--- title: "1.8.4" canonical: "https://documentation.chaos.com/space/LAV/124357612/1.8.4" format: markdown --- *Official Release* Date - January 25, 2023 ## **New Features** --- ### **Textures** - Support for for repeat/offset u/v for 2D Placement texture from Maya when used in bump. ## **Modified Features** --- ### **Rendering** - Improved the metalness of a material to better match V-Ray. - Improved reflective caustics. - Improved the calculations for light power by area. ## **Fixes** --- ### **Import/Load** - Crash when importing/loading with animated proxy containing hair geometry. ### **Textures** - Crash with EXR file loaded as a V-Ray Normal map in Bump slot material. - Texture blurriness when W coordinate is different than 0. ### **Lights** - New Default Vantage sun being created each time a non-vrscene is appended. - Light intensity to accept only positive values. ### **Auto-exposure** - Difference in image brightness when using Auto-exposure and different rendering resolutions. - Visual artifacts with fog and Auto-Exposure. ### **UX/UI** - Restoring of maximized main window. - Active pixels overlay not showing active pixels. - Stereo Spherical and Stereo Cube camera types not updating correctly render resolution based on aspect ratio. ### **Command line** - Command line rendering with video output file generates separate files. ### **Rendering** - Camera types not taken into account, when using sequence rendering. ### **Batch rendering** - Wrong FOV for cameras of the render Queue. ### **Live Link** - Render animation with Chaos Vantage, from 3Ds Max, doesn't start rendering when a Live link connection is not established.