Chaos Group releases V-Ray 1.5 Service Pack 4

VRay users need to head on over to the Chaos Group download area and pick up the new VRay 1.5 SP4 which includes their new V-Ray Ambient Light system.  In addition, they’ve added a few other bells and whistles:

• Improved multithreading on multi-core machines;
• Ability to specify gizmo falloff for VRayEnvironmentFog;
• Ability to use arbitrary meshes as gizmos for VRayEnvironmentFog;
• Option to exclude the background from VRayEnvironmentFog;
• Added CIE sky models to the VRaySun and VRaySky;
• It is now possible to submit DR servers list for DR through backburner;
• Added option to not use area speculars in the VRayIES light;
• Added Kelvin temperature settings for the color of VRayLights;
• VFB history is now turned off when 3ds Max is in slave mode;
• Output .vrimg and split channel paths are listed in the Asset Tracker;
• GI cache files (irradiance maps, light cache etc) are listed in the Asset Tracker.

via Chaos Group / Chaos Software official website – home – V-Ray® – award winning, production-ready 3D rendering solutions.

This story written by Randall Hand

Randall Hand is a visualization scientist working for a federal research lab, aiding researchers to discover the insights buried within their terabyte datasets generated on some of the most powerful supercomputers in the world. He also runs VizWorld.com .