Beta release
Date – September 28, 2018
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New Features
Light Bake
Initial implementation of V-Ray Bake
Materials
Initial support for Unreal native materials
Geometry
- Added support for Foliage system
Render
- Initial support for Sequencer animation
Improvements
Installer
- Added request confirmation about version being uninstalled during installation process
UI
- Reworked UI
- Integrated GPU device select tool in V-Ray Settings
- Added quick settings quality presets slider
- Added Export VRScene path option
- Added Include VRScene option
- Added Auto Exposure and Auto White Balance options
- Added Undersampling option
Camera
- Support for Depth of Field in VRayPhysicalCamera
Materials
Improve parity for VRayMtl material
- Improved support for SeflIllumination material
V-Ray Materials are now included in the packaging/cooking process
Lights
- Updated VRaySunAndSky sky model
- Added support for Unreal Intensity Units in Lights
- Added support for 4.20 RectLight
- Added support for Light Source Angle in Directional Light
Geometry
- Improved support for VRay Proxy (vrmesh)
Render
- Update responsiveness and speed of IPR
- Added support for interactive mesh material update
- Added support for interactive material parameters update
Render Elements
- Added support for:
- NVidia AI Denoiser
- Background, GI, Lighting, Reflection, Refraction, Specular, Self Illumination, Sub Surface Scattering
- Diffuse Filter, Reflection Filter, Refraction Filter, Shadows, Atmosphere
- RenderID
- Normals, Bump Normals, Sampler Info, Velocity, ZDepth
- Light Select
- Sample Rate, Unclamped Color, Noise Level
VFB
- Added dedicated button for opening the VFB
- Always on top VFB
VR
- V-Ray Teleport Blueprints separated in an additional plugin