V-Ray 2.40.03 for 3Ds Max 2009-2013

Features and Improvements
BUILD 2.40.01 2

New features:
•VRayHairFarmMod:Added supportfor rendering
HairFarm 2.0 with V-Ray;
•VRayProxy: SupportforAlembic .abc files;
•V-RayRT: Supportfor instancing;
•V-RayRT: Supportfor ForestPro instancing;
•V-RayRTCPU: Faster update when adjusting VRayLights;
•V-RayRTGPU:CUDAspeed optimizations and
optimizations forGK110 cards;
•V-RayRTGPU: Supportfor theColorCorrection texture;
•V-RayRTGPU: Supportfor the Mix texture;

Modified features:
•V-Ray:Added include/exclude objectlists for different
color channels to the MultiMatte render element;
•V-Ray:Added option to the VRayExtraTex render
elementto avoid auto-renaming the element when the
texture is changed;
•V-Rayefault memory limitfor dynamic geometry
changed to 4000 MBfor x64 versions;
•V-Ray: Fixed issue that was slowing down multi-core
rendering for VRayProxy objects;
•V-Rayptimized multi-core rendering forOpenEXR
textures;
•V-Rayptimizedunnecessary velocity calculationswhen
no velocity channelisneeded;
•V-Ray-Ray componentsnowregister inthe respective
menus across differentlanguage 3ds Max builds;
•V-RayRTCPU:Added supportforVRayHairMtl;
•V-RayRTCPU:Added supportforVRayFur;
•V-Ray scene converter:Addedmr_Sun/mr_Sky lights in
exporttoVRaySun/VRaySky respectively;
•V-Ray scene exporter:Added subdivided geometry export;
•VRayEdgesTex:Improved the round corners algorithm;
•VRayAmbientLight: Made some ofthe parameters animated;
•VRayFur:Added “LevelOfDetail” optionto reduce geometry
along the distance fromthe camera;
•VRayHDRI:Added “Color space” sectionandmoved the
“Gamma” optionthere;
•VRayIESLight:Added anoptionto override the IESshape;
•VRayIESLight: Made selecting boththe light and it’s target
whenclicking onthe line betweenthem;
•VRayLight:Addedapreviewofthe “directionality” parameter
ofVRayLights inthe viewports;
•VRayLight:Added“targeted” optionfor rectangleVRayLights;
•VRayLight/VRayIESLight:Added textured lighting inNitrous
viewport,forDome light enabled by anenvironment variable
VRAY_DOME_VIEWPORT=1;
•VRayMeshGeom:The sample pluginwas extended to create
V-RayStandalone shaders onthe fly;

Build 2.40.01 official (2 february 2013)
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•VRayMtl: Made “Fog color” mappable;
•VRayMtl: Made reflections to affectthe alpha of matte
objects;
•VRayMtlGLSL:Added ability to save and load compiled
shaders;
•VRayMtlGLSL:Added cubemap texture support;
•VRayMtlGLSL:Added viewport color parameter;
•VRayMtlGLSL:Added vr_brdf_light builtinBRDF support;
•VRayProxy: Supportfor flipping of Z/Y axis;
•VRayProxy: Supportfor visibility lists for .vrmesh
and .abc files;
•VRaySphereFade:Added supportfor box and
cylinder gizmos;
•ply2vrmesh:Added option to specify the name ofthe
velocity attribute (-velocityAttrName);
•ply2vrmesh:Added supportfor .hclassic and .bhclassic
files produced byHoudini 12;
•ply2vrmesh:Added supportfor color sets from
.bgeo files;
•ply2vrmesh:Added supportfor exporting the face and
vertex normals in .geo and .bgeo files;
•ply2vrmesh:Added ability to store the V-Ray user
attributes when creating a proxy;

Bug fixes:
•Hair&Fur: Fixed crash when lit by VRayLightMtl with
DirectIllumination on;
•Hair&Fur: Fixed incorrect result with VRayHairInfoTex
texture in “Position along strand” mode;
•Hair&Fur: Fixed random swap of custom materials
between differentHair&Fur modifiers when reloading
a scene;
•Hair&Fur: Fixed memory leak after rendering a frame
since V-Ray 2.3;
•imapviewer: Fixed crash when incrementally loading
irradiance maps;
•V-Ray: Enabled by default all channels in the MultiMatte
render element;
•V-Ray: Fixed crash when pressing the “Remove” button
in the VRayLightSelect element with empty lights list;
•V-Ray: Fixed export of objects with ‘:’ in the names,
failing to compose file name;
•V-Ray: Fixed incorrect normals forParticleFlow systems
with ShapeInstance where the instanced object has
explicit normals;
•V-Ray: Fixed issue causing random crashes
when updating material swatches with VRayCarPaintMtl
material or bitmap textures;
•V-Ray: Fixed issue causing white edges on matte
objects lit with 3ds Max lights with area shadows;
•V-Ray: Fixed issue with V-Ray object properties not
applied when changing more than one at a time;
•V-Ray:Fixedmisspelled “caustics_autoSave”maxscript
property;
•V-Ray:Fixed somewarnings that appeared incorrectly due to
3ds Max 2013Unicode support;
•V-Ray:Fixed standard lights’ “Atmosphere shadows” option
of doesn’twork properlywithareaVRayShadows;
•V-Ray:FixedUIissuewith MultiMatte render elementRGB
channelnames;
•V-Ray:FixedV-Raymaterials’to appear inthe respective
categories inthematerial editor;
•V-RayRT:Fixed Maxscript access for .warn_unsupported
property;
•V-RayRT:FixedVRayBlendMtl as coat of another
VRayBlendMtlto render properly;
•V-RayRT: Mirroring instance ofVrayIESlightusingOffset
spinnerwhile runningRTsentthe lighttowrong coordinates;
•V-RayRT:GImultipliers by objectwhichare greater than1.0
werenotworking inRT;
•V-RayRTCPU:Fixed artifacts inlayeredmaterials;
•V-RayRTGPU:Fixed calculations precisiononCUDAand
OpenCLrendering causing artifacts;
•V-RayRTGPU:Fixed crashwith8-bittexturemode and light
textures;
•V-RayRTGPU:FixedOpenCLissuewithwrong transparent
shadowswithmotionblur;
•V-RayRTGPU:FixedOpenCLissuewithmotionblurred
dome lights;
•V-RayRTGPUcaled IESlights produced different result
fromthe productionrenderer;
•V-Ray scene exporter:Fixedphotometric lights conversionto
IESlights;
•V-Ray scene exporter:FixedRenderElementsmanager
retrievalwhenselectedActiveShade rendering;
•VFB:FixedissuewithmultithreadedICCprofiles loading,that
could cause eithermiscalculations or crash;
•VRayCarPaint/VRayFlakesMtl:Fixed issuewiththe flakes
layernot respecting the global reflectiondepthlimit;
•VRayDisplacementMod:Fixed crashwhen“Edge length”
optionis setto 0,0;
•VRayDisplacementMod:Fixed incorrect displacement result
onmirrored geometrywhenusingNoisemodifier and
motionblur;
•VRayDistanceTex:Fixed towork as bumpmap;
•VRayFlakesMtl:Fixedwrong bucketswhenrendering
withDMCsampler;
•VRayGLSLMtl:GLSLmaterialswere receivingnoGI
whenevaluating shaders executed inlightloopmode;
•VRayHairMtl:Fixed randomcrashincasewhenapplied to
normal geometry;
•VRayHairMtlptimizedmaterial sampling;
•VRayIESLight:Fixed anissue preventing the lightto be
selected inthe viewportwithno IESprofile assigned;
•VRayIESLight:Fixed “Autogrid” optionincreationmode;

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•VRayIESLight: Fixed crash when setting ies profile
through MaxScript;
•VRayLensEffects: Fixed issue with remaining render
elements in the VFB when the effectis deleted;
•VRayLight: 3ds Max crash with dome light;
•VRayLight: Fixed incorrecttab order ofUI controls;
•VRayLight: Fixed issue causing theUIto disappear when
switching the lighttype in 3ds Max 2013;
•VRayLight: Fixed issue causing theUIto malfunction
when toggling “enableHW lighting” during creation;
•VRayLight/VRayIESLight: Fixed issue with
enabling/disabling Nitrous viewportlighting;
•VRayLight/VRayPhysicalCamera: Fixed issue with
instanced targeted Vray cameras and lights causing
flickering of “target distance” parameter;
•VRayLightMtl: Fixed issue when in X-Ref’d scene with
directillumination mode on;
•VRayMtl: Fixed “Affect shadows” option to work with
enabled caustics;
•VRayEnvironmentFog: The “fog height” parameter could
nottake negative values;

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•VRayOrnatrixMod: Fixed issue concerning hairs
collections with varying number of guide points per
strand;
•VRayPhysicalCamera: Fixed the “Horizontal offset” and
“vertical offset” options showing different resultin the
viewport and the render;
•VRayPhysicalCamera: Fixed issue with animated zoom
and motion blur;
•VRayPlane: Fixed rendering with VRayBPTracer;
•VRayStereoscopic: Fixed shade map improperly
generated file names;
•VRayBlendMtlisplacementin the base material
was not rendered;
•VRayFastSSS2: Fixed artifacts when rendering
point-cached motion-blurred geometry with
displacement;
•ply2vrmesh: Fixed crash duringRealFlow
.bin files conversion;
•ply2vrmesh: Fixed crash when converting
.objfile containing face definitions with negative indexes;


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