2.6.2

Official Release

Date - November 28, 2024

New Features

Texture

• Added an option for LOD bias for dynamic textures in the Advanced Texture settings in the Render settings tab.

Modified

UI/UX

• Added object and material presets in the Water Surface object.
• Improved asset import - when dragging onto empty space, an implicit plane at height 0 is used for placement instead of the scene origin.

Fixes

Camera

• The selected scene animation camera not being saved in the config file.
• Camera properties not getting reset when opening a new empty scene.
• Overriding of the camera parameters when choosing a camera type for offline sequence rendering.
• Camera from the scene track being used in animation instead of the one from the camera animation track.
• Cameras imported from config file not getting grouped properly.
• Wrong Aperture Size when choosing a camera in the Vantage Onboarding sample scene.

Live Link

• Camera not able to be renamed.
• Incorrect camera creation after it was deleted and moving in the DCC is performed.
• Material issue with imported multi-material Cosmos assets when adding a V-Ray Light.
• Displacement not regenerating in Live Link animation rendering.

Displacement

• Crash when attempting to tessellate a very large mesh.

Clipper

• Wrong rendering of Mesh clipper with SSS.
• Render artifacts with clipper mesh and fog start distance.

Sun

• Black sky when the V-Ray 7 PRG sky model is selected. Now it uses the V-Ray 6 model instead in Vantage.

Water surface

• Wrong wave scale after hiding and showing.

Vantage file

• Wrong loading of cloned objects with missing parent hierarchy.

Clay mode

• Clay mode edge texture not being applied to the default material.

Material

• Incorrect loading of Cosmos 2-sided materials.
• Incorrect material fog when merging scenes into a "New Scene".

Importing

• Ignoring the "loop animation" preference option when merging scenes.
• Wrong orientation of imported .vrscenes from Cinema4D.

UI/UX

• Wrong placement gizmo orientation in Y-up scenes.

Hardware

• Duplicate devices caused by virtual display adapters.

Wind

• Wrong vegetation wind animation in Maya and C4D exported scenes.

Scene states

• Scene state override not getting applied in offline rendering.
• Non-working scene states when current camera is selected.

Texture

• Incorrect mip-maps and bump mapping behind semi-transparent objects.
• Unwanted texture clipping when using stochastic opacity with small values.

Fog

• Wrong rendering of fog with a start distance behind refractive objects.