I was curious of the new build so I made a simple scene of a pot with displacement. I didn’t touch vray for either one. just hit render. I only used HDR for light. thought it was interesting enough to post. I think the 1.45.70 looks better.
look around here.
it´s well known now, that you have to change the settings for the new build.
it´s useless to compare the latest build to 1.45
to much has changed.
i don´t like it either but that´s how it is.
val2: if you used “Precalc’d overlapping” look-up mode for the irradiance map, try a different one (density-based or nearest quad-balanced).
Best regards,
Vlado