Vray 3.2? MAX 2016 when?

[andreasb]

Hi,

We have been using Max 2016 and we have installed the old Max 2015 Vray 3.1 version. It works, but we also want to use Itoo Forest and the developers of that plugin is waiting for full Vray Max 2016 support.
So any news on when Vray for Max 2016 will be released?

/Andreas

[vlado]

Well, the builds are done and we will be uploading on the website later this week.

Best regards,
Vlado

[SteveC]

Hi

Will the 3DS Max physical camera be compatible with vray when the 2016 version is released ?

Cheers
Steve

[vlado]

Will the 3DS Max physical camera be compatible with vray when the 2016 version is released?

Yes. It would be rather lame, if we give the code to Autodesk and then not support it

Best regards,
Vlado

[muoto]

ok, we are "later this week"...
finally installed max2016 all on the nodes and just waiting for the vray release
hope 2016 will bring some nice improvements

[vlado]

You can email our support guys to support@chaosgroup.com and ask for a 2016 build of V-Ray.

Best regards,
Vlado

[davision]

Vlado, is there any advantage or disadvantage to using Max's Phys cam versus Vray's version? Or are they essentially identical?

[vlado]

Vlado, is there any advantage or disadvantage to using Max's Phys cam versus Vray's version? Or are they essentially identical?

They are almost identical in terms of rendeirng. The Autodesk guys did a very nice viewport integration though, with support for DOF in the viewport and so on - something we never could have done. They also made the UI more convenient.

Best regards,
Vlado

[Jiri.Matys]

And this nice viewport with DOF and so on will be functional only with max cam?

And second question, VRay user should use VRay cam or dont care?

[vlado]

And this nice viewport with DOF and so on will be functional only with max cam?

Yes.

And second question, VRay user should use VRay cam or dont care?

We actually hid the V-Ray camera from the UI in Max 2016. It will still load along with old scenes for compatibility reasons, but for newer scenes, the expectation is to use the Max one.

Best regards,
Vlado

[theedge]

That's a good news ! Finally back to using only one camera type in 3ds max. No more converting from standard cam to vrayphyscam and vice versa

[vlado]

That's a good news ! Finally back to using only one camera type in 3ds max. No more converting from standard cam to vrayphyscam and vice versa

Yeah, it was causing us a lot of headaches too as some 3rd party tools would only support the Standard camera, because it's the one that comes with Max.

Best regards,
Vlado

[Mokiki]

Is there already a pdf document with new service pack features?

[vlado]

A preliminary changelog is as follows:

Build 3.20.01 (official) (25 May 2015)
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New features:
(*) VRayVolumeGrid: Added support for rendering of fluid simulation data (Phoenix FD, Field3D and OpenVDB);
(*) V-Ray: Added ability to add/remove DR servers on the fly from the Render Progress window;
(*) V-Ray: The DR servers list is re-read whenever the vray_dr.cfg file is modified during rendering;
(*) V-Ray: Added button to open the V-Ray messages log window;
(*) V-Ray: Added camera object properties to control the number of transformation samples for camera motion blur;
(*) V-Ray: Added support for 3ds Max 2016, including the new Physical Camera and Physical Camera Exposure Control;
(*) V-Ray: MaxScript parameter to control the DMC random seed;
(*) V-Ray: The V-Ray object properties allow to specify a given map channel as velocity channel (useful with some Alembic importers);
(*) V-Ray: Provided tooltip descriptions for most of the renderer settings;
(*) V-Ray RT CPU: Support for VRayEnvironmentFog;
(*) V-Ray RT GPU: Added support for Composite map rendering;
(*) V-Ray RT GPU: Added support for displacement;
(*) V-Ray RT GPU: Added support for VRayMtl anisotropy;
(*) V-Ray RT GPU: Added UDIM tag support;
(*) V-Ray RT GPU: Implemented QMC sampling for CUDA engine;
(*) V-Ray RT GPU: Initial support for texture baking;
(*) V-Ray RT GPU: Support for spherical panorama cameras;
(*) V-Ray RT GPU: Added support for 3ds Max Spot and Omni lights Decay and Near/Far Attenuation parameters;
(*) V-Ray RT GPU: Added support for textures output Bezier curve output color correction;
(*) VRayProxy: Added better methods for generating viewport preview meshes based on mesh simplification;
(*) VRayProxy: Added Show whole mesh viewport display option;
(*) VRayProxy: Support for exporting the VRayInstancer as a .vrmesh file preserving the instancing;
(*) VRayStereoscopic: Support for stereo spherical/cylindrical panorama cameras;
(*) VFB: Added ability to load the render settings for an image from the history window;
(*) VFB: Can be zoomed in/out with the regular +/-/* keys (useful for remote access from mobile devices);
(*) VRayCurvatureMap: A new texture similar to VRayDirt; useful for detecting mesh curvature;
(*) VRayFur: Faster rendering; can now be accelerated by Embree;
(*) Hair&Fur: Faster rendering; can now be accelerated by Embree;
(*) VRayInstancer: Added ability to override node and V-Ray object properties of the source objects;
(*) VRayInstancer: Added parameters to control the random seed, render percentage;
(*) VRayInstancer: Added an experimental option for multithreaded instance generation (only for the V-Ray portion of the code);
(*) VRayLight: Added a line that shows the orientation of the dome lights in the viewport, it also shows the center of VRayHDRI wrapping;
(*) VRayOSLMtl: Added support for vray_subsurface() closure;
(*) VRayOSLMtl: Added support for vray_hair() closure;
(*) VRayOSLMtl/VRayOSLTex: Support for drop-down controls;
(*) VRayHDRI: Added support for loading PNG grayscale with alpha images;
(*) Texture baking: Additional bake elements for render to texture: VRayMtlReflectIORBake, VRayReflectionFilterMap;
(*) V-Ray scene converter: Added initial implementation of conversion of Corona materials and lights;
(*) ply2vrmesh: Support for conversion of particles from .geo and .bgeo files;
(*) vrayspawner.exe can assign separate DR nodes to different processor groups;

Modified features:
(*) V-Ray: Reduced light cache leaks through a new parameter "Leak prevention";
(*) V-Ray: New default settings for the light cache;
(*) V-Ray: The GI subdivs multiplier in the V-Ray object properties has been renamed to "Subdivs multiplier" and affects all shading samples for the particular object;
(*) V-Ray: The render mask can work with transparent and not Visible to Camera objects along the ray paths;
(*) V-Ray: The render mask on selected objects is intersected by VRayLights;
(*) V-Ray: Setting the Global subdivs multiplier to 0.0 does not affect the irradiance map and other reflection/refraction interpolation maps;
(*) V-Ray: Added UI view switcher to the Global DMC sampler rollout;
(*) V-Ray: Changed the default motion blur duration value to 0.5;
(*) V-Ray: Improved handling of meshes and proxies that are invisible to the camera;
(*) V-Ray: Speed up of the "transforming vertices" phase in scenes with many objects;
(*) V-Ray: Simplified the "default" view of the light cache rollout;
(*) V-Ray RT GPU: Added support for Falloff texmap in VRayVRmatMtl;
(*) V-Ray RT GPU: Cleaner glossy reflections from area lights;
(*) V-Ray RT GPU: Implemented Light Cache support for motion blurred hairs;
(*) V-Ray RT GPU: Implemented more robust common tasks execution, leading to about 10% render speed gain;
(*) V-Ray RT GPU: Optimized system CPU memory usage for bitmap textures;
(*) V-Ray Toolbar: Changed the default alignment to floating for 3ds Max 2016 and later due to issues with default docking;
(*) VFB: Added VRAY_BLENDED_GUI environment variable that, when set to 0, allows to run the VFB in a separate thread like before, otherwise it runs in the 3ds Max main thread by default;
(*) VFB: Better contrast function that preserves the black and white points;
(*) VFB: The render region coordinates are stored normalized to the image size;
(*) VFB: The vfbControl MaxScript function supports loading of color correction files;
(*) VFB: The vfbControl MaxScript function does not cause the VFB to show anymore;
(*) VFB: The "Edit comment" window appears under the mouse cursor when shown;
(*) VFB: The "Close" button in the "Edit comment" window is changed to "Save and close";
(*) V-Ray Quick settings: Light cache's Pre-filter is no more affected;
(*) VRayCarPaint: Added max reflection depth control;
(*) VRayExposureControl: Added MaxScript access to the "active" and "processBG" options;
(*) VRayFastSSS2: Changed trace reflections to enabled by default;
(*) VRayHDRI: Allow negative values for the U/V Crop/Place parameters in VRayHDRI;
(*) VRayHDRI: Added option to generates IFL lists with full file paths rather than relative;
(*) VRayHDRI: Faster rendering of tiled textures when the tiled memory limit is reached;
(*) VRayHDRI: Improved elliptical filtering;
(*) VRayLight: Simplify the interface options layout;
(*) VRayProxy: Instancing for Alembic meshes is enabled by default;
(*) VRayScatterVolumeMtl: Improved calculations;
(*) VRayToon: Added support for layers in the include/exclude list;
(*) V-Ray Light Lister: Made the light names fields wider and the list is sorted by the lights names;
(*) .vrmesh exporter: Added support for VRayInstancer when "Export each mesh to separate file" option is selected;
(*) .vrscene exporter: The render state of objects is exported;
(*) Installer: Adding exceptions for applications and ports to the firewall;
(*) Lens analyzer: Added ability to generate texture for physical camera distortion map;
(*) ply2vrmesh: Preserve UV set names for .geo/.bgeo files;

Bug fixes:
(*) V-Ray: Creating VRayFur either from the V-Ray Toolbar or the menus, was not attaching it to the source object's transformation;
(*) V-Ray: Fixed a crash when loading Alembic files containing particles with invalid positions;
(*) V-Ray: Fixed a crash when rendering a scripted material that extends a 3ds Max native material;
(*) V-Ray: Fixed a crash when rendering primitives with no faces with Embree;
(*) V-Ray: Fixed crash when rendering absolutely straight, motion blurred hairs with Embree;
(*) V-Ray: Fixed hang if cancelling the render during irradiance map calculation phase when DR;
(*) V-Ray: Fixed a random crash at the end of a render if "Get resolution from MAX" option is unchecked;
(*) V-Ray: Fixed artifacts when rendering hairs with Embree;
(*) V-Ray: Fixed some of the quad menu items registering more than once;
(*) V-Ray: Fixed issue where toggling the "Default Lights" option also changed VFB resolution preset;
(*) V-Ray: Fixed unhandled exception when doing distributed rendering an animation with any of the irradiance map incremental modes;
(*) V-Ray: Standard 3ds Max materials were not rendering with VRayOverrideMtl;
(*) V-Ray: Writing output with the "Separate render channels" can be interrupted;
(*) V-Ray/V-Ray RT CPU: Removed occurring bright pixels with progressive sampling;
(*) VRayPhysicalCamera: Fixed wrong physical camera distortion when distortion map is used;
(*) VRayMtl: Fixed wrong shadows with opacity of VRayMtl in VRay2sidedMtl in VRayBlendMtl;
(*) V-Ray RT: 3ds Max UI was freezing during and for some time after render to texture with large resolutions;
(*) V-Ray RT: Added support for animated UVW coordinates;
(*) V-Ray RT: Animation frames were duplicated;
(*) V-Ray RT: Changing map channels during Active Shade was not re-exported;
(*) V-Ray RT: Divide shading subdivs was not exported;
(*) V-Ray RT: Fixed crash due to leaking animated mesh light meshes;
(*) V-Ray RT: Fixed crash when VRayLight has Bercon Noise or Bercon Wood texture;
(*) V-Ray RT: Fixed incorrectly exported displacement plugin when it is animated;
(*) V-Ray RT: Fixed incorrectly exported material names starting with digits;
(*) V-Ray RT: Fixed random hang during "Waiting for renderer..." stage when rendering as production renderer;
(*) V-Ray RT: Fixed some of the messages in the console appearing on the same line;
(*) V-Ray RT: Fixed VFB occasionally freezing during rendering;
(*) V-Ray RT: Mesh light was missing if "Replace mesh with light" was off;
(*) V-Ray RT: Render server may crash on exit if there is a physical camera in the scene;
(*) V-Ray RT: Refraction environment map was used when Reflection/Refraction environment are disabled;
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Best regards,
Vlado

[Mokiki]

Thanks for that Vlado. Great read Can't wait to download it.