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V-Ray for 3ds Max 1.5 SP5 Now Available

The upgrade is free of charge for all current V-Ray for 3ds Max customers.

V-Ray 1.50 Service Pack 5 is compatible with the following:

• Autodesk 3ds Max 8
• Autodesk 3ds Max 9
• Autodesk 3ds Max 2008
• Autodesk 3ds Max 2009
• Autodesk 3ds Max Design 2009
• Autodesk 3ds Max 2010
• Autodesk 3ds Max Design 2010
• Autodesk 3ds Max 2011 (New)
• Autodesk 3ds Max Design 2011 (New)

The V-Ray build supports both 32-bit and 64-bit OS.

The new build adds compatibility with 3ds Max 2011 and 3ds Max Design 2011 and includes new, modified and improved features.

New features:

• Added VRaySamplerInfoTex texture and VRaySamplerInfo render element
• Added VRayObjectSelect render element which allows to extract objects with specific IDs into a separate element

Modified features:

• Added an option to the VRayPhysicalCamera to perform image distortion based on a texture map
• Allow the user to specify texture bounds for 3d displacement
• Added displacement slot to VRayFastSSS2 material
• Added "prepass id" parameter to VRayFastSSS2 material so that multiple materials can share the same illumination map
• Added displacement slot to VRayLightMtl material
• The color parameter of VRayIES lights is now animatable
• The min/max z-depth values for the VRayZDepth render element are now animatable
• Support for reflection occlusion in VRayDirt
• Support for environment sampling in VRayDirt
• Support for Particle Flow vertex color mapping and particle visibility
• Support for the "Use transparent shadows" option with Arch&Design materials
• The clipping planes for the VRayPhysicalCamera are now displayed in the viewport
• Added an option "show cone" to the VRayPhysicalCamera to control the display of the camera in the viewports
• Ability to save and load color correction curves for the VFB in Adobe(r) PhotoShop(r) .acv format
• Support for pixel aspect ratio display in the V-Ray VFB
• Support for anaglyph stereo preview in the V-Ray VFB
• Support for LUT color correction in the V-Ray VFB from .cube files
• Ability to display the value of the corrected colors in the V-Ray VFB pixel info dialog
• The "Dynamic memory limit" parameter can be set to zero to remove any limit

Bug fixes:

• Motion blur for Hair&Fur in "mr prim" mode does not match the "buffer" mode
• Occasional random crashes in 3ds Max 2010 due to progress bar updates
• Fixed invalid smoothed normals causing issues with displacement
• Fixed AA artifacts with thin bright lines when using Adaptive DMC image sampler
• Stuck buckets with perfectly transparent surfaces and GI
• Incorrect vignetting for VRayPhysicalCamera when using horizontal/vertical offset
• Set VRaySilentMode should disable the dialog for overwriting raw .vrimg files
• Missing reflections in VRayFastSSS2 when it is a coat material inside a VRayBlendMtl
• Incorrect bump mapping for GI when using time-interpolated irradiance maps
• Fixed artifacts with VRayFastSSS2 when one of the scatter color components is zero
• Fixed incorrect normal map with VRayNormalMap on VRayProxy objects
• Fixed crash with animated irradiance maps and objects with zero scale
• The color of VRayIES lights was not animatable
• VRayIES lights did not produce photon-mapped caustics
• Fixed invalid normals with VRayEdgesTex in the bump slot

V-Ray has become the top choice for fast and accurate photo-realistic rendering. Offering state-of-the-art rendering technology, V-Ray has single handedly transformed the CG industry.

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Core architecture

• Multi-platform object-oriented API
• Fully multithreaded core
• Unified sampling system based on Schlick sampling
• Distributed rendering
• Efficient shading system specifically optimized for ray-tracing
• Modular architecture - many components of the system can be replaced with custom ones

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Geometry

• Efficient geometry handling
• True instance rendering
• On-demand dynamic geometry creation
• On-demand geometry loading from disk files
• Displacement mapping
• Catmull-Clark and Loop subdivision surfaces
• Extensible with custom geometric primitives through the V-Ray SDK

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Image sampling

• Three different image sampling methods
• Full-scene anti-aliasing
• Progressive path tracing
• Support for additional render elements (diffuse, reflection, GI etc)
• Advanced color (tone) mapping controls
• Extensible with custom image samplers through the V-Ray SDK

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Illumination

• Physically accurate full global illumination solutions
• Different GI algorithms: path tracing, irradiance cache, photon maps, light cache
• Reusable GI solutions for accelerated rendering of walk-through animations and animations with dynamic objects
• Physically accurate area lights
• Efficient illumination from HDR environments
• Procedural sun & sky models
• Extensible with custom lights through the V-Ray SDK
• IES photometric lights

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Shaders

• Physically plausible materials
• Blurry reflections/refractions
• Accurate highlights
• Sub-surface scattering
• Support for efficient material layering
• Extensible with custom shaders through the V-Ray SDK

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Camera effects

• Depth-of-field with bokeh effects
• Accurate motion blur
• Physical camera model
• Extensible with custom cameras through the V-Ray SDK

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Extras

• Toon effect
• Fur generator/raytracer
• Extended matte/shadow capabilities
• Support for Render-to-Texture mode of 3ds Max
• VRaySphereFade to isolate only specific portions of the scene for compositing

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Frame buffer

• V-Ray specific frame buffer with integrated color corrections and display of multiple rendering elements
• Direct rendering to disk for extremely large images, either as OpenEXR files or as .vrimg files

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