VREDPro 2022.3 (22.11.2021)

Improvements

• Collaboration: Allowing Antialiasing during Collaboration sessions now
• Collaboration: Removed dialogs that blocked users joining a collaboration session via a Python script
• Decore: Objects can be set to B-side instead of being deleted
• Decore: Transparency is respected for decoring
• GPU RT: Glass is now supported in Layered materials
• General: Added support to distribute preferences upon startup that overwrite local preferences
• Materials: Updated the AxF library to version 1.8 and added support for energy preserving SVBRDFs
• Raytracing: Improved performance when using Isolate View and raytracing a large scene
• Scripting: Added Python Decore functionality for correcting normals and more
• Scripting: Added Renderpass API parameters for the Albedo and Camera Normal Auxiliary Channels
• Stream App: A loading animation appears when a new project is loading or a progress dialog appears when the render mode is changed
• Stream App: Display Cameras and Camera Track in the interface
• Stream App: Removed dialogs that blocked Python scripts during a Collaboration session
• Stream App: Renamed "View in VR menu" to "Show in VR Menu and Streaming App UI" in the Variant Sets module and Camera Editor
• VR: Implemented a new collision model for index finger VR Interaction

Bugfixes

• Asset Manager: Saving multi-materials (Multipass, Layered, or Switch material) will no longer re-save unmodified sub-materials
• CPU RT: Substance diffuse colors appear as expected
• CPU RT: The refraction for a single glass material atop a material with transparencies in layered material is now calculated correctly
• CPU RT: The tint is preserved on a layered glass material
• CPU RT: When using Full Global Illumination with photon mapping, caustics for specular Substance materials are displayed
• Cluster Manager: Fixed a spelling error in the Cluster Manager interface
• Collaboration: Object placement is synced with the Place tool for all participants in a collaboration session
• Collaboration: Participant icon is updating correctly now
• Core: For Linux VRED Core, images are now rendered in OpenGL when the resolution is set to 480p
• Core: When starting VRED Core using -edit_preferences, a user can now be added to the Authentication section of the preferences
• Decore: Decoring no longer breaks clone structures
• Decore: Parent node transformations are considered when decoring
• Decore: When geometry is decored, vertices are removed, not added
• FileIO: CSB files are successfully loaded into the VRED Core Windows version
• FileIO: X-Rite Measured material names are preserved during the export of FBX files, thereby also preserving material references
• GPU RT: CUDA error/crash no longer occurs after having baked lightmaps
• GPU RT: Changing the Bump Intensity of a Substance material with a flat normal map no longer shifts the reflections
• GPU RT: Fixed backplate behind dark glass, so it no longer appears clipped
• GPU RT: Fixed the issue with disabling Use as Light Source in the Material Editor's Incandescence section with multi-selection
• GPU RT: Photon mapping with Final Gathering appears as expected
• GPU RT: Reflective Plastic and diffuse only materials no longer emit light when using photon mapping
• GPU RT: Switching from GPU Raytracing to OpenGL(Off) works as expected
• GPU RT: The Render Settings background color is no longer seen on glass materials in GPU raytracing offline rendering
• GPU RT: When in Precomputed + IBL and Full Global Illumination, sharp glossy reflections with very low roughness no longer display a ring pattern
• GUI: Auto-generated animation curves for image sequences are the correct length when the first image doesn't end with 0
• General: Color profiles are now embedded with VRED Core and VRED Server Node
• Light Baking: Baking many light maps on the GPU no longer leads to crash
• Light Editor: Creating a light in the Light Editor, then clicking an empty area in the Scene Graph, deselects the current selection
• Localization: Variants from a .vpb (English) work correctly when imported into a localized (non-English) version of VRED
• MR: Varjo markers are now set to be dynamic by default
• Material Editor: A material preview image is rendered when Show B Sides and Raytracing are enabled
• OpenGL: Enabling Geometry Light Sources in OpenGL for scenes with many geometry light sources no longer leads to crash
• Raytracing: Reflective Substance materials are now traced in Precomputed + Reflection and Precomputed + Shadows modes, where roughness is < 0.01 on the surface
• Raytracing: When using subsurface scattering on plastic materials, all internal reflections are present
• Rendering: Added missing energy conservation to Substance material in CPU RT and OpenGL (mostly visible for rough metals) for BRDF Behavior "Energy Conserving GGX".
• Rendering: DLSS quality for both eyes in OpenGL stereo rendering is now identical
• Rendering: Pixels are properly aligned for environment and skylight glossy reflections in all render modes
• Rendering: Prefiltered map cache is now working for skylight environment
• Rendering: Single Pass Stereo is automatically disabled when using DLSS now
• Rendering: Substance materials with photon mapping using caustics display the correct normal maps when rendered
• Rendering: The brightness of the precomputed environment lighting is now correct when loading file with environment using "Shadow lightsources"
• Scripting: Added functionality to .saveFile() in vrFileIOService
• Scripting: Updated the Python API v2 Index page to include functions that were missing
• Scripting: createMaterialAssets is now supported in -nogui mode
• Smart References: Smart references can now be successfully saved to the root folder of a drive
• Stream App: The Stream App loads geometry-intensive files without incident
• UV Editor: The UI now refreshes after enabling/disabling raytracing and antialiasing with a cluster configuration running
• VRED Core: When Secure Python is enabled, it works as expected
• Variant Sets: Variant Set exported XML files no longer contain references to old Render Queue jobs
• Web API: vrdData objects now use the Python documentation getter/setter key names
• Web Engine: All rotated icons in the circular menu are visible and displayed correctly in the Web Engine
• Web Interface: Changes can be made to the Web Server configuration while running a real-time streaming session

VREDPro 2022.2 (06.09.2021)

Features

• Rendering: Added support for DLSS 2.2

Improvements

• Asset Manager: Added preference option to save material textures as image files on disk, instead of embedding texture data in the asset osb
• Cluster: Improved load balancing and copy functions for GPU Raytracing clustering
• GPU Raytracing: Added support for the Optimize for Many Light Sources option when GPU raytracing
• GPU Raytracing: Added the Clear GPU Memory preference to clear all geometries and textures when activating GPU Raytracing
• Materials: Added Flip U and Flip V to switch the orientation of what is stored in the normal map on the axis, ensuring the bump map is uniform with the normals displayed along the U and Y axes
• Raytracing: Use full image sampling for stillframe antialiasing
• Rendering: Added Use OpenGL Texture Compression to compress textures in OpenGL to save VRAM
• Rendering: Disabled mipmapping on transparency texture when cutout transparency is used in OpenGL
• Rendering: Partial support for Speos 2.1 and Speos 2.2 format added
• Rendering: Warning for non-inline textures missing changed from pink dummy texture to a pink/black checkerboard
• Scripting: Added VRED_SHARED_SCRIPT_PLUGINS environment variable for shared script plugins
• Stream App: A scrollbar was added to the bottom of the Stream App to indicate there are off-screen options
• Stream App: Added a loading animation to indicate there are no variants to display
• Stream App: Added auto color to assign an unused color to each session user of the VRED Stream App
• Stream App: Added option to display the number of participants accessing the streaming session
• Stream App: Joining a Collaboration Session via mobile device is possible now
• Stream App: Unsuitable menu options were removed
• VR: Added a relative viewpoint mode to set camera height as ground plane for VR
• VR: Enabled Ultraleap hand tracking for Varjo VR-3
• VR: Replaced the flashlight with a polygonal model

Bugfixes

• Asset Manager: Obsolete material asset files are no longer written to disk
• Assets: Saving X-Rite Materials in Asset Manager no longer saves unwanted environment in the file
• Cluster Manager: Saving renders from the Cluster Manager job queue to a network folder no longer fails to create an output file or trigger a warning
• Cluster: In CPU raytracing cluster mode, Ambient Occlusion Rendering renders as expected
• FileIO: EXR files with very high contrast values load correctly
• FileIO: Fixed crash when loading .vpb with non-inlined bump or displacement textures
• FileIO: Import of .slp files is working again
• FileIO: Material texture file path now remains intact after saving the vpb file in same user folder as the texture file
• FileIO: Surface alignment of the adjacent surface orientation and transitions are aligned and patches are displayed/interpretation correctly using Parasolid / JT-Open Toolkit
• FileIO: VRML loading works as expected
• GPU RT: No more differences in render behavior when using a material with incandescence as light source in Precomputed mode
• GPU RT: Plastic incandescence now renders correctly
• GPU Raytracing: Fixed rendering when the GPU with the OpenGL Context is not used (included in the list) for raytracing
• GPU Raytracing: Fixed the crash when both a material with cutout transparency is in the scene and and a clipping plane is active
• GPU Raytracing: Fixed the crash when calculating vertex tangents on geometries without texture coordinates
• GPU Raytracing: Fixed the triplanar mapping for Substance materials on scaled geometry
• GPU Raytracing: NVLink now works on Linux and loads the correct library
• General: All strings in Preferences > Bake are now localized
• General: All strings in the Undo/Redo History dialog are now localized
• General: File paths referring to a non-existent file no longer create massive performance issues
• General: Fixed the crash when copying and pasting copious amounts of data between two VRED instances
• General: Nested Properties panes within editors, such as the Material and Light, work as expected
• General: Removed the Alternate Frame SLI Mode Render Options preference
• General: The Properties pane displays the correct drop-down/combo boxes for the clicked option
• Light Editor: Lens Flare custom settings now update in realtime after undoing/redoing changes within it
• Light Editor: Lens Flare element controls now work correctly when using a mouse and the Enter/Return key is not pressed
• Light Editor: Pressing Delete, while renaming a lens flare element, deletes the element
• Light Editor: Renaming lens flare elements works as expected
• Material Editor: Substance presets can now be renamed when imported, as their source filename is no longer displayed
• Material Editor: The Texture Size calculation in Material Editor reflects the actual memory usage of the image
• OpenGL: A Layered material sub material now renders on the back side of the applied node
• OpenGL: Fixed Layered and multipass materials' shadows in OpenGL realistic rendering. Layered now cast a shadow from both sides of a plane. For Layered and multipass materials, all layers now cast a shadow, regardless of layer order
• Reference Editor: Convert to Smart no longer crashes if an invalid node is passed
• Reference Editor: Fixed the crash when using contextual actions in the Source column of the Reference Editor
• Rendering: Fixed the crash when denoising large resolutions for offline rendering
• Rendering: In OpenGL, the expected shadow is cast when a light doesn't shine on any object in the scene
• Rendering: Non Photorealistic Rendering (NPR) stillframe antialiasing and offline renders work
• Rendering: Renderpass position output now works for post-processing and compositing
• Rendering: Renders out the correct range of frames when Use Clip Range is enabled
• Scripting: Updated the Example file, lights/simple.py, to now display a light blue glow effect when run
• Scripting: vrHandTypes and vrdTrackedHand are now in the Python API v2 documentation
• Scripting: vrImmersiveInteractionService.getHandTrackingType() does return the correct value now
• Transform Editor: Using the Tab key in the Transform Editor jumps the active input to the next option
• Web Interface: Added a Web API-specific mapping for Dict[string,QColor], so vrSessionService.getDefaultColors() returns the correct value, instead of NULL
• XR: A shadow plane will not be hidden in MR when Depth Estimation is enabled

VREDPro 2022.1 (28.06.2021)

Features

• GPU Raytracing: Added support for cryptomatte
• General: VRED Core can now be used for VR on Windows, using CloudXR
• Lightmaps: Enabled separate baking of light sources to combine baked light from light sources with real-time environment
• Rendering: Added OpenGL support for light sources illuminating the Shadow material
• Rendering: Added support for multiple GPU denoising with Optix 7.2
• VR: Added support for HP Reverb G2

Improvements

• GPU Raytracing: Added Use Two Sample MIS and Use Ray Splitting options to preferences
• GPU Raytracing: Updated GPU raytracing to use Optix 7.2 and CUDA 11.1
• General: Added a Navigation preference option for automatic motion factor adaption
• General: Improved prefiltering performance by adding a cache for environment and irradiance map
• General: Triplanar projection no longer creates tiny UV islands for highly curved objects
• Lightmapping: Added the BakePresets XML file to store vertex and texture bake shadow presets
• Lightmapping: Showing baked light on Shadow material now
• Lightmaps: Using less memory for AO/Shadows maps when baking without indirect light to the base lightmap now
• Scripting: Added information on function calls and keyword arguments to VRED Python API v2 documentation
• Scripting: Added vrClusterService and vrClusterManagerService to Python API v2
• Scripting: Improved the sendToWebEngine documentation
• Scripting: Materials contained in an X-Rite Measured material are now displayed in the Node Editor
• Scripting: Provided a consistent container interface for vrdObject lists
• VR: Added support for Oculus via the OpenVR SDK and retired the native Oculus SDK
• VR: Teleport is now available when using the Place tool in VR

Bugfixes

• Bake Light and Shadows: Settings menu options displayed in the selected language
• CPU RT: Activating spectral raytracing no longer causes VRED to crash
• Camera: Imported files with cameras and aims no longer prevent a file from stillframe sampling
• FileIO: ATF import doesn't stuck during file tessellation
• FileIO: Added warning Message when saving a file fails
• FileIO: Cancelling the import of a PLMXML file works as expected
• FileIO: JT import fixed for both JT Open and Parasolid for some files
• FileIO: Multilayer PSD files contain all passes
• FileIO: Removed the error message from loading PLMXML files with missing nodes
• FileIO: UVs are imported correctly from Alembic files
• GPU RT Lightmap Baking with Photon Mapping : Indirect light is displayed for scenes with baking Indirections = 1
• GPU Raytracing: Fixed edge antialiasing in Spherical Map, Peters Map, Vertical Cross, Horizontal Cross, and Omnidirectional Stereo projection modes
• GPU Raytracing: Layered materials containing X-Rite shaders no longer crash VRED
• GUI: Fixed missing Combo box scroll bar
• General: Annotation can now be displayed in CHS/JPN/KOR
• General: Constrained node transforms are retained after creating a parent constraint, then saving and reloading the file
• General: Property Editor displays the correct drop-down/combo boxes
• General: Removed version number from Web Interface homepage
• General: VRED Go no longer crashes if the Web Server is deactivated during file creation
• General: VRED log files are written to the correct directory
• General: Warning added for non-inline textures missing texture links
• Light Editor: Enabling and disabling lens flare elements is undoable
• Light Editor: Interface consistently displays after using Lensflare elements
• Light Editor: The tool/function and shortcut appear in the Light Editor shortcut list
• Lightmapping: Added tonemapping to the 2D view of lightmaps
• Lightmapping: Correct bake results after changing the bake type from Texture to Vertex and using Load from Node
• Lightmapping: Preferences and Load from Node no longer reset unstored properties
• Lightmapping: Vertex indirect light baking now appears in GPU RT Precomputed+IBL
• Lightmaps: UV Editor uses a Decal display for lightmap textures
• Material Editor: Pasting a deleted node doesn't disrupt Material Editor states now
• Material Editor: The Material Editor updates after pasting a node now
• Offline rendering and Cluster RT: Camera projections display the correct image resolutions
• OpenGL: Transparent objects viewed in front of the background are correctly tonemapped and blended
• Raytracing: Fixed issues for vertical and horizontal cross projections (flipped/90°off, seams caused by antialiasing)
• Raytracing: Fixed issues with mirrored light sources
• Raytracing: Fixed rough and specular glass material inconsistencies between CPU and GPU RT
• Raytracing: Precomputed Illumination Rendering is now accurate for Light & Shadows baked geometry in Precomputed+Shadows mode
• Render Queue: Using Set in Render Queue no longer disables Export Renderpasses settings
• Rendering: Fixed inconsistencies between render modes when using fog
• Rendering: No white line appears around an object when using Tonemapper with low exposure levels
• Rendering: The brightness for a CPU raytraced Layered material renders correctly
• Rendering: Turning on and off raytracing in combination with shadow lightsources works as designed
• Scripting: "AttributeError: module 'PySide2' has no attribute 'QTCharts'" error message no longer appears
• Scripting: Fixed support for network paths on Windows
• Scripting: Issues with using addToAnimClip have been fixed
• Scripting: Joint node transforms can be accessed with API v2
• Scripting: The vrFileIOService.reimportNodes function no longer opens the Import dialog
• Scripting: vrdReferenceNode is now derived from vrdTransformNode
• VRED Core: Supports GPU raytracing light baking now
• Variant Sets: Renaming VSets no longer crashes VRED when GPU raytracing is enabled
• Variant Sets: Renaming a variant set by pressing the Return key no longer activates a variant set
• Varjo: Foveation is now active on focus and context display
• XR: A scrollbar appears in the VR menu for accessing more tools when in mixed reality
• XR: Fixed the crash when starting VR with handtracking
• XR: Hovering no longer hides other selectable object indicators
• XR: Minimizing the VRED window after using the Place tool no longer causes memory leak/high CPU usage
• XR: Place target indicator and object pivot point are aligned
• XR: Teleport cannot be activated in MR when availability is set to VR
• XR: The Place target indicator appears in the correct place when the node has a non-zero rotation pivot
• XR: The Place tool laser pointer aligns with the Place point
• XR: The Place tool no longer triggers animation touchpoints
• XR: VR controllers are hidden in MR mode

VREDPro 2022.0.1 (21.04.2021)

Bugfixes

• FileIO: Added missing Inventor Server 2022 to support import of Inventor 2022 files

VREDPro 2022 (23.02.2021)

Features

• GUI: Changed Indirect Illumination Rendering to Precomputed Illumination Rendering mode
• General: Added a Community link to launch the VRED Forum & Design Studio Blog from the Help menu
• General: Added support of Substance Engine 8
• Rendering: Added support for GPU and CPU clustering for texture-based lightmaps
• Rendering: Implemented a new Split Sum IBL approach
• Rendering: Implemented the original GGX BxDF for frosted glass
• Rendering: Introduced GGX as the new default BRDF model
• Rendering: Introduced a new texture-based lightmapping
• UV Editor: Added a way to turn off wireframe rendering in UV Editor's Quick Access Bar
• WebInterface: Added the display of frames per second in the Stream App
• WebInterface: Enabled the setting of the stream format by query params
• WebInterface: Introduced new interactive Annotations for the Stream App

Improvements

• Animation: Added an option to evaluate subframes for smoother playback
• Bake Light and Shadows: Added weight option (uniform or cosine weighting) for ambient occlusion
• Cluster: Provided better cluster image compression for float images when using Glow, Glare, or Denoising
• FileIO: Added support for ATF import on Linux
• FileIO: Added support for FBX SDK 2019.5 to Linux version
• FileIO: Added support for writing mixed format EXR files
• FileIO: Provided reference/assembly support from Alias
• General: Added a timestamp to the Terminal log file
• General: Introduced SSE4.2 as a minimum requirement
• Raytracing: Added CPU Fallback to the Deep Learning Denoiser
• Raytracing: Improved performance for Glow and Glare
• Raytracing: Removed clamping of spectra creating out of gamut colors
• Rendering: Added a progress bar to provide feedback when switching BRDF modes
• Rendering: Added an emitter cone for ray files
• Rendering: Added environment controls to adjust sampling values for pre-computation
• Rendering: Improved support for wide gamut displays
• Rendering: Replaced the legacy CPU denoiser with the Intel Open Image Denoiser
• Scripting: Added parallel import of files referenced by PLMXML
• UV Editor: Added the new function Reset Settings To Preferences to the UV Editor's File menu
• Web Interface: All existing web interface calls can now be done by a POST method with arguments encoded in the request body

Bugfixes

• Animation: Camera animations no longer stutter in 3D viewport with 60fps and higher
• Bake Light and Shadows: Load Settings in the Bake Light and Shadows Editor can now load saved settings
• Bake Light and Shadows: The Preset list can no longer have multiple saved presets with the exact same name
• Cluster: Fixed Denoiser/Glow/Glare and Environment Projections in Display Clustering
• Cluster: Fixed rendering artifacts when finishing cluster render image under downscale mode
• Cluster: Rendering an EXR with renderpasses and high resolution no longer produces incorrect output
• Cluster: Stereo Cluster Raytracing with enabled SLI now works
• Cluster: The position of sceneplates is now auto-fitted with resolution setting, if Glow/Glare is on
• Display Cluster: Switching back to OpenGL now works after changing cluster options
• Display Cluster: The Geometry setting now respects the Fullscreen option
• FileIO: Cloned references now load correctly in PLMXML
• FileIO: Fixed import of some STP files
• FileIO: Fixed partially broken geometry after JT import using the JT Open Toolkit
• FileIO: Fixed the import of several rayfile formats
• FileIO: Retessellating imported JT BREP surfaces no longer leads to holes between surfaces when using Parasolid compared to when using JT Open Toolkit
• GPU Raytracing: Changing cluster options no longer breaks GPU Raytracing display cluster while running
• GPU Raytracing: Displacement is now supported for Triplanar materials
• GPU Raytracing: Fixed Velvet material in pre-computed GPU Raytracing mode
• GPU Raytracing: Fixed the crash when using visible light portal materials in GPU Raytracing
• GPU Raytracing: Glass materials in the glossy reflection no longer have a black rim
• GPU Raytracing: Material ID of environments now works
• GPU Raytracing: Multipass material transparency now works in Precomputed+Shadows and Precomputed+Reflections mode
• GPU Raytracing: The backside render of Substance materials now works
• GPU Raytracing: The shadow from geometry lights no longer differs from the CPU RT result
• GPU Raytracing: Colors on cluster rendering are correct now when the head node has no GL support
• GPU Raytracing: Denoiser now uses the correct input buffer for offline rendering
• GPU Raytracing: Fixed ACES Tonemapper in GPU clustering
• GPU Raytracing: Fixed the Illuminance Tonemapper
• GPU Raytracing: Fixed the glass shader, so there is no difference when rendered with GPU or CPU raytracing
• GPU Raytracing: Rendering with environment lights in Precomputed is no longer too dark
• GPU Raytracing: Vignette and blend images now work for offline and GPU cluster rendering
• GUI: Fixed the wobbly slider handle issue
• General: Automotive Assets is once again generating Materials in wire file format
• General: File > Optimize Scene & Optimize Module no longer resets current visualization mode back to Realistic Rendering
• General: Fixed issues when loading Substance Panorama environments
• General: Fixed the LOD node in the Scene Graph
• General: Fixed the missing Scene Graph update when opening vpb files that do not include an environment
• General: HDR10 Display viewport no longer goes black in ACES 1.0
• General: Setting TIMEOUTALL in an OPT file on the license server works again
• General: VBP files without an environment no longer break shadow materials in other scenes
• General: VRED Core no longer crashes on Linux without DISPLAY set
• Light Editor: The correct units are now displayed
• Raytracing: Final Gathering radius estimation is no longer too large in some cases
• Raytracing: Photon tracing no longer creates invalid photons when using more than 2 billion photons
• Rendering: Fixed the missing update of the Skylight Environment material
• Rendering: Fixed the shadow issue for disk and rectangular lights in OpenGL mode
• Rendering: Fixed the specular reflection of spotlights for brushed metal with structure and planar/radial mapping in OpenGL
• Rendering: Metal color of chrome material is now respected for light sources in OpenGL
• Rendering: Realtime DoF no longer creates unexpected results for multipass materials with glass
• Rendering: Stereo RT rendering now works if camera glow or glare is enabled
• Rendering: The Anisotropic reflection on X-Rite materials now works in GPU Raytracing mode
• Scripting: Signal vrAnnotationService.annotationCreated now works
• Scripting: Web Engines in vrImmersiveMenu are now accessible through web engine service
• Smart References: A new environment switch is no longer causing duplicated materials in scenes with smart references
• Smart References: Changing an environment from default to override now marks a Smart Reference as changed
• Smart References: Smart references no longer grow the file size if new environment switches are applied to materials
• UV Editor: Changes in the UV Editor now set the scene to a modified state
• UV Editor: Fixed Triplanar projection and unfold3d layout issue with sphere geometry
• UV Editor: Fixed black 3D viewport on hover of edges or vertices in UV Editor when using the raytracer (CPU/GPU) or with a hidden environment in OGL
• UV Editor: Sewing UVs no longer creates "broken" geometries (singular edges)
• UV Editor: UV Constraints no longer get lost when using cut edges
• UV Editor: UV view now shows UVs of B side meshes (when View > Show B Sides enabled)
• VariantSets: Adding lights to Variant Sets with drag and drop from the Light Editor works again

VREDPro 2021.3 (23.11.2020)

Features

• FileIO: Added support for the import of Alias layer folders into VRED
• Rendering: Added interactive depth of field for OpenGL and CPU raytracing
• Web Interface: Added PNG image stream with alpha channel
• Web Interface: Allowing customers to write their own web applications now
• Web Interface: Created Web-API to use new decoupled Python API via web interface
• Web Interface: Enabled the change of web interface preferences or other settings for VRED® Core
• Web Interface: Implemented Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) support

Improvements

• GPU Raytracing: Added NVLink Memory sharing support
• Media Editor: Enabled PDFs to be displayed in WebEngines
• Rendering: Implemented reverse Z Buffer to improve depth precision
• Rendering: Improved OpenGL stillframe antialiasing performance
• Rendering: Improved the quality of SSAO (screen space ambient occlusion)
• Rendering: Stillframe antialiasing is now performed before tonemapping in OpenGL
• Scripting: Added a decoupled service to access web engines
• Scripting: Importing all Types used in the python interface to the python namespace by default now
• UV Editor: Added "Fit Size" button to Triplanar projection
• UV Editor: Added triplanar texture manipulator
• Web Interface: Added Dynamic FPS management for Web Streams
• Web Interface: Added Presenter/Viewer mode in VRED StreamApp
• Web Interface: Added additional URL parameters to control stream properties
• Web Interface: Added option to take screenshots in Stream App
• Web Interface: Redesigned Steaming App User interface
• Web Interface: Supports versions 2.0,0, 2.1.0 and 2.1.1 of the h264 encoder now

Bugfixes

• Bake Light and Shadows: Fixed temporary usage of CPU raytracer
• Cluster: CPU denoiser is working again when clustering
• Cluster: Offline rendering using clusters will display the preview on the master without crashing
• Display Cluster: Fixed OpenGL Stillframe antialiasing
• FileIO: 'JT_' Prefix is now longer added to material names in JT files imported using ATF
• FileIO: Correct material name for XTBrep data is now imported with JTOpen toolkit
• FileIO: Fixed the missing import part file for the NX assembly file
• FileIO: Fixed trim face for IGES file
• FileIO: Fixed uniform orientation of normals for some CATIA files
• FileIO: Missing source file references are now reported for NX assemblies
• FileIO: When loading spectral rayfiles into a scene, they no longer crash VRED
• GPU Ray Tracing: Materials with Alpha are now rendered correctly with Render layer setting "Visible in Alpha"
• GPU Raytracing: Clipped geometry casts correctly shaped shadows
• GPU Raytracing: Bump texture mapping with a UV mapping type renders correctly
• GPU Raytracing: Fixed GPU raytracing on machines without OpenGL
• GPU Raytracing: Hiding the environments node switches off the environment lighting in Raytracing Full GI
• GPU Raytracing: Multipass materials with glass and decals now render correctly
• GPU Raytracing: Parallax mapping is now applied to transparency textures and UV coordinates are now correct
• GPU Raytracing: When Region rendering with GPU Raytracing, the material previews appear as expected
• General: A message now appears on screen when a machine times out
• General: Fixed crash when creating a shared view from some files
• General: The idle timer is now reset when navigating with a space mouse
• Installer: All license types are now available for web deployment
• Materials: When reloading a Substance material, the Use Cutout Transparency option retains its state and is not reset to default
• Rendering: A scene is no longer overexposed if photometric parameters are set
• Rendering: VR menus and controllers can now be seen even with adjustments to exposure and photometric parameters
• Scripting: Can successfully work with vrd base objects that have a specialized type that is not yet exposed
• Scripting: Command getMaterialsWithTag() works again
• Scripting: Executing Python scripts with Japanese characters work as expected
• UV Editor: When unfolding a mesh with one million triangles in a UV island, VRED does not crash anymore
• VR: Controllers are now visible in MR at startup when using the Varjo XR-1
• VR: Immersive stereo rendering is output in HMD when cluster and raytracing are activated
• VR: Live on-screen renders no longer appear darker when in Varjo mode than they are
• Web Interface: The web server is once again able to handle POST requests with GET handlers

VREDPro 2021.2 (21.08.2020)

Features

• Assets: Added "Domeble" 360° HDR´s and Backplates to VRED Asset Installer
• FileIO: Added Optional import of physical materials from Inventor and other CAD formats
• General: Added "Domeble HDR Shop" to VRED webshops
• UV Editor: Added support for triplanar UV mapping

Improvements

• General: Improved initial position of dockable module windows
• General: Updated Qt to version 5.15 including chromium engine 80
• Scripting: Added commands to create and edit a Clip in the Clip Maker
• Scripting: Added commands to enable "per view" visibility of scene plates
• Scripting: Marked deleteMaterials & undeleteMaterials as deprecated in Python documentation
• VR: Updated SDKs for OpenVR to 1.12.5 and for Oculus to 1.43.0.
• VRED Go: Improved expiration date protection
• Web Interface: Added option to fix resolution for multiple users
• Web Interface: Displaying error message when h264 codec is missing

Bugfixes

• Cluster Manager: Fixed "start render" for some files
• Cluster Manager: Fixed failure detection when trying to write to invalid paths
• Cluster Manager: Works with older versions of VRED now
• Cluster: Raytracing no longer crashes if live and offline renders have the same resolution.
• FileIO: "Import visible" option now respects visibility overrides in the assembly file
• FileIO: Import of Alias SubD Model no longer creates multiple shells for one Sub D body
• GPU Raytracing: Fixed crash when starting GPU Ray Tracing after opening GL Info window
• GPU Raytracing: Fixed crash when using image sequences
• GUI: Fixed drag&drop of viewpoint buttons in camera tracks view, and of variant sets in Simple UI.
• RT: Fixed texturing of line geometries to be able to create a stipple pattern
• Render Queue: Fixed Wrong transform when using "render all"
• Render Queue: Use clip range is now correctly stored/restored
• Rendering: Fixed broken images when using Cryptomatte
• Rendering: Fixed crash when clicking "Edit" under "Textures" panel in "Final Render Pass" dialog
• Smart References: Created Animation Blocks are now saved in Smart References
• Smart References: Fixed performance issues when referencing large files
• Smart References: Reports missing source file references for Catia V4, Catia V5, SolidEdge, SolidWorks, Step, ProE and DGN now
• Variants: Variant Sets in VR Menu are now sorted alphabetically
• Web Interface: Limited resolution to 4,096 × 2,304 to avoid issues in h264 stream with high resolution

VREDPro 2021.1 (02.07.2020)

Features

• GPU Raytracing: Added normal and albedo buffer support to denoiser
• General: Added new features and improved the UV Editor
• Rendering: Added an option to only use the light spectrum for ray files
• Rendering: Using Quasi-Monte Carlo (QMC) for random numbers in raytracing, now
• VR: Added support for the Varjo XR-1
• Web Interface: Allowed the configuring of users and passwords for the Web Server
• Web Interface: Created a new web interface UI

Improvements

• General: Fixed the online documentation from the Help menu to open and respect the selected language
• General: Improved performance by removing Woven Cloth from the Genesis example car dataset
• General: Renamed, grouped, and reordered file types in the Windows Import dialog
• General: Retired JT legacy loader
• Raytracing: Added support for AVX2 instructions on AMD Systems
• Sceneplates: Added the option to enable/disable web stream for sceneplates
• Scripting: Added getRaytracingDownscale, isRaytracingDownscaleEnabled, and getRaytracingDownscaleFactor()
• UV Editor: Added the "Select All" shortcut (Ctrl-A) for island, edge, and vertex selection in the UV view
• UV Editor: Added a "Sew on Unfold" checkbox for sewing islands
• UV Editor: Added Fly to selection within the 3D Viewport
• UV Editor: Added UV Editor colors to the Selection preferences
• UV Editor: Added UV preferences
• UV Editor: Added a new Layout function to fit UV islands to the UV grid (pack with margin and spacing)
• UV Editor: Added a progress bar when running an unfold operation
• UV Editor: Added an option for horizontal/vertical edge constraint
• UV Editor: Added an option to copy UVs/paste UVs for geometries with the same vertex count
• UV Editor: Added an option to keep UVs after re-tesselation
• UV Editor: Added an option to optimize UVs with Unfold3D
• UV Editor: Added an option to rotate selected UV island clock- /counter clockwise around a certain angle
• UV Editor: Added improved Unfold with Unfold3D
• UV Editor: Added material texture switching
• UV Editor: Added an option to load custom checkerboard
• UV Editor: Added rotation handles for planar mapping manipulator
• UV Editor: Added support for Fill Shading to visualize overlapping UVs in the UV view
• UV Editor: Allowed exporting a snapshot of the UV layout (with alpha) as an image
• UV Editor: Enabled edge selection based on the angle
• UV Editor: Enabled the display of the current selection mode in the Viewport
• UV Editor: Improved the Pivot manipulator
• UV Editor: Added instant edge selection while using the "Shortest Path" tool
• UV Editor: Moved Vertex display mode to the Visualize tab and Toolbar
• UV Editor: Retired the Texture Editor and moved functions to the UV Editor
• VR: Enabled switching between VR, MR, and Clear views
• VRED GO: Removed 4GB maximum size limitation
• Web Interface: Added a Terminal message when devices disconnect from stream
• Web Interface: Added persistent connections
• Web Interface: Added support to create self-signed Web Certificates
• Web Interface: Enabled customers to set a password for web interface access
• Webinterface: Improved the VRED Stream App stream management

Bugfixes

• Animations: Fixed incorrect lighting image for one frame during animation rendering
• Camera Editor: Camera Aim and Up is no longer broken after saving as a VPB file
• Cluster Manager: Fixed crash when ending session in the cluster manager
• Cluster: Fixed the crash when offline pass rendering with RT and AI Denoiser on.
• Cluster: Fixed the crash during Cluster pass rendering with camera Postprocess on.
• Cluster: Fixed the display cluster stereo modes
• Cluster: Fixed render options activation in cluster mode
• FileIO: Fixed STEP file import
• GPU RT: Displacement in multipass materials works now
• GPU RT: Failed to initialize on machines with TCC mode GPUs only
• GPU RT: For materials, "Use Local Environment" now works
• GPU RT: Renderlayer Material Override works now
• GPU RT: Skylight sun scale is now evaluated correctly
• GPU RT: Use Cutout Transparency for materials works now
• GPU Raytracing: Fixed the issue of Repeat/Offset/Rotate not working on Triplanar and Reflective Triplanar materials
• GPU Raytracing: Fixed the brightness of precomputed indirect illumination
• GPU Raytracing: Fixed the crash when running out of GPU memory
• General: Closing VRED is no longer very slow when a large scene is opened with NURBS data
• General: Fixed the CER infinite loop when VRED crashes on exit
• General: Fixed the crash when changing Space Mouse settings on runtime
• General: Render presets no longer capture "Enable Photometric Parameters"
• General: The "Default" VRED layout has been updated
• Geometry Editor: Fixed Decore's polygon removal functionality
• Light Editor: A duplicated light in the Light Editor now respect the existent hierarchy
• Light Editor: Fixed several changes of lights not updating the intensity value
• Light Editor: A RAY file is no longer mistakenly unloaded if "Open RAY File" is selected, then the dialog is cancelled
• Localization: Localized many tooltips in the main toolbar for CHS/KOR
• Localization: The tooltips for bottom icons now display correctly in CHS/KOR
• Material Editor: The correct file dialog appears when saving image sequences
• Raytracing: Fixed the see through issue for stacked up transparent local arealights in specular reflections
• Raytracing: Fixed woven cloth moire removal affecting noise scale
• Raytracing: Fixed woven cloth not attached to object
• Raytracing: Fixed wrong illumination and reflections on shadow material
• Rendering: Fixed and improved light generation for Skylight material
• Rendering: Fixed rounded edges for mirrored geometries in CPU RT
• Rendering: Photontracing of photons with only 1 wavelength now works
• Scripting: Fixed the crash after New Scene is selected when pausing the Python interpreter
• Scripting: Fixed examples external-connection-receiver.py and external-connection-sender.py
• Scripting: Render Settings "Supersampling" state now correctly reflected in the Python interface
• Touch Sensors: Touch sensors now work after alt+tab
• UV Editor: "Select Islands" no longer behaves strangely when geometry contains B-Sides
• UV Editor: "Show All Vertices" is now applied to all 3D render windows
• UV Editor: Added the missing hover effect on controls for Cylindrical manipulator
• UV Editor: Fixed UV cylindrical projection manipulator issues
• UV Editor: Fixed issue with Zoom to (key F) in UV view
• UV Editor: The hover effect on border edges is no longer missing in 3D view
• UV Editor: Optimize "Remove Degenerate Polygons" no longer splits a mesh into many small UV islands
• UV Editor: Toggle "Show All Vertices" and "Show Borders" are now sync'd instantly to the 3D viewport
• UV Editor: The toolclip for the quick access bar button has been fixed
• UV Editor: UV selection is no longer lost when minimizing VRED
• UV Editor: Unfold, and other UV operations, are now running on only one instance of cloned geometry
• UV Editor: Using Apply World Scale on a selected UV Island no longer applies world scale to all UVs of the object
• VR collaboration: Render Queue no longer shows up as a camera track in the VR Menu
• VR: Stillframe anti-aliasing now works after a VR collaboration
• VRED GO: CTRL+Enter "Toggle Dock Mode" & closing un-docked window no longer breaks the session
• VRED GO: No prompting dialog "Do you want to save changes" after publishing a VRED Go file
• Web Interface: Web Stream no longer stops working after 5 minutes
• Webinterface: Fixed performance issue of Navigation app
• Webinterface: Screen size is now scaled automatically when a new user connects with different resolution

VREDPro 2021 (27.02.2020)

Features

• General: Added Autodesk Drive support for smart references
• General: Added VRED GO publishing
• General: Integrated new Streaming App into the web interface
• OpenGL: Added support for a per material shading rate (Content Adaptive Shading)
• Rendering: Added support for GPU raytracing
• Rendering: Added support for Variable Rate Shading on the desktop
• Scripting: Added getVariantSetPreview(name) to the old Python interface
• Scripting: Integrated Script Editor features into the Script tab of the Variant Sets module and Script preferences

Improvements

• FileIO: Added an option to control handling of duplicate materials in import of CAD assemblies and PLMXML
• General: Added subsurface scattering examples to assets
• General: Added support for the new on-demand install service
• General: Renamed Raytracing Illumination modes
• Light Editor: Added Menu Bar
• Light Editor: Added support for editing of lens flare properties, based on multi-selection
• Light Editor: Implemented Zoom and Pan in the Ghost Line Editor
• Raytracing: Implemented new subsurface scattering
• Rendering: Improved denoiser performance by using OptiX 7
• Scripting: Added a new object-based Python interface for Annotations
• Scripting: Added a new object-based Python interface for the Light Editor
• Scripting: Upgraded Python support to Python 3.7.4
• VR: Added support for VIVE Cosmos controllers

Bugfixes

• Annotations: Create and duplicate is now undoable
• Cluster: Fixed Cluster Sync Performance Issues
• Cluster: Fixed Crash when trying to start cluster in No OpenGL mode
• Cluster: Fixed Rendering layered PSD file in 8 bit in Cluster
• Cluster: Fixed multicast SLI support in display cluster
• Cluster: Improved connection robustness
• Cluster: Precomuted interactive Illumination mode is no longer always used after drag&drop new scene.
• ClusterManager: The Progress bar no longer overlaps the column
• Collaboration: Captured Variant Set is now synced correctly in collaboration session
• FileIO: Fixed Import of JT file if JT open option is enabled
• FileIO: Fixed crash when importing a wire file containing instances
• FileIO: Fixed wrong translation exported for Matrix Transform nodes in FBX export
• FileIO: Loading specific .dxf file works again
• FileIO: Removed handling of VPF files
• FileIO: When importing files while a shell is selected in the scene graph, the imported geometry is now placed below the root node
• General: Fixed Crash when closing maximized render window after fullscreen
• General: Fixed crash when activating manipulator in no openGL mode.
• General: Mouse roller scroll up & down is no longer inverted for cogs
• Light Editor: Added missing localization in Light Settings page
• Light Editor: Changed styling of selection box in ghostline editor to a known pattern
• Light Editor: Color bar for Lens Flares is now updated correctly
• Light Editor: Local lighting now deactivated for Delete Light Link Set
• Light Editor: Localized missing strings in "Image Processing" tab at "Light Editor" dialog
• Light Editor: Localized string "step" in the number box of "Ring" element at "Light Editor" dialog
• Logi Pen: The pointer ray is now cleared correctly in VR in OpenVR mode.
• Materials: Added Support for Uniform Output Values
• Media Editor: Improved stability when working with proxies
• Python: Fixed documentation of addAttachment and subAttachment commands
• Raytracing: Fixed glass material alpha intensity
• Raytracing: Fixed wrong pdf causing XRite measured carpaints being to dark
• Raytracing: Lights are now properly evaluated for translucency
• Render Queue: The initial state capture in RenderQueue is now working for nodes that have non-unique names.
• RenderAutomation: It is now possible to set and render job imported from xml
• Rendering: Edges of Cryptomatte render pass are now smooth
• Rendering: Fixed OpenGL shading error for X-rite material when using "Geomery light sources".
• Rendering: Fixed appearance of anisotropic AxF materials
• Rendering: Fixed crash when cluster rendering cryptoMatt passes with AI Denoise.
• Rendering: Fixed mismatch between reflection and direct visibility of a light source with incandescence material
• Rendering: Rendering Cyptomatte render passes while supersampling is disabled no longer crashes VRED
• Scripting: Changing the node name by script after vrCameraService.createCamera works now
• Scripting: Example file VRColorChooser.vpb works again
• Scripting: Python interpreter state is no longer reset when loading a script using vrFileIO.load
• Scripting: UI is no refreshing when using deleteVariantSetGroup()
• Substance: Fixed inconsistencies between sRGB and linear color space for Substance Color input parameter
• Substance: The Float1 Color slider bar is no longer broken in sbsar files published from Substance V7.
• Transformation: Undo delete transform variant will no longer delete other transform variants
• VR: Fixed too long pointer button travel on Oculus S controllers in VR.
• VR: Interaction with VR menu using pointer feels responsive on RiftS now
• Variant Sets: GUI on right side now disabled when no/multiple vsets are selected

VREDPro 2020.3 (25.11.2019)

Features

• General: Added a new tool to simplify rendering of variant sets
• General: Extended integration of the Autodesk Data Platform

Improvements

• Asset Manager: Enabled export of switch materials to Alias
• FileIO: Added merge material option to CAD import
• FileIO: Enabled parallel import of parts referenced by a PLMXML
• General: Added X-Rite SpectraLight QC environment to the Asset Manager/Installer
• Material Editor: Added Icons for 3rd Party Material Types
• Oculus: The Oculus Rifts S controllers are now displayed correctly
• Reference Editor: Added a Reference Behavior drop-down menu for creating source references.
• Reference Editor: Added filter options in the Reference Editor for non-smart and unsaved smarts
• Reference Editor: Added the reorder triangles in Reference List view columns
• Reference Editor: Enabled creation of smart reference links from source references
• Reference Editor: Enabled the Import dialog for re-import source files
• Reference Editor: Improved working with cloned references
• Rendering: Improved render setting preset handling
• Scripting: Provided access to Python services from custom Python modules
• Variant Sets: Added a search bar and filter view to the Variant Sets module

Bugfixes

• Animation: Fixed vertex animation when playing with VSets or Python, and for flipped and scaled clips
• Cluster Manager: Fixed the issue when saving render results to the default location
• Cluster Queue: Fixed rendering all viewpoints of a camera track
• Cluster Queue: Send to Cluster Queue no longer ignores the view configuration
• FileIO: FileInfo node transform variants of older files are no longer lost
• FileIO: Fixed flat looking materials after using Reload / Reimport FBX file with the material option, Use From File
• FileIO: Fixed missing UV coordinates on a mesh from a .wire file
• FileIO: Fixed option to disable import of Touch Sensors
• FileIO: Fixed wrong visibility state of parts from Inventor files
• FileIO: Import Sub-referenced Files option is now respected when parallel processes is 1
• FileIO: Temporary OSB files created during re-import of assemblies are now stored in the right directory and removed after loading
• General: Fixed the crash when loading a .vpb file that changes the display mode for the second time
• General: Fixed the missing Undo/Redo for some controls when they had focus
• General: Pressing undo after loading a file on the command line no longer leads to a crash
• General: Texture Editor is no longer overexposing the entire scene if photometric parameters are set
• Python: Added a missing QT modules for PySide2
• Raytracing: Fixed holes in triplanar displacement
• Reference Editor: Added "not undoable" warning when unloading a source reference where the file is missing
• Reference Editor: Copy of node no longer has an "Unsaved" source reference (invalid state)
• Reference Editor: Fixed behavior when unsharing cloned root nodes
• Reference Editor: Fixed crash when selecting all files, then re-importing a source
• Reference Editor: Fixed the drop in the animation frame rate for large scenes containing references
• Reference Editor: Optimize > Remove Empty Groups no longer removes references
• Reference Editor: Prevents the use of New Scene and closure of VRED when modified references are present in a scene
• Reference Editor: Source URL no longer changes when executing Replace Source, without actually loading it
• Scene Graph: Locked state is now respected during import
• Scripting: Commands before "()." are no longer executed without pressing the Run button
• Scripting: Fixed crash in vrNodePtr.getPositions(), getNormals(), and getTexCoords(), if the data does not exist in the geometry
• Substance: Fixed import of floating point normal maps
• VR: Fixed Calibrating the Ground Level by Pulling the trigger
• VR: Fixed creating and jumping to viewpoints in VR sessions
• Variant Sets: Fixed the behavior when triggering view variants
• Variant Sets: Fixed the crash when deleting a nameless variant set from a group
• Variant Sets: It is now possible to delete a nameless variant set

VREDPro 2020.2 (12.09.2019)

Features

• Assets: Added a circular HTML menu to the VRED Assets installer
• FileIO: Added new Reference Editor for smart assembly workflows
• FileIO: Added support for material names for XT_faces from JT
• Rendering: Added support for foveated rendering
• Scripting: Added a new script plugin to manage Qt Quick WebGL streaming applications

Improvements

• General: Updated the Oculus SDK to version 1.39
• Materials: Added a new icon for layered materials
• Scripting: Added a command to improve performance when activating Substance Presets by caching

Bugfixes

• Cluster: Fixed cut-off line on an image when pass rendering PSD/EXR/TIFF images
• File IO: FBX import now respects UV offset information from Maya when repeat UV factor is set
• FileIO: FBX import can now import layered textures
• FileIO: Fixed UI issues in Reload Options tab when reloading/reimporting
• FileIO: Results are now consistent when reimporting Rhino source files
• General: Application no longer crashes when closing render windows after showing Split View
• General: Fixed the crash when closing a render window created by "View In New RenderWindow"
• General: Fixed the crash when creating recursive structure with copy / paste as a clone
• General: Fixed the crash when renaming scene or material tags
• General: Fixed the crash when switching between different stereo modes, while doing perspective matching in RT
• Lights: Fixed the crash when importing large IES files
• Materials: Fixed the broken Substance Rendering when changing a substance parameter quickly after (re)loading an archive
• Raytracing: Clamping Value no longer affects alpha channel
• Rendering: GPU denoising no longer causes the viewport to shrink when connected to Linux cluster
• Rendering: Stillframe AA in OpenGL is no longer broken when using multiple render windows
• Scene Graph: Fixed the crash when working with transformable clone roots
• Sceneplates: Renaming is now undoable
• Scripting: Added a missing function to execute vibration in vrdVRDevice
• Selection: You can now pick through transparent parts of textured area lights
• VR: The inputside value is now correctly handled during input mapping setup
• VRPN Tracking: Saved XML now includes the vertical orientation of flystick button
• XTAL/VRHero: Controllers are now appearing if they are turned on after the HMD

VREDPro 2020.1 (12.06.2019)

Features

• HDR Light Studio: Added support for linking 3D area lights with live sync
• Materials: Added a new Substance environment material
• Rendering: Added support for HDR10 displays
• Scripting: Added Python script for getting the serial number of VR devices
• VR: Added collaboration participant icons and names to the top of the VR Menu Home panel
• VR: Added the time to the bottom of the VR Menu Home panel
• VR: Enabled annotations to be seen upon creation by all participants in a collaboration session

Improvements

• FileIO: Removed VPE as save/export format
• Material Editor: Added a Quit button to shutdown an HDR Light Studio background process (HDRLightStudio.exe) and free up the license
• Materials: Included support for defined X-Rite and Substance variant states in Variants, VariantSets, and Render Queue captures
• Materials: Made Substance presets and AxF sub materials accessible in the Variants and VSets UI
• Rendering: Migrated to using Optix 6 for the VRED denoiser to improve performance and provide alpha channel denoising
• Scene Plates: Added an environment variable to support a flexible URL file path location in the Sceneplate Editor
• Scripting: Added Parent Constraint Object
• Scripting: Added getSelectedMaterials function
• Scripting: Output loaded Script plugins in Terminal
• Substance: Resolved locating missing presets image attributes
• Substance: Restored images on disk using fallback images for image attributes
• VR: Added an explicit visual cue, a green ball, to the end of the pointer to indicate the user is hovering over a touch sensor
• VR: Added option to disable the visibility of Variant Sets in the VR Menu
• Varjo: Enabled the support to asynchronously submit frames to the GPU

Bugfixes

• Cluster: Saving render passes while rendering in cluster mode no longer causes wrong rendering results
• Denoiser: All render passes are now working when using AI denoiser.
• File IO: FBX import now respects UV offset information from Maya when repeat UV factor is set
• FileIO: Unused Materials are no longer deleted after importing CAD data
• General: Deleting tags no longer prevents the creation of new tags with the same name
• General: Documentation links in toolclips are working now
• General: Image is no longer upside down in HMD when opening y-up scenes
• General: VRED Thumbnail provider no longer crashes Windows Explorer
• General: VRPN tracking connection is now possible with system variable VRED_SERVICE_PAGE = 0
• Known Issue: Denoiser artefacts when rendering out non premultiplied alpha renderpasses
• Materials: Added missing tooltips for substance materials
• Materials: Fixed environment geometry picking issue when backplate is on
• Materials: Multigraph substance materials are now correctly restored when triggering a new rendering
• Materials: Pasting file archive file name to a substance material is working now
• Materials: Substance Presets with "(" in preset names are no longer causing issues
• Materials: Substance material images are now shared automatically
• Materials: Xrite materials containing multiple materials show all materials in switch now
• Media Editor: A deleted URL does no longer return after reload
• Media Editor: Fixed interaction with Web Engines when Back Plates are on
• Perspective match: Color correction for backplate does now apply to the magnifier.
• Raytracing: Flake size of flipflop material is consistent with OpenGL now
• Rendering: Cryptomatte passes are now rendered when using RenderQueue.
• Rendering: Enabling Powerwall Mode while in VR display mode no longer leads to crash
• Rendering: Enabling RT when AI Denoiser and camera glow are on triggers a render update now
• Rendering: Fixed performance drop after optimize
• Rendering: Fixed potentially wrong evaluation order of constraints that had been saved in a project file.
• Scene Plates: Changes are now recognized in the "Save changes to..." dialog
• Scene Plates: HMI can now be accessed through a transparent area of a frontplate
• Scripting: Added missing python functions to access Camera and Tracking matrix of other users
• Scripting: Fixed Substance python documentation for "adding presets"
• Scripting: Fixed command syncronization in VR Collaboration sessions
• Scripting: Fixed crash when using setNodeInteractableInVR
• Scripting: Loading substance archives using python loads associated preset file now
• Scripting: PySide signal connections to global python functions are now disconnected automatically
• Scripting: applySubstancePresetWithDefaultOutputSizeByIndex now also works when material is not selected
• Substance: Dependent property states are now correctly set when applying presets
• Substance: Image attributes of presets are now supported
• Touch Screen: 2-finger camera navigation now respects disabled navigation, locked camera, web engine blocking navigation
• Touch Screen: 2-finger camera panning no longer causes corrupt camera transformation
• Touch Screen: 2-finger zoom with orthographic camera works now
• VR Hero: Changing view from HMD to Standard and back to HMD does work now
• VR Hero: Head position in VR is correct now
• VR: Vive Tracker are no longer initialized as hand/controller.
• Variant Sets: Duplicating variant set respects "Sequential Status", "Show in VR" and "Sync in Collaboration" now
• Variant Sets: Verifiying variant sets no longer produces a lot of "false positives"
• Variants: Dragging material into material variant is now possible.
• Varjo: SLI Multicast is now supported

VREDPro 2020 (22.02.2019)

Features

• FileIO: Added metadata import for Catia data import
• FileIO: Import additional CATIA Axis Systems with new Import Files option
• General: Added Cryptomatte Renderpass support
• General: Added Substance source web shop access
• General: Added support for Autodesk Drive
• General: Added support for Camera Backplate Matching
• Raytracing: Rounded edges shader effect

Improvements

• General: Export file type settings are now available in Render Settings > File Output > Image
• Scripting: Improved Python interface for Constraints

Bugfixes

• Cameras: Corrected the position and aim constraints to respect parent transformations during evaluation
• Cameras: Immersive viewpoint UI uses the correct camera service connections
• Cluster: Cluster Service can now get through the firewall when Pro and Design are both installed
• Cluster: Fixed Artefacts in cluster raytracing with image compression low (Lossless)
• Cluster: Fixed RT render artefects when Glow is on and Clamping is off.
• Cluster: Fixed missing update when adjusting Material ID with Substance materials.
• Cluster: The product name matching that of the Install dialog
• FileIO: Deleting imported Assembly files doesn't delete its children
• FileIO: Exporting a file as a .csb does not result in a crash
• FileIO: Fixed failing overwrite of a loaded .vpb file containing web engines
• FileIO: Improved the ATF import performance speed
• General: Can detect for a 16- or 32-bit float for HDR formatted files
• General: Changing the dpi in the preferences is now taken into account when rendering
• General: Desktop Analytics can now be disabled after restarting your PC
• General: Navigator no longer gets automatically enabled when in VR
• Localization: The Sceneplate Editor > Properties > Content Type > Text right-click menu options are localized
• Main Window: View > Display correctly indicates the current display option after a failed VR display mode activation
• Material Editior: Multi Pass Material widget updates to reflect the properties of selected materials
• OpenGL: Option "Ambient Occlusion Shadows" is no longer always on when switching back to OpenGL from Raytracing
• Python: Added getFieldContainerId to fix inconsistencies in function naming for vrFieldAccess
• Rendering: Fixed OpenGL geometry light source mode after switching to RT and back
• Rendering: Fixed incorrect lighting of geometry lights
• Rendering: Fresnel effect appears as expected for Plastic and Tire material using a Bump map
• Rendering: Improved handling of invalid shading normals
• Rendering: Incorrect intensities for measured carpaint have been fixed
• Scripting: Remove items from the VR-HMD menu with Python commands without crashing VRED
• Substance: Multiple recapturing of presets only creates a single entry for attributes
• VR Collaboration: The laser pointer disappear after switching display modes in VR

VREDPro 2019.3 Update (21.12.2018)

Features

• Collaboration: 3D speech communication has been integrated into the Collaboration module
• FileIO: Alias Switch Materials are now supported
• General: Varjo HMD is now supported
• Materials: Substance materials are now supported
• Raytracing: Deep-learning-based Optix Denoiser is now supported
• Rendering: Transparent Cutouts are now supported

Improvements

• Cluster: The environment variable "VRED_SERVICE_PAGE" was added to set up the cluster service web interface
• Rendering: The range of photometric parameters now match that of the non-photometric mode
• Scripting: An optional parameter was added to "findNode" to restrict its search to a given sub-tree
• StarVR: Automatic detection of the active StarVR SDK was added

Bugfixes

• Cluster: Fixed background color with Export Alpha Channel and Premultiply Alpha activated
• Cluster: Improved navigation responsiveness when waking up the RT Cluster from Antialiasing
• Collision Detection: Box colliders rotate as expected
• FileIO: Constant Radius Blend surfaces appear as expected during conversion of a CATIA file
• FileIO: Fixed parsing of PLMXML files leading to lower memory consumption
• General: Fixes changing UV's on selected geometries during Shadow baking with subdivision enabled
• General: Variant sets are no longer missing after closing the "Data collection and use" dialog
• Geometry Editor: Fixed crash when using "Calculate Normals" in Raytracing for geos with anisotropic or displaced material
• Localization: Added missing translation for "Quick Actions" at the top menu area in the Material Editor
• Measurements: Unwanted wireframe object no longer appear when using point to object measurements
• Navigation: When setting a new pivot point with active collision detection, Trackball navigation is smooth
• OpenGL: Parallax Mapping artefacts have been fixed (Bump Type "Bump Mapping" with Parallax Intensity > 0)
• Raytracing: Artefacts no longer appear on object edges when using the illuminance tonemapper
• Raytracing: Environment light source intensity acts as expected when photometric parameters are active
• Raytracing: IES Profiles for spherical lights are supported in raytracing
• Raytracing: Transparency appears as expected for raytraced see-through colors
• Raytracing: Using a spectrum in RGB raytracing mode provides the correct area light color
• Rendering: Activating Use Light Profile without an IES light profile loaded works as expected
• Rendering: Exported PSB files can be opened in Photoshop
• Rendering: Fixed crash when using Subsurface scattering with Textured lights
• Rendering: IES lights in Photometric parameter mode provide the expected rendered result.
• Rendering: Images appear as expected when rendering animations in .hdr format
• Rendering: Luminance and illuminance rendering occur as expected when photometric parameters are off
• Rendering: Rendering HDR environments with very high dynamic ranges now provides the expected results
• Rendering: The correct intensities are supplied when Export to TIFF/PSD in HDR is enabled with Photometric Parameters
• Rendering: When using 16-bit bump maps, materials reflections no longer display banding artefacts
• Scripting: Reopen a Catia Product file using "load()" without issues
• UI: After undoing a deleted camera, the camera reappears in the Scene Graph
• UI: Opaque Distance and Transparent Distance tooltips have been corrected
• UI: The correct tooltips appear for avatar fading distance settings

VREDPro 2019.2 Update (21.09.2018)

Features

• General: New VR/Desktop Multi-User Collaboration Module
• Rendering: Added support for StarVR HMD
• Scripting: Added Python function to disable all default VR interactions
• VR: Added an interaction that changes the controller mappings from right handed to left handed user.
• VR: Added an interaction to switch between controllers and hands.

Improvements

• Camera: When using head-tracking (e.g. HMDs in VR), viewpoints are created from head tracked view. Added Python command setViewpointCreationMode.
• Media Editor: Added new javascript commands executePython and executePythonCommand to execute scripts from web content.
• Rendering: Updated VRHero SDK to version 2.33.0
• Scripting: Added command to add Transform Variants to Variant Sets
• Scripting: Added example files for Vive tracker (OpenVRTracker.vpb, snippets/openvr_tracker_setup.py)
• VR: Added auto-creation of collision objects for Touch-Sensors and Web-Engines in HMD mode

Bugfixes

• Animations: Fixed growing memory usage when material animation is played
• Cameras: Fixed loading cameras from image metadata
• Cluster: Fixed Animation Curves plus motion blur slowing down the Cluster rendering
• Cluster: Fixed BeautyPass in PSD using Cluster RT rendering
• FileIO: Fixed JT file import issue when using parallel processes
• FileIO: Fixed different scene graph structure issue when importing JT files with ATF or Legacy JT Loader
• FileIO: Fixed file format filter for file export
• FileIO: Fixed loading issues with PLMXML file path encoding
• FileIO: Fixed missing Line names from Catia files
• FileIO: Fixed missing geometries when importing DGN Assemblies
• FileIO: Sorting an import column by clicking on the header will no longer resize all the headers
• OculusRift: Fixed Oculus buttons not being recognized as pressed when switching between display modes
• OpenVR: Fixed vrOpenVRController.handPoseStarted and handPoseStopped signals for ThumbsUp pose
• Raytracing: Fixed random renderartefacts on shadow material
• Render Queue: Added missing Sceneplate state capturing to RenderQueue
• Rendering: Fixed crash when rendering measured carpaint in RT
• Rendering: Fixed crash when switching back from RT to GL after enabling Shadow Lightsource.
• Rendering: Fixed spectral files not being stored correctly in incandescence color tab of materials
• Rendering: Improved automatic frame numbering when rendering image sequences
• Rendering: Prevented system from going to sleep when Rendering offline images
• Scripting: Functions in new Python documentation are now sorted in alphabetical order
• Scripting: Improved node type documentation for lists in Python

VREDPro 2019.1 Update (21.06.2018)

Features

• General: A Sceneplate Editor was added to manage Backplates and Frontplates (formerly called Overlays)
• General: Added support for VRHero 5K glasses
• Materials: Added GGX support to AxF materials
• Render Queue: Added support to capture the Render Layer's visibility states

Improvements

• FileIO: Added Import Referenced Files to Edit > Preferences > FileIO in the File Specific Options of the Import tab, unifying PLMXML file-specific import options
• FileIO: Added an option to toggle the import of references files for assembly structures
• FileIO: Added support to import Bentley MicroStation (DGN) files
• General: Added a command line tool to disable outbound communication
• Optimize Module: Added a Remove Empty Shell Nodes option
• Scripting: Added a command to reload directories in the Asset Manager
• Scripting: Added commands to apply transform variants
• Scripting: Added the getUnitScale Python function

Bugfixes

• Annotations: Annotations appear in legacy project files
• Annotations: Annotations now respect A/B sides
• Bake Light and Shadows: Fixed baking for skin deformed meshes
• Bake Light and Shadows: Fixed the crash for scenes containing empty shells
• Camera collision: It is now possible to delete the last collision node
• Cameras: Fixed the camera invalid aim/up configuration that triggered re-rendering all the time
• Clipping: Direction no longer flips when using the plane rotation manipulator, if Invert Direction is active
• Cluster: Fixed the Offline Cluster rendering failure when one node has more than 120 cores
• Cluster: Fixed Shadow materials update
• Cluster: Fixed the crash when using encryption
• Cluster: Fixed the error when rendering scenes with multiple environments
• Curve Editior: Fixed the corrupt display of animation curves
• Curve Editor: Fixed misplaced keyframes and added an option to Reduce Constant Keyframes
• Display Cluster: Fixed Backplate rendering when Raytracing and Glow/Glare are enabled
• Display Cluster: Fixed Stereoswitch not working in OpenGL Displaycluster
• FileIO: Fixed import of NX assemblies with geometry data stored in the assembly file
• FileIO: Fixed crash for some DWF files
• FileIO: Fixed option to import visible surfaces for some CATIA V5 files
• FileIO: Fixed the Tessellation issue for Catia V5 file
• FileIO: Fixed the issue with reload and specified parent nodes for PLMXML files
• FileIO: Fixed some CATParts hanging in tesselation / creation of OSG surfaces
• GUI: Fixed the Save Current settings in the Bake Light and Shadows module
• General: Fixed crashes and missing geometries due to memory corruption
• General: Fixed performance degradation when working with huge NURBs scenes in the Scene Graph Editor
• General: Loading a file saved after deleting joint nodes from a skinned mesh now works correctly
• General: Overwrite no longer creates new images when rendering animation
• Interaction: Fixed the camera lock issue after zooming and panning in a large scene
• Interaction: Node names are no longer missing in the object to object measurement dialog
• Lights: Fixed the performance problem with light sources and enabled default lens flares
• Localization: Added translation for some strings in drop-down menu of Lens Flare Presets
• Localization: Fixed the Search Node function
• Materials: Fixed the sizing issue of the Texture Projection manipulator in the Split View mode
• Materials: The correct message appears when trying to uncheck Inline Image Sequence
• Media Editor: Fixed the high-dpi UI issue in the material control
• OpenGL: An environment material’s Contrast color correction is applied correctly to material reflections
• OpenGL: Fixed the Glow artefact that appeared after changing to a smaller render window resolution
• Python: Added a description for the different signatures of the load function
• Raytracing Cluster: Fixed the crash when both Downscale Antialiasing and Still Supersampling are enabled
• Raytracing Display Cluster: Fixed the incorrect backplate scaling for Still Supersampling and Downscale
• Raytracing: Glass with a Refraction Index of 1.0, now looks correct in front of a shadow plane with a backplate
• Raytracing: The Reflected Saturation color correction setting in an environment material is respected by raytracing modes
• Render Layer: The Render Layer module's performance is faster
• Render Queue: Switch materials assigned to the material groups render correctly
• Rendering: Deleting a backplate automatically sets the environment back to visible
• Rendering: Fixed crash and missing Fog render layer when rendering layered PSD files
• Rendering: Fixed the X-Ray material render issue when Fog is enabled while raytracing
• Rendering: Fixed the photon energy loss in some scenarios
• Rendering: Fixed scenes stopping to render after 1% - 5% progress on cluster or locally
• Rendering: Fixed the Frosted Glass inconsistent roughness behavior
• Rendering: Fixed the inconsistency between OpenGL and RT when rendering the back side of a surface assigned a paint material
• Rendering: Interactive Final Gather quality is now stored in the project files
• Scripting: Fixed handPoseStarted() and handPoseStopped() in OculusRift mode
• Scripting: Fixed the missing render update when using the playAnim Python command via a web interface
• Scripting: Fixed position values returned by vrOpenVRController.getTouchpadPosition(), vrOpenVRController.touchpadPositionChanged(pos), vrOpenVRController.buttonPositionChanged(id, pos), and vrOculusTouchController.getThumbstickPosition()
• Scripting: Fixed the initial transformation of environments created with createMaterial()
• Scripting: Fixed the lag that occurred with every other python call over VREDs internal web server
• Scripting: Removed the deprecated PythonQt example script
• UI: Fixed the blocking dialog when dragging and dropping a file during RT Anti-Aliasing
• UI: Fixed the misplaced Convert to Convex label in the Geometry Editor
• Variant Sets: Fixed the Variant Set Animation list to reflect the correct playback order
• Variant Sets: Fixed toggling visibility of cloned lights
• Web engines: Fixed the lag and lost events when using a single finger to interact with web engines on a touch display

VREDPro 2019.0.1 Hot Fix (11.06.2018)

Bugfixes

• Cluster: Fixed the crash when using encryption
• General: Fixed crashes and missing geometries due to memory corruption
• Scripting: Fixed position values returned by vrOpenVRController.getTouchpadPosition(), vrOpenVRController.touchpadPositionChanged(pos), vrOpenVRController.buttonPositionChanged(id, pos), and vrOculusTouchController.getThumbstickPosition()

VREDPro 2019 (05.03.2018)

Features

• FileIO: Joint and skinning import for FBX files
• FileIO: LOD import option for JT files
• FileIO: New file-specific import options
• FileIO: New option for enabling/disabling Surface Normal unification when importing a file
• General: New HDR display cluster mode
• Rendering: Fog effects in Camera Editor
• Rendering: New artistic Lens Flare effects for Spot and Point Lights
• Rendering: OpenGL shadow mapping for point/spherical lights
• Rendering: X-Ray material for self-occluding transparent objects

Improvements

• FileIO: Added File-type specific CAD import options
• FileIO: Added support for ANSI encoded PLMXML files
• FileIO: Changed behaviour of File/Open and File/Add to reflect new File Import Dialog workflow
• General: Improved 3D Sound supporting Head-related transform functions
• General: Improved Script Editor and HTML Editor
• Preferences: Removed deprecated render options preferences
• Python: Added python commands to enable and query several camera flags
• Rendering: Added ACES type desaturation of colors to other tonemapping
• Rendering: Improved HMD mirror texture view to better keep the aspect of the display
• Rendering: Interactively adjust interpupillary distance based on OpenVR-based HMD settings
• Rendering: Updated Oculus Rift SDK to version 1.20
• Rendering: Updated OpenVR to version 1.12
• Script Editor: Improved usability of "Find Text" dialog

Bugfixes

• Asset Manager: Fixed the "Modified by" search order
• Cluster: Fixed Camera Animation issues during raytrace rendering
• Cluster: Fixed Cluster Manager GUI text cutoff on HiDPI screens
• Cluster: Rendering out an image with alpha channel no longer shows backplate behind glass
• Cluster: Rendering with Supersampling OFF no longer produces black images
• Curve Editor: Fixed duplication of objects with multiple animation blocks
• File IO: "Merge Materials" now works for vpb override materials
• FileIO: Fixed DWG corrupted imported geometry
• FileIO: Fixed deadlock when importing some CATIA files
• FileIO: Fixed missing group names from CATIA V4 and V5 files
• FileIO: Fixed missing group names from IGES files
• FileIO: Fixed reversed normals in some CAD files
• FileIO: Fixed the errors caused from imported HDR files with very high luminance values
• FileIO: Fixed wrong Scene Graph structure when importing CATIA V5 files containing STL data
• FileIO: Fixed wrong layer visibility for bookmarks from Alias
• FileIO: Improved performance when importing Variants from wire files
• FileIO: Removed certain empty group nodes after CAD import when 'Remove Empty Groups' option is enabled
• General: Fixed crash when loading a file with camera tracks that do not have a parent camera
• General: Fixed missing geometry after optimizing scene with "Share Geometries" option
• General: Prevented the playing of deleted sound nodes in the Undo buffer
• General: Rectangular selection works for child geometries of a camera or light
• General: Removed VR controller nodes from Scene Graph to fix update and fileIO issues
• General: VRED no longer clears the systems clipboard when it shouldn't
• Interaction: Fixed Pick-through for triplanar mapping in OpenGL
• Interaction: Fixed lagging VR controller matrices
• Localization: Added missing translation for Script preference options
• Materials: An override material in a render layer now reloads when Asset > Reload is used
• Media Editor: Fixed Webengine crashes when texture repeat mode is set to clamp
• Navigation: Smoother Camera Roll when holding LMB+RMB in 3D viewport
• OpenGL: BRDF Behaviour is now correctly applied to loaded vpb materials
• OpenGL: Fixed Directional light dark shadow plane when Realtime Shadow was off
• OpenGL: Fixed erroneously clipped transparent objects when using local clip planes to clip solid geometry
• OpenVR: Controller is now hidden when Steam VR Power is off
• Raytracing: Fixed inconsistent rendering results with alpha channel between local, cluster, and offline rendering
• Raytracing: Fixed single-sided rendering for NURBS surfaces in NURBS Raytracing
• Rendering: Adjusted Spectrum to RGB conversions to use D65 Illuminant
• Rendering: Fixed X-rite SVBRDF material issues
• Rendering: Fixed artifacts in some Renderpasses when rendering Textured Glass material and "Export Alpha Channel" is on
• Rendering: Fixed crash when setting up Layered, Multipass, Switch, and X-Rite materials
• Rendering: Fixed cut off frame during Stillframe Anti-aliasing when "Downscale" in RT
• Rendering: Fixed frustum culling issues with multicast SLI and singlepass Stereo
• Rendering: Fixed incorrect lighting in Stereo Mode
• Rendering: Fixed missing gamma correction on backgrounds
• Rendering: Fixed wrong cone angle for Spot Light with IES profile
• Rendering: Textures are no longer ignored in area lights when Attenuation was set to Linear
• Rendering: Textures of area lights are no longer ignored in specular reflections in RT
• Rendering: Turning off "Visible in Reflections" no longer breaks shadow casting
• ScriptEditor: Fixed broken special characters after file save
• Scripting: Fixed crash due to activities on the Web interface
• Scripting: Fixed documentation for setOpenVRHMDMirrorTextureView(eyeMode)
• Scripting: Fixed the Mac Script Editor prompt/cursor drift
• Scripting: Fixed wrong Illumination mode after using enableRaytracing()
• UI: Fixed missing render update when moving slider past its maximum value
• UI: Removed useless info button next to the textures from Tire and environment material
• Web engine: Mouse-release events are now being passed to web engine

VREDPro 2018.4 Update (13.11.2017)

Features

• Materials: Added automatic curve creation when using image sequences.
• Materials: Added support for image sequences to enable animated environments.
• Materials: Added support for image sequences to enable animated light textures.
• Materials: Added support for image sequences to enable animated textures.
• Rendering: Added option to only evaluate lights of the environment (without sampling the environment map).
• Rendering: Added support for selecting cameras in the Render Settings dialog.
• Scripting: Added OpenVR frame timings command to python interface.

Improvements

• Camera Editor/Scenegraph: Added Special icon for Camera with constraint in tree view.
• Cluster: Improved Cluster Manager usability.
• FileIO: Improved FBX export performance for scenes with many nodes.
• FileIO: Improved PNG saving performance.
• FileIO: Improved vpb file writing speed by factor 3.
• GUI: Unified different tessellation dialogs.
• Materials: Skylight Environment is no longer being shared after loading.
• Media Editor: Improved Media Editor button layout.
• Scripting: Fixed menu.py example file.
• Scripting: Moved OpenVR commands to new vrOpenVR python module.

Bugfixes

• Animations: Fixed behavior of Verify Clip Structure.
• Animations: Fixed camera animation jumping back and forth when navigation is not in trackball mode.
• Animations: Updated Color Correction animation parameters of Environments in the Curve Editor.
• Asset Manager: Materials are no longer duplicated after "Apply materials to scene by name".
• Asset Manager: Fixed "VRED Component stopped working" when saving a material asset.
• Asset Manager: The environment of an override material is no longer saved in a geometry asset if the geometry has a render layer override material assigned.
• Camera Editor: Camera positions no longer change when switching cameras.
• Cluster: Fixed Cluster snapshot "update preview" when Denoise is activated.
• Cluster: Fixed Raytracing cluster with active stereo and downscale enabled.
• Cluster: Fixed crash when rendering snapshots with denoise filter from python.
• Cluster: Fixed crash with enabled Screen Space Ambient Occlusion.
• Cluster: Fixed running render animation script using a cluster.
• Display cluster: Auxilary nodes are no longer visible in raytracing when the preference Show Auxiliary Nodes during antialiasing is unselected.
• DisplayCluster: Fixed differring render results when using motion blur.
• FileIO: Clicking on a vpb file no longer opens the file in VRED as 'untitled'.
• FileIO: Enabled switching light visibility using layer or group visibility for Variants imported from Alias.
• FileIO: Fixed Crash when loading some csb files.
• FileIO: Fixed Tessellation issue for CATPart.
• FileIO: Fixed crash when loading compressed DDS files.
• FileIO: Fixed import of cameras from Alias that are assigned to a layer.
• FileIO: Fixed missing Brep for CATPart.
• FileIO: Fixed the import of NURBS surfaces that contain negative weights.
• FileIO: Fixed visible faceting issue when adjusting spline surfaces.
• FileIO: Improved saving of vpb files without inlined textures.
• GUI: Fixed the toggling of Antialiasing with space bar when the render view is not active.
• General: Fixed slow performance when changing environment material attributes.
• Interaction: Fixed lagging VR controller matrices.
• Interaction: Fixed slow selection of many nodes. For example, using rectangle selection.
• Material Editor: Paste Attributes now works for shadow materials.
• Materials: Fixed active material update when moving x-rite materials up or down within a material switch.
• Materials: Fixed crash when creating cyclic material switches.
• Materials: Fixed merging of materials using Skylight environment.
• Materials: Fixed saving the scene when working with non-inlined textures in connection with skylight environments.
• Materials: Moving environments in a non-default environment switch no longer affects the default environment switch.
• Materials: Moving multiple environments at the same time no longer breaks scenegraph relation.
• Media Editor: Pressing Shift+f in webengine no longer triggers Show All.
• Media Editor: The click through threshold now works for all WebEngines.
• Media Editor: Web engine interaction now works for planar and triplanar mapping.
• Media Editor: WebEngine no longer looses connection with local html after being copied to another instance.
• Media Editor: Webengines are no longer removed when adding geometry an as asset to the Asset Manager.
• OpenGL: Fixed Line Chrome material appearance.
• OpenGL: Fixed grainy specular reflection of rectangle and disk light on glass material and carbon with clearcoat.
• OpenGL: Fixed wrong shadowing from lights after loading a vpb.
• Raytracing: Fixed potential crash when using geometry lights on NURBS surfaces in NURBS raytracing.
• Raytracing: Flake perturbation now has influence in precomputed mode in Metallic Paint.
• Raytracing: Full Sphere and Upper Hemisphere Illumination switch is now recognized while raytracing is active.
• Raytracing: Show B-Sides now renders single B-side components of a shell.
• Render Layer: Deleting parent nodes of nodes used in a render layer now removes them from the layer.
• Render Layer: Fixed performance issue when deleting many nodes from the scenegraph that are in a render layer.
• Rendering: Fixed OpenGL performance when animating mirrored lights with textures.
• Rendering: Fixed OpenGL rendering when loading or creating an environment with shadow light sources while Realtime Shadow is off.
• Rendering: Fixed Wireframes for curves and polylines in OpenGL mode.
• Rendering: Fixed environment being visible when exporting the alpha channel and rendering animations as images.
• Rendering: Fixed slow FPS performance when setting Shadow Lightsources to 100 and then resetting to 0 with max map resolution.
• Rendering: Reduced noticable patterns on 2-coat and 3-coat carpaints.
• Scenegraph: Fixed cut & paste for aim cameras, nodes in light link sets, render layers, and annotations.
• Scripting: Fixed "newFile" parameter for load() function.
• Scripting: Fixed addChildren.py example.
• Scripting: Fixed documentation for setRenderPasses.
• Scripting: Fixed vrOculusTouchController touch signals for index trigger button, and added new touch signals for thumb rest.

VREDPro 2018.3 Update (15.09.2017)

Bugfixes

• Animation: Animation playback no longer jumps back and forth.
• Cameras: Viewpoints are now copied when copying cameras in scenegraph.
• Cluster: The cluster queue now works when the current directory is not writeable.
• Cluster: Updates of a materials inside a layered material are no longer lost.
• Display Cluster: Dark line between segments when running multisegment powerwall with antialiasing no longer appear.
• Display Cluster: Update is now instant when creating camera Aim and up auxiliary nodes in a cluster.
• FileIO: ALIAS wire files with german characters can now be imported.
• FileIO: Camera focal length is now maintained from import of Alias wire files.
• FileIO: Cameras and materials are not duplicated when reloading a wire file.
• FileIO: Curves can now be imported independently from JT.
• FileIO: Fixed importing redundant Polylines from JT.
• FileIO: Import Cameras options are now retained.
• FileIO: Maya files can now be imported to VRED.
• FileIO: Memory consumption reduced when loading some CATIA V5 R 25 files.
• FileIO: Mesh data in Alias wire files now loads with file paths that contain an umlaut.
• FileIO: Performance issue for b-splines with control points close to a boundry has been fixed.
• FileIO: Random normal flipping no longer occurs when loading CATIA v5 files.
• FileIO: Rays are now imported when loading monochromatic ASCII rayfiles.
• FileIO: The handling of file output failures has been fixed.
• GUI: Cluster button now active on top menu after starting cluster.
• GUI: Dialogs now remember their last window position.
• GUI: The planar projection manipulator on objects with non-uniform scaling now displays correctly.
• General: Macbooks with TouchBar no longer crash on VRED start-up.
• Interaction: 3D sound source positioning for HMD has been added.
• Interaction: VRED no longer crashes on paste when using copy and paste after New Scene has been clicked.
• Materials: The skylight environment can now be saved as an HDR.
• Raytracing: Triangles from surfaces beneath a shell are now counted for the statistics in raytracing.
• Rendering: Deleting a backplate automatically sets the environment back to visible now.
• Rendering: Offline rendering using luminance or illuminance tone mapping now works.
• Rendering: Texture sharing issue resolved when dragging & dropping texture as a bumpmap.
• Rendering: The correct focal distance on a double clicked object is now used.
• Rendering: When loading osb files with activated render layers, the render layers now display in the render layer editor.
• Scenegraph: A camera node no longer loses camera viewpoints when cutting and pasting.
• Scenegraph: B-Side icon status is now being saved with file.
• Scripting: Added Python commands to access denoise filter settings.
• Scripting: Removed detection of pythonQt or pyside.
• Scripting: The showBanner command now releases memory usage.
• Scripting: VRED no longer crashes when using setRenderBackgroundColor(r, g, b).

VREDPro 2018.2 Update (11.07.2017)

Features

• Cluster Manager: Added new Render Queue functionality.
• FileIO: Added possibility to embed meta information in EXR renderings.
• Interaction: Added Copy and Paste of Scenegraph nodes from one VRED instance to another.
• Interaction: Added support for vive tracker.
• Interaction: Added touch signals for oculus touch controllers.
• Rendering: Added ACES response curves to physical camera tonemapper.
• Rendering: Added shadow casting from environment light sources in OpenGL.

Improvements

• Annotations: Added "Use Node Visibility" option to enable hiding of visualization based on associated Scenegraph node.
• Annotations: Added Undo/Redo for Annotations.
• Annotations: Annotations are now individually accessible in UI.
• FileIO: Added option to reuse materials from scene to Merge Project dialog.
• FileIO: Added advanced import options to import dialog and base CAD preferences.
• FileIO: Added option for Import Annotations to Merge Project dialog.
• FileIO: File translation via command line using ATFtoOsg applies the same settings as File=>Open now.
• FileIO: Fixed import and export of luminance exr files and import of multilayer exr files.
• FileIO: Improved environment merge behavior using merge materials when adding project file.
• General: Added 8192 and 16384 shadow map resolutions to LightEditor UI.
• Materials: Added support for adjusting decal projection depth.
• Media Editor: Added new icons for different media types.
• Media Editor: Added option to evaluate Transparency for media.
• Media Editor: Added search bar to Media Editor.
• Media Editor: Improved multi-select + select node behavior in Media Editor.
• Media Editor: Multiple webengines can be selected to duplicate, delete, switch on and off, or toggle.
• Raytracing: Improved NURBS raytracing performance.
• Rendering: Added Support for LDR image formats to the environment material in the file open dialog.
• Scripting: Added Python interface for Annotations.
• Scripting: Added environment variable for custom script plugin loading.
• Scripting: Marked hpc clustering functions as deprecated.
• Scripting: Removed obsolete python examples.

Bugfixes

• Annotations: Fixed text and label geometry not being sorted correctly in rendering.
• Assets: Fixed Camera and viewpoints being lost in geometry assets after saving the asset two times.
• Camera editor: Fixed alignment issue in Visualization panel.
• Cluster: Fixed Raytracing Cluster in Stereo mode with fullscreen for a powerwall not displaying whole image.
• Display Cluster: Added missing OpenGL render update during Raytraced Stillframe Antialiasing.
• Display Cluster: Fixed Denoise Filter crash with Still Supersampling enabled.
• Display Cluster: Fixed SSAO on Powerwalls.
• Display Cluster: Improved label and tooltip for viewport parameters.
• DisplayCluster: Fixed Vignetting/ImageBlending not scaling down using Downscale.
• DisplayCluster: Fixed Wireframe appearing only in the first ClusterWindow on one node in OpenGL.
• FileIO: Fixed Crash when rendering passes and wrong images.
• FileIO: Fixed Environments not shown in material editor when adding projects.
• FileIO: Fixed Gap between a surface and the surface edge in a CATIA R 25 file.
• FileIO: Fixed Wire scene-structure being wrong with groups created from layers.
• FileIO: Fixed project settings being stored in vpb files on Save Selected.
• FileIO: Hidden geometry in CATIA V5 files is no longer automatically imported.
• GUI: Fixed undocking and resizing issue when using a layout with a thin dynamic render window.
• GUI: Sign-In/ User License can be hidden in the UI using VRED_DISABLE_CLIC_IPM.
• Known Issue: StereoSwitch does not work correctly in MulticastStereo SLI mode.
• Licensing: Added VRED_DISABLE_CLIC_USER_LICENSE to disable user licensing.
• Material Editor: Environment materials referenced by an X-Rite material can no longer be deleted.
• Material Editor: Override materials on geometry from formerly existing render layers can no longer be deleted.
• Material merging: Animations, Incandescence, and Raytracing settings are now considered.
• Media Editor: Fixed preselection highlight not correct on nodes with webengine.
• Offline Rendering: Camera aim evaluation was delayed by one frame when rendering a camera animation.
• OpenGL: Fixed "Improve Color Depth" option which caused pattern in alpha channel in offline rendering.
• OpenGL: Using the alpha channel of diffuse textures, when decal projection is active, no longer leads to non-transparent borders.
• Optimize: Fixed Cameras, Lights, and Clones breaking when using merge and share.
• Render Layer: Deleting nodes in the scenegraph does remove them from a layer now.
• Render Layer: Override Material can no longer be deleted from Material Editor.
• Rendering: Fixed Cubeimage-Export for several formats.
• Rendering: Fixed Physical Camera exposure not working with Sim2 HDR Display.
• Rendering: Fixed SSAO not working with multiple render windows.
• Rendering: Fixed shading difference between RT and OpenGL for Plastic materials using BRDF behavior 2014 and above.
• Rendering: Removed wrong illumination from delta lights on specular surfaces.
• Scripting: Fixed 2D vrMenu disappearing with enabled stillframe antialiasing.
• Scripting: Fixed connections of vrAEBase objects in Script plugins being destroyed on new scene.
• Scripting: Fixed unstable behavior with vrAEBase python objects.
• Shortcuts: Re-implemented ability to assign same key to two shortcut functions.
• Transform Editor: Transform Variants are now longer applied on rename if Variants are also created in VariantsUI.
• Variants: Fixed crash when a variant set is duplicated.

VREDPro 2018.1 Update (18.05.2017)

Bugfixes

• Animation: Fixed rendering issue when using multiple Camera animations in the Render Queue.
• Camera: Fixed camera transformation after activating a viewpoint of an inactive camera while Evaluate Navigation Mode is off.
• Clipping: Fixed Contour update when changing visibility of an object.
• Cluster: Fixed freeze after selecting "Window > Show Split View" when cluster is running.
• Cluster: Fixed raytracing stillframe antialiasing on the master of the Display cluster.
• Display Cluster: Fixed Geometry Light Sources for OpenGL.
• Display Cluster: Fixed instability during some converting and reloading of objects.
• Examples: Fixed Shadow in test scene.
• FileIO: Fixed FBX import and export of transparency textures.
• FileIO: Fixed import for some PRT files from solid works
• FileIO: Fixed import of CATIA material names.
• FileIO: Fixed incorrect transformation of JT files from Teamcenter.
• FileIO: Fixed loading of previously saved bump and displacement textures.
• FileIO: Templates are no longer imported from wire files.
• GUI: Added a visual indicator, the extension button, for hidden icons in the tool bar.
• GUI: Fixed setting the scene to "modified", when changing the visibility of switch children.
• GUI: Fixed undocking and resizing issue when using a layout with a very thin dynamic render window.
• GUI: Fixed updating the Clipping Plane when changing the FoV (field of view).
• GUI: Fixed updating the Compass of Skylight environment when changing the FoV.
• GUI: Fixed updating the Texture Editor manipulators when changing the FoV.
• GUI: Fixed updating the material manipulator when changing the FoV.
• GUI: Fixed updating the surface analysis manipulator when changing the FoV.
• General: Fixed shortcuts defined in Preferences (F-Keys).
• Material Editor: Fixed crash after "Convert To" in Scenegraph.
• Materials: Fixed adding a Decal to a Switch material via drag and drop and "Add to Material" leading to an unexpected result.
• Materials: Fixed geometry disappearing when applying a displacement decal texture.
• Media Editor: Fixed Material texture still being locked when the material is no longer assigned with WebEngine.
• Media Editor: Fixed changes not being recognized from the "Save changes to..." dialog.
• OpenGL: Fixed Camera color correction being applied to backplate.
• OpenGL: Fixed Camera visualization disappearing randomly with Occlusion culling.
• OpenGL: Fixed Woven cloth turning black in UV mode when adding a bump texture.
• OpenGL: Fixed missing light from Geometry Light Sources when other light sources are turned on.
• OpenGL: Fixed wrong Backface Culling on mirrored objects.
• Overlay Editor: Fixed Overlay rendering in Stereo mode.
• Raytracing: Fixed Render artefacts on reflective plastic with subsurface scattering.
• Render Queue: Fixed Render Queue ignoring Tonemap HDR when Animation is enabled.
• Rendering: Fixed OpenGL crash when creating a new scene after using setNodeMaterial.
• Rendering: Fixed disappearing directional light, point light, and spot light when assigning a black and white image.
• Rendering: Fixed example shaders for Final Render Pass.
• Rendering: Fixed shader compile error when the using Displacement Map option with triplanar projection in OpenGL.
• Rendering: Fixed wrong exposure when using Dynamic Tonemapping.
• Scripting: Extended saveSelectedGeometry() with parameter to set inclusion of environment geometries.
• Scripting: Fixed 3D menu in examples (menu.py) to accept mouse clicks again.
• Scripting: Fixed Python command loadCluster.
• Scripting: Fixed command line issue with -postpython and file names.
• Scripting: Fixed createCubeImages. Environment variables can now be used in a file name. Images can be saved in non-existing folders. Default file type png is used if no extension is provided. Fixed crash for large resolution (>8000).
• Transform Editor: Enabled Copy Transformation & Copy Transform Variants in Transform Editor context menu for parent nodes.
• Transform Editor: Fixed transform variants UI after enabling it in the Preferences.
• Transform Editor: Fixed transform variants being deleted when converting Light type.
• Variant Sets: Fixed Next (loop) activating variant set with transform variants in defined order.
• Variants: Fixed Hot-Keys getting lost for Transform Variant Actions: Next, Prev, Next (loop), Prev (loop).

VREDPro 2018.0.1 Hot Fix (10.04.2017)

Bugfixes

• FileIO: Changed the default behavior when importing CAD files from CATIA and NX. Associative Meshes are no longer imported by default.
• Cluster Manager: Fixed startup issue of Cluster Manager sessions.

VREDPro 2018 (24.02.2017)

Features

• FileIO: Added automatic unification of surface normals
• FileIO: Added support for Alias cameras
• FileIO: Added support for Alias light sources
• FileIO: Added support for CREO facet feature
• FileIO: Added support for viewpoints in Alias bookmark import
• General: Added support for Autodesk Analytics programs
• Media Editor: Added new HMI visualization workflow for improved In-car experience
• Rendering: Added support for floating point displacement maps
• Rendering: Added support for writing pre-comped psd files with render-passes
• Scripting: Added python command to delete groups in variant set editor
• Scripting: Added python command to delete variant sets in the variant set editor
• Transform Variants: Added new Transformation Variant workflow
• Transformations: Added option to define the axis of the rotation pivot by entering a vector

Improvements

• Animation: Fixed massive performance slowdown on animations with many keys
• Animations: Improved Animation playback to avoid jittering issues
• Animations: Improved performance when using many animations with many keyframes
• Camera: Added context menu option to mirror camera on X,Y or Z axis
• Cluster Manager: Added booking of Cluster Nodes on a regular basis
• Cluster: Added passive stereo modes to display cluster
• Cluster: Added support Multicast Stereo in Display Cluster
• FileIO: Added support for FBX 2018 SDK
• FileIO: Added support for NX11 files
• FileIO: Re-Added support for DWG/DXF files
• GUI: The baked direct illumation will be completely removed when clicking on "Clear All" or "Clear Active" now
• GUI: The color picker window is now opening at its previous position
• General: Improved render performance while transforming objects with open light editor
• General: Improved scenegraph performance in component mode
• Interaction: Improved handling of transformations
• Material Editor: Added physical units for the offset value of textures
• Materials: Improved consistency of OpenGL and RT Renderings of X-Rite Measured Materials
• Python: Added python command to set the mirror view shown while using a OpenVRHMD
• Python: Extended getSceneIntersection commands to return Normal and UV coordinate
• Raytracing: Textures on area lights are now importance sampled
• Rendering: Added Single Pass Stereo Support for Nvidia Pascal based GPUs
• Rendering: Added displacement offset to control the zero plane
• Rendering: Added support for AxF 1.4
• Rendering: Enabled OpenGL light texture support on AMD GPUs (requires Radeon Pro Software Enterprise 17.Q1 driver)
• Scripting: Added PySide2 support for VRED
• Scripting: Added Python command to toggle Presentation Mode
• Scripting: Added Python commands to prevent loading of Hidden Geometries from CATIA files
• Scripting: Added Python functions to create measurements
• Scripting: Added matrix support to vrFieldAccess
• Scripting: Added new commands to set import options via Python API
• Scripting: Improved documentation of load() and loadOSB()
• UV Editor: Added drawing of selected vertices/edges/islands in Raytracing during wireframe selection mode
• UV Editor: Fixed update of Checkerboard texture brightness when changing the Environment

Bugfixes

• Animations: Fixed Crash when deleting blocks in the clip view via context menu
• Assets: Fixed Multi selection for adding assets
• Automotive Assets: Fixed missing preview images and changing material properties leading to crash
• Camera Editor: Fixed Render Viewpoint Previews generating wrong preview images
• Camera Editor: Fixed missing UI update when renaming a camera track
• Camera: Fixed multiselection and Undo/Redo for pasting Attributes
• Camera: Moved viewpoint activation to view undo stack
• Cluster: Fixed "Check out all licenses from master" causing VRED to hang on cluster restart
• Cluster: Fixed cluster manager to allow user names that include spaces
• Cluster: Fixed method to check if cluster service is running
• Cluster: Fixed random results when rendering xrite SVBRDF Materials
• Connector: Fixed "Take over control" in the Connector sometimes leading to disconnection of a client
• Connector: Fixed "take over control" functionality
• Connector: Fixed Connector button "c" remaining highlighted after disconnection
• Display Cluster: Fixed "Show B Sides" and "Show A and B Sides" not working in OpenGL
• Display Cluster: Fixed Rendering Glare or Glow in display cluster raytracing
• Display Cluster: Fixed instability during Raytraced Stillframe Antialiasing
• Display Cluster: Fixed rendering looking darker then the image on the Master screen
• FileIO: Added workaround for loading Lucidshape rayfiles with bad header
• FileIO: Automatically fix x-rite materials with broken environment references
• FileIO: Fixed Alias group Pivot not being read into VRED
• FileIO: Fixed Merge Project File option "Import Touch Sensors"
• FileIO: Fixed Objects colors getting lost when importing Catia files
• FileIO: Fixed corrupt geometry in some Catia V5 files
• FileIO: Fixed corrupt trimmed surfaces after Catia V5 .prt import
• FileIO: Fixed inconsistent tesselation after import or retesselation for some files
• FileIO: Fixed issue in FBX export causing Stingray to crash on import
• FileIO: Fixed missing Color when opening DXF file.
• FileIO: Fixed missing Face color in Solidworks files
• FileIO: Fixed missing color coding for imported JT v10 curves
• FileIO: Fixed missing curves in some JT files
• FileIO: Fixed missing materials when importing STEP with ATF.
• FileIO: Fixed wrong progress bar during Reload File
• GUI: Fixed Tabbing order within the Color Picker
• General: Fixed Crash when dragging & dropping file from windows explorer into render window
• General: Fixed FPS calculation off by 1
• General: Fixed Start menu folder structure (just one level supported) on Windows 10
• General: Fixed preferences being saved each time the "This function is not undoable" dialog is shown
• Interaction: Fixed Camera Collision Detection not working with Space Mouse
• Known Issue: VRED requires Windows 7 SP1 to run
• Localization: Added localization for some Strings in Variant Sets Editor
• Localization: Fixed localization for one message in Cluster Manger
• Localization: Fixed some In-View Messages not being translated when doing some Clipping operation
• Localization: Fixed some In-View Messages not being translated when doing some Transform operation
• Localization: Fixed truncated String in Surface Analysis window.
• Localization: Localized String "Custom" in Simple Camera Editor window.
• Localization: Localized String "Sample" in Render Options Preferences window.
• Material Editor: Fixed "Repeat Mode UV" not being linked when "Link Texture Settings" are enabled
• Material Editor: Removed Obsolete "Use as Default Environment" checkbox
• Materials: Fixed Textures getting inconsistent repeat modes
• Materials: Preventing conversion from Environment Material to Truelight Material in localized versions
• Optimize module and scripting: Renamed "Remove Texture Coordinates" options to match geometry fields
• Optimize: Fixed Flush Transformation Nodes not flushing "Shear"
• Optimize: Fixed cleanup group node accidentialy deleting nodes with transformations
• Optimize: Fixed unexpected Face normal flipping behaviour for Flush Transformation functions
• Overlay Editor: Fixed crash when same image file is used twice
• Preferences: Fixed Load All Defaults for Transform tab
• Raytracing: Fixed Precomputed Indirect Light missing/very dark after starting VRED and loading a scene
• Raytracing: Fixed alpha channels for glass material and auxiliary channels
• Raytracing: Fixed crash when using material editor in spectral raytracing
• Raytracing: Fixed gaps between clipped objects in Raytracing
• Raytracing: Fixed wrong shadows on ShadowMaterial with local lights or castShadowOnShadowMaterial option
• Render Layer: Fixed Activated override materials not being applied when re-opening saved file
• Render Layer: Fixed Crash when closing VRED while override material is visible
• Render Layer: Fixed Override Material getting lost when selecting a node while UV Editor is opened
• Render Layer: Fixed the override material label
• RenderLayer: Fixed OverrideMaterial column looking different than rest of table and not being included in selection
• Rendering: Added Bump map repeat modes for Velvet and glass material
• Rendering: Added workaround for handling broken X-Rite measured CarPaint materials
• Rendering: Fixed "Right Eye" mode in local stereo using Multicast SLI
• Rendering: Fixed Area lights not being visible on render output image in OpenGL mode
• Rendering: Fixed Colored caustics not working for simulated thickness in photon mapping
• Rendering: Fixed Fullscreen mode
• Rendering: Fixed Multi-pass EXR in Animation creating single files for each pass
• Rendering: Fixed Occlusion culling not working with HTC Vive
• Rendering: Fixed Ultra high realtime antialiasing producing visual artifacts
• Rendering: Fixed crash in OpenGL on Quadro K6000 or Quadro K5200
• Rendering: Fixed rendering a psd file with Alpha resulting in Blury Images
• Renderlayer: Fixed activation of renderlayer
• Scenegraph: Fixed Horizontal scroll bar jumping to the very left when a node is created
• Scripting: Added missing options to optimizeTree, moved vrOptimizeModule functions to vrOptimize
• Scripting: Fixed Python command getUserMatrix
• Scripting: Fixed broken 3D sound
• Scripting: Fixed copyNode() python command
• Scripting: Fixed loading osb files with special characters in file name (loadOSB)
• Scripting: Fixed loading python script with vrMoviePlayer2 two times leading to crash
• Scripting: Fixed pysideExampleDialog.py script
• Scripting: Fixed setNodeVisibilityFlags() causing inconsistent behaviour
• Tessellation: Fixed re-tessellation breaking apart single surfaces into multiple meshes
• UI: Fixed broken second render window after "Close Render Window"
• UI: Introduced consistent spelling for visualization/visualisation.
• UV Editor: Fixed Texture not updating properly in UVEditor via linked texture settings
• Variant Sets: Fixed visibility of Overlays when activating a variant set containing overlay switch and group variant states
• VariantSets: Changed Switching variants to be no longer undoable

VREDPro 2017.2 Update (24.11.2016)

Features

• Cluster: Added new cluster resource management tool
• FileIO: Added support to import Alias Pivot data
• Interaction: Added support for oculus touch controllers
• Rendering: Added Material Overrides to Renderlayer
• Rendering: Added OpenGL IES profile support for point and spotlights
• Rendering: Added option to Isolate Renderings based on Tags
• Rendering: Added support for light textures
• UV Editor: Added option to switch to "checker" texture
• UV Editor: Added support to apply physical units for scaling

Improvements

• GUI: Fixed Inconsistent window title bar on MAC
• General: Improved scenegraph update performance for scenes with many nodes, for animations and ray tracing in particular
• Materials: Added support to copy and paste Texture Size from one material to another
• Raytracing: Introduced Shell Node to make handling scenes with lots of surfaces more efficient
• Rendering: Added option to customize realtime antialiasing settings
• Rendering: Added support for Omnidirectional Stereo Rendering (Raytracing only)
• Rendering: Improved realtime antialiasing quality and performance
• Rendering: Updated to Oculus Rift SDK Version 1.9
• Rendering: Updated to OpenVR SDK version 1.03
• Scripting: Added Documentation for blocked batch commands
• Scripting: Added function to update the Touch Sensor module: updateTouchSensors()
• Scripting: Added python functionality for Ruler
• VariantSets: Added option to add lights to Variant Sets with drag and drop from Light Editor

Bugfixes

• Assets: Added option to adjust Incandescence for physical parameters
• Camara: Fixed Collision Detection behaviour when camera hits the ground
• Camera Editor: Fixed Create Viewpoint creating a new track when a viewpoint is selected
• Camera Editor: Fixed Selection of viewpoints triggering render update
• Camera: Fixed Camera track animation not working for cameras with aim
• Camera: Fixed Camera turning 360 degrees when doing right mouse button doubleclick
• Camera: Fixed Camera turntable animation being stopped when clicking into the Viewport
• Camera: Fixed Viewpoints in Variant Sets not playing the transition animation
• Camera: Fixed depth of field rendering not working with animated camera
• Camera: Fixed realtime antialiasing option "Disable on Camera Movement" during camera animations
• Clip Maker: Fixed hot keys.
• Curve Editor: Fixed hot keys.
• FileIO: Added env var VRED_IGNORE_INVISIBLE to prevent invisible parts getting visible during import
• FileIO: Fixed Assembly data being incorrectly exported to FBX
• FileIO: Fixed Corrupt face due to missing trim curve in some wire files
• FileIO: Fixed Error/Crash when loading some IGES files
• FileIO: Fixed Gap between surfaces in some wire files
• FileIO: Fixed Maya import on MAC
• FileIO: Fixed corrupt trimmed surfaces in some wire files
• FileIO: Fixed error reading some lucidshape ray files
• FileIO: Fixed freeze when tessellating surfaces with trim curves outside of the valid parameter space
• FileIO: Fixed import of inventor assemblies randomly losing ipt files
• FileIO: Fixed import of lines with FBX
• FileIO: Fixed import of mesh data in Catia V5 catparts
• FileIO: Fixed missing geometry for some JT files
• FileIO: Fixed missing or malformed surfaces in some wire files
• GUI: Fixed Headlight icon on the shelf not being highlighted in initial state
• GUI: Fixed Switching headlight via "toggle" to update main headlight button state
• General: Fixed Color Pipette issues on multiple monitor setups
• General: Fixed Inconsistent behaviour of headlight regarding undo/redo
• General: Fixed collision detection crashing VRED in scenes with NURBS surfaces
• General: Fixed crash for frosted glass with transparency texture
• General: Fixed crash when converting surfaces to mesh
• General: Fixed memory leak when adding bump or displacement textures with drag and drop from file explorer
• General: Fixed support for user licenses
• General: Fixed wrong tooltip for "dolly speed" in navigator preferences
• Interaction: Fixed slow down of the performance of the scenegraph when adding a lot of touch sensors
• Interaction: Fixed touch sensor activation for multiple render windows
• Known Issue: Light textures are not supported on MAC and on AMD graphics boards
• Known issue: Using light textures for spherical lights lead to visualization artifacts in OpenGL
• LightStudio: Added a warning that the user has to install HDR light studio manually on MAC.
• Lights: Fixed Light cone being inverted when animating and exporting via FBX to Maya
• Lights: Fixed differring light intensity when loading ray file from Main Window menu.
• Lights: Fixed import of legacy light sources (pre-2017) that are not located below the root
• Lights: Fixed wrong color of light geometry and reflection when loading scene with legacy Area lights (pre-2017)
• Materials: Fixed Multi selection in Switch material
• OpenGL: Fixed Light Portal material with visibility greater than 0 making the entire image brighter
• OpenGL: Fixed brocken LOD rendering
• Optimize: Fixed Flush Selected Transformation causing mirrored geometry to jump out of position
• Overlay variants: Fixed issues for "Show connected variants", drag and drop from Overlay editor into variants list, update of active state highlight, update of variants list after loading a file
• Presenter Tool: Fixed some commands being executed twice (like an animation trigger)
• Raytracing: Fixed crash in scene with local area light that is disabled by parent node in Scenegraph
• Raytracing: Fixed wrong reflections from spherical lights
• Rendering: Added warning when rendering large images in time-based mode
• Rendering: Completely transparent objects are ignored for selection in OpenGL now
• Rendering: Fixed "Multi-display fullscreen" to project on all displays when Render Window is docked
• Rendering: Fixed Occlusion Culling entry in the preferences to cause black Render Window
• Rendering: Fixed Part of render window not being refreshed in Horizontal and Vertical cross projection mode (RT only)
• Rendering: Fixed Screen Space Ambient Occlusion in connection with Occlusion Culling and Anti Aliasing
• Rendering: Fixed Selecting objects in the Renderview using non-photorealistic rendering
• Rendering: Fixed Vignette causing wrong results if rendering is split due to memory or size constraints
• Rendering: Fixed crash when disabling Raytracing with AA on
• Rendering: Fixed freeze when rendering in Stereo mode
• Rendering: Fixed rendering of X-rite Assets with photometric parameters in OpenGL
• Rendering: Fixed shadow map adaption causing missing or blurred shadows
• Rendering: Fixed wrong Intensity values read from some ray files
• Rendering: Fixed wrong Texture Input Gamma when sharing a texture across multiple channels
• Rendering: Fixed wrong gamma of high dynamic range textures in OpenGL
• Scripting: Added missing vrTrackerSensor and vrTrackerBody python types
• Scripting: Fixed Crash when loading script with vrNodePtr.addChild
• Scripting: Fixed crash in vrWidget when a connected signal does not take any parameters
• Scripting: Fixed documentation for setDisplayMode command
• Scripting: Fixed findNode(s) to skip surfaces
• Scripting: Fixed python documention link on MAC
• Scripting: Fixed setTessellationOptions parameters
• Scripting: Fixed vrTouchSensor API
• Sequencer: Fixed crash when duplicating multiple sequences
• Tracking: Added missing Parameter "Relative to camera" for Body object to config file
• UI: Renamed "Add Variant" to "Add Variant Set" in Clip Maker
• UV Editor: Added warning when trying to unfold geometry with invalid triangulation
• UV Editor: Fixed Navigation in the UV chart triggering render update
• UV Editor: Fixed changing the texture size being correctly applied in the UV Editor.
• UV Editor: Fixed performance regression for UV unfold operation
• Variants: Fixed Light variants GUI issues (hotkey dialog, drag and drop of state to variant sets, selection)

VREDPro 2017 SR1 (09.08.2016)

Features

• Camera: Cameras are setup via Transform Nodes now
• Interaction: Added Independed Camera Navigation and Tracking for Display Cluster environment, e.g. CAVE
• Interaction: New Camera Navigator Concept
• Navigator: Added new orbit mode to constrain camera rotation
• Navigator: Disabled arrow keys for orthographic cameras
• Python: Added python commands for show/hide and custom picking axis
• Scripting: Added getSceneIntersection, getMousePosition and getViewRay

Improvements

• Animation: Adjusted Hermite Spline Tangent calculation for smoother results
• Camera: Added representation of the cameras to the render view.
• Camera: Improved import and export of camera meta data
• Cluster: Added automatic cluster restart when loading a new scene
• FileIO: Added an automatical "Scene Optimize" to an FBX and Maya import
• FileIO: Enabled command line file translation using ATF\AtfToOsg.exe
• FileIO: Improved FBX import performance
• GUI: Improved checkbox label and tooltip for curve and polygon line import
• Interaction: Fixed changing views by using the viewcube to exclude environment
• Navigator: Added new options to control navigator behaviour
• Rendering: Added Support for splitting up X-Rite carpaint materials (cpa) into diffuse and glossy components
• Rendering: Added sharing of OpenGL texture chunks
• Rendering: Improved Occlusion Culling in OpenGL
• Scripting: Added getActiveCameraNode to access the active camera
• Scripting: Added getBoundingBoxCenter to allow moving Pivot to Object Center
• Scripting: Added new python command copyTransformation()
• Scripting: Added option to rewind animations using playAnim.

Bugfixes

• Animation: Camera TurntableAngle Parameter can be animated now
• Animation: Fixed focal length animation being copied to active camera
• Animation: Fixed wrong rotation when jumping on the timeline
• Camera Editor: Enabled non-unique names for viewpoint in track view to improve consistency
• Camera Editor: Fixed minimum values of Color Correction wheel controls
• Camera: Camera as child of a scaled group is working now
• Camera: Camera tracks and viewpoints are saved when exporting a camera to .osb from the camera editor
• Camera: Camera tracks do recognize updated viewpoints now
• Camera: Fixed Camera transformation below transformed groups
• Camera: Fixed HotKey function for camera viewpoint
• Camera: Fixed View Cube being wrongly oriented if the scene is in y-up mode
• Camera: Fixed camera zooming to zero point when clicking ViewCube in second render window
• Camera: Fixed position when storing viewpoints of cameras attached to transform nodes
• Camera: Fixed view not being synced when using two render Windows
• Cluster: Fixed Data update issue on Ray tracing Cluster
• Cluster: Fixed Display cluster to incorporate the scene scale unit
• Cluster: Fixed XSS vulnerability with VRED Render Node
• Cluster: Fixed application hang when aborting scene distribution
• Cluster: Fixed memory allocation potentially causing crashes when rendering high resolution render passes
• Cluster: Fixed missing library when installing Render Node on Linux
• Cluster: Fixed performance issue for Image zoom during image rendering
• Connector: Fixed Connector getting slower when connecting multiple slavese
• Connector: Fixed IP not being correctly transfered in Connector Module when requesting control to server
• Connector: Fixed python commands entered by the user not being sent to the client
• Connector: When two VREDs are connected, the Roll parameter can now be changed in the Camera Editor
• Display Cluster: Fixed disappearing Banner/vrMenu/vrFrame during stillframe AA
• Environments: Fixed LDR support for Environments
• FileIO: Fixed FBX animation import losing its rotation transformation.
• FileIO: Fixed Import and Export of Cameras and Light Sources to transfer most attributes and animations between VRED and Maya via FBX
• FileIO: Fixed Import of revolved data from wire files
• FileIO: Fixed Normals being flipped on Alias geometries on symmetry layer
• FileIO: Fixed PLMXML ExtReference nodes not being reloaded
• FileIO: Fixed PLMXML using wrong loader to load JT files
• FileIO: Fixed Periodic trim error when importing some wire files
• FileIO: Fixed Symmetry node transformations for wire files with PivotExtensionData
• FileIO: Fixed Tessellation defect when importing some wire files
• FileIO: Fixed application hang when retessellating certain group nodes
• FileIO: Fixed files exported to FBX loosing rotation orientation.
• FileIO: Fixed handling of Rotation values greater than or equal to 360 degrees when opening FBX file
• FileIO: Fixed import and export of emissive, diffuse and glossy textures from and to FBX
• FileIO: Fixed import of CATIA material names.
• FileIO: Fixed import of Camera View angle via FBX
• FileIO: Fixed import of curve data as poly lines and of poly lines from CAD files
• FileIO: Fixed import of visibility animation via FBX
• FileIO: Fixed import of wire geometry with symmetry where parent node of geometry with symmetry is not on symmetry layer
• FileIO: Fixed loading of 16bit Integer and 16/32 bit float TIFF textures
• FileIO: Fixed material color from JT files
• FileIO: Fixed missing parts in some CatiaV5 files
• FileIO: Fixed missing patches when importing WIRE file with ATF
• FileIO: Fixed performance issue when importing wire files with symmetry layer
• FileIO: Fixed round trimmed surfaces from wire files being untrimmed
• FileIO: Fixed scaling issues when importing FBX files from Maya
• FileIO: Fixed stitching issue for some CATIA files.
• FileIO: Fixed visibility issue in some CatiaV4 files
• FileIO: Improved file import from FBX regarding up axis, scaling, object orientation
• FileIO: Improved handling of large trimmed surfaces
• FileIO: Improved import performance for large CAD models from CATIA
• FileIO: Improved normal orientation for some Alias wire files.
• General: Fixed Presenter Tools not being able connect to VRED
• General: Fixed issue leading to crash in OpenGL snapshot rendering
• General: Fixed using arrow keys (up/down) in docked modules to trigger camera zoom
• Geometry Editor: Fixed Decore on a polygon level
• Geometry Editor: Fixed Scenegraph structure for shells and components after using Decore tool
• Interaction: Transform manipulators are now only displayed in the active render window and get scaled accordingly.
• Isolate View: Fixed inconsistent scenegraph visibility checkbox behaviour
• Known Issue: DWG import deprecated.
• Known issue: If a node, that is cloned multiple times in the same clone hierarchy, is used in a light link set or as a camera aim, this reference might become invalid/change during scenegraph operations that alter the clone hierarchy
• Material Editor: Fixed preview rendering while running in oculus rift or openVR mode.
• Material Editor: Fixed update of Switch material table for nested switch materials
• Measurement: Fixed missing lines in visualization of measurements
• Navigator: Holding left and right mouse button to roll camera is working on Orthographic cameras now
• OpenGL: Fixed shader issue leading to erroneous surfaces
• Presenter: Fixed Spelling error
• Raytracing: Fixed Triplanar mapped texture with alpha channel causing artefacts in shadows
• Render Settings: Render views are now updated when changing view point or tracks
• Rendering: Fixed AXF Material appearing black in Raytracing
• Rendering: Fixed Material Ball randomly appearing on Main Render Window
• Rendering: Fixed Node name being rendered when offline rendering in isolate view
• Rendering: Fixed Rendered image not being same as Render Region frame for new Orthogonal Camera
• Rendering: Fixed wrong rendering of AxF Materials with fresnel texture in OpenGL and precomputed modes
• Scenegraph: Improved performance on scenes with many nodes
• Scripting: Added setConnectorShowMouseOnClients(false) to disable resizing the viewport with disabled frame sync
• Scripting: Adjusted example scripts to use new example path
• Scripting: Crash when loading script with vrNodePtr.addChild
• Scripting: Fixed broken 3D vrMenu when created in Raytracing
• Scripting: Fixed setClusterEyeSeparation command
• Texture Editor: Fixed Texture Projection mode not being updated in localized UI
• Texture Manipulator: Fixed broken UV manipulator
• UI: Enabled renaming in Curve Editor, Clipmaker and Sequencer by "click selected to edit"
• UV Editor: Enabled more than 100 Iterations
• UV Editor: Fixed UV mapping problems after FBX import
• Variant Sets: Fixed update of thumbnails when Creating preview from variant sets
• Variant Sets: Removed erroneous warnings in Terminal when using Create Preview
• Variants: Fixed Crash when a Material Variant is deleted and then gets switched in the Variant Sets

VREDPro 2017 (03.03.2016)

Features

• Asset Manager: Added Python commands to load, create and overwrite material assets
• Cluster: Added new Display Cluster with Raytracing Cluster support
• FileIO: Fixed import of nodes with Japanese names when importing CATIA data
• GUI: Added preference option to hide progress wheel during interactive rendering
• GUI: Extended color chooser to support creation of black-body and cie D spectra
• General: Add Vive support in VRED Presenter
• General: Added new Customer Error Reporting
• General: Added new UV Editor
• Light Editor: Added Undo/Redo for light settings
• OpenGL: Added new real-time Screen Space Ambient Occlusion
• Python: Added removeNURBS python command
• Raytracing: Added deferred still-frame antialiasing render update
• Rendering: Added AxF 1.2 support
• Rendering: New Light Source Concept
• Scripting: Added Python command to display license dialog.
• Scripting: Added support for scripted custom modules
• Web Interface: Added white list for Web Server Interface
• Web Interface: Improved web browser streaming

Improvements

• Clone Node: Cloned Lights are listed just once in the Light Editor now
• Cluster: Added option to exclude cluster nodes from raytracing calculations
• Cluster: Added warning when a second Cluster Server is started on the same node
• Cluster: Fixed hang when trying to connect to an VREDClusterService of an older version
• FileIO: Improved Import performance of .CGR data
• FileIO: Improved import performance of NX files from a network drive using ATF.
• GUI: Improved usability of menu tear off handles
• General: Added support for HDR Light Studio 5
• Optimize: Removed deprecated create strips/fans in optimize editor
• Overlay Editor: Added additional options for positioning the overlays.
• Rendering: Improved OpenGL performance on scenes with many triangles
• Rendering: Updated to Oculus SDK 1.2
• Scripting: Added Python commands to load and create geometry and environment assets
• Scriting: Improved loadOSB command

Bugfixes

• Animation: Fixed playing a clip in the Clip Maker while connected to the Cluster to only play the selected clip
• Cluster: Fixed Crash when using Isolate on ray tracing clustering.
• Cluster: Fixed Crash with high image compression
• Cluster: Fixed Display Cluster not working with empty scene
• Cluster: Fixed Display cluster freeze after still antialiasing
• Cluster: Fixed Downscale causing broken image in Raytracing cluster mode with post-processing
• Cluster: Fixed Rectangle selection visualization
• Cluster: Fixed crash when rendering an offline image with the same resolution as the viewport.
• Cluster: Fixed crash when rendering with all auxiliary render passes
• Cluster: Fixed creating new overlays with active raytracing cluster
• Cluster: Fixed disconnection after Spectral Raytracing is enabled
• Cluster: Fixed missing Viewcube during interactive Raytracing Clustering
• Cluster: Fixed missing precomputed indirect illumination in "Precomputed" modes
• Cluster: Fixed port flag for VREDClusterService
• Cluster: Fixed positioning of Overlays after resolution change
• Cluster: Removed cluster reconnection after shutting down the cluster service
• Clustering: Fixed Camera glow not being available for Offline Cluster Rendering
• Connector: Fixed re-connection after having connected to a valid IP with no server running
• Display Cluster: Fixed Motion Blur and Depth of Field on Display Cluster
• Display Cluster: Fixed Sync issue with Display Cluster on Powerwall with Mosaic mode off
• Display Cluster: Fixed limited mouse interaction in DisplayCluster OpenGL mode
• Display Cluster: Fixed rendering of Overlays
• FileIO: Added support for Alias layer visibility information via ATF import
• FileIO: Added support for DWG/DXF
• FileIO: Fixed .cgr (catia) material import
• FileIO: Fixed Alias Layer name import
• FileIO: Fixed CATIA and inventor import of files larger than 100MB for ATF.
• FileIO: Fixed JT Import not maintaining File structure and creating duplicate Geometry using ATF
• FileIO: Fixed JT import inconsistencies.
• FileIO: Fixed JT import via ATF.
• FileIO: Fixed Material import from .model files
• FileIO: Fixed Model's normal orientation being flipped in wire file with layer symmetry on.
• FileIO: Fixed Open Examples to locate the examples folder on MAC
• FileIO: Fixed import of ProE files with numbers as file extension
• FileIO: Fixed import of components without Shell
• FileIO: Fixed import of files with German characters.
• FileIO: Fixed import of some JT files on MAC.
• FileIO: Fixed import of some iges files using ATF.
• FileIO: Fixed inconsistent colors for .g and .stl file import
• FileIO: Fixed material import for SWx files using ATF
• FileIO: Fixed material import of Inventor files.
• FileIO: Fixed missing Scale when importing a wire file with a single object
• FileIO: Fixed missing materials from CREO files with ATF
• FileIO: Fixed progress bar for loading files.
• FileIO: Fixed scaling issue when importing .wire files from alias with ATF
• FileIO: Fixed wire import issue with layer symmetry from Alias
• FileIO: Improved Tessellation quality with ATF
• FileIO: Improved scene graph structure to resemble Catia File Structure
• Fixed key "^" (on German keyboard) showing all nodes in the scene and randomly changing switches
• GUI: Fixed Text corruption on pull down menu for Select Medium of Glass material
• GUI: Fixed issues on retina displays
• GUI: Fixed strange behavior when drag and dropping a material on MAC
• General: Adjusted motion factor in example scenes
• General: Fixed Flipping Normals with "ALT + rightclick" on patch basis for TRUE NURBS
• General: Fixed OpenGL Rendering crash when launching HDR Light Studio
• General: Fixed incorrect pick position with fixed render size and clipped areas on MAC
• General: Fixed uninstall of c:\ProgramData\Autodesk content.
• General: Improved option to generate unique names when capturing variant sets or adding render queue jobs.
• Interaction: Fixed crash when setting ruler in raytracing mode on MAC
• Interaction: Fixed touch sensor support for light sources
• Known Issue: ALIAS wire files with german characters are not supported.
• Known Issue: AVI export not supported on MAC.
• Known Issue: DWG files are not supported on Mac version.
• Known Limitation: Light baking is not possible with cloned geometry
• Known Limitation: When storing light sources as assets, local lighting information will get lost.
• Light Editor: For light sources with active spectrum, the temperature setting computes a CIE-D spectrum
• Light Editor: Removed non-functional checkbox from groups
• Lights: Lights are now scaled individually
• Localization: Added missing translation for License/Activation Pages
• Localization: Fixed switching the camera by shortcut (Ctrl + Space) in localized UIs or after renaming the default camera
• Localization: Localized "Rad./Dia./Circumf." in "Measurement" window
• Localization: Localized the "Merge Geometry" dialog
• Measurement: Fixed color of labels in viewport
• OpenGL: Fixed auxiliary visualizations (bounding box, manipulator, clipping plane, annotations ...) with active photometric parameters
• OpenGL: Fixed color output for D65 illuminant (matches raytracing result) when using light sources with spectrum
• OpenGL: Fixed render error (black objects) and crash in scenes with more than 256 active light sources
• OpenGL: Improved calculation of spherical light illumination
• Overlay Editor: Fixed Image Path update issue
• Overlays: Fixed disappearing Overlays with stillframe AA in OpenGL and RT Cluster
• Overlays: Fixed reversed draw order when rendering to file
• Python: Fixed changed node order on saveGeometry(node, file)
• Raytracing: Fixed Bump structure on Glass
• Raytracing: Fixed Crash when opening a new renderwindow while statistic is visible
• Raytracing: Fixed Different render results between AVX2 and SSE42/SSE2 systems
• Raytracing: Fixed background color not being respected when the scene is completely empty
• Raytracing: Fixed crash when opening a new renderwindow while the statistics are visible
• Raytracing: Fixed wrong results when using photonmapping
• Render Queue: Fixed failing Render jobs with Animation when using a predefined image size
• Render Queue: Fixed loading a vpb to repair failing jobs (floating point resolution issue)
• Rendering: Fixed 16bit integer displacement maps
• Rendering: Fixed Colored Fireflies with Clearcoat on Metallic Carpaint
• Rendering: Fixed Displacement map causing black areas in a rendering with glass
• Rendering: Fixed Frustrum issue with VR-SLI
• Rendering: Fixed Isolate view selected not working properly
• Rendering: Fixed Oculus support when SteamVR is installed
• Rendering: Fixed View in New Render window
• Rendering: Fixed Woven cloth material with triplanar projection leading to a driver crash on MAC
• Rendering: Fixed crash when opening a file without an open render window
• Rendering: Fixed incorrect light cone for OpenGL area light
• Rendering: Fixed material preview rendering with photometric parameters enabled
• Rendering: Fixed missing shadow from Rectangle/Disk Light in OpenGL
• Renering: Fixed changing Displacement appearance when changing bump mapping type
• Scenegraph: Added Undo/Redo for "Convert To"
• Scenegraph: Fixed "Scroll to Selected" shortcut (Ctrl-shift-F)
• Scenegraph: Fixed Crash after "Select all" + "Delete"
• Scenegraph: Fixed auto-jump to selected object in lower scenegraph
• Scenegraph: Fixed mirroring of lightsources
• Scenegraph: Fixed slider to expand nodes in the scene graph when "Show Components" is off
• Scripting: Added Python support for light sources in vrNodePtr
• Scripting: Fixed Python documentation for setTessellationOptions
• Scripting: Fixed python command setUInt32 (vrFieldAccess)
• Scripting: Fixed vrMenu setWindowResize for the scenegraph
• Scripting: Improved findNode(name) documentation
• UI: Fixed Color chooser loosing previous settings on reopening
• Variant Set: Fixed Hotkeys Alt+A and Alt+S
• Variant Sets: Fixed UI update issue.
• VariantSets: Improved performance when activating Variant set in Simple UI

VREDPro 2016 SR1 SP5 (18.01.2016)

Features

• Asset Manager: Added Python commands to load, create and overwrite material assets
• FileIO: Added --mergeGeometries parameter to Csb2Osg.exe
• Raytracing: Added deferred still-frame antialiasing render update
• Rendering: Added preference option to choose SLI Mode

Improvements

• Scenegraph: Added Merge Geometry options when selecting geometries with differing materials or visibilities

Bugfixes

• Asset Manager: Fixed deletion of material assets in the Asset manager when renaming material assets by changing the case of characters
• Clipping: Fixed Clip Plane Tool to work with transparent materials
• Cluster: Fixed picking point of interest when starting the cluster with OpenGL
• Cluster: Removed cluster reconnection after shutting down the cluster service
• FileIO: Fixed Alembic import for FBX files
• FileIO: Fixed missing geometries when Keep Surface Data is not checked for Direct Connect
• FileIO: Improved verification performance for project file import for scenes with many shells and components
• GUI: Fixed Import Dialog from blocking other windows
• General: Added option to generate unique names when capturing variant sets or adding render queue jobs.
• Isolate View: Environments node can now be switched off again in Isolate view mode
• Localization: Fixed rendering animations as avi movie in localized versions
• Material Editor: Fixed update of color buttons in Analytic material settings when activating "Use Realistic"
• OpenGL: Added missing rendering updates when changing light properties after changing the light type
• Overlays: The drawing order of overlays is now inverted
• Raytracing: Fixed Artefacts when using distortion maps
• Raytracing: Fixed performance issue caused by bad texture coordinates
• Raytracing: Fixed wrong results when using photonmapping
• Rendering: Fixed Bump intensity inconsistency
• Rendering: Fixed Low and High Realtime Antialiasing in OpenGL for MAC
• Rendering: Fixed line-strip rendering issue
• Rendering: Fixed materials becoming transparent in OpenGL when an invalid environment has been assigned
• Scripting: Fixed Crash on show menu via Python
• Scripting: Fixed renderer crash with vrVirtualEye when activating Raytracing
• Scripting: '\n' characters and multiple spaces in print statements are now being written to the Terminal
• Touch Sensors: Fixed update when adding a VRED project file with touch sensors
• Tracking: VRPN tracking cart mode may also use custom node mode now
• UI: Fixed Fullscreen for a single render window on a secondary monitor
• Variant Sets: Fixed missing switch options in variant state drop-down
• Variant sets: Prevent deletion of Variant Sets with only Python scripts when Optimization occurs

VREDPro 2016 SR1 SP4 (03.11.2015)

Features

• Python: Added optimizeShellSurfaces command to reduce memory consumption of shells
• Rendering: Added support for OpenVR devices like the HTC Vive

Improvements

• General: Added log message when Render is canceled
• General: Added option list for VREDPro.exe with command line parameters -h, -help or /?
• Interaction: Fixed freeze when switching normals
• Rendering: Updated Oculus Rift support to 0.8 runtime

Bugfixes

• Clipping Plane and Grid: Fixed Strange colors in viewport after navigating and switching off the grid
• Cluster: Fixed Crash when removing last Network and adding Compute node in Raytracing Cluster
• Cluster: Fixed raytracing cluster on MAC
• Connector: Fixed Connector setting shadowplane visible on slave
• FileIO: File extension is now updated again when changing the file type in the save dialog
• FileIO: Fixed FBX Files transformations
• FileIO: Fixed JT import with ATF creating doubled geometry
• FileIO: Fixed NX support using ATF on German Windows OS
• FileIO: Fixed PLM XML import
• FileIO: Merge project and Import dialog Settings are now restored
• GUI: Fixed changing of rendering mode right after using surface analysis mode
• GUI: Fixed saving of 'Invert Zoom' option
• GUI: Fixed wrong Skylight map resolution on HighDPI screens
• GUI: Render All is now disabled once Render all is pressed and jobs are being rendered
• General: Fixed Automotive Assets startup issue
• Interaction: Fixed "Select object behind" in OpenGL
• Interaction: Fixed 'Seperate Objects' function
• Interaction: Fixed CTRL-J (Win) / CMD-J (Mac) shortcut in render window
• Interaction: Fixed flipping of normals in the render window ("Fix Connected Face Normals" tool, Alt + Right Mouse)
• Localization: Added translation for "Raytracing Cluster" and "VRPN Tracking" modules
• Localization: Translated "Choose a Color" dialog.
• Localization: Translated Menu entries "Scene", "Animation", "Interaction" and "Rendering".
• Localization: Translated Network speed test result in Raytracing Cluster
• Localization: Translated String "Transform" in Preferences dialog.
• Localization: Translated String "Unnamed" in Raytracing Cluster Dialog.
• Localization: Translated button names in some dialog.
• Localization: Translated many titles in Variant Sets dialog
• Localization: Translated the warning message when OS X version is below 10.11
• Measurement: Fixed computation of invalid values for gap measurement
• OpenGL: Fixed selection in the render window when Overlays are active and View Cube is deactivated
• Raytracing: Fixed AVX detection fail when VT-x extension is not available
• Raytracing: Fixed performance regression caused by some GPU drivers
• Raytracing: Fixed wrong results when changing saturation on a rough chrome material
• Rendering: Fixed Isolate view displaying all the model during panning
• Rendering: Fixed Tessellation issue in OpenGL mode.
• Rendering: Fixed behavior when closing the progress dialog of the render queue
• Rendering: Fixed cancelling of image rendering for an Animation
• Rendering: Fixed crash when a shell contains surfaces without data
• Rendering: Fixed creation of intermediate images when cancelling a rendering
• Scenegraph: Fixed double execution of duplicate/clone mirror.
• Scripting: Fixed vrMenu
• Sequencer: Fixed setActiveSnapshotMovieRenderPasses context menu entry.
• Tracking: Fixed Space Mouse

VREDPro 2016 SR1 (30.09.2015)

Features

• Camera Editor: Added Hotkey option for ‘Viewpoint’ in Camera Track
• Cluster: New Cluster Architecture
• FileIO: Added option to exclude Animation Clips and Curves from Project import
• FileIO: Updated FBX library version to 2016
• General: Added Oculus Rift support in VRED Presenter
• General: Added Retessellation with ATF.
• General: Improved handling of Shells and Components
• General: Presenter is now available for Mac
• Overlay Module: Added custom sorting of Overlays
• Rendering: Added multicast SLI support for Stereo modes
• Rendering: New OpenGL Architecture
• Scenegraph: Added "Paste with Transformation" to keep a pasted node at the same position in the world as the originally copied node
• Scenegraph: Improved Drag and Drop Functionalities of Components and Shells
• Scenegraph: Merge Geometry now merges all selected nodes
• Scripting: Added python command for "Flush Transformation Translation", "Flush Transformation Rotation", and "Flush Transformation Scales"
• Variant Sets: Added a function to close all groups in the variant sets
• Variants: Added function to Variants to select connected VariantSets

Improvements

• Added python command for "showComponent()"
• Cluster: All render jobs can be cancelled at once on the cluster
• FileIO: Added option for OSB to toggle import of animations
• FileIO: Added export of textures for FBX format
• FileIO: Added missing import option preferences "Unshare Nodes" and "Flush Transformations"
• FileIO: Added support for NX 10.0 file import
• General: Improved performance of "Convert to mesh"
• General: Removed duplicate data folder to reduce disk space requirements
• Overlay Module: Switches added to Overlay Module
• Python: Added vrFieldAccess functionality to read and write multifields
• Python: Extended "loadMeasurement" command to support .pbrdf files for OCS materials
• Scenegraph: Shells are automatically created when Components in the scenegraph are pasted or dragged & dropped
• Scripting: Added Python command to clone the clipping contour
• Scripting: Added python interface for surface analysis tool
• Sequencer: Added undo redo
• Tracking: Added new simplified tracking UI
• Tracking: Improved tracking device and body calibration
• UI: Added option to hide warning messages for undoable functions
• UI: Changed hotkey "O" to "CTRL-ALT" and enabled it for toggling navigation in presentation mode
• UI: Shortcut for "Create Shell from Selection" changed from CTRL-Shift-G to CTRL-Shift-M

Bugfixes

• Animations: Fixed Timeslider in curve editor not being movable if no keys are selected
• FileIO: Fixed Dis-formed surfaces from ATF.
• FileIO: Fixed Flush transformation for APF and FBX.
• FileIO: Fixed Stitching for ATF import
• FileIO: Fixed UV repeat in the texture of an imported FBX file
• FileIO: Fixed Wire import for Direct Connect
• FileIO: Fixed import of google sketchup file formats for ATF
• FileIO: Fixed material translating for CATProducts in ATF
• FileIO: Tesselation during import keeps the surface continuity now.
• Fixed transform manipulators on Mac platform
• General: Fixed UI for License Borrowing
• General: Fixed potential crash after loading a file and turning on anti aliasing on Mac
• Isolated View: Added possibility to view hidden nodes
• Known issue: Capturing variant sets in the simple UI and the render queue require unique names for the geometries and the materials
• Known issue: Startup issue for all VRED executables when using NVidia driver profiles.
• Lights: Loading & saving lights works as expected now
• Material Editor: Added Uniform Repeat checkbox in triplanar mapping mode
• OpenGL: Fixed billboard orientation when using z-up
• OpenGL: Fixed woven cloth issues - distant view of filament yarn cloth and shader compile error when using triplanar texture mode and translucency
• Overlay Editor: Group node changes are now correctly reflected in the render window
• Overlay Editor: Overlay entry items are now correctly cleared when opening a new file
• Python: Functions now return tuples instead of lists
• Raytracing: Improved Raytracing performance for some full global illumination scenes
• Render Window: Fixed bounding box preselection sometimes being visible when bounding box selection is disabled
• Rendering: Fixed Bounding Box when Raytracing and Stereo L/R split is on
• Rendering: Pressing render in Render Settings takes the file name specified into account on Mac now
• Scenegraph: "Create Shell from Selection" is now undoable
• Scenegraph: Components may not be transformed
• Scenegraph: Fixed changed order of nodes when doing a "Group Selection" (Ctrl-Shift-G)
• Scenegraph: Fixed components being placed outside of shells after Group by Material
• Scenegraph: Fixed creation of unnecessary Transform3D nodes during "Group Selection"
• Scenegraph: Fixed execution of "Group Selection" on cloned nodes within the hierarchy of a "Transformable Clone Root"
• Scenegraph: Improved Scenegraph Performance
• Scenegraph: The A/B-side state of a Shell is determined by the A/B-side state of its components
• Scripting: Fixed flushMaterialGroups()
• Scripting: Updated example Python scripts
• Transform Editor/Manipulator: Fixed issues with rotation and rotation pivot orientation
• Transform Editor: Readded UI controls to pick the rotation pivot position and orientation by clicking in the scene
• UI: If a Variant set is duplicated, overlay (Overlay tab) and clipping state (Analyzer tab) are now duplicated as well
• Undo/Redo: Fixed Undo after merging two geometries
• Variant Sets: Added Drag and drop support from variant set to a group
• Variant Sets: Clear does now correctly delete all overlays from a variant set

VREDPro 2016 SP3 (22.07.2015)

Bugfixes

• Ambient Occlusion: Fixed initialization of subdivison threshold.
• Analyzer: Fixed Gap Measurements.
• App: VRED App now respects Connector Settings
• App: Variant sets are now listed in alphabetical order
• Asset Manager: "Apply Materials To Scene by Name" now also replaces Switch materials in the scene
• Asset Manager: Fixed lost material assignments in the subtree below a Material Group when reloading a material asset assigned to a Material Group
• Asset Manager: Textures are now always inlined when saving assets
• Bake Light and Shadows: Fixed Calcuate Missing
• FileIO: Added dialog to prevent overwriting of files during export.
• FileIO: Fixed OSB export to allow exclusion of Environment
• FileIO: Fixed loading of Tire material's bump texture when loading a file that was saved with disabled "Use Inline Textures"
• FileIO: Save Selected "auto-suggests" node name as file name now
• Known Issue: Alias Wire import not working with Direct Connect on MAC.
• Known Issue: Wireframe rendering is only available for Realistic and Analytic Rendering in Raytracing
• Known issue: CINEMA 4D Scenes not working on MAC.
• Known issue: Sound nodes are not working on MAC.
• Known issue: Video memory usage not displayed in GL Info dialog on MAC
• Light Editor: Fixed issues during drag & drop of lights in the group view
• Localization: Fixed Alignment of Statistics.
• Localization: Fixed Surface analysis module UI under SimpleUI mode.
• Localization: Translated Context Menu in Script Editor
• Localization: Translated some strings in Clip Maker
• Material Editor: Added missing update after deleting an environment node under the default environment switch
• Material Editor: Choice of unmodified/locked switch material assets may be changed in Advanced UI
• Preferences: Fixed crash when storing Color in Background Settings
• Raytracing: Fixed crash when rendering NURBS
• Raytracing: Fixed Wireframe Rendering
• Raytracing: Fixed missing Roughness Texture in BrushedMetal
• Raytracing: Fixed missing updates when changing tracedepth in Illuminance mode
• Rendering: Fixed Filter and Save now button for Denoise filter
• Rendering: Fixed Postprocess Antialiasing changing the perspective in rendered pictures
• Rendering: Fixed import of Alias Chrome tags on MAC
• Rendering: Fixed wrong renderings in NPR mode when changing the resolution
• Rendering: If Light Baking option is chosen, "Enable Color Bleeding" is turned on by default
• Scenegraph: Fixed "Add File" from Scenegraph menu
• Scripting: Added Python command to remove Asset Manager references from materials and objects
• Scripting: Added Python function for loading tracking configuration files
• Scripting: Added missing Python Command for "Disable Realtime AA on Camera Movement"
• Scripting: Added missing Python commands to support new Light and Shadow baking
• Scripting: Added missing vrWidget on MAC.
• Scripting: Fixed overwriting of PYTHONPATH environment variable
• Tire Material: Fixed "Get Values from Object" for transformed Shell nodes
• UI: Fixed behaviour of Tire Texture Manipulator's green handles to change the width of the profile
• UI: Fixed consistency issues of shortcuts on MAC
• UI: Fixed renaming of Groups in the light editor
• UI: Fixed show/hide toggle shortcut CRTL+J (WIN) / CMD+J (MAC)
• UI: Fixed static position of the Progress cursor in OpenGL
• UI: Hiding a tag deselect the tag now
• Web Interface: Fixed crash when "Stream" is selected.

VREDPro 2016 SP2 (26.05.2015)

Bugfixes

• Asset Manager: Fixed saving of nested switch and/or multipass materials as assets
• Asset Manager: Fixed saving of switch material and its contained materials when having all materials selected to be saved as assets
• Asset Manager: Now able to save multiple modified assets in one go
• Cameras: Removed one extra symbol in Camera Editor on MAC
• FileIO: Fixed Translation issue for vertex caches
• FileIO: Save Selected does remember path names now
• GUI: Added warning for missing undo in Subdivide Geometry.
• GUI: Fixed mis-alignment and overlap in the Statistics information in Render View on MAC
• GUI: Fixed non-retina checkbox in scene graph on MAC
• General: Fixed Rendering crash when opening a 2015 file with 2016
• Interaction: Fixed Hotkey after recapturing a variantset in simple UI
• Interaction: Fixed Switching materials during camera rotation
• Localized: Fixed Installation Language when installing on KOR MAC OS.
• Localized: Fixed Mis-alignment issue in "Node Information" window
• Localized: Fixed String "Set Texture Center Position" in RenderView
• Localized: Fixed Variant Set name when trying to delete Variant Set
• Localized: Fixed string "Connection Refused" in Connector dialog
• Localized: Fixed tags created when dragging one localized named object to tag.
• Localized: Translated "Group" in "Overlay Editor" window
• Localized: Translated Context Menu in Script Editor
• Localized: Translated some strings in Clip Maker
• Localized: Translated some strings in material editor
• Localized: Translated strings "on" and "off" in Render Layer editor.
• Material Editor: Changed the default texturing mode to triplanar
• Materials: Fixed Environment import from files that are saved via "Save Selected"
• Render Queue: Using Fixed Render Sizes will not cause Render Queue Execution to fail anymore
• Rendering: Fixed Clearcoat reflectivity of new Metallic Carpaint in OpenGL mode
• Rendering: Fixed incorrect shininess and tonemapping in analytic rendering
• Scripting: Fixed Custom Functions not working over Webserver on MAC
• Variants: Old Variants are producing useless switch materials
• Web Interface: Improved error message.

VREDPro 2016 SP1 (24.04.2015)

Bugfixes

• Animations: Fixed evaluation of frame step parameter in createMovie command
• Asset Manager: Fixed crash after "Apply Materials To Scene by Name" and Reload Directory
• Asset Manager: Fixed crash when deleting a folder with expanded subfolders in the directory view
• Asset Manager: Fixed disappearing geometry after overwriting a geometry asset by a geometry that doesn't have a valid asset root
• Asset Manager: Show Busy cursor when dragging a material asset into the scene while it is loaded
• Bake light and shadow: Incandescent light does cast shadow in baking now.
• Cloning: Copy Paste no longer creates clones instead of duplicates
• Connector: Fixed synchronization of pivots and shear
• Connector: Fixed synchronization of transformation values when using world coordinates in the Transform Editor
• Connector: Fixed synchronization of transformation when using undo/redo.
• Environments: Fixed environment dome being visible in the image when rendering with "Export Alpha Channel" after switching on the backplate
• FileIO: Denoise filter settings are saved in project file now
• FileIO: Fixed "Use Alpha" for material on FBX file
• FileIO: Fixed Translation issue for vertex caches
• FileIO: Fixed UV repeat in the texture of an imported FBX file
• FileIO: Fixed import for Pro E Data with version index
• FileIO: Fixed import option "Put on the ground" not being recognized after enabling "don`t ask again"
• FileIO: Fixed opening a VPB by double-click when Place objects on the ground was enabled in the preferences
• FileIO: Fixed vertex animation from FBX to be aligned with Maya
• Interaction: Fixed missing camera change for double right-click when "Animate camera change" is disabled
• Interaction: Light type of locked light cannot be changed anymore
• Light Editor: Fixed crash when modifying values while Group is selected
• Light Editor: Fixed icon of duplicated locked light
• Material Editor: Added edge blend slider to triplanar texture mapping UI
• Material Editor: Fixed material previews becoming wireframe when wireframe rendering is enabled in the Camera Editor
• Material Editor: Fixed wrong checkbox states when environment switch filter is active
• Materials: Fixed update of environment illumination on X-Rite material when switching the environment
• OpenGL: Fixed exposure parameter of OCS material when illuminated by a light source
• OpenGL: Fixed missing shadow map update when hiding a geometry
• RenderQueue: Spectral Rendering setting is stored in Render jobs/Quality preview settings now
• Rendering: Fixed auxiliary visualizations (manipulator, texts, measurements, ...) being rendered as wireframe in wireframe rendering mode
• Rendering: Fixed display of Overlays with stereo rendering
• Scenegraph: Improved Performance
• Scripting: Added vrNodePtr.setWorldTranslation and fixed documentation for vrNodePtr.setTranslation and vrNodePtr.getTranslation
• Scripting: Fixed Python support on MAC
• Tracking: Fixed navigation issue by setting trackball mode as default for tracking.
• UI: Add Lightbaking to simple UI
• Web Interface: Fixed inactive debug mode after program start

VREDPro 2016 (06.03.2015)

Features

• AmbientOcclusion: Added Ambient Occlusion Calculation based on Scene Lighting
• Analytic Rendering: Added more evalutation methods
• Assets: Improved Environment Assets
• Assets: Improved Geometry Assets
• Cloning: Cloned transformation nodes may have different transformation values
• Cloning: Highlighted Referenced Clone Object in Scenegraph
• Cluster: Added Native Infiniband support
• Cluster: Improved cluster node license check out
• Curve Editor: Made planar and triplanar texture projection attributes available as animatable channels
• FileIO: Added ATF CAD Import
• General: Added Editible Metatags
• General: Added support for MAC OS
• General: Improved support for High DPI Displays on Windows
• Interaction: Added Customizable Navigation and Selection
• Interaction: Added New Selection Modes
• Interaction: Added Preselection highlight to render window
• Interaction: Added Select Object behind
• Interaction: Added Show last hidden
• Interaction: Added new options to create Clipping plane
• Interaction: CTRL-SHIFT-G is shortcut for "Create Shell from Selection" if only surfaces are selected
• Overlays: Added new Web-Overlay Generator
• Python: Added "runSequence(name)" command to run a sequence
• Python: Added Command for "Clear undo/redo stack"
• Python: Added Command for "Remove selected nodes"
• Python: Added Python command to check if a node is cloned
• Python: Added Virtual Camera
• Python: Added command for getMotionFactor
• Python: Added command to change the size and position of the render region
• Python: Added threading support to python interpreter
• Python: Updated to Python 2.7.8 and added PySide support
• Raytracing: Added Denoise Filter
• Raytracing: Improved raytracing performance up to 30% on AVX2 capable CPUs
• Rendering: Added fast postprocess antialiasing for realtime rendering
• Rendering: Added support for Oculus Rift DK2
• Rendering: Improved AxF Support
• Scenegraph: Added Locked Nodes
• Scenegraph: Added funtion to select all nodes on the same hierarchy level
• Scenegraph: New Duplicate function preserves cloning connections
• Scenegraph: Removed old Clone node
• Scenegraph: Unshare preserves internal cloning connections
• Scripting: Added Python command to clear the content of the Script Editor
• Scripting: Added python command to remove attachments
• UI: Added Improved Tool Tips including Tool Clips
• UI: Added Localized Product Versions
• UI: Added Tool Tips to Optimize Module UI

Improvements

• Asset Manager: Fixed reloading of cloned geometry assets
• Asset Manager: Improved reloading multiple occurances of the same geometry asset
• Assets: The saved environment information of an asset material will now be recognized
• Cloning: Improved compatibility with old files
• FileIO: Added Import option Add Zero Transform function
• FileIO: Added Import option Optimize Flush Transformation Scale
• FileIO: Updated FBX SDK to 2015 Version
• GUI: Visual difference of exclusive and non-exclusive actions in menus
• General: Added different sizes of the camera response curve editor
• Interaction: Connected Motion Factor to Arrow Key Navigation
• Material Editor: Adjusted look of locked materials in the material editor
• Preferences: Changed "Set All Default" to "Load all defaults" and "Set Default" to "Load Default"
• Preferences: Moved "Wireframe" selection preferences from Render Options preferences to Selection preferences
• Python: Added Python command for setting the selection-mode
• Python: Added command to generate preview image
• Python: Added command to list Clip animations
• Python: Added command to move variant sets to variant groups
• Python: Added command to toggle render region
• Python: Added live webcam streaming
• Python: Enable creation of variant groups via python
• Python: Improved movie player
• Raytracing: Optimized woven cloth material performance
• Rendering: Added Baking of Full Global Illumination
• Rendering: Added backplate to wireframe mode
• Rendering: Added debug mode
• Rendering: Added preference option to enable/disable glFinish call after swap buffers
• Rendering: Added support for up to 8 shadow casting lights in OpenGL (Windows only)
• Rendering: Improved image writing speed
• Rendering: Readded support for Sim2 HDR Display
• Rendering: Redesigned Metallic Carpaint Material
• Scenegraph: Cloned nodes that occur in different cloning hierarchies can be unshared
• Scenegraph: Undo/Redo for renaming a node
• UI: "View In New Renderwindow" now opens in front of VRED UI
• UI: Added Progress Indicator while reloading Asset Manager
• Undo/Redo: Added Undo/Redo for Selection
• Undo/Redo: Added warning for un-undo/redoable operations

Bugfixes

• Animation: Fixed Geometry caches
• Asset Manager: Fixed lost asset references in the subtree of the saved asset when overwriting an existing asset
• Asset Manager: Fixed ungrouping of materials when loading a geometry asset into the scene
• Camera: Fixed Dolly Zoom only working with Field of view, not Focal Length
• CameraEditor: Fixed activation of the ICV camera when a file or asset is added to the scene
• Cloning: Fixed "flush material group nodes" inside a clone node
• Cloning: Fixed "merge geometry" inside a clone node
• Cluster: Fixed rendering artifacts when using the Skylight environment for lightning
• FileIO: Fixed Save Package for scenes that contain measured materials
• FileIO: Fixed crash when loading a saved material
• FileIO: Fixed error when exporting as .pov
• FileIO: Fixed import issue for JT files
• FileIO: Fixed import of Inventor files
• FileIO: Fixed object names with special characters when importing maya scene files
• FileIO: Removed Merge Project dialog when adding a python file
• FileIO: Save Selected does remember path names now
• General: Converting a group to a shell now keeps the transformation
• General: Fixed orthographic camera and viewcube mismatch
• General: Fixed shutdown on Linux
• Geometry Editor: Fixed Separate Objects for cloned geometries
• Interaction: Alt-right MMB (Flip connected patches) now works on transformed shells
• Interaction: Fixed "View in new Render Window" for multi-selection
• Interaction: Fixed Drag Selection being applied to the Bounding Box and not to Geometry
• Interaction: Fixed Unshare for multiselection
• Interaction: Fixed cloned objects jumping out of their location when using optimize
• Isolate View: Mouse can no longer interact with touch sensors of invisible geometry
• Light Editor: Fixed crash when modifying values while Group is selected
• Material Editor: Fixed creation of OpenGL Phong Material
• Material Editor: Fixed instable sorting of equally-named materials
• Materials: Fixed deleting a switch-material that is referenced in the variants from deleting all variant sets
• Metatags: Fixed Undo/redo for scene tags without connecting them to a node.
• OpenGL: Fixed appearance of transparent material when selecting a component of a shell
• OpenGL: Fixed color of wireframe selection in second render window
• OpenGL: Wireframe selection no longer covers transform manipulator and other auxiliary visualizations
• Optimize: Fixed Flush transformation above a Light Transforms
• Optimize: Fixed Flush transformation on cloned node removing cloning
• Optimize: Flush Transformation with Adjust Face Normals do adjust normals on Surfaces now
• Python: Fixed "triggerTouchSensor" command
• Python: Fixed crash when calling setMaterialDiffuseColor on a Truelight material
• Python: Fixed findNodes() with wildcards
• Python: Fixed update of Overlay UI (vrMenu) after changing the URL by selecting a different Variant Set
• Raytracing: Fixed "Allow Material Overrides" in the Raytracing Settings for Shadow Material overrides
• Raytracing: Fixed issue causing different photonmap on cluster nodes
• Raytracing: Fixed missing incandescence illumination for triplanar materials
• Raytracing: Fixed missing update of cloned transformation node
• Raytracing: Fixed support for line geometry as lightsource
• RenderLayer: Improved performance when applying renderlayer
• Rendering: Ambient Occlusion calculation respects “Number of CPU Cores” in Render Settings now
• Rendering: Fixed MIP-Mapping Problem
• Rendering: Fixed different rendering appearance in New Render Window
• Rendering: Fixed material preview sticking to last touched object when dragging to the environment or background
• Rendering: Fixed roughness in glass material under OpenGL mode
• Rendering: Fixed spectral rendering support to VRED Presenter
• Rendering: Removed sampling of rough glass form CPU Rasterization mode
• Scenegraph: Fixed Convert light node not working properly
• Scenegraph: Fixed Copy and Paste Clone crash when pasting a cloned node into itself
• Scenegraph: Fixed Crash after merge scene and delete nodes
• Scenegraph: Fixed missing update of cloned nodes when using "Remove Selected Nodes" below a cloned node
• Scenegraph: Made Scenegraph Nodes Selectable/Nonselectable
• Scripting: Fixed showBanner() crash
• Selection: Fixed rectangle selection (fully enclosed, left-to-right selection) for shells with hidden or b-side components
• SimpleUI: Fixed materials of clone nodes not getting captured for Variant Sets
• Transform Manipulator: Fixed "Use Fixed Steps" for rotation manipulator
• UI: Added pop up before Unshare operation to notify that is not undoable
• UI: Adjusted Render Settings Queue to AdvancedUI
• UI: Fixed Pop Up Window when deleting a material that is referenced to a variantSet

Known Issues

• General: VRED needs to be installed into default folder but can be moved manually on MAC.
• General: Korean License Agreement dialog in MAC installer not available. Please refer to English license agreement.
• Materials: Materials tagged as Chrome in Alias are not recognized in VRED on MAC.
• Rendering: Denoise filter does not work with adaptive sampling.