Chaos Group V-Ray 5 Update 2.1 (5.20.01) for Autodesk Maya

New features

V-Ray GPU
- Support for the texture mode of the lens distortion option in Physical Camera;
VRayDecal
- Added an option for back side projection in VRayDecal;

Modified features

Cryptomatte
- New more robust Cryptomatte implementation;
Material importer
- Added support for real world scaling when importing Cosmos materials;
Chaos Cloud
- Changed defaults for cloud submit window to be single camera and single layer;
V-Ray GPU
- TotalLight Render Element now available with V-Ray GPU;
- Reduced kernel compilation times by up to 60%;
V-Ray
- Changed the default Compensate Energy in VRayHairNextMtl to OFF;
USD
- Improved the V-Ray chaser UI;
- Support for exporting VRayDisplacement via chaser now available in the UI;
- Support for exporting light texture files to USD;
VRayLightDome, VrayLightIES, VRayMeshLight
- Show Atmospheric contribution controls in GPU UI for V-Ray lights;
Viewport 2.0
- Updated the local anisotropy axis for VRayMtl in Viewport 2.0;
Chaos Cosmos
- Proxies from assets are now with a nicer name;

V-Ray
- Fixed V-Ray not utilizing more than 64 threads in some cases on Windows 11;
- Fixed reversed bump in reflections;
- Support UDIM textures with more than 99 tiles in one dimension;
- Fixed unnecessary prompt for EULA in Maya 2018;
VRayScene
- Fixed Preview for Node not supported error when loading vrscene;
Installer
- Fix font style in the installer on MacOS;
VFB
- Fixed crash with VFB Clear log when a search is open;
- Fixed crash with IPR rendering and VFB Log set to All when using High DPI scaling;
- Fixed VFB2 log verbosity level resetting to 0 after crash;
Chaos Cosmos
- Fixed assets imported with wrong offset and translate frame placement attributes;
- Fixed materials category in Cosmos disappearing when multiple Maya sessions are open;
- Fixed button for minimizing of the Cosmos Browser disabled on Linux and macOS;
- Fixed Drag and Drop of Cosmos assets to the Maya Viewport on Linux and MacOS;
USD
- Fixed rendering an anonymous USD layer;
- Fixed error when rendering empty USD layer;
- Fixed crash when rendering different USD files with VRayScene and mayaUsdProxy in the same scene on Linux/MacOS (regression);
V-Ray GPU
- Fixed black Light Cache prepass on high resolution renders;
- Fixed standalone from Maya installation failing to render with GPU;
- Fixed crash with multiple instances of VRayDecal;
- Fixed crash in V-Ray GPU IPR when moving camera;
- Fixed memory leak with Light Cache Subdivs;
- Textured VRayDecal does not work with on-demand-mip-mapped mode;
- The Light Mix render element does not work correctly on GPU when Auto Exposure is enabled;
V-Ray GPU/LPE
- Fixed LPE not capturing scattered self illumination of EnvironmentFog or VolumeGrid;
V-Ray GPU, VRayDirt
- Fixed VRayDirt objects casting shadows even with shadows disabled;
VRayHairNextMtl, V-Ray GPU
- Fixed different GI results with enabled/disabled render elements and HairNextMtl;