V-Ray for 3ds Max Overview

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Work the way you want – without interruption. V-Ray’s seamless 3ds Max integration keeps your workflow fluid and smooth. V-Ray puts you in the driver’s seat. You’re in control. With V-Ray’s versatile features, you can choose the best approach for your scene.

Build 6.10.04

Official release, Update 1 Bugfix

Date – March 16, 2023

Modified Features

V-Ray

Make the error ‘Ignoring material LPE label “base”‘ a warning;

Bug Fixes

V-Ray

Various fixes for Deferred loading of the VRayBitmap viewport previews;
Fix issues with the “manual” mode of the LightMix render element;
V-Ray GPU with upscale denoiser produces an output of 1/4 of the desired resolution when the image is saved from the Common tab Render Output;
Global Switches’ Override spinner arrows not responsive with values between 1 to 10;
GI settings panel views don’t switch in 3ds Max 2018;
Crash when turning Enable GI on/off in scenes where the legacy Expert mode of the rollout is set;
Error for auto-backup when the Material override is enabled without material;
Turn off Temporal mode in VRayDenoiser when NVIDIA AI upscale is on;
Specific VRayMultiSubTex configuration render very slowly with motion blur;
Exporting .vrmeshes to separate files does not work when the folder has multibyte characters;

VRayBlendMtl

Bring back the viewport representation of VRayBlendMtl;

V-Ray GPU

Memory leak with textures when rendering animation;
Include option in Exclude/Include lists in VRayClipper mesh mode is not working;
Render stucks when specific nodes are used for 2D displacement;

VRayDistanceTex

Nested VRayDistanceTex maps get the same Objects selection list in CME;

VRayEnvironmentFog

Negative values in Rest channel of VRayLightMix with opacity mapped double-sided lights;
Wrong VRayLightSelects with VRayEnvironmentFog and Opacity mapped objects;
Invisible objects are visible in VRayEnvironmentFog when using light mix;
Invisible VRayLights show up in Light select render element when having VrayEnvironmentFog;