--- title: "V-Ray Next, Beta 2" canonical: "https://documentation.chaos.com/space/VMAYA/111739074/V-Ray%20Next%2C%20Beta%202" format: markdown --- *Official release* **Date** – Aug 02, 2018   ## **New features** --- ### V-Ray GPU - GPU-specific VRayMtl UI - GPU-specific render settings UI - Hide subdivs and cutoff parameters for lights, materials and textures when using GPU - Support for user attributes for use in bitmap paths - Maya lookdev nodes support in V-Ray GPU - Opacity support for VRayLightMtl ### **V-Ray** - Added a separate V-Ray menu in Maya - Added support for color choice texture ** ** ** ** **VRayHairNextMtl** - Added glints in VRayHairNextMtl ** ** ** ** **VRayScene** - Viewport 2.0 drawing ** ** ** ** **VRayToon** - Added per-material toon outline control - Added separate control over internal edges ** ** ** ** **VRayToonMtl** - Added a toon texture highlight option - Added highlight shape presets ** ** ** ** **Viewport 2.0/VRayMtl** - Added support for metalness in VRayMtl viewport preview     ## **Modified features** --- ### **V-Ray DR** - Added VRAY_DR_SOCKET_SEND_TIMEOUT environmental variable to control timeout in DR ** ** ** ** **V-Ray GPU** - Optimized memory usage of motion-blurred geometry - Sped up loading of textures - Warn the user if the settings used for production rendering are going to underutilize the GPU ** ** ** ** **V-Ray Swarm** - Initial implementation of Swarm functionality in Maya ** ** ** ** **V-Ray/VFB** - Optimized speed and memory usage of lens effects ** ** ** ** **V-Ray** - Deprecated Cuda engine on macOS and removed it from the UI - Deprecated OpenCL engine and removed it from the UI - Hide the subdivs controls in the light lister UI when use local subdivs is disabled - Improve VFB drawing performance - Optimized elliptical filtering speed with tiled textures - Optimized export of float to color ** ** ** ** **VRayMtl** - Added Use Roughness to the lookdev template for VRayMtl ** ** ** ** **VRayOSLMtl/VRayOSLTex** - Reintroduced OSL support for Linux - Reintroduced OSL support for macOS ** ** ** ** **VRayProxy** - Improved stability in parallel mode     ## **Bug fixes** --- ### **V-Ray** - Fixed Material Viewer not rendering V-Ray materials with the background turned off - Fixed camera projection with overscan - Fixed crash when opening a scene that references another scene with instanced V-Ray lights - Fixed fatal error with GPU IPR - Fixed switching between layers causing the intensity multiplier to be scaled - Fixed wrong GPU settings when exporting to vrscene - Fixed wrong license error reporting with unreachable network - Light linking with adaptive lights rendered wrong in some cases - Now outputting errors for wrong syntax in vrayconfig.xml ### **Cryptomatte** - Fixed Cryptomatte not working in material mode when "Allow negative shader collors" is off ** ** ** ** **Lens analyzer** - Fixed crash when analyzing a photo manually ** ** ** ** **V-Ray DR** - Fixed crash when switching between IPR and production - Fixed Maya crash with DR on early abort - Fixed crash when stopping IPR in DR while animation is running **V-Ray GPU** - Compiling Kernels will now properly appear in progress bar - Fixed 'cache normals' warning when using displacement on GPU - Fixed CUDA crash with MDL - Fixed Crash when deleting VRayLights in specific cases - Fixed Cuda error 700 when attaching a texture to a V-Ray light in IPR - Fixed Displacement AutoBump for GPU not producing correct results - Fixed crash in GPU init with hair in the scene - Fixed crash when deleting heavy geometry in specific scene - Fixed incorrect glossiness with GGX BRDF - Fixed invisible VRayDomeLight being visible through transparent VRayMtl - Fixed random crashes with Cuda on Linux - Fixed unexpected render result with non-spherical Dome VRayLight and matte shadows ** ** ** ** **V-Ray IPR/VRayProxy** - Fixed changing current frame causing re-export of VRayMeshMaterial ** ** ** ** **V-Ray IPR** - Fixed "Error: "Object 'renderViewpopupIprMenu' not found" when stopping IPR - Fixed Maya freeze when Viewport IPR has been stopped - Fixed crash in IPR when changing materials with hair sampler - Fixed stopping the IPR rendering caused Maya to hang in some cases ** ** ** ** **V-Ray/VRayClipper** - Fixed crash when creating VRayClipper on new Maya session in some cases ** ** ** ** **V-Ray/VRayStochasticFlakesMtl** - Fixed not being able to attach textures to float attributes of dynamic nodes ** ** ** ** **VRayCarPaintMtl** - Fixed different result from 3.6 with flake scale 0 ### **VRayPluginNodeMtl** - Fixed missing dynamic attributes for materials ** ** ** ** **VRayProxy/VRayMeshLight** - Fixed a crash with moving proxy meshlight with primary visibility OFF ** ** ** ** **VRayScene/XGen** - Fixed wrong XGen hair data for motion blur ** ** ** ** **VRayScene** - Fixed BRDFVRayMtl in a VRayScene object producing white Reflection Glossiness render element when animation overrides are used ** ** ** ** **Viewport 2.0/VRayProxy** - Some proxies were not shaded properly in the viewport