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title: "1.8.5"
canonical: "https://documentation.chaos.com/space/LAV/124720473/1.8.5"
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*Official Release*

Date - April 20, 2023


## **New features**

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### **Materials**

- Basic support for VRmat materials.

### **Textures**

- Support for alpha from bitmaps used in V-Ray material's opacity, exported from Maya.
- Support for all options of the Advanced mode of the Color Correction texture from 3Ds Max.

### **UX/UI**

- <span style="color: #272727"> </span>Separated environment related properties from Lights tab into a dedicated Environment tab.
- <span style="color: #000000">Added 'Open Scene Location' to File menu.</span>

### **Geometry**

- Support for Edge trimming option introduced in Chaos Scatter with V-Ray 6 for  3ds Max, update 1.1.


## **Modified Features**

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### **UX/UI**

- Added scrollbar to Lights and Camera tabs.
  - Fixed snapping manipulation precision.
- Live Link UI mode - hides unusable tools and tabs when in Live Link session.
- Delete button's icon changed.
- Moved camera properties to default Undo Queue.
- Allow the Delete key to be used in the viewport for deleting selected objects.
- Remove 'Advanced Scene Settings' dialog from File menu, its settings are scattered in more convenient places(Camera tab, Render tab, Preferences dialog).
- Merged 'Render animation with Chaos Vantage' and 'Render animation with Chaos Vantage, using Vantage UI' into a single 'Render Animation with Chaos Vantage' workflow.


## **Fixes**

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### **Clouds**

- Tiling artifacts for thin layer of clouds.

### **Live Link**

- Wrong undo actions for camera parameters during Live Link.

### **Lights**

- Textured rectangle lights don't match V-Ray when the light units are not set to default.

### **UX/UI**

- Deleting parent object in a hierarchy messes children's transformation and Undo history.
- Render resolution not updating automatically when render Setup dialog is opened.