1.6.0

Official Release

Date - December 06, 2021

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New Features

Cosmos materials

• Support for Cosmos materials
• Remove unused cosmos materials option in the Material list

Batch rendering

• Support for batch rendering. Still image and Sequence jobs can be added to a render queue

UX

• Import option in the File menu for easier importing of supported file formats

Supported formats

• Experimental support for opening and importing FBX, OBJ, 3DS, PLY, STL, TER, DAE, GLTF file formats

Modified

UX

• The Snapshot and Sequence dialogs are now united in a single Render dialog
• Animation frame range setting in the Render dialog
• Render time estimation in the Progress window
• Non-zero default values for transform snapping. New defaults are:
  • Translate 10 scene units
  • Rotate 15 degrees
  • Scale 0.1
• Object list improvements:
  • CTRL + A selects all objects, including children
  • SHIFT + Expand/Collapse applies to children too
  • DELETE key deletes the selected object
  • SHIFT + DELETE key deletes the selected object and its children
  • All selected items are expanded/collapsed with the item currently expanding/collapsing

Performance

• Optimized GPU memory usage:
  • Light Cache is now several times smaller
  • Unused textures are unloaded from the GPU

Live Link

• Creation and updating of textures for lights

Fixes

Textures

• VRayMultiTexture and VRayTriplanar randomization options not working with scenes from V-Ray 5, update 2

Memory

• Crash after loading a new scene after a failed memory allocation

Multi GPU

• Line artifacts with multi GPU after opening the material browser