--- title: "3.50.01 to 3.50.04" canonical: "https://documentation.chaos.com/space/VMAX/113587495/3.50.01%20to%203.50.04" format: markdown --- ## **Build 3.50.04** *Official *release **Date** – Mar. 3, 2017 ### **Modified Features** V-Ray / V-Ray RT - Optimize compiling geometry for scenes with displacement on machines with many cores V-Ray IPR - Add settings rollout IPR options whether to track changes to the VFB size and whether to always use progressive sampling V-Ray RT - Add an option to only render the visible part of image for OpenVR and Oculus renders (Follow VR headset) V-Ray GPU - Do not consider Intel GPUs for V-Ray GPU - Take the adaptive lights number of lights into account VRayDirt - Make unoccluded sub-texmap slot default when keeping replaced texture as subtexmap VRayMDLMtl - Show MDL enum parameters as combo boxes instead of spinners img2tiledexr - img2tiledexr should store its version and build date into the converted OpenEXR files ### **Bug Fixes** V-Ray - Animated Noise in VRayLightMtl with Direct Illumination On slows down the rendering drastically - Artifacts with Adaptive Lights in certain scenes - Deep image result is overwritten when post effects are enabled - Distributed rendering with no Use local host requires additional license - Improve saving time of progressive resumable files to a network location - Log flood with "Invalid normal index found on face" with specific geometry - Saving to raw images with non-ANSI names fails when post effects are present - The main thread hangs when some of the license servers are offline - Very slow compile geometry phase on particular scenes - Wrong VRayZDepth with use camera clip boundaries enabled and the physical camera's clipping planes disabled V-Ray IPR - Constant refresh with VRayPhysicalCamera and V-Ray Exposure Control - Crash when adding a render element during IPR - Crash when using adaptive lights and a new light is added to the scene - Rendering hangs and 3ds Max 2017 UI freezes when Physical camera Lens Shift is modified V-Ray RT - Export display sRGB parameter to *.vrscene* - Some machines can't load IFL files when accessing them from shared location - Unhandled exception when rendering scenes with Ornatrix feathers and displacement in production rendering mode V-Ray GPU - Black regions with Projections - Different results with VRayClipper and Camera rays only option enabled - Adaptive Lights are not updated after change in region/resolution during ActiveShade - Compensate camera exposure of VRayLightMtl is not working - CUDA error 719 with specific scene - Fix potential crash with unsupported render elements - Alpha pixels missing with matte/shadow plane - Overexposed lighting when rendering with V-Ray GPU - The specular contribution does not get adjusted by the fog attenuation VFB - Denoiser hardware acceleration type is not updated at render end - Denoiser is not applied progressively when rendering with V-Ray RT - Do not apply denoiser on load from history - Lens effects hardware acceleration mode doesn't work - Selecting a point in the curves color correction window causes the point to move - The curves color correction in the VFB should be applied after the exposure - Turning off the Select object mode during ActiveShade leaves the wrong cursor VRayDenoiser - Denoiser is calculated every time before V-Ray RT rendering start if it was used before - The option Only generate render elements is producing corrupt file VRayFur - Not properly generated with Bitmap texmaps VRayGLSLMtl / VRayGLSLTex - Materials are transparent in BRDF mode VRayGLSLMtl / VRayMDLMtl / VRayOSLMtl - None of the General shader properties are accessible through MAXScript VRayOSLMtl / VRayOSLTex - Crash with 1000+ shader nodes - Exporting OSL materials with unconnected textures for V-Ray RT produces broken scenes VRayProxy - Crash with Alembic file with containing incorrect UVW mapping indices in V-Ray RT - Custom attributes for alembic files are lost in Show whole mesh display mode VRayToon - Active checkbox not exported for V-Ray RT - Add render element export for V-Ray RT - Missing toon effect with 3ds Max standard cameras VRayMDLMtl - Crash when loading an *.mdl* while V-Ray RT is running and then stopping it - Exporting empty MDL materials fails - Merging light cache passes is very slow when rendering scene with missing MDL resource files - Shows as incompatible when V-Ray RT is set as production render engine - Spinners reject negative parameter values - Treat df::bsdf() as black diffuse - Wrong rendering of MDL texture with bump on geometry with incorrect tangents VRayScatterVolumeMtl - NaN pixels occur VRayScene - Animation is not working for V-Ray RT - Missing objects from imported vrscene when rendered with V-Ray RT - Snippet override with wildcards doesn't work on Windows 7 V-Ray scene converter - Broken lights instances after conversion img2tiledexr - Fails to convert files properly after 3.50.03 ## **Build 3.50.03** *Official *release **Date** – February 8, 2017 ### **New Features** V-Ray GPU - Distortion support for physical camera ### **Modified Features** V-Ray - Move the VRayDenoiser progressive update frequency in the System rollout V-Ray RT - The IPR button in the VFB should work when V-Ray RT is the production renderer - ActiveShade should render with the current VFB resolution and should track changes to the VFB size - Export Forest Color information as color instead of 3 float numbers V-Ray GPU - Add a warning when users have Adaptive Lights and Shadows RE enabled - Support VRayUserColor to be used for mapping channels - Support the noise parameters for Gradient Ramp texture V-Ray IPR - Add MAXScript callback when IPR completes rendering - Production IPR should fill the VFB and react to changes in the VFB size and changes to render resolution - Production IPR should react to changes in the render region in the VFB - Track changes to node properties both V-Ray and user during IPR - Track changes to the environment overrides in the render settings during IPR VFB - Add command for VFB display control (vfbControl #show) - RGB button switches between RGB color and effectsResult channels - Show HSV values in the VFB pixel information window VRayMDLMtl - Add displacement support to MDL - Display texture parameters in MDL materials as file buttons VRayScene - Override material with 3ds Max native materials VRayVolumeGrid - Option to disable the Optimizing Volumetrics rendering pre-pass V-Ray Scene Converter - Blend material to VRayBlendMtl conversion support for sub materials and textures - Convert Corona's native materials, textures, and lights to V-Ray ones ### **Bug Fixes** V-Ray - Adaptive lights don't work with fly-through light cache - Concatenated node user attributes on VRayProxy objects - effectsResult channel is not saved with .vrimg file from Render Setup - Resumable rendering with bucket sampling and post effects stops with an error after the first completed frame - When saving a scene with GLSL, OSL or MDL the full path to the file is not always written V-Ray RT - Incorrect adaptive lights with production (non-ActiveShade) renders - Light cache from map is not used in out of process rendering - Not located alembic proxies with local paths - Not updating the IFL sequences properly during time slider change - Some scenes with multiple MDL materials fail to export - Wrong rendering with light cache from file saved with adaptive light grid V-Ray GPU - Adaptive lights with VRayClipper with affect lights off in some cases has artifacts - Artifacts with Skylight portal and adaptive lights - Artifacts with VRayLight exclude lists and Adaptive lights - Bump looks wrong with object-space UVW generator - Compiling geometry takes too long in a specific scene when using GPU - Crash when tweaking the displacement amount in specific scene - Crash with adaptive lights and disabled light portals - Discrepancy in rendering of Normal, Average and Multiply Blending Modes of Tint in Forest Color texture - Crash with empty Forest Color map channel - Don't save matte render elements for GPU when writing to image - ForestPro objects not rendered when Displacement is enabled in specific scene - Gradient Ramp connected to Gradient Ramp renders wrong - Lens effects Object/Material ID is not working with GPU rendering - Max ray intensity is not applied to self-illumination and light cache bleeding - Noisy results even though the sampling settings are high - Occasionally wrong lighting with adaptive lights - Random crash when using light cache with adaptive lights - Some Render Elements render wrong in specific setups - Render is very slow floods the kernel with invalid messages when rendering with On-Demand textures but there are no textures in the scene - Tweaking assigned Color Correction maps to Environment changes the output - Visible mesh edges on refractive objects - XRef Multi/Sub-Object material renders black with CUDA V-Ray IPR - Changing properties of the VRayPhysicalCamera are not updated in IPR - Crash after using the V-Ray Light Lister during production IPR - Crash when accessing the Material Editor during an ActiveShade session with Clear cache on render end enabled - Crash when adjusting curves in VRayHDRI during IPR - Crash when cloning a specific object during IPR - Crash when creating instances in a particular scene during IPR - Crash when creating VRayLight without dragging for setting the size during IPR - Crash with IPR with VRayFastSSS2's object-based pre-pass - Crash with XRef materials during IPR - IPR crashes with VRayExtraTex Render Element - IPR render from camera that has Skew modifier applied doesn't match production render - Locked camera view is not respected in IPR - Making an object a shadow catcher from the V-Ray toolbar is not updated in IPR - Modifying VRayLight created in IPR as a Copy crashes 3ds Max - Occasional crash with IPR related to texture shortcut buttons - Unhandled exception with instanced objects during IPR - VRayLightMtl intensity is not properly updating in IPR - Hiding and unhiding of nodes is not reflected in production IPR - Render mult parameter of VRayHDRI is not working in IPR VFB - Environment variables not re-read defined in OCIO - Fix scaling of non-native resolution images in the history - Hide lens effects ID masks when loading from the history - Lens effects are not updated every time the update button is pressed VRayCurvatureMap - Crashes when rendering with VRayCurvatureMap inside VRayExtraTex Render Element VRayGLSLMtl/VRayGLSLTex - Shader inputs are not shown when using Quick Shader VRayMDLMtl - 3ds Max occasionally crashes on closing in shutdownNeuray() - Crash when changing parameters during out of process ActiveShade session - Crash when referencing missing textures - Materials with textures crash when connected to VRayBlendMtl - MDL files are not loaded on scene open - Reloading the same MDL material makes the preview disappear - The gamma mode is ignored VRayNormalMap - The normal map is affected by the bump map multiplier VRayProxy - User attributes aren't distributed to all references/instances VRayScene - Alembic preview is not loaded VRayToon - Map for color is not exported for V-Ray RT - The hidden edges of objects with non-fully opaque materials are drawn VRayVolumeGrid - The Loop Overlap option is not exported to V-Ray RT and vrscenes from 3ds Max vrimg2exr.exe / img2tiledexr.exe / V-Ray - Slow EXR saving process on network location ## **Build 3.50.02** *Beta *release **Date** – January 12, 2017 ### **New Features** V-Ray - Add VRayRawDiffuseFilter, VRayRawReflectionFilter and VRayRawRefractionFilter render and bake elements - Fallback to limited functionality Demo mode if no license is present V-Ray RT - Add support for adaptive lights V-Ray GPU - All supported procedural textures to work for bump maps, when used through VRayColor2Bump texture - Implement support for Forest Color texture - Support for Mapped, Linear and 4 corners Gradient types in Gradient Ramp texture - Support for adaptive lights in CUDA (both in Production and in ActiveShade) - Support for the planar VRayClipper VFB - Lens effects work on the denoised result if a denoiser render element is present - Lens effects can be enabled and adjusted during rendering VRayMDLMtl - Integrate support for NVIDIA MDL - Initial support for VRayMDLMtl in V-Ray RT VRayScene - Implement scene node that supports rendering geometry and materials from a .vrscene file and settings override with another file VRayToon - Ability to store the toon outlines in a separate render element VRayVRmatMtl - Does not update on filename change in V-Ray RT V-Ray Toolbar - Add button to make selected objects shadow catchers ### **Modified Features** V-Ray - 3ds Max render effects should be applied when the Stop button is pressed in the render progress - Adaptive lights sampling improvement when the total lights are less than the Adaptive lights count - Bucket resuming writes its own .vrimg output if other output format is set - Enable adaptive lights by default - Faster 2d displacement on machines with many cores - Faster rendering of proxies on many-core machines - Improve the HDR images loading speed - Make 1 a possible value for Geometry samples in Render Setup - Remove limitation on parameters count for OSL and GLSL shaders - Restore the 3ds Max project folder after DR render - Rework post-effects pipeline to avoid Lens effects overriding the denoised image in particular - Right-click on parameters' spinners should reset them to the default values instead of zero for most of V-Ray plugins - The light grid for adaptive lights does not take specular light contributions into account V-Ray RT - Allow irradiance map and light cache from saved file in ActiveShade - Change mouse cursors for some of the right click modes during Active Shade - Implement export of VRayToon - Implement the glossy Fresnel options - Improve random by render ID values generation for V-Ray RT and matched with VRayMultiSubTex VFB - Add a render stamp variable noiseThreshold for the reached noise threshold of the progressive sampler - Add toolbar button for copying the current channel to clipboard - Increase default VFB history maximum files count to 100 and the size on disk in MB to 10000 - Show a progress bar in the VFB during IPR session VRayALSurfaceMtl - Support for Raytraced SSS ID V-Ray object property VRayMtl - Disabled by default the GI checkbox for self-illumination VRayMtlReflectIORBake - Replace the Store in fixed point format (rg.ba) option with an Invert value one V-Ray Bitmap to VRayHDRI converter - Bitmaps in objects/modifiers/environment should be handled ### **Bug Fixes** V-Ray - Adaptive lights don't work with fly-through light cache - Adding lights during IPR session produces wrong results when adaptive lights are enabled - Artifacts with adaptive lights and VRayFastSSS2 material - Crash when modifying matte object material in IPR - Deep merge strategy set as None renders incorrectly with non-fully opaque objects - Different bump with bitmaps since 3.50.01 - Environment map ghosting through objects when matte/shadow objects are in the scene - If there is no license available V-Ray crashes when rendering - IPR crashes with Hair and Fur on render stop - IPR crashes with VRayExtraTex render element - IPR crashes while painting with the VRayFurStyler - Issue with finalToon and orthographic cameras - Noisy pixels not cleaned up by the progressive sampler - Random crashes after progressive rendering is finished - Render hangs when resuming with DR and distributed light cache - Rendering hangs at transforming vertices when there is a VRayVolumeGrid and many VRayLightMtl materials with direct illumination enabled - OSL preprocessor-only output is polluted with diagnostic messages - Wrong viewport drawing of objects after rendering in 3ds Max 2017 - Scene renders brighter when there is glass at the windows V-Ray RT - Crash during ActiveShade with a scene with instanced VRayProxy - Crash with time slider and motion blurred meshes - Error when rendering RT DR with Max Frame buffer and Render Mask - Matte for refl/refr of VRayMtlWrapper has no effect - Mismatched Vertical Tilt correction compared to production renderer - Noisy results with progressive sampler when Sub-pixel mapping is enabled - Skew modifier on Standard cameras is ignored - Unhandled exception when editing part of specific material used as Override during ActiveShade session - Using Array tool during ActiveShade rendering causes missing objects in 3ds Max 2017 - VRayIntancer crashes when rendering out of process - When setting through the VFB the camera focus distance it gets messed if the user clicks on a dome light V-Ray GPU - Add warning when using too many textures per material with on-demand textures - Artifacts with shadow catcher - Bitmap aperture is not rendered with CUDA - Broken shader with dirt as layer weight - Can't use more than 1 triplanar texture for bump - Crash with Distance texture - Difference in transparency between RT CPU and GPU in specific scene - Different shader result in scene with complex procedural texture tree - Hair is rendered very slow with light cache - OCL device select tool doesn't save changes on some computers - On demand textures produce different result to Full Size with specific scene - Only the initial image of ifl sequence is used when the Bitmap or VRayHDRI map is linked to Output map - Refraction volume is shaded differently compared to CPU - Specific GLSL shader files produce error with CUDA - Moving lights in 3ds Max is causing GPU memory leak - Negative values for distribution of VRayDirt produce unexpected results VFB - Artifacts in Compare V-Ray Settings window from VFB History when resized - Crash when lens effects Bloom mode is set to Render elements only - Random crash when switching production renderer from V-Ray RT to V-Ray with open VFB - Render region issues when set through MaxScript vrayVFBSetRegion function prior to rendering - The width of History Settings window is not enough to display the whole Completed Renders Only checkbox label - V-Ray RT settings are not saved in the history if set as production renderer - Zooming the color corrections curve causes major lagging of the UI VRayClipper - Mesh clipper doesn't handle motion blur - More precise rendering with GI - Moving a mesh clipper during IPR session doesn't work correctly VRayOrnatrixMod / VRayHairFarmMod - Typo in dynamic_tessellation parameter (was dynamic_tesselation) in both UI and MaxScript VRayProxy - Mesh preview memory leak after 3.50.01 VRayStochasticFlakesMtl - Shading produces blending artifact VRayToon - Crashes when rendering with VRayScatter - Produces artifacts when width map is set - Removing objects from VRayToon exclude list sometimes removes wrong objects - The Remove button of VRayToon exclude list becomes inactive when multiple toon effects are applied VRayVolumeGrid - Crash when previewing or rendering a cache where the ID channel cannot be uncompressed - Deleting a volume grid object and then rendering causes a crash - Exporting a VRScene with volume grid object calculates light and particle pre-passes - Broken Lighting and Specular render elements for reflective/refractive geometry - Lights that were in the scene before creating a new volume grid object are added to its exclude list - Ocean Rendering hangs at low altitude when the container is far away - Slow creating and deleting of many lights from the scene ## **Build 3.50.01** *Beta *release **Date** – November 22, 2016 ### **New Features** V-Ray - Enable usage as an interactive production renderer (IPR) - Enable the resuming of bucket renders from raw .vrimg files - Enable the resuming of progressive renders - Experimental implementation of adaptive lights - Optimize GI rendering V-Ray RT - Support for direct output to Oculus Rift and HTC Vive - Object picking in VFB - Enable Set focus distance in the VFB for the selected camera V-Ray GPU - Aerial Perspective support - Support for matte materials shadow catcher - Support for the VRayStochasticFlakesMtl material - Initial implementation for on-demand mip-map texture in production rendering mode - Less CPU memory usage when rendering scenes with many textures - Less GPU memory usage when rendering scenes with many textures - Implement support for Render mask - Support for velocity render element - Better handling of geometry and materials updates during ActiveShade - Add Low GPU thread priority option - Support for additive mode of the VRayBlendMtl - Support for transparency for the layers of the VRayBlendMtl - Add support for VRayAtmosphere render element - Fixed differences in lighting between V-Ray RT CPU and GPU - Fixed differences in texture blending between V-Ray RT CPU and GPU - Support for Irradiance Map from file - Support for RenderID, ObjectID and MtlID render elements - Implement ground projection of VRayHDRI VFB - Implement hardware acceleration support for lens effects VRayMtl - Implement Glossy Fresnel option VRayALSurfaceMtl - Include alSurface shader port for V-Ray in the installation VRayProxy - Support for user property tags in the proxy file name VRayScannedMtl - Add ability to capture and render the back lighting VRayVolumeGrid - Add a render preset for Maya Fluids vdb - Support for Cap Mesh mode in V-Ray RT ### **Modified Features** V-Ray - Add control for panoramic pole merging for stereoscopic rendering (V-Ray RT MaxScript properties .top_merge_angle .bottom_merge_angle) - Dome light minor speed optimization - Display warning when View navigation in ActiveShade is selected without looking through camera - Increase the tooltip display times in the render settings - Remove the interpolated reflections/refractions options - Set the default value for the dynamic noise threshold for the progressive sampler to 80 - Use adequate precision for render elements (full/half precision) in OpenEXR files - When using a dome light, matte objects have visible outlines unless GI environment is overridden with zero - Bundle License Server with the installation instead of the vrlservice.exe V-Ray / V-Ray RT - The progressive sampler should finish the current pass when the given "Render time" is surpassed - Draw the alpha channel during the undersampling phase of the progressive sampling V-Ray RT - Apply resolution changes without restarting the rendering - Add Select object and Get object material right-click options in the VFB - Add UI mode views switcher for V-Ray RT between Default and Advanced views - Make V-Ray RT to take the render state of the Laubwerk trees options, not the viewport - VFB output file paths are not exported in .vrscene file - View navigation in ActiveShade VFB is too fast V-Ray GPU - Support for the directionality attribute of the VRayLight in Plane mode - Ability to load precalculated Irradiance map GI cache files - Changes on materials with baked texture to be updated quicker - Faster rendering of materials with bump maps - Faster rendering with Bitmap output curves - Faster rendering of rounded edges texture - Print the message about not having OCL devices env var as a info, not warning - Print the OpenCL Driver version in the log - Print warning when there is a render element that's not supported on the GPU - Print warning when max sample level is set to 0 - Raise the number of rays per pixel when the number of active pixels is too low - Solid reflective material getting alpha dropouts - Support for UVW coordinates type in VRaySamplerInfo render element VRayMtl - Make the GGX BRDF the default one and turn on glossy Fresnel by default - Move the reflect on back side option in the reflection section of the Basic rollout - The anisotropy controls should be disabled when the BRDF is set to Phong VRayProxy - Allow for the viewport preview to be overridden by another .vrmesh or Alembic file - Add rendering support for Mudbox exported .vrmeshes with Level-of-Detail - Interpolate geometry data for heterogeneous Alembic files with velocity channel - Optimized the preview read and update for animated proxies VFB - MaxScript commands to show/hide history and color corrections panels of the VFB - Contrast curve should be applied in sRGB color space - Change the default values of the Lens Effects - Improve history images saving speed - Move the history image compare buttons from the main toolbar to history toolbar - The button for showing the messages log should bring the messages window to the front - White balance should be applied before exposure VRayClipper - Optimize plane clipper with empty exclude lists VRayDenoiser - A warning should be printed when the VFB is disabled - Check the sampler settings before starting a render and warn if incompatible VRayHDRI - Add a MaxScript parameter for axial rotation VRayOSLMtl / VRayOSLTex - Enable support for multiple include paths in OSL - Speed up the texture sampling in OSL VRayScannedMtl - Add ability to render licensed materials (library licenses) - Add support for Nitrous viewport preview VRayStereoscopic - Add new fragment merge mode, where fragments are merged by render ID and z-depth VRayTriplanarTex - The blend and scale parameters should be animatable VRayToon - Add an option to exclude an object in the V-Ray object properties VRayVolumeGrid - High-DPI support for the render curves and gradients - Improve the motion blur for atmospherics - Improve the velocity voxel preview - Optimize rendering with emissive lights, Ray-Traced self-illumination and complex geometry - Respect the maxRenderThreads setting in V-Ray during rendering - Support V-Ray's per-object motion blur duration override - When several points on diagram are selected, right click on one of them should affect all points vdenoise.exe - Add abort on OpenCL errors - The noise level channel can also be named "VRayNoiseLevel" V-Ray Toolbar - Creating VRayFur from the toolbar button should select the newly created fur object V-Ray scene converter - Added an option to convert only selected objects .vrscene exporter - Renderer settings of V-Ray RT as production renderer are not exported ### **Bug Fixes** V-Ray - Crash on loading scene after rendering with time stamp - Remove the "(notUsed)" from the imageSampler_renderMask MaxScript properties - Unwanted GI caustics with refractive materials with affect shadows enabled - Tiled texture cache set message is flooding the log when using Slate Material editor V-Ray RT - Composite texture with Output map on reflect and diffuse gives a different than production render result - Crash with Particle Flow and motion blur when sliding the time during ActiveShade session - Crash when there are materials with very long names and special characters - Effect ID of VRayMtl is not exported - Excessive progressive sampling AA filter memory consumption with ActiveShade rendering and render region - Exclude lists of VRayDirt don't work with HairFarm - Exporter doesn't resolve light cache file paths - Exporter is missing some of the VRayMtl and VRayFastSSS2Mtl features - Isolating geometry in a scene with duplicating nodes names and handles produces WndProc error with out of process rendering - Invalid geometric normal warnings with VRayLight and stereo cube camera - Static geometry of VRayDisplacementMod is not exported - There is no motion blur on VRayFur when applied to a geometry with a modifier - Motion blur samples are not applied to animated VRayPhysicalCameras unless they are set locally - Not all supported image filters are exported - Not exported opacity texture correctly if names are the same with other textures - Not updating the IFL sequences properly during time slider change - V-Ray trace sets are not exported V-Ray GPU - Auto update bitmaps is broken with in-process rendering - Crash when reading from large, 8k+ textures - Crash when switching Noise coordinates to Vertex color channel while rendering - Crashes on scenes containing textures with elliptical filtering - Crash with motion blur and Material IDs set - Different texture output with Color Map and tweaked Output Amount - Different bump compared to CPU with Mask map - Difference in shading VRayDirt in VRayTriplanarTex - Different indexes of Ornatrix hairs on each frame - Flicker when rendering animation with Backburner/Deadline with lights with include/exclude lists - GGX BRDF produce noise in Object ID render element in CUDA - IES lights with invalid paths to files sometimes are rendered wrong - Incorrect sun position when using VRaySun/Sky with specific procedural color correction textures - Mapped masks of Composite map don't work - Material shader tree does not reflect the materials changes in ActiveShade in all cases - Out of process V-Ray RT rendering crashes on frame change in a scene with duplicating nodes names - Random by Render ID mode of VRayTriplanarTex is not applied in bump - Render elements does not respect the transparency of materials - Render server crashes when rendering animation with lights with include/exclude lists - Undersampling artifacts occur on the bottom and right edges of the region during ActiveShade session - Using excessive host mem when there are a lot of textures in the scene - VRayColor2Bump in base material of VRayBumpMtl deactivates VRayEdgesTex - VRayLight type Disc produces different lighting when textured - VRayZDepth clamp zdepth option has no effect - Wrong blending between texture and color in Falloff texture - Wrong lighting with max ray intensity set to 1 VRaySamplerInfo - Crash when rendering an object with changing topology and VRaySamplerInfo render element with Forward/Backward occlusion type DR - "Failed to delete server scene file" DR warning appears but the file has been deleted successfully VRayGLSLMtl / VRayGLSLTex / VRayOSLMtl / VRayOSLTex - GLSL and OSL plugins crash Max when the error message contains % VRayGLSLMtl / VRayGLSLTex - GLSL crashes when compiling embedded shaders - The BRDFGGX plugin and the GGX mode of BRDFVRayMtl produce different results VRayOSLMtl / VRayOSLTex - 3D noises appear as stripes - Incorrect rendering of V-Ray OSL shaders when part of a VRayBlend material - Preprocessor-only output is polluted with diagnostic messages VRayOrnatrixMod / VRayHairFarmMod - Hair tessellation segments are not calculated correctly for orthographic views Hair & Fur - Invalid geometric normal (000) for "HairVrShadeable" warning with Hair and Fur VRayLight - Light portals appear noisier than rectangular lights due to undersampling MultiMatteElement - Opacity is not working with MultiMatteElement VRayFastSSS2 - Render to texture crashes with VRayFastSSS2 material VRayDisplacementMod - Rendering an animation with 2D displacement with VRayHDRI map with values greater than 1.0 causes the object to disappear on the second frame VFB - Artifacts appear on the render channels drop-down control after show/hide history - color correction controls disappear and lens effects settings are misplaced if scrolled down and resized - Enabled color corrections cause major UI slow downs in ActiveShade mode - Incorrectly resized when loaded a scene and the side panels have been open - Raw output image file extension is not persistent - Render channels drop-down box progressively diminishing its height VRayBlendMtl - Appears invisible in the viewport set to realistic preview VRayBump2Normal - Bump map slot is not updated when plugging/unplugging a map in Slate Material Editor VRayClipper - Artifacts with animated object - Exclude list is not considered for generating VRayEdgesTex round corners - Generates artifacts on excluded objects with VRayFastSSS2/VRaySkinMtl - Generates darker result when clipping VRayFastSSS2/VRaySkinMtl in Raytraced mode VRayDenoiser - Falling back to CPU with very wide images VRayDisplacementMod - Crash in View-dependent mode in orthographic views - Crash with object-based VRayFastSSS2 - Setting 2D displacement resolution to 1 crashes 3ds Max - Subdivision displacement in View-dependent mode is not calculated correctly for orthographic views VRayFur - VRayFur does not generate proper defocusAmount render element with motion blur VRayHDRI - Displaying parameters in the Compact Material Editor reinitializes ActiveShade rendering - Elliptical filtering is very slow with displacement VRayLight - Crash when changing type in creation mode VRayNormalMap - Faceted results on subdivided meshes VRayOrnatrixMod - Hair does not render when loaded through an XRef object - Hairs get occluded when light, camera and hairs are linked to an animated object VRayProxy - Automatically create proxies loads vrmeshes very slow - Incorrect normals geometry with mirrored transformation - Loading a specific Alembic file with particles crashes 3ds Max - NaN pixels with in the VRayRawShadow and VRayRawLighting render elements - Slow down when loading Alembic files with many meshes in 3ds Max 2017 - Visibility lists are incorrectly refreshed VRaySamplerInfo - Multi-sampled motion blur produces artifacts on animated proxies VRaySkinMtl - Doesn't work with the Vexus material from John Martini VRaySky - Deleted VRaySun still appears in the VRaySky - Find VRaySun from an XRef'd scene when using VRaySky VRayStochasticFlakesMtl - Does not appear in the Material Editor when V-Ray RT/GPU is selected as render engine VRayToon - Black color in Width map produces artifacts in the RGB and render elements VRayTriplanarTex - Crash when connected to bump slot through VRayNormalMap - Invalid bump normals warnings when source texture returns zero UVW coordinates - Normal maps are not rotated properly - Wrong tiling when plugged into bump map slot VRayVolumeGrid - 3ds Max crashes when playing animation with Time Bend Controls mode set to Loop - Artifacts with Grid-based Self-Illumination - Bucket artifacts with a moving grid using Phoenix Light Cache together with motion blur - Different render result when rendering on CPUs with different number of cores - Each time a render diagram is expanded or collapsed, it is fitted again - Emissive lights are calculated in V-Ray RT even when the Fire channel does not exist - Geometry behind simulator occludes render elements - It is possible to open the right click menu when moving a point in the diagrams or gradients - Interface lag when looking at a missing frame from a very long cache sequence - Motion blur for volumetrics does not take into account Interval center - Per-axis zoom in the shading diagrams does not respect the cursor position - Rendering with motion blur and duration=0 will preprocess forever - Scene saved with the old curves in Simple Smoke mode always has Inactive transparency diagram - Scrubbing the timeline with animated Direct Cache index leads to 3dS Max crash - The Fire Color and Intensity curves should act as a whole when fitted - V-Ray RT won't render smoke shaded by Smoke channel - Volumetric Geometry mode creates holes in Alpha at geometry intersection when Jittering is enabled - When editing diagram handle coordinates, Smooth Bezier handles stop working properly - Wrong velocity scaling with imported volumetric simulation from Houdini V-Ray Light Lister - Rows are overlapping ply2vrmesh.exe - Node transformation is applied only to the vertex channel but not to the normals channel vdenoise.exe - Crash with 8K OpenEXR files V-Ray Installer - Help button opens the system browser rather than default browser