2.4.0

Official Release

Date - May 21, 2024

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New Features

Geometry

• Support for importing and creating V-Ray Decal.
• Support for nested V-Ray scenes inside V-Ray scenes.

Materials

• Support for "Thin walled" option in V-Ray material.

Textures

• Support for UDIM textures.

Color corrections

• Added white balance to color correction tab.
• Loading most VFB color corrections settings from .vrscene files (Exposure, Filmic, White Balance, Hue/Saturation, Color Balance, LUT).

Camera

• Support for setting "Auto-exposure" and "exposure bias" from .vrscene or Live-link.

Lights

• Support for dome light "horizontal flip" option from Maya.

UI/UX

• Search filter functionality in the Scene outliner.

Animation editor

• Imported animated cameras in/out ranges setting.
• Undo/Redo actions for animation editor.

Modified

Geometry

• Improved Scatter generation and update for detailed target and area include/exclude meshes.
• Improved denoising of deforming geometry.

UI/UX

• Scatter and fur objects can now be selected in the viewport.
• Improved tooltips timing.

Denoiser

• Updated DLSS-RR to version 3.7.

Performance

• Improved playback performance with a small number of animated instances and a large number of non-animated instances.
• Improved dynamic textures update performance.

Fixes

Geometry

• Merging of animated scenes with different Up vector results in wrong orientation.

Chaos Cosmos

• Wrong rendering of Cosmos assets exported from Maya.

UI/UX

• Crash when modifying key shortcuts.
• Disappearing popup dialogs for camera settings.
• Hiding an object doesn't hide its descendants if they are procedural objects (scatter, fur, light).
• NVENC failure when falling back from AV1 to H264 on older GPUs.

Installer

• Installer doesn't proceed when there is no V-Ray License Service installed.