Chaos Group V-Ray Next (Build 4.12.01) for MODO

New features

Misc
- Support for the MODO 13 series
Atmospherics
- Added the new options to the V-Ray Toon atmosphere - inner line control, material edges, depth and angular curves
Camera
- Added the rolling shutter options to the V-Ray Physical Camera
GPU
- Production rendering inside Modo, enables Light Cache, Animation, Buckets, etc with the V-Ray GPU engine directly inside Modo
- Bucket rendering (enables support for the Cryptomatte render element)
- Faster rendering with Kernel 2
- Improved displacement support
- Support for the Glossy Fresnel option of the V-Ray material
- Support for the Dispersion options of the V-Ray material
- Support for the V-Ray alSurface material
- Support for the V-Ray Bercon Noise texture
- Support for the V-Ray Curvature texture
- Support for the V-Ray Edges texture
- Support for the V-Ray Environment Fog atmosphere
- Support for the V-Ray Scanned Material
- Support for the V-Ray Volume Grid
Lights
- Added the "adaptive" option to the extra Dome light options in the V-Ray Light package (supported on GPU)
Render Elements
- Added the ability to denoise individual render elements
- Added the lighting analysis render element
- Added the new indirect modes for the Light Select render element
- Added the "V-Ray Scanned Paint Mask" and "V-Ray Scanned Zone Mask" render elements
Render Settings
- Added the adaptive option to the Environment Importance Sampling options (supported on GPU)
- Added the option to choose between the nVidia AI (OptiX) denoiser and the V-Ray denoiser; Windows only !
- Added the "Autoswitch to effectsResults" option in the Image Sampler roll-out
V-Ray Dirt
- Added the "Affect alpha" option to the V-Ray Dirt texture
V-Ray Fur
- Added the new tessellation options (supported on GPU)
V-Ray Material
- Added the new metalness option (supported on GPU)
- Added the new "compensate exposure" option for the self illumination (supported on GPU)
V-Ray Materials
- Added the V-Ray Hair Next material (supported on GPU)
- Added the new V-Ray Toon material, which works as an extension to the V-Ray material
- Added the V-Ray Scatter Volume material
- Added the triplanar options to the V-Ray Scanned Mtl
- Added the clear coat Strength and Coloring options to the V-Ray Scanned Mtl
- Added the "Fast Volumetric Translucency" and "Prevent Color Bleeding" options to the V-Ray Scanned Mtl

Improved features

Chaos Cloud
- Added an option for selecting between the CPU and GPU engine
- Provided render engine type as a plugin in the vrscene when exporting it
- Removed the usage of the vccglb file, and instead stored the color corrections inside the .vrscene file
GPU
- Support for the "Solid" projection mode when used with procedural textures like V-Ray Noise
Render with V-Ray Standalone
- The color corrections from the VFB in Modo should be transferred to the V-Ray Standalone VFB
Render Settings
- Added the "consistent lighting render elements" option, enabled by default
- Set a min limit of 1.0 to the AA Filter size
RT
- The interactive rendering shouldn't use the Final Color Output's Output Filename and save images to disk
Shadow Catcher
- When a shadow catcher is visible in reflections/refractions/GI the results should match the Modo renderer more closely
Textures
- Flipped the Front and Side Color for the V-Ray Fresnel and V-Ray Falloff textures, but only for new textures
UI
- Added tooltips for the V-Ray Dirt's channels
- Separated the V-Ray Material UI in 3 different versions using Modo's proficiency levels - basic, standard and advanced
UI Render Settings
- Used "proficiency levels" to hide advanced channels by default
V-Ray Material
- Removed the deprecated Reflection and Refraction interpolation options
V-Ray Materials
- Removed the deprecated "Color Space" option in the V-Ray Scanned Mtl
- Marked with * the V-Ray Scanned Mtl channels that are loaded from the .vrscan file
- Moved the bump and parallax options in the V-Ray Scanned Mtl from the "Developer" to the "Advanced" roll-out

Bug fixes

RT
- The texture isolate option stops updating properly when used on a material applied to an item which has an item Shader
RT Updates
- Artifacts when rendering with DR and applying new material to polygons
UI VFB
- History Settings: "Completed Renders Only" doesn't work
- History Settings: "Completed Renders Only" value not saved between Modo sessions