V-Ray Next 4.30.02 for 3ds Max 2016-2021 [En]

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Official Release

Date - Nov 19, 2019

Download - Build 4.30.00

New features
V-Ray

• Add a renderer parameter "options_useColorSpaceForBitmaps" that tells all VRayHDRI maps to determine the color space from the file name

V-Ray GPU

• Add support for RT cores of NVIDIA RTX cards
• Add support for disabled "Memory frame buffer"
• Support for Deep EXR output

V-Ray Cloud

• Add the Chaos Cloud client app installer to the V-Ray for 3ds Max installer

VRayHDRI

• Add a sharp isotropic texture filtering method
• Allow UVW coordinates to be controlled through another map
• Add a "Filter mult" parameter to control the blur separately when mapping coordinates are taken from another texture

VRayOSL

• Add the ability for normal texture maps to be a part of a shading graph in OSL for 3ds Max

VRayVolumeGrid

• Added support for Volumetric and Mesh mode rendering of the new TexUVW Phoenix FD channel

vrscene exporter

• Export material IDs of materials used in VRayBlendMtl

Modified features
VRayLight

• Improved sampling of directional lights

V-Ray

• Adaptive dome VRayLight support for Light Cache from file
• Add "Animation" and "Still" presets for the Light cache
• Change the default values of the Progressive image sampler: Render time - 0; Noise threshold - 0.01
• Multi-threaded execution of OpenEXR compression and decompression to improve performance
• Update Embree to v3.2.0
• Update OpenEXR to v2.3.0
• Render Raytrace material as black to mitigate problems with it

V-Ray IPR

• Add GI contribution to the Isolate Selected objects in Debug Shading

V-Ray GPU

• Implement pre-multiplied Light cache that enables optimization of shading calculations on some scenes
• Implement debug shading for selected sub-materials
• Improved user-defined shaders (GLSL, MDL etc.) compilation
• Optimize mesh transfers to multiple devices

V-Ray Cloud/V-Ray Standalone

• Optimize rendering of Multi/Sub-Object material

VRayALSurfaceMtl

• Implement bump shadowing
• SSS is not computed for materials seen through glossy refraction

VRayStochasticFlakesMtl

• Stochastic flakes are not visible through glossy refraction

VRayCompTex

• Add "Mix amount" option to control texmap mix ratios

VRayDiffuseFilter/VRayReflectionFilter/VRayRefractionFilter

• Remove the "color mapping" option

VRayExtraTex

• Add an option to disable lossy DWAA/DWAB compression for a render element

VRayMtl

• Rearrange the texmap slots

VRayOSL

• Add tooltips on texmap buttons, spinners and combo boxes for shader tweaks
• Show shader description and help URL button if either is present

VRayProxy

• Improve errors logging

VRaySamplerInfo

• The render element should always be saved with lossless compression

VRayVolumeGrid

• Speed up loading of VDB caches by reading their min-max channel ranges from metadata instead of calculating them
• Equalize UVW coordinates of Phoenix Isosurfaces with those of the corresponding Meshes

VFB

• Add "Save in image" option to OCIO color corrections, to save the corrected image
• Add sliders for Lens effects' "Intensity" and "Threshold" parameters
• Enable setting of the render region via MAXScript outside the default resolution before rendering
• Read the saved window position only for the initial render and use the last valid position afterwards
• UI improvements for the VFB Lens Effects panel

V-Ray scene converter

• Convert Raytrace maps to VRayColor

Bug fixes
V-Ray

• Artifacts and flickering with "Hash map" Light cache in certain situations
• Artifacts when using Adaptive dome light and VRayFur with VRayMtl on it
• Artifacts with Adaptive dome and VRayToon
• Crash in scenes with meshes with Point Cache modifier that are used in Forest Pro in animated mode
• Bright spots in VRayGlobalIllumination render element with Falloff map in Shadow/Light mode
• Compositing results don't match with matte reflections if "Consistent lighting elements" is enabled
• Lighting elements are not propagated through refractions with "Consistent lighting elements" enabled
• Matte objects are present in the alpha channel when rendered through refractive objects
• Memory tracking "GI" tag replaces "Misc." when rendering with Global illumination
• Physical Material with black reflections has dark outlines
• The UI menus are active during rendering in 3ds Max 2020
• Unhandled exception when having a PF Source with Mapping Object operator
• Using camera clipping planes makes the dome light invisible
• VRayEdgesTex always draws hidden edges when used as displacement texture
• Wrong 3ds Max Render output JPEG image with Test resolution

V-Ray/V-Ray GPU

• Artifacts with Adaptive dome light with "affect reflections" disabled

VRayProxy

• Wrong defocusAmount denoise element on proxy objects leading to artifacts when denoising
• Face/Material IDs are offset with one when loading Alembic files

VFB

• Wrong resolution when rendering a sequence with Test resolution and DR
• Certain integer render elements are not displayed when loading EXR files
• Crash when changing OCIO settings (View transform, Input colorspace) during Viewport IPR
• History details comment is drawn over the previous one if changed via MAXScript
• The scrollbar in the Color Corrections window hides some of the text
• UI is not responsive with ICC color correction during IPR with V-Ray GPU

V-Ray IPR

• Crash when adding materials with VRayHDRI to a material library
• Crash while scrubbing the timeline with VRayLightMtl in the scene
• Crash with VRayOSL shading graph and VRayLightMtl with Direct illumination on
• Crash with VRaySky texmap and Hair and Fur
• Debug Shading's Isolate Selected mode doesn't work correctly for objects with opacity
• Loops on building Light cache in a scene with VRayDistanceTex and Forest Pro
• Starting production rendering during Viewport IPR causes endless Light cache phase
• Unhandled exception with a Free Light and VRayLightMtl with Direct Illumination

V-Ray GPU

• Artifacts when using Metalness with Glossy Fresnel
• Artifacts with Adaptive dome when objects are excluded from shadow casting in the light
• Artifacts with VRayALSurfaceMtl and Adaptive lights v2
• Bounding Box artifacts when rendering a VRayVolumeGrid
• Crash with hidden faces on subdivided geometry
• Crash during render with volumetrics
• Crash on stop during Light cache phase
• Crash when cancelling the render for scene with lights include/exclude lists
• Crash when using VRayClipper on an object with material containing VRayCurvature map
• defocusAmount denoise element is not generated with a standard cameras
• Gaussian image filter doesn't match the CPU one
• Hidden edges of VRayEdgesTex is always on with VRayProxy
• Hidden faces are being rendered during Light cache preview, creating wrong lighting
• IPR with multiple GPUs produces CUDA_ERROR_INVALID_HANDLE on stop
• Light cache doesn't work with DOF and perspective camera
• Nested refractive volumes are rendered wrong
• Noisier results with Adaptive lights compared to Light tree
• NVLink GPU allocations only done for Dynamic geometry
• Optimized distance estimation for geometry heavy scenes
• Random crash with tiled bitmaps
• Refractions are rendered darker since V-Ray Next, Update 2
• Unhandled exception when baking texture of a mesh with degenerate UVs
• VRayVolumeGrids are not rendered correctly in VRayNormals render element

V-Ray Cloud/V-Ray Standalone

• Extremely slow light cache for scenes with displacement texmaps
• Matte reflections are not rendered

VRayALSurfaceMtl

• Artifacts around geometries intersections and SSS density scale close to 0

VRayClipper

• Holes in the clipped geometry when rendering with motion blur and the clipping mesh has animated skin modifier

VRayDisplacementMod

• Cracks with 3D Displacement and Keep continuity
• Memory leak with 2D displacement
• Tangent Vector displacement mode clamps the texture's X and Y between 0 and 1 regardless of the Texmap min/max values

VRayGLSL

• Function vr_textureSize returns (0,0) always

VRayHairFarmMod

• Duplicated IDs in VRayCryptomatte element with more than one Hair Generate modifier

VRayHairNextMtl

• Artifacts in raw render elements with Consistent lighting elements
• Diffuse component should go in it's respective render elements
• Shade data is stored in VRayGlobalIllumination when Consistent lighting elements is on

VRayLight

• Different specular reflections when rendering directional disc light with V-Ray Cloud/V-Ray Standalone

VRayOCIO

• Error in V-Ray messages when creating new instance
• No scroll bar in the map color space selector

VRayOrnatrixMod

• Some VRayOrnatrixMod hairs have wrong velocity data with "dynamic tessellation"

VRayOSL

• Broken OSO bytecode export of a shader via MAXScript
• Bucket artifacts with user attributes
• Crash in microfacet("ggx") when roughness is greater than 0.0
• Crash when detach and reattach a sub-texmaps
• Custom shaders cannot access user attributes with V-Ray Cloud/V-Ray Standalone
• OSL string mapper widgets should be displayed as dropdown choices
• Tooltips for combo boxes and extra texture buttons can become too wide
• Tweak's min/max metadata inhibits changing parameter values
• Wrong channel index read from the UV attribute

VRayOverrideMtl

• Vignetting along concave edges with Light cache and many lights

VRayPluginNode

• Crash when rendering with TexSurfaceLuminance

VRayScannedMtl

• Crash when loading a scene while the compact material editor open
• Difference in the VRayBumpNormals render element when rendering with VRayBumpMtl

VRaySwitchMtl

• Crash with undefined sub-material when displacement map is used in another sub-material

VRayToonMtl

• Toon effect missing on non-excluded geometry when the excluded object is hidden

VRayVolumeGrid

• Displacement scale in Isosurface mode is not the same as in Mesh mode
• Empty grids filled with density using the opacity curve render with different density in V-Ray Cloud/V-Ray Standalone
• Mesh mode with a 2D scalar Displacement map renders with artifacts

VRayZDepth

• Refractive objects are white regardless of the Affect channels value with V-Ray GPU

V-Ray Toolbar

• MAXScript error in vrutils.ms when trying to create a physical camera from a camera view without target

.vrscene exporter

• Animated FOV on standard cameras is not exported correctly
• Crash when exporting Forest Pro multiple instances with the same Surface with Boundary checking set to Edge
• Disabled VRayVolumeGrids in Volumetric mode are still exported
• Forest Pro object with VRayDisplacementMod is not exported to .vrscene file
• Negative displacement through textures is not exported properly
• OSL texmaps are flipped with V-Ray Cloud/V-Ray Standalone
• Random velocity data is exported for Forest Pro instances when camera is specified
• Some VRayMDL asset paths are not exported
• Support for animated visibility range of VRayAerialPerspective
• The VRayVolumeGrid's "lightsmultself", "gridreduct" and "mbgrid" parameters are not exported to *.vrscene
• VFB Color Corrections are exported even when disabled
• Wrong UVWs in scenes with OSL

Installer

• VRAY4_FOR_3DSMAXXXXX_PLUGINS environment variable should be modified instead of overridden

From Chaos Group Software

Hướng dẫn cài đặt

• Chạy file Setup theo phiên bản 3DSMax phù hợp để cài đặt phần mềm (không cài đặt License Server)
• Copy “vray_v43000_fix.dlr” đến folder 3dsMax plugins đường dẫn
  • C:\Program Files\Autodesk\3ds Max 20xx\plugins
  • hoặc nếu cần C:\Program Files\Autodesk\3ds Max 20xx\plugins\vrayplugins
• Copy “vray_v43000_max_fix.dll” đến nơi cài đặt V-Ray Plugin đường dẫn C:\Program Files\Chaos Group\V-Ray\3dsmax 20xx\bin\plugins

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V-Ray Next 4.30.02 for 3ds Max 2016-2021 [En]