V-Ray 3.2 for 3DS Max released

Chaos Group has released a new service pack for its renderer, which brings many new features and 3DS Max 2016 support. Changes include:

New features:

• VRayVolumeGrid: Added support for rendering of
  fluid simulation data (Phoenix FD, Field3D and OpenVDB)
• V-Ray: Added ability to add/remove DR servers on
  the fly from the Render Progress window
• V-Ray: The DR servers list is re-read whenever
  the vray_dr.cfg file is modified during rendering
• V-Ray: Added button to open the V-Ray messages
  log window
• V-Ray: Added camera object properties to control
  the number of transformation samples for camera motion blur
• V-Ray: Added support for 3DS Max 2016, including
  the new Physical Camera and Physical Camera Exposure Control
• V-Ray: MaxScript parameter to control the DMC
  random seed
• V-Ray: The V-Ray object properties allow to
  specify a given map channel as velocity channel (useful with some
  Alembic importers)
• V-Ray: Provided tooltip descriptions for most of
  the renderer settings
• V-Ray RT CPU: Support for VRayEnvironmentFog
• V-Ray RT GPU: Added support for Composite map
  rendering
• V-Ray RT GPU: Added support for displacement
• V-Ray RT GPU: Added support for VRayMtl
  anisotropy
• V-Ray RT GPU: Added UDIM tag support
• V-Ray RT GPU: Implemented QMC sampling for CUDA
  engine
• V-Ray RT GPU: Initial support for texture baking
• V-Ray RT GPU: Support for spherical panorama
  cameras
• V-Ray RT GPU: Added support for 3DS Max Spot and
  Omni lights Decay and Near/Far Attenuation parameters
• V-Ray RT GPU: Added support for textures output
  Bezier curve output color correction
• VRayProxy: Added better methods for generating
  viewport preview meshes based on mesh simplification
• VRayProxy: Added Show whole mesh viewport
  display option
• VRayProxy: Support for exporting the
  VRayInstancer as a .vrmesh file preserving the instancing
• VRayStereoscopic: Support for stereo
  spherical/cylindrical panorama cameras
• VFB: Added ability to load the render settings
  for an image from the history window
• VFB: Can be zoomed in/out with the regular +/-/*
  keys (useful for remote access from mobile devices)
• VRayCurvatureMap: A new texture similar to
  VRayDirt; useful for detecting mesh curvature
• VRayFur: Faster rendering; can now be
  accelerated by Embree
• Hair&Fur: Faster rendering; can now be
  accelerated by Embree
• VRayInstancer: Added ability to override node
  and V-Ray object properties of the source objects
• VRayInstancer: Added parameters to control the
  random seed, render percentage
• VRayInstancer: Added an experimental option for
  multithreaded instance generation (only for the V-Ray portion of the
  code)
• VRayLight: Added a line that shows the
  orientation of the dome lights in the viewport, it also shows the
  center of VRayHDRI wrapping
• VRayOSLMtl: Added support for vray_subsurface()
  closure
• VRayOSLMtl: Added support for vray_hair()
  closure
• VRayOSLMtl/VRayOSLTex: Support for drop-down
  controls
• VRayHDRI: Added support for loading PNG
  grayscale with alpha images
• Texture baking: Additional bake elements for
  render to texture: VRayMtlReflectIORBake, VRayReflectionFilterMap
• V-Ray scene converter: Added initial
  implementation of conversion of Corona materials and lights
• ply2vrmesh: Support for conversion of particles
  from .geo and .bgeo files
• vrayspawner.exe can assign separate DR nodes to
  different processor groups

Modified features:

• V-Ray: Reduced light cache leaks through a new
  parameter “Leak prevention”
• V-Ray: New default settings for the light cache
• V-Ray: The GI subdivs multiplier in the V-Ray
  object properties has been renamed to “Subdivs multiplier” and affects
  all shading samples for the particular object
• V-Ray: The render mask can work with transparent
  and not Visible to Camera objects along the ray paths
• V-Ray: The render mask on selected objects is
  intersected by VRayLights
• V-Ray: Setting the Global subdivs multiplier to
  0.0 does not affect the irradiance map and other reflection/refraction
  interpolation maps
• V-Ray: Added UI view switcher to the Global DMC
  sampler rollout
• V-Ray: Changed the default motion blur duration
  value to 0.5
• V-Ray: Improved handling of meshes and proxies
  that are invisible to the camera
• V-Ray: Speed up of the “transforming vertices”
  phase in scenes with many objects
• V-Ray: Simplified the “default” view of the
  light cache rollout
• V-Ray RT GPU: Added support for Falloff texmap
  in VRayVRmatMtl
• V-Ray RT GPU: Cleaner glossy reflections from
  area lights
• V-Ray RT GPU: Implemented Light Cache support
  for motion blurred hairs
• V-Ray RT GPU: Implemented more robust common
  tasks execution, leading to about 10% render speed gain
• V-Ray RT GPU: Optimized system CPU memory usage
  for bitmap textures
• V-Ray Toolbar: Changed the default alignment to
  floating for 3DS Max 2016 and later due to issues with default docking
• VFB: Added VRAY_BLENDED_GUI environment variable
  that, when set to 0, allows to run the VFB in a separate thread like
  before, otherwise it runs in the 3DS Max main thread by default
• VFB: Better contrast function that preserves the
  black and white points
• VFB: The render region coordinates are stored
  normalized to the image size
• VFB: The vfbControl MaxScript function supports
  loading of color correction files
• VFB: The vfbControl MaxScript function does not
  cause the VFB to show anymore
• VFB: The “Edit comment” window appears under the
  mouse cursor when shown
• VFB: The “Close” button in the “Edit comment”
  window is changed to “Save and close”
• V-Ray Quick settings: Light cache’s Pre-filter
  is no more affected
• VRayCarPaint: Added max reflection depth control
• VRayExposureControl: Added MaxScript access to
  the “active” and “processBG” options
• VRayFastSSS2: Changed trace reflections to
  enabled by default
• VRayHDRI: Allow negative values for the U/V
  Crop/Place parameters in VRayHDRI
• VRayHDRI: Added option to generates IFL lists
  with full file paths rather than relative
• VRayHDRI: Faster rendering of tiled textures
  when the tiled memory limit is reached
• VRayHDRI: Improved elliptical filtering
• VRayLight: Simplify the interface options layout
• VRayProxy: Instancing for Alembic meshes is
  enabled by default
• VRayScatterVolumeMtl: Improved calculations
• VRayToon: Added support for layers in the
  include/exclude list
• V-Ray Light Lister: Made the light names fields
  wider and the list is sorted by the lights names
• .vrmesh exporter: Added support for
  VRayInstancer when “Export each mesh to separate file” option is
  selected
• .vrscene exporter: The render state of objects
  is exported
• Installer: Adding exceptions for applications
  and ports to the firewall
• Lens analyzer: Added ability to generate texture
  for physical camera distortion map
• ply2vrmesh: Preserve UV set names for .geo/.bgeo
  files

Plus bug fixes. The update is available for download for free to current owners of the software.