# V-Ray 3.50 official available for download **URL:** \ **Category:** Announcements\ **Created:** [February 9, 2017, 7:26pm UTC](https://forums.chaos.com/t/v-ray-3-50-official-available-for-download/62187 "2017-02-09T19:26:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![alexander.kazandzhiev](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/chaosprd/user_avatar/forums.chaos.com/alexander.kazandzhiev/32/16287_2.png) [@alexander.kazandzhiev](https://forums.chaos.com/u/alexander.kazandzhiev)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2017, 7:26pm UTC](https://forums.chaos.com/t/v-ray-3-50-official-available-for-download/62187/1 "2017-02-09T19:26:08Z")
V-Ray 3.50 official available for download Hello V-Ray 3.50 is officially available for download. You can take a look at the highlights here: [https://youtu.be/N2XB6iZcy\_8](https://youtu.be/N2XB6iZcy%5C_8) This is the first official build after a Beta phase (the previous releases announcements can be found here [http://forums.chaosgroup.com/showthread.php?91086-V-Ray-3-50-beta-1-available-for-download](http://forums.chaosgroup.com/showthread.php?91086-V-Ray-3-50-beta-1-available-for-download) and [http://forums.chaosgroup.com/showthread.php?91921-V-Ray-3-50-beta-2-available-for-download](http://forums.chaosgroup.com/showthread.php?91921-V-Ray-3-50-beta-2-available-for-download)) Cumulative changelog follows: New features: (\*) V-Ray: Add VRayRawDiffuseFilter, VRayRawReflectionFilter and VRayRawRefractionFilter render and bake elements; (\*) V-Ray: Enable the resuming of bucket renders from raw .vrimg files; (\*) V-Ray: Enable the resuming of progressive renders; (\*) V-Ray: Implementation of adaptive lights; (\*) V-Ray: Optimize GI rendering; (\*) V-Ray IPR: Enable usage as an interactive production renderer (IPR); (\*) V-Ray RT: Add support for adaptive lights; (\*) V-Ray RT: Enable “Set focus distance” in the VFB for the selected camera; (\*) V-Ray RT: Object picking in VFB; (\*) V-Ray RT: Support for direct output to Oculus Rift and HTC Vive; (\*) V-Ray GPU: Add “Low GPU thread priority” option; (\*) V-Ray GPU: Add support for VRayAtmosphere render element; (\*) V-Ray GPU: Aerial Perspective support; (\*) V-Ray GPU: All supported procedural textures to work for bump maps, when used through VRayColor2Bump texture; (\*) V-Ray GPU: Better handling of geometry and materials updates during ActiveShade; (\*) V-Ray GPU: Distortion support for physical camera; (\*) V-Ray GPU: Fixed differences in lighting between V-Ray RT CPU and GPU; (\*) V-Ray GPU: Fixed differences in texture blending between V-Ray RT CPU and GPU; (\*) V-Ray GPU: Implement ground projection of VRayHDRI; (\*) V-Ray GPU: Implement support for Forest Color texture; (\*) V-Ray GPU: Implement support for Render mask; (\*) V-Ray GPU: Initial implementation for on-demand mip-map texture in production rendering mode; (\*) V-Ray GPU: Less CPU memory usage when rendering scenes with many textures; (\*) V-Ray GPU: Less GPU memory usage when rendering scenes with many textures; (\*) V-Ray GPU: Support for “Mapped”, “Linear” and “4 corners” Gradient types in Gradient Ramp texture; (\*) V-Ray GPU: Support for Irradiance Map from file; (\*) V-Ray GPU: Support for VRayRenderID, VRayObjectID and VRayMtlID render elements; (\*) V-Ray GPU: Support for adaptive lights in CUDA (both in production and in ActiveShade); (\*) V-Ray GPU: Support for additive mode of the VRayBlendMtl; (\*) V-Ray GPU: Support for matte materials shadow catcher; (\*) V-Ray GPU: Support for the VRayStochasticFlakesMtl material; (\*) V-Ray GPU: Support for the planar VRayClipper; (\*) V-Ray GPU: Support for transparency for the layers of the VRayBlendMtl; (\*) V-Ray GPU: Support for velocity render element; (\*) VFB: Implement hardware acceleration support for lens effects; (\*) VFB: Lens effects can be enabled and adjusted during rendering; (\*) VFB: Lens effects work on the denoised result if a denoiser render element is present; (\*) VRayALSurfaceMtl: Include alSurface shader port for V-Ray in the installation; (\*) VRayMDLMtl: Initial support for VRayMDLMtl in V-Ray RT; (\*) VRayMDLMtl: Integrate support for NVIDIA MDL; (\*) VRayMtl: Implement “Glossy Fresnel” option; (\*) VRayProxy: Support for user property tags in the proxy file name; (\*) VRayScannedMtl: Add ability to capture and render the back lighting; (\*) VRayScene: Implement scene node that supports rendering geometry and materials from a .vrscene file and settings override with another file; (\*) VRayToon: Ability to store the toon outlines in a separate render element; (\*) VRayVRmatMtl: Does not update on filename change in V-Ray RT; (\*) VRayVolumeGrid: Add a render preset for Maya Fluids vdb; (\*) VRayVolumeGrid: Support for Cap Mesh mode in V-Ray RT; (\*) V-Ray Toolbar: Add button to make selected objects shadow catchers; Modified features: (\*) V-Ray: 3ds Max render effects should be applied when the “Stop” button is pressed in the render progress; (\*) V-Ray: Adaptive lights sampling improvement when the total lights are less than the Adaptive lights count; (\*) V-Ray: Bucket resuming writes its own .vrimg output if other output format is set; (\*) V-Ray: Enable adaptive lights by default; (\*) V-Ray: Faster 2d displacement on machines with many cores; (\*) V-Ray: Faster rendering of proxies on many-core machines; (\*) V-Ray: Improve the HDR images loading speed; (\*) V-Ray: Make “1” a possible value for Geometry samples in Render Setup; (\*) V-Ray: Remove limitation on parameters count for OSL and GLSL shaders; (\*) V-Ray: Restore the 3ds Max project folder after DR render; (\*) V-Ray: Rework post-effects pipeline to avoid Lens effects overriding the denoised image in particular; (\*) V-Ray: Right-click on parameters’ spinners should reset them to the default values instead of zero for most of V-Ray plugins; (\*) V-Ray: The light grid for adaptive lights does not take specular light contributions into account; (\*) V-Ray: Move the VRayDenoiser “progressive update frequency” in the System rollout; (\*) V-Ray/V-Ray RT: The progressive sampler should finish the current pass when the given “Render time” is surpassed; (\*) V-Ray: Add control for panoramic pole merging for stereoscopic rendering (V-Ray RT MAXScript properties .top\_merge\_angle .bottom\_merge\_angle); (\*) V-Ray/V-Ray RT: Draw the alpha channel during the undersampling phase of the progressive sampling; (\*) V-Ray: Dome light minor speed optimization; (\*) V-Ray: Display warning when “View navigation” in ActiveShade is selected without looking through camera; (\*) V-Ray: Increase the tooltip display times in the render settings; (\*) V-Ray: Remove the interpolated reflections/refractions options; (\*) V-Ray: Set the default value for the dynamic noise threshold for the progressive sampler to 80; (\*) V-Ray: Use adequate precision for render elements (full/half precision) in OpenEXR files; (\*) V-Ray: When using a dome light, matte objects have visible outlines unless GI environment is overridden with zero; (\*) V-Ray: Bundle License Server with the installation instead of the vrlservice.exe; (\*) V-Ray IPR: Add MAXScript callback when IPR completes rendering; (\*) V-Ray IPR: Production IPR should fill the VFB and react to changes in the VFB size and changes to render resolution; (\*) V-Ray IPR: Production IPR should react to changes in the render region in the VFB; (\*) V-Ray IPR: Track changes to node properties both V-Ray and user during IPR; (\*) V-Ray IPR: Track changes to the environment overrides in the render settings during IPR; (\*) V-Ray RT: ActiveShade should render with the current VFB resolution and should track changes to the VFB size; (\*) V-Ray RT: Add “Select object” and “Get object material” right-click options in the VFB; (\*) V-Ray RT: Add UI mode views switcher for V-Ray RT between Default and Advanced views; (\*) V-Ray RT: Allow irradiance map and light cache from saved file in ActiveShade; (\*) V-Ray RT: Apply resolution changes without restarting the rendering; (\*) V-Ray RT: Change mouse cursors for some of the right click modes during ActiveShade; (\*) V-Ray RT: Implement export of VRayToon; (\*) V-Ray RT: Implement the glossy Fresnel options; (\*) V-Ray RT: Improve random by render ID values generation for V-Ray RT and matched with VRayMultiSubTex; (\*) V-Ray RT: Make V-Ray RT to take the render state of the Laubwerk trees options, not the viewport; (\*) V-Ray RT: The “real zoom” feature is broken since beta 2; (\*) V-Ray RT: The IPR button in the VFB should work when V-Ray RT is the production renderer; (\*) V-Ray RT: VFB output file paths are not exported in .vrscene file; (\*) V-Ray RT: View navigation in ActiveShade VFB is too fast; (\*) V-Ray GPU: Ability to load precalculated Irradiance map GI cache files; (\*) V-Ray GPU: Add a warning when users have Adaptive Lights and Shadows RE enabled; (\*) V-Ray GPU: Changes on materials with baked texture to be updated quicker; (\*) V-Ray GPU: Faster rendering of materials with bump maps; (\*) V-Ray GPU: Faster rendering of rounded edges texture; (\*) V-Ray GPU: Faster rendering with Bitmap output curves; (\*) V-Ray GPU: Print the OpenCL Driver version in the log; (\*) V-Ray GPU: Print the message about not having OCL devices env var as a info, not warning; (\*) V-Ray GPU: Print warning when max sample level is set to 0; (\*) V-Ray GPU: Print warning when there is a render element that’s not supported on the GPU; (\*) V-Ray GPU: Raise the number of rays per pixel when the number of active pixels is too low; (\*) V-Ray GPU: Solid reflective material getting alpha dropouts; (\*) V-Ray GPU: Support VRayUserColor to be used for mapping channels; (\*) V-Ray GPU: Support for UVW coordinates type in VRaySamplerInfo render element; (\*) V-Ray GPU: Support for the directionality attribute of the VRayLight in Plane mode; (\*) V-Ray GPU: Support the noise parameters for Gradient Ramp texture; (\*) VFB: Add a render stamp variable “noiseThreshold” for the reached noise threshold of the progressive sampler; (\*) VFB: Add command for VFB display control (vfbControl #show); (\*) VFB: Add toolbar button for copying the current channel to clipboard; (\*) VFB: Change the default values of the Lens Effects; (\*) VFB: Contrast curve should be applied in sRGB color space; (\*) VFB: Improve history images saving speed; (\*) VFB: Increase default VFB history maximum files count to 100 and the size on disk in MB to 10000; (\*) VFB: MAXScript commands to show/hide history and color corrections panels of the VFB; (\*) VFB: Move the history image compare buttons from the main toolbar to history toolbar; continued in the next post… ---
**Author:** ![alexander.kazandzhiev](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/chaosprd/user_avatar/forums.chaos.com/alexander.kazandzhiev/32/16287_2.png) [@alexander.kazandzhiev](https://forums.chaos.com/u/alexander.kazandzhiev)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2017, 7:26pm UTC](https://forums.chaos.com/t/v-ray-3-50-official-available-for-download/62187/2 "2017-02-09T19:26:53Z")
Modified features (continued): (\*) VFB: Move the history image compare buttons from the main toolbar to history toolbar; (\*) VFB: RGB button switches between RGB color and effectsResult channels; (\*) VFB: Show HSV values in the VFB pixel information window; (\*) VFB: Show a progress bar in the VFB during IPR session; (\*) VFB: The button for showing the messages log should bring the messages window to the front; (\*) VFB: White balance should be applied before exposure; (\*) VRayALSurfaceMtl: Support for “Raytraced SSS ID” V-Ray object property; (\*) VRayClipper: Optimize plane clipper with empty exclude lists; (\*) VRayDenoiser: A warning should be printed when the VFB is disabled; (\*) VRayDenoiser: Check the sampler settings before starting a render and warn if incompatible; (\*) VRayHDRI: Add a MAXScript parameter for axial rotation; (\*) VRayMDLMtl: Add displacement support to MDL; (\*) VRayMDLMtl: Display texture parameters in MDL materials as file buttons; (\*) VRayMtl: Disabled by default the GI checkbox for self-illumination; (\*) VRayMtl: Make the GGX BRDF the default one and turn on glossy Fresnel by default; (\*) VRayMtl: Move the “reflect on back side” option in the reflection section of the Basic rollout; (\*) VRayMtl: The anisotropy controls should be disabled when the BRDF is set to Phong; (\*) VRayMtlReflectIORBake: Replace the “Store in fixed point format (rg.ba)” option with an “Invert value” one; (\*) VRayOSLMtl/VRayOSLTex: Enable support for multiple include paths in OSL; (\*) VRayOSLMtl/VRayOSLTex: Speed up the texture sampling in OSL; (\*) VRayProxy: Add rendering support for Mudbox exported .vrmeshes with Level-of-Detail; (\*) VRayProxy: Allow for the viewport preview to be overridden by another .vrmesh or Alembic file; (\*) VRayProxy: Interpolate geometry data for heterogeneous Alembic files with velocity channel; (\*) VRayProxy: Optimized the preview read and update for animated proxies; (\*) VRayScannedMtl: Add ability to render licensed materials (library licenses); (\*) VRayScannedMtl: Add support for Nitrous viewport preview; (\*) VRayScene: Override material with 3ds max native materials; (\*) VRayStereoscopic: Add new fragment merge mode, where fragments are merged by render ID and z-depth; (\*) VRayToon: Add an option to exclude an object in the V-Ray object properties; (\*) VRayTriplanarTex: The “blend” and “scale” parameters should be animatable; (\*) VRayVolumeGrid: High-DPI support for the render curves and gradients; (\*) VRayVolumeGrid: Improve the motion blur for atmospherics; (\*) VRayVolumeGrid: Improve the velocity voxel preview; (\*) VRayVolumeGrid: Optimize rendering with emissive lights, Ray-Traced self-illumination and complex geometry; (\*) VRayVolumeGrid: Option to disable the “Optimizing Volumetrics” rendering pre-pass; (\*) VRayVolumeGrid: Respect the maxRenderThreads setting in V-Ray during rendering; (\*) VRayVolumeGrid: Support V-Ray’s per-object motion blur duration override; (\*) VRayVolumeGrid: When several points on diagram are selected, right click on one of them should affect all points; (\*) V-Ray Bitmap to VRayHDRI converter: Bitmaps in objects/modifiers/environment should be handled; (\*) vdenoise.exe: Add abort on OpenCL errors; (\*) vdenoise.exe: The noise level channel can also be named “VRayNoiseLevel”; (\*) V-Ray Toolbar: Creating VRayFur from the toolbar button should select the newly created fur object; (\*) V-Ray scene converter: Added an option to convert only selected objects; (\*) V-Ray scene converter: Blend material to VRayBlendMtl conversion support for sub materials and textures; (\*) V-Ray scene converter: Convert Corona’s native materials, textures and lights to V-Ray ones; (\*) .vrscene exporter: Renderer settings of V-Ray RT as production renderer are not exported; Bug fixes: (\*) V-Ray: Crash on loading scene after rendering with time stamp; (\*) DR: “Failed to delete server scene file” DR warning appears but the file has been deleted successfully; (\*) V-Ray: “Tiled texture cache set” message is flooding the log when using Slate Material editor; (\*) V-Ray: Adaptive lights don’t work with fly-through light cache; (\*) V-Ray: Artifacts with adaptive lights and VRayFastSSS2 material; (\*) V-Ray: Concatenated node user attributes on VRayProxy objects; (\*) V-Ray: Crash when modifying matte object material in IPR; (\*) V-Ray: Deep merge strategy set as “None” renders incorrectly with non-fully opaque objects; (\*) V-Ray: Different bump with bitmaps since 3.50.01; (\*) V-Ray: effectsResult channel is not saved with vrimg file from render setup; (\*) V-Ray: Environment map ghosting through objects when matte/shadow objects are in the scene; (\*) V-Ray: If there is no license available V-Ray crashes when rendering; (\*) V-Ray: Issue with finalToon and orthographic cameras; (\*) V-Ray: Noisy pixels not cleaned up by the progressive sampler; (\*) V-Ray: OSL preprocessor-only output is polluted with diagnostic messages; (\*) V-Ray: Random crashes after progressive rendering is finished; (\*) V-Ray: Remove the “(notUsed)” from the imageSampler\_renderMask MAXScript properties; (\*) V-Ray: Render hangs when resuming with DR and distributed light cache; (\*) V-Ray: Rendering hangs at transforming vertices when there is a VRayVolumeGrid and many VRayLightMtl materials with “direct illumination” enabled; (\*) V-Ray: Resumable rendering with bucket sampling and post effects stops with an error after the first completed frame; (\*) V-Ray: Scene renders brighter when there is glass at the windows; (\*) V-Ray: Unwanted GI caustics with refractive materials with “affect shadows” enabled; (\*) V-Ray: Wrong viewport drawing of objects after rendering in 3ds Max 2017; (\*) V-Ray IPR: “Render mult” parameter of VRayHDRI is not working in IPR; (\*) V-Ray IPR: Adding lights during IPR session produces wrong results when adaptive lights are enabled; (\*) V-Ray IPR: Changing properties of the VRayPhysicalCamera are not updated in IPR; (\*) V-Ray IPR: Crash after using the V-Ray light lister during production IPR; (\*) V-Ray IPR: Crash when accessing the Material Editor during an ActiveShade session with “Clear cache on render end” is enabled; (\*) V-Ray IPR: Crash when adjusting curves in VRayHDRI during IPR; (\*) V-Ray IPR: Crash when cloning a specific object during IPR; (\*) V-Ray IPR: Crash when creating VRayLight without dragging for setting the size during IPR; (\*) V-Ray IPR: Crash when creating instances in a particular scene during IPR; (\*) V-Ray IPR: Crash with IPR with VRayFastSSS2’s object-based prepass; (\*) V-Ray IPR: Crash with XRef materials during IPR; (\*) V-Ray IPR: Hiding and unhiding of nodes is not reflected in production IPR; (\*) V-Ray IPR: IPR crashes while painting with the VRayFurStyler; (\*) V-Ray IPR: IPR crashes with Hair and Fur on render stop; (\*) V-Ray IPR: IPR crashes with VRayExtraTex render element; (\*) V-Ray IPR: IPR crashes with VRayExtraTex render element; (\*) V-Ray IPR: IPR render from camera which has Skew modifier applied doesn’t match production render; (\*) V-Ray IPR: Locked camera view is not respected in IPR; (\*) V-Ray IPR: Making an object a shadow catcher from the V-Ray toolbar is not updated in IPR; (\*) V-Ray IPR: Modifying VRayLight created in IPR as a Copy crashes 3ds Max; (\*) V-Ray IPR: Occasional crash with IPR related to texture shortcut buttons; (\*) V-Ray IPR: Unhandled exception with instanced objects during IPR; (\*) V-Ray IPR: VRayLightMtl intensity is not properly updating in IPR; (\*) V-Ray RT: “Static geometry” of VRayDisplacementMod is not exported; (\*) V-Ray RT: Composite texture with Output map on reflect and diffuse gives a different than production render result; (\*) V-Ray RT: Crash during ActiveShade with a scene with instanced VRayProxy; (\*) V-Ray RT: Crash when there are materials with very long names and special characters; (\*) V-Ray RT: Crash with Particle Flow and motion blur when sliding the time during ActiveShade session; (\*) V-Ray RT: Crash with time slider and motion blurred meshes; (\*) V-Ray RT: Effect ID of VRayMtl is not exported; (\*) V-Ray RT: Error when rendering RT DR with Max Frame buffer and Render Mask; (\*) V-Ray RT: Excessive progressive sampling AA filter memory consumption with ActiveShade rendering and render region; (\*) V-Ray RT: Exclude lists of VRayDirt don’t work with HairFarm; (\*) V-Ray RT: Exporter doesn’t resolve light cache file paths; (\*) V-Ray RT: Exporter is missing some of the VRayMtl and VRayFastSSS2Mtl features; (\*) V-Ray RT: Incorrect adaptive lights with production (non-ActiveShade) renders; (\*) V-Ray RT: Invalid geometric normal warnings with VRayLight and stereo cube camera; (\*) V-Ray RT: Isolating geometry in a scene with duplicating nodes names and handles produces WndProc error with out of process rendering; (\*) V-Ray RT: Light cache from map is not used in out of process rendering; (\*) V-Ray RT: Matte for refl/refr of VRayMtlWrapper has no effect; (\*) V-Ray RT: Mismatched Vertical Tilt correction compared to production renderer; (\*) V-Ray RT: Motion blur samples are not applied to animated VRayPhysicalCameras unless they are set locally; (\*) V-Ray RT: Noisy results with progressive sampler when Sub-pixel mapping is enabled; (\*) V-Ray RT: Not all supported image filters are exported; (\*) V-Ray RT: Not exported opacity texture correctly if names are the same with other textures; (\*) V-Ray RT: Not located alembic proxies with local paths; (\*) V-Ray RT: Not updating the IFL sequences properly during time slider change; (\*) V-Ray RT: Not updating the IFL sequences properly during time slider change; (\*) V-Ray RT: Skew modifier on Standard cameras is ignored; (\*) V-Ray RT: Some scenes with multiple MDL materials fail to export; (\*) V-Ray RT: There is no motion blur on VRayFur when applied to a geometry with a modifier; … for the complete list, please consult the changelog. Best regards, Alexander ---
**Author:** ![WilleViz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/3e96dc/32.png) [@WilleViz](https://forums.chaos.com/u/WilleViz)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2017, 8:21pm UTC](https://forums.chaos.com/t/v-ray-3-50-official-available-for-download/62187/3 "2017-02-09T20:21:21Z")
Congratulations on an awesome release! 🕶 ---
**Author:** ![Brendan\_Coyle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e99b99/32.png) [@Brendan\_Coyle](https://forums.chaos.com/u/Brendan_Coyle)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2017, 9:03pm UTC](https://forums.chaos.com/t/v-ray-3-50-official-available-for-download/62187/4 "2017-02-09T21:03:06Z")
Fantastic stuff - no max 2012 build? ---
**Author:** ![vlado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/779978/32.png) [@vlado](https://forums.chaos.com/u/vlado)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2017, 9:11pm UTC](https://forums.chaos.com/t/v-ray-3-50-official-available-for-download/62187/5 "2017-02-09T21:11:57Z")
> [@cheerioboy](#): > > Fantastic stuff - no max 2012 build? Do you need it? It’s almost 6 years old now and it’s getting difficult to support the old code. Best regards, Vlado ---
**Author:** ![Brendan\_Coyle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e99b99/32.png) [@Brendan\_Coyle](https://forums.chaos.com/u/Brendan_Coyle)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2017, 9:16pm UTC](https://forums.chaos.com/t/v-ray-3-50-official-available-for-download/62187/6 "2017-02-09T21:16:37Z")
> [@vlado](#): > > Do you need it? It’s almost 6 years old now and it’s getting difficult to support the old code. > > Best regards, > Vlado I haven’t had a reason to upgrade.. but if you guys are dropping support I’ll need to figure something out. ---
**Author:** ![NicoC](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/chaosprd/user_avatar/forums.chaos.com/nicoc/32/23122_2.png) [@NicoC](https://forums.chaos.com/u/NicoC)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2017, 7:56am UTC](https://forums.chaos.com/t/v-ray-3-50-official-available-for-download/62187/7 "2017-02-10T07:56:15Z")
Amazing ! thanks for the Chaos Group team for this new amazing release ! BRAVO ! ---
**Author:** ![AC5L4T3R](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/chaosprd/user_avatar/forums.chaos.com/ac5l4t3r/32/235252_2.png) [@AC5L4T3R](https://forums.chaos.com/u/AC5L4T3R)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2017, 9:02am UTC](https://forums.chaos.com/t/v-ray-3-50-official-available-for-download/62187/8 "2017-02-10T09:02:00Z")
> (\*) VRayToon: Ability to store the toon outlines in a separate render element; Great to see something I requested even if it was a couple of weeks too late to matter 😄 Great work guys! ---
**Author:** ![hardrock\_ram](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/4da419/32.png) [@hardrock\_ram](https://forums.chaos.com/u/hardrock_ram)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2017, 9:41am UTC](https://forums.chaos.com/t/v-ray-3-50-official-available-for-download/62187/9 "2017-02-10T09:41:33Z")
> [@cheerioboy](#): > > I haven’t had a reason to upgrade.. but if you guys are dropping support I’ll need to figure something out. I can see the hesitation if you have to pay for a new version, but there is a pretty big difference between 2012 and new versions. If you go up to 2014 there is a big speed difference, while 2016 has some substantial new features. ---
**Author:** ![Emperor\_Toe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/df705f/32.png) [@Emperor\_Toe](https://forums.chaos.com/u/Emperor_Toe)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2017, 11:00am UTC](https://forums.chaos.com/t/v-ray-3-50-official-available-for-download/62187/10 "2017-02-10T11:00:28Z")
Zdepth pass using camera clipping isn’t working when the clipping planes are off in the camera. ---
**Author:** ![chadstevens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc29f/32.png) [@chadstevens](https://forums.chaos.com/u/chadstevens)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2017, 11:11am UTC](https://forums.chaos.com/t/v-ray-3-50-official-available-for-download/62187/11 "2017-02-10T11:11:20Z")
All the point clouds render at an incorrect gamma, is there a way to inverse the gamma on just point clouds, or is there another option I’m missing? Cheers. ---
**Author:** ![spyzor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9c0ed/32.png) [@spyzor](https://forums.chaos.com/u/spyzor)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2017, 11:45am UTC](https://forums.chaos.com/t/v-ray-3-50-official-available-for-download/62187/12 "2017-02-10T11:45:13Z")
Thank you for your hard work and the constant innovation ChaosGroup ! I have one question. I thought I read somewhere on the forum that 3.5 would bring new previews for the materials. The scene used for the previews would have been updated. I didn’t see it in the changelog or maybe did I miss it. Did it came for 3.5 or is it postponed ? ---
**Author:** ![chadstevens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc29f/32.png) [@chadstevens](https://forums.chaos.com/u/chadstevens)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2017, 11:57am UTC](https://forums.chaos.com/t/v-ray-3-50-official-available-for-download/62187/13 "2017-02-10T11:57:27Z")
It is not in 3.5 as far as I can tell. ---
**Author:** ![vlado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/779978/32.png) [@vlado](https://forums.chaos.com/u/vlado)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2017, 12:06pm UTC](https://forums.chaos.com/t/v-ray-3-50-official-available-for-download/62187/14 "2017-02-10T12:06:17Z")
> [@spyzor](#): > > I thought I read somewhere on the forum that 3.5 would bring new previews for the materials. Yes, I did say that, and I have a code branch for it, unfortunately between the adaptive lights and the IPR, I didn’t have time to complete it yet. Best regards, Vlado ---
**Author:** ![spyzor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9c0ed/32.png) [@spyzor](https://forums.chaos.com/u/spyzor)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2017, 1:00pm UTC](https://forums.chaos.com/t/v-ray-3-50-official-available-for-download/62187/15 "2017-02-10T13:00:12Z")
> [@vlado](#): > > Yes, I did say that, and I have a code branch for it, unfortunately between the adaptive lights and the IPR, I didn’t have time to complete it yet. > > Best regards, > Vlado Ok I think that’s enough feature for a service pack already :). If I may, it would be cool that if I use a render region and activate IPR that the render could stay at normal resolution. When I use IPR I like to edit the materials parameters. So I need the full resolution to see what changed at pixel level. I don t know if that would be possible. ---
**Author:** ![Moriah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b2d939/32.png) [@Moriah](https://forums.chaos.com/u/Moriah)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2017, 2:03pm UTC](https://forums.chaos.com/t/v-ray-3-50-official-available-for-download/62187/16 "2017-02-10T14:03:29Z")
Is there any way to directly launch IPR without having to call the VFB and press the button? Or a maxscript function so i can do a little button to start it from the viewport. Great release too, loving the GPU features! ---
**Author:** ![yavor.rubenov](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/chaosprd/user_avatar/forums.chaos.com/yavor.rubenov/32/2946_2.png) [@yavor.rubenov](https://forums.chaos.com/u/yavor.rubenov)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2017, 3:30pm UTC](https://forums.chaos.com/t/v-ray-3-50-official-available-for-download/62187/17 "2017-02-10T15:30:39Z")
Hello, There are MAXScript functions for IPR - [https://docs.chaosgroup.com/display/VRAY3MAX/MAXScript#MAXScript-V-RayIPRFunction](https://docs.chaosgroup.com/display/VRAY3MAX/MAXScript#MAXScript-V-RayIPRFunction) Best regards, Yavor ---
**Author:** ![maxwood](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/chaosprd/user_avatar/forums.chaos.com/maxwood/32/63706_2.png) [@maxwood](https://forums.chaos.com/u/maxwood)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2017, 3:37pm UTC](https://forums.chaos.com/t/v-ray-3-50-official-available-for-download/62187/18 "2017-02-10T15:37:55Z")
> [@spyzor](#): > > I have one question. I thought I read somewhere on the forum that 3.5 would bring new previews for the materials. > The scene used for the previews would have been updated. I’m curious about what this means, do you have a link to the post on the forum? ---
**Author:** ![Brendan\_Coyle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e99b99/32.png) [@Brendan\_Coyle](https://forums.chaos.com/u/Brendan_Coyle)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2017, 3:40pm UTC](https://forums.chaos.com/t/v-ray-3-50-official-available-for-download/62187/19 "2017-02-10T15:40:11Z")
> [@hardrock\_ram](#): > > I can see the hesitation if you have to pay for a new version, but there is a pretty big difference between 2012 and new versions. > If you go up to 2014 there is a big speed difference, while 2016 has some substantial new features. Yeah I’m looking at 2014. After that version I can’t stand what they’ve done to the layer manager. I’d need to start using an alt script/plugin for layers going forward ☹ ‘substantial new features’? It’s more like they’ve broken it more. Vray has been the one aspect of my work that I actually want to continually upgrade because the features and fixes have addressed my problems. ---
**Author:** ![urbanite](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/chaosprd/user_avatar/forums.chaos.com/urbanite/32/40523_2.png) [@urbanite](https://forums.chaos.com/u/urbanite)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2017, 7:37pm UTC](https://forums.chaos.com/t/v-ray-3-50-official-available-for-download/62187/20 "2017-02-10T19:37:30Z")
Thank you guys, it is truly great update!🙂 [Next page](https://forums.chaos.com/t/v-ray-3-50-official-available-for-download/62187.md?page=2)