Ray portion of the code); (*) VRayLight: Added a line that shows the orientation of the dome lights in the viewport, it also shows the center of VRayHDRI wrapping; (*) VRayOSLMtl: Added support for vray_subsurface() closure; (*) VRayOSLMtl: Added support for vray_hair() closure; (*) VRayOSLMtl/VRayOSLTex: Support for drop-down controls; (*) VRayHDRI: Added support for loading PNG grayscale with alpha images; (*) Texture baking: Additional bake elements for render to texture: VRayMtlReflectIORBake, VRayReflectionFilterMap; (*) V-Ray scene converter: Added initial implementation of conversion of Corona materials and lights; (*) ply2vrmesh: Support for conversion of particles from .geo and .bgeo files; (*) vrayspawner.exe can assign separate DR nodes to different processor groups; Modified features: (*) V-Ray: Reduced light cache leaks through a new parameter “Leak prevention”; (*) V-Ray: New default settings for the light cache; (*) V-Ray: The GI subdivs multiplier in the V-Ray object properties has been renamed to “Subdivs multiplier” and affects all shading samples for the particular object; (*) V-Ray: The render mask can work with transparent and not Visible to Camera objects along the ray paths; (*) V-Ray: The render mask on selected objects is intersected by VRayLights; (*) V-Ray: Setting the Global subdivs multiplier to 0.0 does not affect the irradiance map and other reflection/refraction interpolation maps; (*) V-Ray: Added UI view switcher to the Global DMC sampler rollout; (*) V-Ray: Changed the default motion blur duration value to 0.5; (*) V-Ray: Improved handling of meshes and proxies that are invisible to the camera; (*) V-Ray: Speed up of the “transforming vertices” phase in scenes with many objects; (*) V-Ray: Simplified the “default” view of the light cache rollout; (*) V-Ray RT GPU: Added support for Falloff texmap in VRayVRmatMtl; (*) V-Ray RT GPU: Cleaner glossy reflections from area lights; (*) V-Ray RT GPU: Implemented Light Cache support for motion blurred hairs; (*) V-Ray RT GPU: Implemented more robust common tasks execution, leading to about 10% render speed gain; (*) V-Ray RT GPU: Optimized system CPU memory usage for bitmap textures; (*) V-Ray Toolbar: Changed the default alignment to floating for 3ds Max 2016 and later due to issues with default docking; (*) VFB: Added VRAY_BLENDED_GUI environment variable that, when set to 0, allows to run the VFB in a separate thread like before, otherwise it runs in the 3ds Max main thread by default; (*) VFB: Better contrast function that preserves the black and white points; (*) VFB: The render region coordinates are stored normalized to the image size; (*) VFB: The vfbControl MaxScript function supports loading of color correction files; (*) VFB: The vfbControl MaxScript function does not cause the VFB to show anymore; (*) VFB: The “Edit comment” window appears under the mouse cursor when shown; (*) VFB: The “Close” button in the “Edit comment” window is changed to “Save and close”; (*) V-Ray Quick settings: Light cache’s Pre-filter is no more affected; (*) VRayCarPaint: Added max reflection depth control; (*) VRayExposureControl: Added MaxScript access to the “active” and “processBG” options; (*) VRayFastSSS2: Changed trace reflections to enabled by default; (*) VRayHDRI: Allow negative values for the U/V Crop/Place parameters in VRayHDRI; (*) VRayHDRI: Added option to generates IFL lists with full file paths rather than relative; (*) VRayHDRI: Faster rendering of tiled textures when the tiled memory limit is reached; (*) VRayHDRI: Improved elliptical filtering; (*) VRayLight: Simplify the interface options layout; (*) VRayProxy: Instancing for Alembic meshes is enabled by default; (*) VRayScatterVolumeMtl: Improved calculations; (*) VRayToon: Added support for layers in the include/exclude list; (*) V-Ray Light Lister: Made the light names fields wider and the list is sorted by the lights names; (*) .vrmesh exporter: Added support for VRayInstancer when “Export each mesh to separate file” option is selected; (*) .vrscene exporter: The render state of objects is exported; (*) Installer: Adding exceptions for applications and ports to the firewall; (*) Lens analyzer: Added ability to generate texture for physical camera distortion map; (*) ply2vrmesh: Preserve UV set names for .geo/.bgeo files; Best regards, Vlado

Sounds like a great release ! Thank You.

Awesome. Thank you Chaosgroup. Thank you Vlado!

Amazing work on the service pack. Big thanks to everyone involved. Great job!

Is there documentation for these new features ? I’m trying to work out how to turn on/off DR machines on the fly.

Most of the new features are documented already, but this one is not yet. The DR servers can be added/removed from the 3ds Max render progress dialog - see the attachment. DR needs to be enabled before rendering for the V-Ray rollout to appear. Best regards, Vlado [dr_addremove.png]

(*) VFB: Can be zoomed in/out with the regular +/-/* keys (useful for remote access from mobile devices); This ones not working for me when using Chrome Remote Desktop. Tried a few different keyboards as well. Does it work for anyone else?

[image]On another topic This ones not working for me when using Chrome Remote Desktop. Tried a few different keyboards as well. Does it work for anyone else? This one I couldn’t test; CRD never worked for me. I tested with LogMeIn and Remote Desktop. Note that you must first click somewhere in the VFB image so that it gets the keyboard focus. Best regards, Vlado

[image]Archiviz Interior This one I couldn’t test; CRD never worked for me. I tested with LogMeIn and Remote Desktop. Note that you must first click somewhere in the VFB image so that it gets the keyboard focus. Best regards, Vlado Damn, doesn’t seem to work in CRD. The +/- are entered correctly if I’m editing the frame stamp but as soon as I click into the image nothing happens. Works fine in Mocha VNC however.

[image]The Kama I’d STRONGLY encourage you guys to try out an LC/LC render of some simple, diffuse-only, interior scene, with and without “leak prevention” on. What you will see will make you smile, I’m sure. I’m not sure how it’s supposed to work but for me it’s certainly not helping the scene… All I get are black splotches around all of my edges. Admittedly it’s not a “simple” scene but what’s the point otherwise. This is after a full reset of vray and just switching the Primary GI to LC. What am I missing? [LC-LC Test.jpg]

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Thanks, edited now!

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