--- title: "V-Ray 5, Update 2" canonical: "https://documentation.chaos.com/space/VMAX/113585806/V-Ray%205%2C%20Update%202" format: markdown --- ## **V-Ray 5, Update 2.3** *Official release, update 2.3* Build: 5.20.23 Date: Apr 5, 2022 ### **New Features** --- **V-Ray** - Adaptive Bucket Splitting; - Support for Max 2023; - Ability to bake metalness and roughness; - Add an option to include the Rest LightMix channel when saving to file; - Add fit aspect ratio to material/bitmap functionality for VRayDecal; - Add an option in VRayDenoiser for denoising the alpha; **V-Ray IES** - Expose IES light shape and size to MAXScript; ### **Modified Features** --- **V-Ray** - Update Open Image Denoiser to version 1.4.2; - Allow higher Max Size for GPU textures, when mode is set to Resize; - Import for Cosmos materials with non-square textures; - New Shortcut (N) in the VFB2 to EDIT notes in the History; - Resumable rendering support for deep images; **V-Ray, VRayIES** - Make the VRayIES file button larger; **VFB** - Show more information when corrupted OCIO file is loaded regarding the error; **VRayOSL, V-Ray** - Support for vector-like structures; ### **Bug Fixes** --- **V-Ray** - Crash with VRayMultiSubTex; - V-Ray Material Library path is not updated after installation if provided by environment variable; - V-Ray Standalone cannot load 3rd party plugins dependencies from arbitrary locations; - Cosmos importer fails to import asset with VRay2SidedMtl; - Viewport IPR option disappears from the viewport menus when using max.vray as a default setting (Custom default switcher menu); - Crash when rendering a specific scene file with 3dsmax frame buffer; - Render artifacts on the voxel borders of a V-Ray proxy geometry with Displacement modifier; - Modifying denoiser parameters in VFB2 with OIDN denoiser switches the denoiser type to Optix; - OCIO2 config might fail to load depending on locale settings; - VRayMultiSubTex produces incorrect results with Random Hue and Sat when exported; - Incorrect render time after enabling A/B compare and selecting an A image and then saving to history; - Missing parameters for the VRayUnclampedColor element; - Crash when loading .tx sequences in VRayBitmap; - Add support for Anima4D models export with Motion Blur; - Map connections are lost when drag and drop material from V-Ray Material Library to the Compact material editor slot; - Animated TyFlow cache with UVWmodifier is not exported as expected; - The "All" LightMix parameters values are not saved to presets and history; - Error on render resuming after enabling or disabling DR; - Crash in V-Ray IPR with Forest Color map and latest Forest Pro version; **V-Ray, V-Ray GPU** - Incorrect results with VRayDecal during IPR debug shading; **V-Ray GPU** - Skipped frame when rendering non continuous frame list with V-Ray GPU; - GPU rendering not showing correctly with 3ds Max frame buffer; - Crash when using Matte objects, VRayAlSurface and Glass ; - VRayMtl in SSS with Matte object crashes in animation using V-Ray GPU; - Crash with CUDA CPU on MacOS; - Swapping GPU devices in the same 3Ds Max session crashes IPR and production rendering; - GPU LC is slower to render with big resolutions; - VFB Display correction is briefly reset while preparing for rendering with V-Ray GPU; - Rendering with CUDA a scene with BakeView produces black output; - V-Ray GPU does not bake all pixels when rendering to textures; - Crash when rendering scenes of objects with translucent materials and a shadow catcher; - Artifacts with layered VRayDecal objects; - VRaySun disc is rendered with offset in V-Ray GPU lately; - VRayDecal does not project VRayEdgesTex; - Texture baking doesn't work correctly with GPU; - Lighting discrepancy between CPU and GPU results when LightDirect is used with Intensity higher than 1; - Shadow Radius parameter of Directional and Omni light does not work; **V-Ray Light** - Make rendering of instances of disabled lights instanced via VRayInstancer consistent between Max and Standlone; - Random crash in V-Ray IPR when creating VRayLight; - Disabling the affectSpecular and affectReflections options of a Dome light leads to inconsistent results; **VRayMtl** - Crash when creating a Physical material in slate material editor using 3dsmax 2018; - VRayMtl shortmap buttons are representing wrong maps when older scene is loaded in Max 2018; **VRayOSL, V-Ray** - MDL displacement is not exported correctly; **VRayVolumeGrid** - VDB caches with invalid min/max channel value metadata are not handled; **VRayIES** - VRayIES lights' include and exclude lists broken in MXS; ## **V-Ray 5, Update 2.2** *Official release, update 2.2* Build: 5.20.02 Date: Dec 16, 2021 ### **New Features** --- **V-Ray, VRayPhysicalCamera, V-Ray GPU** - Support for the texture mode of the lens distortion option in 3ds Max's Physical camera and VRayPhysicalCamera; **V-Ray** - VRayCryptomatte support for Refraction and Reflection; ### **Modified Features** --- **V-Ray** - Add a "Manage Chaos License Server" button in Settings; - Add a warning in the Analyze exporter tool about gif assets; - Integrate the new RailClone API additions allowing non-geometric (light) objects instancing; - Support for modifiers which affect Railclone objects in Standalone and Cloud; - Add an option for V-Ray GPU IPR to use the Render states/counts/iterations/modes instead of the viewport ones; **V-Ray, V-Ray GPU** - Add an option for backface projection in VRayDecal; - Improve VRayDecal viewport representation; - VRayDecal to respect bounding box positions for ordering; - Animatable VRayDecal parameters; - Support for Phoenix Simulators and Particle Shaders in the V-Ray Atmosphere RE with V-Ray GPU; **V-Ray GPU** - Reduce kernel compilation times by up to 60%; **V-Ray Hair Mtl** - Change the default Compensate Energy in VRayHairNextMtl to OFF; **V-Ray Light** - V-Ray lights' settings to be set to default value with right click on the spinners; - In creation mode the V-Ray light should inherit the parameter values of the previously edited light; ### **Bug Fixes** --- **V-Ray** - UDIM textures with more than 99 tiles in one dimension do not work; - Mapped fog color is not preserved on export with Preserve refraction in OverrideMtl; - Uninstallation of Chaos Thumbnail Handler may cause errors if it fails to complete fast enough; - Multiple VRayFastSSS2 materials do not export properly when they use the same VRayColor2Bump texture; - Crash when changing decal angle parameters in Max 2019; - VRaySoftbox's gradient handles are linked; - Spinner controls steps in the plugins with Qt native UI are not adaptive; - Anima characters not following walkway path on scene export; - Switching between two instances of VRayBitmap does not update all parameters in the Compact editor; - Wrong Lens Effects with Denoiser and Sharpen/Blur layers on big resolutions; - 3ds max 2017 crash when creating lights from VRayToolbar; - Anima Rigged characters' textures not rendering properly; - Crash when using VRayDecal and Cryptomatte Render Elements; - Closing the render settings window while GPU IPR is running resets Test resolution; - The selected color space for OCIO is blank when using specific modified OCIO file in 3dsmax 2019; - V-Ray not utilizing more than 64 threads in some cases on Windows 11; - Bump is reversed in reflections; **V-Ray Material Library** - Create a new material library from a .max file doesn't work; **V-Ray GPU** - Black Light Cache prepass on high resolution renders; - VRayDecal doesn't work with VRayFur and Ornatrix in V-Ray GPU; - Different GI results with enable/disable render elements and HairNextMtl; - Textured VRayDecal does not work with on-demand-mip-mapped mode ; - The LPE don't capture the scattered self illumination of the EnvironmentFog or the VolumeGrid; - Crash with multiple instances of VRayDecal; - Crash in V-Ray GPU IPR when moving camera; - GPU Light cache freezes with certain scanned materials; - Memory leak with Light Cache Subdivs; - Increasing the GI depth during GPU interactive rendering causes a crash with specific scenes; - The Light Mix render element does not work correctly on GPU when the camera Auto Exposure is enabled; **V-Ray, V-Ray GPU** - Issues with Anti-aliasing (bucket sampler only) when using VRayCryptomatte mask and Multi/Sub-object material assigned to single object; - VRayDecal V-Ray GPU IPR crash related to include/exclude lists **V-Ray, V-Ray GPU, VRayMultiSubTex, VRay Triplanar Tex** - VRayDecal doesn't work with texture randomizations; **V-Ray, VRayFur, VRayPhysicalCamera** - Composite map as a VRayDecal mask does not render on scene open; **VFB** - VFB1 history right click menu is bugged; **VRayGLSL, VRayOSL, VRayMDL** - Wrong tooltips with VRayMDLMtl; **VRayIES** - VRayIES lights custom shape override is not working when scene is reloaded; **VRayLight** - Dome light is created with wrong multiplier after scene reset; - Wrong VRayLight type when picking different light from VRayToolbar while in creation mode; - Dome light with units different from "Default" renders differently from the production renderer; **VRayVolumeGrid** - Crash during rendering the Helicopter Cosmos Asset and a Volume with Ray-traced scattering enabled; - Memory leak of the uvw and nonDisplacedVertices buffers when rendering in mesh modes; **VRayMtl** - Enabling one of the new Translucency modes of the BRDFVRayMtl during interactive rendering causes issues; ## **V-Ray 5, Update 2.1** *Official release, update 2.1* Build: 5.20.01 Date: Nov 4, 2021 ### **New features** --- **V-Ray, VRaySun/VRaySky/VRayAerialPerspective** - Add atmospheric contribution options to the VRaySun light; ### **Bug fixes** --- **V-Ray** - Crash when using VRayDecal and Cryptomatte RE; - Graphical glitches after adding color correction to a VFB composite layer with Cryptomatte mask; - Normal Bump maps crash 3ds Max when rendered in Material Editor swatches; - Previous render clear mode does not work with most render masks; - Crash when baking VRayAO with gpu; - Crash with Anima 4D characters when Production render has been started after a Viewport IPR session; - Cosmos material drag and drop doesn't work in 3ds Max 2018; **V-Ray GPU** - Crashes with VRayDecal in GPU IPR; - Cryptomatte with progressive sampling - issues when there is denoiser channel added; **VRayDirt** - Slowdown when blending materials with displacement using VRayDirt as blend amount; **VRayMDL, VRayGLSL, VRayOSL** - Misplaced configuration files; ## **V-Ray 5, Update 2** *Official release, update 2* **Build: **5.20.00 **Date:** Oct 26, 2021 ### **New features** --- **VRayDecal** - An easy way of projecting one material on top of another; **VRayLight** - Add contribution per light for atmospherics; **Cosmos** - Cosmos Materials support; **VRay** - Override material preserve functionality option for material displacement; - Override material preserve functionality option for Reflection/Coat/Sheen; - Curvature texture support for isolating Convex or Concave values; - VRayBlendMtl material to blend the displacement maps of the sub-materials; - Add support for animation exporting for the OSL plugin in Max; **VRayMtl** - Implement the thin-walled mode of the VRayMtl on the GPU; - Implement the new volumetric translucency modes of the VRayMtl on the GPU; **V-Ray, VRayInstancer** - Lights as source objects for the VRayInstancer; **.vrscene exporter / Chaos Cloud** - SiNi Software scattering plugins export; - Anima 4D characters support for V-Ray GPU and Chaos Cloud; - Dot-delimited frame number option in VRayStandalone; **V-Ray, VRayScene** - Initial USD support in VRayScene node; **VFB** - Add a Sharpen/Blur post effect layer; - Integrate rendering log in the new frame buffer; - Option to create an "effectsResult" channel when only Lens Effects layer is enabled (no Denoiser); - Option to bake Lens Effects intensity into the Glare channel; - Add an option for adding VFB color corrections to all render channels when saving to separate files; - Add option to set shortcuts for all VFB2 menu items; - Batch image processing in VFB2 for vrimg files; - Ability to add color corrections to the VFB Background layer **VRayDisplacementMod** - Support for Creases modifier with VRayDisplacementMod subdivision; **V-Ray, VRayMultiSubTex, VRayTriplanarTex, V-Ray GPU** - Extend the randomization options in VRayMultiSubTex; **V-Ray GPU** - Implement support for the total lighting render element; - Support for Sparse Volumes on GPU using Nvidia's NanoVDB library; **VRayIES** - Expose IES light shape and size to MAXScript; **VRayMultiSubTex** - Element recognition in VRayProxy; **VRayOSL, V-Ray, VRayGLSL, V-Ray GPU, VRayMDL** - Support for camera shaders; **VRayVolumeGrid** - Add Absorption color for the Volumetric Shader for CPU rendering; **V-Ray, V-Ray GPU** - Cryptomatte with progressive sampling; ### **Modified features** --- **.vrscene exporter/Chaos Cloud** - Add a warning that default lights are unsupported when exporting scenes with no other lights; - Warning that 3ds Max output is not being saved with Standalone when there is a Separate render channels output; - Auto rename and add a warning if there are render elements with the same name; **Cosmos** - Set the default Cosmos browser width to 480 pixels; - Switch Cosmos proxies to preview from file, when previews are available; - Cosmos HDRI "Import" button should replace/set the map if a Dome Light is currently selected; - Use whole mesh (and not the embedded) preview for certain assets (vehicles) on import; - Cosmos Import Options remembered after 3ds Max is closed; - Bring Cosmos browser to front if it is behind other windows and the user clicks the Cosmos Browser toolbar button **V-Ray** - Improved LPE material label system; - Update Embree to 3.13.0; - Apply color corrections to the RGB channel when saving; - Remove the Subdivs parameter from V-Ray Light Lister; - Remove Quick V-Ray render settings from the Customize UI; - Add VRaySpecularMap and VRayReflectionMap bake render elements; - Ability to specify a camera to determine reflections for texture baking; - Missing parameters in the MAXScript vrscene export function; - Preserve the cosmos dialog size (and position) after 3ds Max restart; - Preview for UDIM textures in the realistic (Nitrous) viewport; - Auto rename duplicate channel names when auto creating LightMix render elements; - Display an error and abort the render if there are Progressive Caustics and DR set; - Install thumbnail handler for the VRScans files with V-Ray; - Consistent IPR scene update with IPR camera selected when View to Render has been locked; - Improve the data window values when using Auto mode for the VrayOptionRE; - VFB Lens effects were exported even when V-Ray VFB is disabled; - Per frame export for animated parameters of Composite map; - Better performance of dynamic geometry and tiled textures on many-core machines; - Add a custom color option for background in VRayExtraTex render element; - Implement Qt-based user interface for VRayMtl, VRay2SidedMtl, VRayALSurfaceMtl, VRayClipper, VRayColor, VRayFastSSS2, VRayProxy; - Particles rendering with Embree; - Rename the VRay Asset Browser's 'Add to Scene' option to 'Add to Material Editor' or relevant; - Improved anisotropy for the V-Ray material; - Rename the VRay Asset Browser's 'Add all to scene' to 'Add all to material editor' **V-Ray GPU** - Use small buckets when rendering with CUDA CPU Only; - VRayDirt with "Ignore Invisible Objects" enabled should not be affected by lights that are invisible; - Spot Lights with narrow cones have wrong penumbra with V-Ray GPU compared to CPU; - Improve VRayTexOCIO on GPU; - Expose VRayTotalLighting RE in V-Ray GPU UI; - Oversaturated rendering of Mix map when mapped with values above 1 **V-Ray Toolbar** - Integrate Vantage Live Link with V-Ray for 3ds Max; - Replace the Create VRayMetaballs button in V-Ray Toolbar with Create VRayDecal button; **V-Ray, V-Ray GPU** - Improve the machine info printed in the log in V-Ray Standalone or by the -version flag; - Calculate LC only on the GPU when V-Ray GPU is used; - Add support for tiled textures with large amount of tiles on V-Ray GPU; - V-Ray GPU fails to load and render tiles texture with Mudbox filename format with lowercase $u and $v; **VFB** - Elapsed time is not showing in the VFB Stats tab when rendering in Bucket mode; - Add a new function vfbcontrol #historysize that exposes current history size to MAXScript users; - Add MAXScript command to transfer LightMix to scene; - Add an icon for the "off" state of the VFB layers; - The curve color correction in VFB2 shows visible banding for very low intensity images; - Change the Source back to RGB in VFB if the VRayBackToBeauty element is disabled; - Implement VRAY_VFB_GLOBAL_PRESET_FILE environment variable for the new VFB; - Allow masks for Render element layers; - Improve the Lookup table VFB2 correction; - Cameras in Render Pull-Down button in VFB to be listed in a sorted order; - Possible to load/save VFB2 shortcut configuration from/to file; - VFB2 should remember collapsed state of history and layer widgets; - Reset VFB position button in the Render Setup window; - Disable Layer controls if the layer is disabled; **VRayCurvatureMap** - Option to ignore bump in VRayCurvature; **VRayDirt** - Streaks breakthrough for VRayDirt; - Blur effect for streaks in VRayDirt; - Ignore bump option for VRayDirt; - Thin mesh mode for VRayDirt; - Add output section to V-Ray Dirt texture; **V-Ray, VRayInstancer** - Support for reading custom data channels from Phoenix's PRT Reader in V-Ray Instancer; **V-Ray, VRayInstancer, VRayTriplanarTex** - Thinking particles instancing to support Data Channels from TP (tPDCbitmap); **V-Ray, VRaySun/VRaySky/VRayAerialPerspective** - Change the name of the "Improved" model in VRaySky to "PRG Clear Sky"; **V-Ray, VRayTriplanarTex, V-Ray GPU** - Add "by node handle" randomization mode in VRayTriplanarTex; - TriPlanar texture make textureable the "frame_offset" and "texture_rotation" parameters; **VRay2SidedMtl, VRayColor** - Implement the UI of VRay2SidedMtl and VRayColor in Qt; **VRayAO** - Ability to exclude objects / lights from VRayAO render element; - Add the "Ignore invisible objects" option to the VRayAO pass; **VRayBitmap** - Add "auto" mode for the color transfer function in VRayBitmap; - Open browse window with VRayBitmap creation in 3ds Max 2022; **VRayDenoiser** - Fall back to Intel Denoiser when there is no suitable hardware for the NVIDIA Denoiser; - Add an option to the Denoiser to take under consideration that you are rendering 360 panorama; **VRayDistanceTex** - Add the possibility to remove multiple objects from VRayDistanceTex list; **VRayEnvironmentFog** - Gray out the mapping options in VRayEnvironmentFog when the current renderer is V-Ray GPU; **VRayFastSSS2** - Implement Qt UI for VRayFastSSS2 Material; **VRayLight** - Make the button for texture in VRayLight larger; - V-Ray lights' settings to be set to default value with right click on the spinners; - Remove some old stale options from the UI to reduce complexity; - Hide the No Decay option of V-Ray lights for new scenes; - VRayLights to only accept multiplier values above zero; - Don't disable adaptive dome lights if all excluded for shadows objects are already invisible for shadows; **VRayLight, VRayMtl** - Extend the Drag and drop Cosmos HDRI textures; **VRayMDL** - Ability to suppress the MDL search path prompt; **VRayMtl** - Implement new physically correct GTR anisotropy based on linear stretching of the microsurface; **VRayOSL** - Add support for animation exporting for the OSLMap plugin in Max; **VRayPhysicalCamera** - Link the values for EV and ISO to update together in VRayPhysicalCamera; **VRayScene** - Make the Auto mode of "Flip Axis" in VRayScene node to work for USD files; - Scale setting for VRayScene node; **VRayStochasticFlakesMtl** - Remove Subdivs parameter from VRayStochasticFlakesMtl's UI; **VRayToonMtl** - Remove Subdivs parameters from VRayToonMtl's UI; **VRayUVWRandomizer** - Minor UI improvements for VRayUVWRandomizer; **VRayVolumeGrid** - Speed up frame blending with Time Bend controls; - Enable Probabilistic Volumetrics by default for new scenes; - Sparsify VDBs exported by the Phoenix simulation or the cache converter; - Probabilistic shading should have an effect only with V-Ray in 3ds Max; - Enable GPU preview and velocity streamline preview in 3ds Max 2022; - Allow animating of the Solid, Wetting and Voxel Mode Override node properties in 3ds Max; - Move the Preferences and About dialog from the Simulator to the Phoenix FD menu; - Make Huffman compression of particles multi-threaded and break up the channels into pieces like the grid channels; - Make Zip compression of particles multi-threaded; - Sequential Tab ordering of the dialog controls in 3ds Max; ### **Bug fixes** --- **.vrscene exporter/Chaos Cloud** - VRayBitmap's Mono output set to Alpha doesn't work with Mix and Composite maps when exported; - Anima Subscription models are not rendered properly with Standalone and V-Ray GPU; - Wrong export of ColorCurveGrad.osl and SetFloat.osl; - The cache size for tiled textures is not exported; - Cache normals option in VRayDisplacementMod has no effect in vrscene; - Discrepancy with VRayUVWRandomizer's Random by Instance ID and Random by Particle ID modes in V-Ray Standalone; - Incorrect export to .vrscene of the mirror option in the Coordinates rollout; - MultiTexture results in V-Ray Standalone don't match V-Ray for 3ds Max when randomizing by object; - Forest Color results in V-Ray Standalone don't match V-Ray for 3ds Max when "random strength min" is greater than "random strength max"; - Scene with empty name is exported incorrectly as .vrsceneuntitled; - Add a warning that VRayBitmap's Noise options do not render in Standalone; - VRayUVWRandomizer random by name / by element distribution on geometry mismatch with V-Ray Standalone; - No error code when exporting vrscenes to wrong paths; - Access violation on "Export and Render" in case of issues with finding V-Ray Standalone installation; - VRayMultiSubTex Random by Name distribution on VRayLight mismatch with V-Ray Standalone; - Exporting .vrscene zip or folder to existing one merges the assets instead of overriding them; - Archive as ZIP is greyed out if we open another scene to export; - OpenSubdiv Preserve Geom Bnd/Preserve Map Bnd options are not exported to .vrscene; - Wrong vrscene export - skipped switch material in blend; - Displacement texture of VRaySwitchMtl sub-material is not exported; - Some of the MultiSubTex modes are not properly exported to Standalone; - Motion blur shutter efficiency is not exported; - Disabling the 'generate render elements' option in the VRayDenoiser has no effect when exporting .vrscenes; - vrscene export doesn't register VRayDisplacementMod amount animation; - VRayDistanceTex with hidden reference object is not exported properly to vrscene; - Animated Gradient ramp is not exported with .vrscene file; - Show a warning for unsupported image filters when exporting to vrscene and Chaos Cloud; - Discrepancy with VRayTriplanar's Random by Instance ID and Random by Particle ID modes in V-Ray Standalone; - Negative anisotropy values are clamped to 0 in vrscene export; - VrayEnvironmentFog with loaded animated atmospheric gizmo is not exported to .vrscene; - Warnings during scene export fail backburner jobs; - Incorrect scene export with Forest Pro with camera motion blur and forest camera density/scale checkboxes enabled; - VRayMtl's animated map multipliers / color swatches are exported incorrectly; - Animated self illumination multiplier of VRayMtl is not exported to Standalone/Chaos Cloud when a map is used; - Mapped Fog color of VRayMtl is not exported properly; - Per frame export for animated Phase parameter of VRayNoiseTex map; - Per frame export for animated parameters of VRayNoiseTex map; - Forest Pack 7 "Limit to visibility" feature doesn't work with animation export **Cosmos** - Cosmos import options window for 3ds Max 2018 is not properly scaled and moved; - Cosmos importer settings should be persistent across 3ds Max sessions; - Bump amount of imported Cosmos assets doesn't scale properly depending on the 3ds Max Units Setup; - Wrong Cosmos gallery size in maximized browser window after reopen; - Cosmos browser exceeds desktop height on higher desktop scale (250%); **Installer** - Installer displays wrong destination paths for 3ds Max 2022; - Some of the shortcuts that V-Ray installs are not visible in the Windows Start Menu; **Phoenix** - Rendering animation to vrscene or on the Cloud during simulation will render only the first cache from the sequence; - Transforms of Render Cutter, Glass geometry or Fade volume do not contain animation when exported to vrscene from 3ds Max; - Rendering in Mesh Mode with Smoothing and Motion Blur enabled loses the smoothed normals in 3ds Max; **V-Ray** - Crash with camera shaders on process exit; - Fish eye auto-fit option is ignored on vrscene export; - Normals render element is wrong with texture baking when a bake camera is specified; - Crash when successively deleting cameras in V-Ray Camera Lister; - MaxScript error (and no export) with the VRMat converter when a VRayMultiSubTex is present in the shader; - 3ds Max freezes on scene reset if there is a corrupted vrimg file in VFB2 image history; - V-Ray Spawner is restarted on second V-Ray DR render; - Typos in the usage text of Material Library Downloader; - Crash with Slate material editor when the material renderer is V-Ray but the production renderer is another; - Crash with printing warning on scene export having MultiScatter in the scene; - vfbcontrol #historyload returns control back to the caller before the image is loaded; - V-Ray Scene Exporter Analyze UI is messed if Cloud submitter is opened over it; - Difference between material displacement with and without a modifier with the same settings; - Register V-Ray menus writes in Program Files when no user settings are present; - Crash when rendering specific scene with Physical materials in Standalone; - Rendering with VFB2 in V-Ray Standalone prints QObject::installEventFilter message; - Pixel aspect is not applied on render begin but only if toggling the pixel aspect option; - VFB2 menu shortcuts are listed multiple times in 3ds Max 2018 and 2019; - .vrscene exporter / Chaos Cloud's V-Ray path browse button doesn't work in 3ds Max 2022; - Thinking Particles normal meshes (non instanced) are no longer rendering along with Instances or when Instancing is turned on in tP.; - JSON validation when trying to load layer presets wtih MAXScript; - Wrong render with V-Ray GPU when the frame being rendered is outside the active time segment; - Error with Max Batch resulting from Cosmos importer connection on 3ds Max startup; - Incorrect shadows on alembic file when including it to a light; - Problem with reflections when baking VrayCompleteMap; - Material IDs are not rendered properly on Thinking particles using instancing; - ThinkingParticles are not rendered at all with Render Instance enabled if they don't have explicit Shape instancing; - Standalone generates artifacts when switching the material slot (of a multi material) in animation; - Create V-Ray Physical Camera command is missing in main menu; - Exception when rendering with V-Ray GPU from viewport that is set to align with some light; - VRayDRBucket render element could be denosied; - Image file paths are not listed in the asset tracker for VRayBitmap texmap with tiles; - Difference in displacement between 3ds Max and Standalone; - VRayInstancer doesn't render VolumeGrid with motion blur enabled; - Laggy Cosmos Browser when the create light operation in Max is still active; - VRayInstancer, VRayMetaball, VRayPlane, VRayScene, VRaySphere are incorrectly named in the Modifier list in Max 2022; **V-Ray GPU** - V-Ray GPU crashes on render end in scenes with VraySun and disabled atmospheric effects; - Remove Prepass samples option from GPU render settings; - Gray out "Multiply color by opacity" option of the V-RayLightMtl when V-Ray GPU is selected as engine; - Crash in V-Ray GPU IPR when switching GPU Light cache on/off and restarting IPR; - Specific UDIMs are not supported on GPU; - Crash with GPU Light cache from file on second render; - GPU Light cache from file is not working; - Simple scene renders much slower with adaptive dome light and specific dome texture; - Crash with CUDA-CPU and k2 on the 3990x threadripper; - Incorrect results with VRayMtl SSS translucency if the 'Scatter Radius' has zero components; - VRayOCIO does not convert VRayColor; - Missing highlight with thin-walled glossy refraction; - Environment changes are not reflected in IPR with GPU LC unless another change is made after them; - Artifacts with VRayClipper using C++/CPU rendering; - Crash in hybrid mode with specific setup with refractive material, bucket sampler and kernel 2; - Incorrect results with invisible lights behind objects with refraction glossiness; - GPU crash with a specific setup including V-Ray UVWGenExplicit and BerconNoise; - GPU Light Cache has 0 num samples in several test scenes; - Error 700 with GPU LC and self illumination test scene; - Endless GPU LC calculation with OptiX on RTX hardware; - Animated VRayLight is not rendered on proper position; - UVs break when using demand Mip-mapping with .tx files; - Freezes during K3 on scenes containing ALSurface; - Copying objects during Optix IPR is not considered; - Artifacts in shadow when rendering scene with VRayFur; - Light cache error when render is stopped during Light cache; - Wrong alpha in specific scene when k3/ooc geometry is used; - Wrong dirt in extra tex with k3/ooc geometry in specific scene; - Wrong extra_tex render in specific scene when kernel3/ooc is enabled; - Missing particles from nightly scene when k3/ooc geometry is used with V-Ray GPU; - Wrong SSS render in nightly scene when k3/ooc geometry is used with V-Ray GPU; - Multicamera VR does not render correctly with GPU in Standalone/Cloud; - Artifacts when AL grid is loaded from light cache; - GPU Light cache Error when aborting render during Loading bitmaps phase; - The MultiMatte render element renders different result in V-Ray GPU compared to V-Ray; - VRayLightMtl Compensate camera exposure not working properly on other than Standard camera modes in GPU; - Crash with VRayExtraTex RE, visible lights and GPU Light cache; - IPR crashes with GPU Light Cache when changing the Background color quickly; - Incorrect VRayLightSelect RE with GPU light cache and multiple light selects containing the same light; - Fireflies with refractive materials; - Crashed various test scenes with Out of core on Linux with GPU; - Darker GI with matte objects when matte for refl/refr is off; - Artifacts in VRayLightSelect RE when rendered with LC GPU on multiple GPU machine; - Exception with GPU Light cache and RTX with specific scene; - Artifacts in IPR with GPU Light Cache when adding/cloning/moving point lights (like IES, Omni, Spot); - Difference in rendering VRayMtl with sheen color inside VRay2SidedMtl in CUDA; - Shutter efficiency has no effect on motion blur with CUDA; - Adaptive Lights with Distributed Rendering and Point light artifacts; - Render artifacts with shelled glass geometry intersecting the bounding box of the Volumetric grid on V-Ray GPU; - Grid artifacts when rendering Particle Shader in Fog mode under the liquid surface with V-Ray GPU; - V-Ray GPU crashes with enabled motion blur and "Default geometry type" set to "Auto"; - Crash when rendering VRayCarPaintMtl2 in animation; - Objects render black on using Metalness with no reflection color; - Crash on second render with GPU Light cache and Resumable rendering; - Artifacts in IPR with GPU Light Cache when adding/cloning/moving point lights (like IES, Omni, Spot); **V-Ray GPU IPR** - Off in viewport for modifiers also disables them in V-Ray GPU IPR; - Max switches to ticks for the whole duration of V-Ray GPU IPR; - Freeze in V-Ray GPU IPR with GPU Light cache when moving camera or geometry; - Incorrect IPR update with GPU LC when drawing render region in VFB; **V-Ray GPU, V-Ray** - Crash when sliding timeline during IPR session with hybrid mode, OOC and GPU Light cache; **V-Ray IPR** - V-Ray IPR restart loop with Anima 4D characters; - POV viewport menu selection doesn't аffect IPR render view after selecting camera in VFB; - Crash when stopping IPR after using debug shading with isolate selected material; - Exposure control from VRay camera is not immediately applied in IPR when switching views; - Environment (Physical camera) exposure control not updated during IPR; **V-Ray Material Library** - Material Library No preview for materials/libraries with non-standard names; - Material browser preview data table is highlit on mouse hover without being interactable; - Minimum width for the Asset preview window (Material Library); - V-Ray Asset Browser (Material Library) to preserve the material name when added to the scene; **V-Ray Toolbar** - When loading application package from arbitrary location the toolbar icons are not loaded; - Cosmos browser button(s) missing in 3ds Max 2016 & 2017; **V-Ray, VRayPhysicalCamera** - VRayPhysicalCamera with Exposure Value Mode is affected with 0 and negative shutter speed; - Particles created by the simulation sometimes have invalid or repeating IDs; **V-Ray Bitmap to VRayBitmap converter** - Output selections of Bitmap are not transfered when converting to VRayBitmap; **VFB** - Non-latin characters not displaying properly in VFB Source:LightMix; - V-Ray crashes when reading VFB2 Layer presets with unexpected format; - Color correction layers are not disabled when Render element is selected in VFB; - Crash when zooming a lot in image files with Exposure correction in VFB2; - It is possible to drag color corrections above the display correction; - VFB2 curve "Save As Type" file filter is incorrect; - Curve or White balance pipette tool stays active after layer is disabled; - Coat and Sheen specular render elements are visible into LightMix menu; - Black VFB when aborting a subsequent render if Denoiser is enabled; - VFB2 Layers tree is reset in V-Ray Standalone if quotation symbol is used in a layer's name; - Reset all to default doesn't reset removed hotkey after Resolve conflict; - Lens effects do not work correctly when using VRayStereoscopic helper; - Overbright Lens Effects in an image with NaN pixels; - Black buckets when loading a denoiser layer via an image in the History while rendering; - VFB2 fails to load vrimg file in specific case when there is a rendered image and History is disabled; - Incorrect values for render region in VFB2 with MaxScript control function; - Crash when applying Curves correction in VFB2 when the loaded image has no RGB channel; - Color picker window is not contained in the desktop boundaries; - Possible incorrect output with disabled Post Effect layer; **VRay** - Opacity mapped objects are incorrect in VRayZDepth with Don't filter environment option enabled; **VRayBitmap** - UDIM files are not resolved when using User defined attributes in VRayBitmap; - Different filtering of VRayBitmap if mapping source is a VRayTriplanarTex texture; - UDIM textures with ${VAR_NAME} are not working; - Regression in resolving paths from User defined attributes in VRayBitmap; - Textures with and tags and relative paths are not loaded in VRayBitmap; **VRayClipper, VRayPlane** - V-Ray Clipper with "Use object material" turned on crashes with Forest; **VRayCurvatureMap** - VRayCurvature map's name gets reset on scene reload; - Difference with VRayCurvature in V-Ray Standalone; **VRayDenoiser** - VRayDenoiser's denoising engine dropdown is grayed out for machines without any dedicated GPUs; **VRayDirt** - VRayDirt set to Inner occlusion appears in Reflection RE with V-Ray Standalone; - Debug shading Ambient occlusion mode is wrong for displaced geometry in V-Ray GPU IPR; - Crash when VRayDirt with Streaks enabled is used for OverrideMtl and Preserve options; **VRayDisplacementMod** - Graphic UI elements mismatch and out of borders in VRayDisplacementMod; **VRayDistanceTex** - Discrepancy with Particle Systems and VRayDistanceTex between Max and Standalone/Chaos Cloud. Max rendering improved; **VRayEdgesTex** - Crash when rendering specific scene with VRayEdgesTex as bump and increased number of light cache bounces; **VRayEnvironmentFog** - Crash with incorrectly merged Environment's fog objects; **VRayEnvironmentFog, VRaySun/VRaySky/VRayAerialPerspective** - Wrong consistent render elements of scenes with VRayAerialPerspective; **VRayExposureControl, V-Ray** - V-Ray Exposure Control is not working with EV value from VRayPhysicalCamera; **VRayFastSSS2** - Crash when rendering rectangular 3ds Max light with VRayFastSSS2; - Wrong effect of VRayScatterVolume with very high values of SSS color; **VRayGLSL, VRayOSL** - Crash when loading scenes with changed shader paths and null fingerprints; **VRayGLSL, VRayOSL, V-Ray GPU** - In OSL shaders some built-in global derivatives are wrong on GPU; **VRayIES** - Known system exception when loading ies files via MAXScript; **VRayInstancer** - Crash when rendering VRayInstancer with animated instanced object and motion blur; - Crash with old scenes with VRayInstancer using Thinking particles; **VRayLightingAnalysis** - Incorrect (larger) lighting analysis illuminance values with area light sources; **VRayLightSelect** - Crash on render with V-Ray Light select RE and refractive matte object intersecting another geometry; **VRayMtl** - Crash with clear coat material and subdivided geometry and very high material reflection depth; - NAN pixels with refractive material with negative Fog bias; - Wrong Preserve refraction with Thin-Walled option; **VRayMultiSubTex** - It is not possible to set a number lower than 1 for ID of VRayMultiSubTex; **VRayMultiSubTex, V-Ray GPU** - Output of the randomized maps is clamped with VRayMultiSubTex; **VRayNormalMap** - Animation of VRayNormalMap map rotation parameter is not exported to vrscene; **VRayOSL** - Help text indented with spaces is not displayed correctly in VRayOSLTex; - VRayOSLTex Clear doesn't remove the applied texture maps; **VRayPhysicalCamera** - VRayPhysicalCamera's Tilt corrections don't match the viewport; **VRayPluginNode** - VRayPluginNode unlinked textures are still rendered; - VRayPluginNode UVW generators are not animated as expected; **VRayPluginNodeMtl** - Crash when setting Gradient Ramp map for VRayPluginNodeMtl BRDFStochasticFlakes Random color map; **VRayProxy** - Preview levels list becomes disabled and empty when switching display modes; - Creating a new VRayProxy with "preview from file" uses the default cube for viewport selection; - VRayProxy fails to show viewport preview when opening a scene; **VRayScannedMtl** - Difference in the clear coat layer of VRScans car paint materials between NEXT and 5; **VRaySoftBox** - VRaySoftbox should use the Base color swatch if a base map is not specified; **VRaySphere** - VRaySphere does not work with VRayInstanser; **VRayStochasticFlakesMtl** - Crash with VRayStochastic flakes and random hue in specific scene; **VRaySun/VRaySky/VRayAerialPerspective** - No effect of Sun invisible and Sun size multiplier options in VRaySky with specified VRaySun node; **VRayToonMtl** - The VRayToon effect does not work with some camera types and FOVs around 180; **VRayVolumeGrid** - Increase/Decrease Grid Resolution buttons scale the simulator size after merging a scene in 3ds Max 2022; - Changing the frame during 3ds Max V-Ray IPR CPU distorts the Phoenix mesh when it has modifiers; - Phoenix mesh renders incorrectly in animation with V-Ray Standalone when it has 3ds Max modifiers applied to it; - Retiming particles without IDs causes them to disappear in blended frames; - Particles rendered as Bubbles inside of a liquid mesh render darker when exported from 3ds Max to vrscene; - All types of Phoenix previews are drawn on top of and occlude V-Ray's Viewport IPR in 3ds Max; - Surface Channel of the Liquid Simulator resets to Liquid when rendering starts in 3ds Max; - Re-timed particles using Time Bend Controls lose their ID channel; - Out of memory Error during building mesh with Phoenix liquid when rendering a scene with V-Ray Standalone on Linux; - The voxel preview in 3ds Max 2022.1 is multiplied by the object color; - Active Body simulation with many bodies is very slow in 3ds Max with Macro Recorder enabled; - Crash when rendering Phoenix Simulator with Export as Particle plugged into V-Ray Instancer's Particles list during simulation; - Hiding all Phoenix nodes translates the instances when the Phoenix Simulator is used as Particles in V-Ray Instancer; - The Beer and Ocean presets are rendering differently in V-Ray Standalone for 3ds Max and Maya; - Phoenix GUI license is taken with 3dsmaxbatch.exe simulations; - Crash when meshing grids nearing or over 2 billion voxels; - Crash if A_StopSim() is called on changing the timeline frame during simulation in 3ds Max; - Crash when constructing the scalar Speed channel of VDBs whose bounding box does not start at 0,0,0; - Starting or restoring the simulation sometimes randomly fails on Threadripper 3990X; - Crash when resimulating liquids to VDB, since Phoenix 4.10; - Crash during IPR of a Particle Shader in Bubbles mode with Render as Geometry ON; - Crash when exporting the ID channel of a particle system with more than 536'870'911 particles; - The cache is appearing skewed in the Extended GPU Preview when the selected viewport is turned into the extended GPU Preview Window; - Repeating Undo in the Phoenix MAXScript window will ultimately erase all the script; - Splashes Foam on Hit Amount is named Size Distribution in Track View; - Probabilistic volumetrics render particles in Point mode incorrectly when combined with Smoke; - Fire and fire lights illumination are not visible in Reflection render element with V-Ray CPU; - No motion blur from translation with more than 10 Simulators/V-Ray Volume Grids in Volumetric mode in 3ds Max; - Maya viewport gets stuck when using a Particle Texture as a Surface Channel for meshing;