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title: "1.5.3"
canonical: "https://documentation.chaos.com/space/LAV/124522903/1.5.3"
format: markdown
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*Official Release*

Date - November 11, 2021


## **New Features**

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### **Material tab**

- Material name searching, type filtering and sorting(name and creation)
- Select the material of the selected object button

### **UX**

- Drag-and-drop material assignment with preview
- Alt+drag-and-drop replaces material on all object with same material
- Ctrl+drag-and-drop assigns material to objects and its children

### **Import**

- Support for ply, obj, bin, geo, hclassic, bgeo, bhclassic, prt, and partial (**no** animation, hair and particles) support for alembic files


## **Modified**

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### **UX**

- Cosmos browser doesn't show importer choice inside Chaos Vantage when multiple importers are running
- Motion blur is not allowed for non-perspective (Cube 6x1, Spherical and stereo) cameras.

### **Performance**

- Optimized memory usage of texture files with a single color
- Optimized memory usage for material previews

### **Live Link**

- Implemented HDRI environment and dome light creation and updating


## **Fixes**

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### **Live Link**

- Several parameters not working in the **Render Animation via Live Link** dialog in 3ds Max

### **Console**

- Incorrect frame rate when rendering through console

### **.vantage file**

- Animation editor settings not getting saved to .vantage file

### **Material tab**

- Wrong material thumbnails after loading a new scene