2.6.0

Official Release

Date - October 24, 2024

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New Features

Material

• Support for Sub Surface Scattering translucency mode of V-Ray material.
• Support for stochastic opacity. Now gradients in opacity map can be rendered. Has to be enabled from Render tab > Materials > Opacity dropdown button.

Clipper

• Support for importing and creating V-Ray Clipper.

Water surface

• Added a Water surface object.

Virtual Reality

• Support for navigation with Virtual Reality controllers.

Camera

• Support for animated camera near and far clipping planes from vrscene.
• Cameras are now scene objects. They are listed in scene outliner and have gizmos in the viewport and can be selected and manipulated.
• Added Smooth camera key interpolation for smoother camera movement.
• Functionality for setting the average camera movement speed for Animation Transitions.

UI/UX

• Added import camera, light and material buttons in Camera, Lights and Materials tab respectively.

Clay mode

• Added Wireframe/Edges override option for the Clay mode.

Texture

• Support for PhoenixFDOcean texture.
• Support for V-Ray Water Texture in Maya, SketchUp, Rhino and Revit.

Chaos Cosmos

• Support for Cosmos multi-asset selection and import.

Multi GPU

• Added support for Light Cache on multiple GPUs.

Modified

Material

• Improved Thin-walled - now it works with SSS translucency mode of V-Ray material.

UI/UX

• Added object type specifier icons to the Scene outliner.
• Improved opacity - now clip opacity is enabled by default.
• Improved soft ranges of UI sliders to be readjusting based on type-in input.
• Improved the text elision in dropdown boxes.
• Improved the Home Screen - now it doesn't appear when starting a Live Link session and Vantage is not started.

Tools

• Improved Move Pivot tool to respect the local/world coordinate space toggle.

Scene states

• Improved the interpolation of scene states when NONE is used - now NONE is skipped when calculating state interpolation.

Clouds

• Improved the rendering of clouds when using DLSS, at large upscale ratios the flickering is greatly reduced.

Color corrections

• Improved the Bloom post effect to better match round shapes.

Multi GPU

• Improved the multi-GPU offline rendering speed with compositing elements.

Fixes

Virtual Reality

• Washed out colors on Virtual Reality headsets.

Chaos Cosmos

• Blur on newer Cosmos animated assets.

UI/UX

• Wrong undo action when renaming objects in the Scene outliner.
• Long Home Screen delay when loading DropBox scene thumbnails.
• Inconsistency in display selection on startup.

Rendering

• Black pixels caused by weighted firefly filter in rare cases.

Importing

• Mismatch of timing of deformed and animated transformed objects when .vrscene is imported instead of opened.
• Wrong loading of Anima textures at arbitrary frames when .vrscene is imported instead of opened.

Render devices

• Device selection regression introduced in 2.5.2.

Importing

• Wrong point light intensity when using Lumens or Watts.