--- title: "V-Ray Next, Beta 1" canonical: "https://documentation.chaos.com/space/VMAYA/111739075/V-Ray%20Next%2C%20Beta%201" format: markdown --- *Official release* **Date** – June 13, 2018   ## **New Features** --- ### **V-Ray IPR** - Interactive IPR with instant updates ### VRayDomeLight - Adaptive Dome Light ### VRayHairNextMtl - New Hair shader with melanin controls ### VRayToonMtl - Introduced new advanced toon cel shading - Added option for rendering toon edges on material boundaries - Reworked depth-based line width - Added an option for view-based line width control ### V-Ray - Automatic camera exposure - Render in the cloud button in the V-Ray shelf - V-Ray can now cache files locally in order to avoid locking original files - Support for floatMath utility node with texture inputs - Added option for the global minimum hair width - Update the SDK to make greater use of SSE instructions for 3D vector, color and matrix operations - Require CPU with SSE 4.2 to support SIMD optimizations - Added Drag-n-drop support for V-Ray file types ### VRayMtl - Added "metalness" parameter to the VRayMtl for easy support of PBR workflows ### V-Ray Cloud - Added support for Cloud rendering ### Denoiser - Denoising per render element in the Maya UI - Optix denoiser in Maya for Windows - Added an option to VDenoise command line for choosing an output directory ### V-Ray GPU - Implemented new rendering architecture resulting in better performance - Add support for adaptive dome light - Add support for volumetric rendering - Add support for glossy Fresnel - Improved GPU 3D displacement - Initial support for VRayEnvironmentFog (without textures) - Initial support of VRayVolumeGrid (brute force probabilistic volume sampling only) - Initial support for VRscans (VRayScannedMtl) ### VRayProxy - Support for Alembic layers ### SamplerInfo - Added face index and barycentric coords to TexSamplerInfo ### VRayFur - Add dynamic tessellation option ### Viewport 2.0 - Added texture preview for VRayScannedMtl - Dome light texture is now visible in environment reflections in Viewport 2.0 material previews ### VFB - Maya scene path is saved in VFB History and can be used to open the scene   **Modified Features** --- ### V-Ray - Faster multi-segmented motion blur geometry with embree - Optimized instancer export - Improved export speed for Object Properties and other sets - Improved export time when exporting large mesh that has multiple materials connected - Improved export speed for a material on multiple objects - Removed the Photon subdivs and Diffuse multiplier options for V-Ray lights - Removed the ShInfo node from the UI - Removed Photon Map and Spherical Harmonics as GI engines - Removed SkinMtl and Simbiont from the UI. - Removed embree use packets option from the UI - Removed redundant TexSwitch exported for VRayVertexColor when using name - Removed obsolete prepass and object-based multiple scattering options from SSS2 and Skin material - Stereoscopic and Dome Camera attributes are now turned on by default when creating the attributes - Stable and converging integer render elements when using progressive - The rendered procedural textures now resemble the viewport look more - Added "Post effects rate" option to the System rollout to control lens effects and denoiser update frequency percentage - Switched to UTF-8 V-Ray core to be compatible with vrscenes from other host applications - Better render time estimation for progressive sampling - Optimize the use of DR servers (early free servers at the end of a render so that they can join other jobs) - Update Embree to version 2.13 ### V-Ray IPR - Changes will refresh in IPR in animation - Fixed unnecessary refreshes when proxy is selected ### V-Ray GPU - Optimized V-Ray GPU default settings for faster rendering - Added a separate option for production GPU ray bundle size - Improve GPU Light Linker memory efficiency - Faster VRayDirt & rounded corners in some cases - Support for VRayDirt "Consider same object only" - Better sampling of glossy materials - Optimize GPU displacement/subdivision compile times ### V-Ray/VRayProxy - Faster render start with instanced alembic proxy ### VFB - Reworked the post-effects pipeline to avoid Lens effects overriding the denoised image - Added the VFB "Track mouse" lock option to the vfbcontrol command - Added VRAY_VFB_COLOR_CORRECT_ALL envvar to allow color correcting everything in the VFB only ### Denoiser - Removed the denoiser multipass mode ### VRayMtl - Removed the highlight glossiness parameter and the lock button from the VRayMtl UI ### VRayPhysicalCamera - VRayPhysicalCamera attribute will be turned on by default on creation - Vignetting is now off by default with VRayPhysicalCamera ### VRayScene - Will not clone lights if instance is not loading them ### Cryptomatte - Improved cryptomatte material mattes with multiple materials on a single object ### Material importer - Material importer will now use the scene name if available ### Viewport 2.0 - Support for Switch material - Support for Mtl2Sided ### Light Lister - Add a "Help" button at the upper right corner in V-Ray Light lister - Improved V-Ray light lister to work with render layers ### ply2vrmesh - Added ply2vrmesh -perObject info - Add support for ZBrush vertex color channel data ### VRayToon - VRayToon render element can still be rendered even if VRayToon is disabled   ## **Bug Fixes** --- ### VRayProxy - Fixed slow proxy loading after version 3.52.03 - Fixed broken material IDs when simplifying for proxy preview - Fixed Viewport proxy file override - Fixed alembic sequences loaded via Proxy node not updating in the viewport until updated in Attribute Editor ### V-Ray GPU - Fixed CUDA crash with MDL - Fixed CUDA crash with VRayFurSampler, Random by strand ### V-Ray IPR - Fixed IPR always refreshed on scene save ### MaterialSelect - Fixed some materials in MaterialSelect RE to be picked up when put as selection set ### V-Ray - Fixed scenes with render mask showing images from previous renders - Fixed noise lines in the subdivided geometry - Fixed crash when deleting materials from Hypershade - Ported the curves from PhoenixFD to VRay textures in Maya - Fixed file texture colorGain not working in animation ### Denoiser/VFB/IPR - Fixed the entire image outside the region getting denoised in IPR ### VFB - Fixed possible mouse pointer capture from the VFB when starting ### VRaySunSky - Fixed VRaySun and Sky viewport preview was inverted in Maya 2015/2016 ### Viewport 2.0 - Flipped ENV preview faces to point inwards, otherwise backface culling hides them ### VRayScene - Fixed unexpected moving of a texture projection inside the vrscene when moving the vrscene in Maya - Override snippet is not loading plugins from the parent scene ### Cryptomatte - Fixed artifacts in cryptomatte with "Affect all channels" ### V-Ray DR - Fixed Assets added with UNC path not transferring to Linux ### Miscellaneous - Fixed TexGLSL crash when the shader path is set to a directory on Linux - Fixed a fatal error building the scene with animation curves - Fixed crash when rendering animation with disabled light cache and light select render element, after a previous render - Fixed crash when rendering the swatch for a vrscene with a VRMat attached - Fixed crash with instancer and attached displacement node to the source object - Fixed IPR crash when moving the camera and rendering in DR - Fixed retrieving of imgFormatStr via script for default png - Fixed setting focus point from the VFB in IPR not working with wide angle cameras - Fixed string attributes on VRayPluginNode failing if there's a default value - Fixed smooth method in texture filter attributes not dimming in the UI when filter is not smooth - Fixed missing velocity from renderable curves in a specific case - Fixed VRayProxy Material Assignments File not working with subdivision - Fixed GI getting re-enabled on scene open when GPU is the production renderer - Fixed resumed render not finishing if only subdivs are used as a finishing criterion - Fixed vraymayaslave not registering as a service on systemd startup Linux systems - Fixed the cursor not turning to a cross when using the RMB menu in the VFB - Fixed negative reported progress with ptex baking - Fixed warning displayed when opening a scene with a dome light - Fixed VDenoise crash when denoising only "effectsResult" element of an animation - Fixed ptex baking light select not containing reflections - Fixed error when creating osl shader and assigning parameter on Linux - Fixed multiple vraySettings node getting created with scene namespace - Fixed dome light with domeSpherical=0 displayed wrong in the viewport - Fixed crash when importing materials which have nodes with similar names which differ only in invalid characters - Fixed wrong glossy Fresnel import when importing layer based VRayMtl from vrscene - Fixed wrong import of the color space of file nodes in color managed Mayas (from Maya 2016 and after) - The material importer didn't refresh material names on edited vrscene files - fixed - Fixed vrscene file handles remaining open after scene is no longer used by the material importer - Fixed dim distance 0 is imported as 1 from BRDFGGX - Fixed SamplerInfo vector attribute connections of not getting imported by the material importer - Fixed wrong import of remap nodes when importing materials from vrscene - Fixed Remap Ramp Nodes not getting imported properly from vrscene - Fixed imported lambert material from vrscene not rendering the same as the original - Fixed alpha output from TexAColorOp not connecting after importing material from vrscene - Fixed duplicate file nodes created when importing a material from vrscene - Fixed artifacts with VRayEnvironmentFog in a gizmo with camera located outside the gizmo - Fixed installation if the Maya root folder is changed by user action - Fixed VRayUserColor not working corectly with proxy GPU Mesh preview - Warnings like OpenSubdiv "Warning: Vertex XXX specified to be sharp does not exist" now respect verbosity settings - Fixed Maya fluids having wrong texture mapping with Auto Resize and Grid Coordinate Method - Fixed artifacts with a scaled directional rectangle light illuminating a surface at small grazing angles - Fixed TexAColorOp multipliers getting imported as 0 when importing materials from a vrscene - Fixed wrong default installation directory on some Linux distribution - Fixed errors when opening and rendering scenes with camera projected textures - Fixed "Completed renders only" checkbox not getting undimmed properly in VFB History Settings - Fixed animated objects dissapearring when rendering in Viewport IPR and the timeline is running - Fixed VRaySky preview in Viewport 2.0 not displayed properly if Z is set as UP-axis - Fixed Overscan feature in DR - Fixed Geosun's animation not working when rendered in batch with mayapy - Fixed VRayClipper affecting VRayDirt with default settings - Cannot override string parameters with empty string on the command line - fixed - Fixed Maya GPU cache not working with relative paths - Fixed Instanced vrscenes with instancer inside not rendering - Fixed wrong texture on rectangle light Viewport 2.0 preview - Fixed Viewport 2.0 flipped environment reflections in Maya 2016 - Fixed VRscene files containing BRDFDiffuse not importing correctly - Fixed Maya Fluids with Auto Resize using Phoenix FD shader erroneously rendering with object motion blur during resize