2.8.1

Official Release

Date - May 22, 2025

Download Vantage, 2 update 8.1

New Features

Camera

• Support for camera film offset from Maya.

Profiler

• Added rendering profiler.

Modified

Performance

• Improved the memory usage when shader execution reordering (SER) is enabled.

Textures

• Improved video file textures - now they always loop.

Camera

• Modified Live Link animation rendering when using animated camera - now only camera from DCC can be used for Live Link rendering. Created camera animation from the Animation editor in Vantage will be ignored.

Fixes

Live Link

• Crash in live link when updating tyFlow instances.

Output

• Crash after failing to render offline with large resolutions.

Camera

• Main camera not getting imported when appending .vrscene file.

Scatter

• Crash when Chaos Scatter uses a distribute-on object with invisible faces.
• Incorrect back face culling for geometry instances affected by edge trimming.
• Non-working "pivot offset" for proxy, in Chaos Scatter

Textures

• Incorrect rendering of "edge visibility" and "random by element" when the mesh has hidden faces
• Ignoring of geometry, hidden by ForestPro's 'edge' mode or ChaosScatter's edge trimming, when "ignore invisible objects" is enabled for VRayDirt

Lens effects

• Exposure correction not being applied to lens effects threshold.
• Memory allocation error when using lens effects at 8192x8192 resolution.
• The updating of lens effects on final offline render pass

Displacement

• Wrong displacement when the mesh has hidden faces.

UI

• Overlapping of UI labels in the "Convert .abc to .vrmesh?" dialog box.

Installer

• Failing installation of Cosmos Browser.