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title: "1.7.0"
canonical: "https://documentation.chaos.com/space/LAV/125242635/1.7.0"
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Official Release Date - March 30, 2022   New Features Textures Support for normal maps Clay mode Added white/clay mode override in the Material tab with options to preserve original material's reflection, refraction, bump, opacity and self illumination Ambient  occlusion Added global ambient occlusion option in the Lights tab Sun animation Implemented Animated Geolocated sun and Sun track in the animation editor for easy sun time lapse animation  Menu Added New option in the File menu to create a new empty scene Navigation Support for 3DConnexion SpaceMouse controller Supported output formats Implemented .jpg/.jpeg file type output Modified Ambient light Added ambient light color swatch Increased ambient light intensity limit to 1000000 UX Implemented 'Camera enqueu mode' in Render setup dialog to add all scene cameras at once in the render queue  Shows .vantage file name in recent file list and title bar after saving scene Camera clipping planes are now taken into account when determining the dolly/orbit/zoom pivot point Abort button now aborts the entire render queue Render dialog retains render queue when closed Sequence mode is not allowed when no sequence is available Fixes .vantage file The .vrscene environment texture is not used when loading a .vrscene with an associated .vantage file Memory Memory leak when HQ rendering with denoiser Live  link Changing a VRayLight from Plane to Dome not updating correctly Camera Crash when renaming a camera Geometry Crash when deleting objects