1.8.2

Official Release

Date - October 13, 2022

New Features

NVidia AI Denoiser

• Option to denoise only final sampling pass in offline rendering.

Modified

Environment

• Implemented a default Vantage sun so Physical Sun and Sky option is available in the Environment mode drop-down.

UX/UI

• Added "Always On Top" button in the top toolbar and shortcut (Ctrl+Alt+T).
• Added outlines to rollouts.
• Improved the snapping behavior for manipulation gizmos.
• Added sliders below parameters with soft range and CTRL(snaps to 1/1000 of the slider's soft range value), SHIFT(snaps to 1/10 of the slider's soft range value) and CTRL+SHIFT(snaps to 1/100 of the slider's soft range value) modifier keys for finer control.
• Synchronized value defaults and ranges between Vantage UI and "Render animation via Live Link" dialog in 3Ds Max.

Path resolver

• Improved path resolver now searches every subfolder next to the imported file, for assets.

Motion blur

• Reduced artifacts from motion blur

Denoiser

• Improved Vantage denoiser result in refraction and flickering object edges.
• Improved refraction quality when switching between Vantage and NVidia AI in Combined denoiser mode.
• Improved reflection detail with NVidia AI denoiser.

Auto-exposure

• Improved auto-exposure that accumulate samples in dark areas (single GPU only).

Fixes

Rendering

• Visual popping of textures with "Dynamic textures" option enabled.
• Wrong blending of the sun disk with the ground albedo.
• Wrong alignment of the sky texture's horizon line.
• Temporal denoiser and postprocessing passes breaking with dynamic textures.
• Reduce flickering being used when disabled in High quality rendering.

Auto-exposure

• Crash when starting an offline render with "Auto exposure" enabled on systems with 2 GPUs.

Command line

• Crash when rendering with -denoiser=0.

Live Link

• Hang when the Live Link drops during a sequence rendering.
• Random abort while rendering sequence using "Render animation using Chaos Vantage".
• Live Link in 3ds Max doesn't start with the first click on the Start/Stop button.
• Distributed rendering in 3ds Max to always deactivate when the Live Link stop button is pressed.

Motion blur

• Not applying to moving objects when using "Render animation using Chaos Vantage".
• Not rendering in "Render animation using Chaos Vantage" Maxscript.

Import/Load

• Errors caused by loading empty string texture filenames.
• Scene animation range one frame shorter when loading .vantage file.

UX/UI

• UI bug when switching between 'Focal length' and 'Field of view'.
• Transform manipulation and snapping windows not being disabled in Live Link.
• Inconsistent spinner value changes on secondary monitor.
• Wrong rotation range for transform type-ins.
• Chaos Vantage starting at invalid coordinates when monitor layout changes between sessions.

Render elements

• Missing velocity in EXR.
• Alpha getting lost in EXR when motion blur is enabled.