1.7.0

Official Release

Date - March 30, 2022

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New Features

Textures

• Support for normal maps

Clay mode

• Added white/clay mode override in the Material tab with options to preserve original material's reflection, refraction, bump, opacity and self illumination

Ambient occlusion

• Added global ambient occlusion option in the Lights tab

Sun animation

• Implemented Animated Geolocated sun and Sun track in the animation editor for easy sun time lapse animation

Menu

• Added New option in the File menu to create a new empty scene

Navigation

• Support for 3DConnexion SpaceMouse controller

Supported output formats

• Implemented .jpg/.jpeg file type output

Modified

Ambient light

• Added ambient light color swatch
• Increased ambient light intensity limit to 1000000

UX

• Implemented 'Camera enqueu mode' in Render setup dialog to add all scene cameras at once in the render queue
• Shows .vantage file name in recent file list and title bar after saving scene
• Camera clipping planes are now taken into account when determining the dolly/orbit/zoom pivot point
• Abort button now aborts the entire render queue
• Render dialog retains render queue when closed
• Sequence mode is not allowed when no sequence is available

Fixes

.vantage file

• The .vrscene environment texture is not used when loading a .vrscene with an associated .vantage file

Memory

• Memory leak when HQ rendering with denoiser

Live link

• Changing a VRayLight from Plane to Dome not updating correctly

Camera

• Crash when renaming a camera

Geometry

• Crash when deleting objects