1.8.5

Official Release

Date - April 20, 2023

New features

Materials

• Basic support for VRmat materials.

Textures

• Support for alpha from bitmaps used in V-Ray material's opacity, exported from Maya.
• Support for all options of the Advanced mode of the Color Correction texture from 3Ds Max.

UX/UI

• Separated environment related properties from Lights tab into a dedicated Environment tab.
• Added 'Open Scene Location' to File menu.

Geometry

• Support for Edge trimming option introduced in Chaos Scatter with V-Ray 6 for 3ds Max, update 1.1.

Modified Features

UX/UI

• Added scrollbar to Lights and Camera tabs.
  • Fixed snapping manipulation precision.
• Live Link UI mode - hides unusable tools and tabs when in Live Link session.
• Delete button's icon changed.
• Moved camera properties to default Undo Queue.
• Allow the Delete key to be used in the viewport for deleting selected objects.
• Remove 'Advanced Scene Settings' dialog from File menu, its settings are scattered in more convenient places(Camera tab, Render tab, Preferences dialog).
• Merged 'Render animation with Chaos Vantage' and 'Render animation with Chaos Vantage, using Vantage UI' into a single 'Render Animation with Chaos Vantage' workflow.

Fixes

Clouds

• Tiling artifacts for thin layer of clouds.

Live Link

• Wrong undo actions for camera parameters during Live Link.

Lights

• Textured rectangle lights don't match V-Ray when the light units are not set to default.

UX/UI

• Deleting parent object in a hierarchy messes children's transformation and Undo history.
• Render resolution not updating automatically when render Setup dialog is opened.