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title: "2.6.1"
canonical: "https://documentation.chaos.com/space/LAV/124754685/2.6.1"
format: markdown
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*Official Release*

Date - October 31, 2024


## **New Features**

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### **Water surface**

- Added object and material presets in the Water Surface object.

### **Texture**

- Added support for vector mode displacement for the Phoenix Ocean Texture.

### **Render elements**

- <span style="color: #000000">Added SSS to the GI render element.</span>


## **Fixes**

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### **Vantage file**  


- Crash when loading a config file.

### **Live Link**  


- Unwanted camera creation for each camera move during Live Link.

### **Displacement**  


- Crash when attempting to displace a very large mesh.

### **Material**

- Incorrect opacity rendering for Bitmap or VRayBitmap textures with alpha channels.

### **Clipper**

- Several shading bugs with Clipper.