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title: "2.8.1"
canonical: "https://documentation.chaos.com/space/LAV/125306931/2.8.1"
format: markdown
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*Official Release*

Date - May 22, 2025

> Macro (ui-button)




## **New Features**

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### **Camera**

- Support for camera film offset from Maya.

### **Profiler**

- Added rendering profiler.


## **Modified**

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### **Performance**

- Improved the memory usage when shader execution reordering (SER) is enabled.

### **Textures**

- Improved video file textures - now they always loop.

### **Camera**

- Modified Live Link animation rendering when using animated camera - now only camera from DCC can be used for Live Link rendering. Created camera animation from the Animation editor in Vantage will be ignored.

## **Fixes**

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### **Live Link**

- Crash in live link when updating tyFlow instances.

### **Output**

- Crash after failing to render offline with large resolutions.

### **Camera**

- Main camera not getting imported when appending .*vrscene *file.

### **Scatter**

- Crash when Chaos Scatter uses a distribute-on object with invisible faces.
- Incorrect back face culling for geometry instances affected by edge trimming.
- Non-working "pivot offset" for proxy, in Chaos Scatter

### **Textures**

- Incorrect rendering of "edge visibility" and "random by element" when the mesh has hidden faces
- Ignoring of geometry, hidden by ForestPro's 'edge' mode or ChaosScatter's edge trimming, when "ignore invisible objects" is enabled for VRayDirt

### **Lens effects**

- Exposure correction not being applied to lens effects threshold.
- Memory allocation error when using lens effects at 8192x8192 resolution.
- The updating of lens effects on final offline render pass

### **Displacement**

- Wrong displacement when the mesh has hidden faces.

### **UI**

- Overlapping of UI labels in the "Convert .abc to .vrmesh?" dialog box.

### **Installer**

- Failing installation of Cosmos Browser.