Release Notes (3.5)

3.5.24 (2023.02)

Release Notes

• [C4D] Improved the performance of RSLights in the viewport
• [C4D] Improved the scene scan and particle system extraction performance
• [C4D] Exposed the 'Replace Alpha Channel' and 'Alpha' parameters in Dome lights
• [C4D] Fixed bug where certain polygon selections would be lost when motion-blur is enabled
• [C4D] Fixed bug that prevented connections to the Index port of the MultiShader from working in locales other than en-US
• [C4D] Fixed bug in TeamRender single-frame mode where AOVs would not be saved as multi-pass if the selected image format did not support multiple layers
• [C4D] Fixed bug where Substances in Nodes did not appear in the Project Asset Inspector and RS Asset Manager
• [C4D] Fixed bug where breaking shader connections in materials used with stacking, could lead to incorrect output in IPR
• [C4D] Fixed bug where connections from Reference nodes would produce incorrect results under certain conditions
• [C4D] Fixed rare crash that could occur when closing a scene, while material previews are rendering in the node editor
• [C4D] Fixed rare crash triggered by visibility animation on cloners in conjunction with motion-blur
• [C4D] Fixed crash in the RenderView when picking colors, if the C4D Basic color-management mode is used in conjunction with ACEScg as the rendering color-space
• [C4D] Fixed fatal assertion triggered by C4D Layer shaders that had missing child shaders
• [C4D] Fixed fatal assertion triggered by invalid matrices from PBD-driven objects under certain conditions
• [C4D] Fixed regression where making an object editable during IPR could cause missing textures
• [C4D] Fixed regression in the 2024 plugin that prevented Light Materials from working
• [C4D] Fixed assertion triggered when LOD objects are used as templates for particles or in scattering with the Matrix object
• [C4D] Fixed assertion triggered when stacking invalid materials
• [Maya] Fixed issue where hiding IGS when IPR is running and 2 or more IGS were present in the scene crashed Maya
• [Maya] Fixed bug where UI for GI and System Memory was broken for Maya 2020
• [Max] Fixed bug where render output was incorrectly exposed when using Movie shutter type with Filmic exposure mode
• [Max] Fixed bug where Render View did not honor the scene frame rate when using Movie shutter type with Filmic exposure mode
• [Max] Fixed bug that caused a performance issue with viewport visualization of Redshift Proxy
• [Max] Fixed bug that could crash 3ds Max when using time sequence controls with an end condition of Ping-Pong or Loop
• [Houdini] Added support for Houdini 20.0.590 and dropped support for 19.5.773
• [Houdini] Added support for the "REDSHIFT_DISABLE_VERSION_CHECK" env. variable to disable the Houdini/Plugin version match checking
• [Houdini] Added support for rendering both regular and deep AOVs from a single ROP without reloading the scene
• [Houdini] Added support for rendering and instancing delayed loaded OpenVDB files from SOP Packed Disk primitives
• [Houdini] Added support for automatic instancing the same Packed Alembic primitives with different transforms using the RS Alembic Procedural
• [Houdini] Added support for surface only full scene materials overriding without affecting the bump or displacement inputs
• [Houdini] Added support for the REDSHIFT_FORCEQUITONINTERNALERROR env. variable
• [Houdini] Improved MPlay and status line scene extraction and rendering messages
• [Houdini] Improved RS Alembic procedural Packed Alembics rendering by using the "abcframe" intrisic to handle the asset time ("time" and "fps" primitive attributes are no longer supported)
• [Houdini] Improved sequence rendering scene update options, which include a new "Time Dependent Nodes Reload" automatic assets reloading mode
• [Houdini] Improved error catching code to try to reduce the Houdini crashes after any Redshift render-time critical issue
• [Houdini] Fixed bug that could cause false permission denied errors from RS lights on H20.0
• [Houdini] Fixed bug that could affect the motion blur options in Still or Movie modes if set from the ROP node
• [Houdini] Fixed bug that could affect the IPR materials updates after any VOPs rewiring event
• [Houdini] Fixed bug that could affect the hair primitives UV maps of the Redshift Proxy objects exported from Houdini
• [Hydra] Added support for Solaris 20.0.590 and dropped support for 19.5.773
• [Hydra] Added full support of the Aspect Ratio Conform Policy feature
• [Hydra] Added support for nested instancing
• [Hydra] Added support for multiple materials overrides on RS Proxy objects from the "redshift:object:proxy_materials_override" primvar which should include pairs of proxy/scene override materials
• [Hydra] Added support for displaying the RS render status messages directly in the Solaris viewport
• [Hydra] Added support for the REDSHIFT_FORCEQUITONINTERNALERROR env. variable
• [Hydra] Improved performance and resources usage by excluding from the RS scene the geometry that is invisible in the usd stage
• [Hydra] Improved error catching code to try to reduce the host application crashes after any Redshift render-time critical issue
• [Hydra] Fixed bug in the Redshift LOP ocio view parameter menu list
• [Hydra] Fixed bug that breaks the "Affected By Refraction" light param
• [Hydra] Fixed bug that breaks the EXR compression settings in the H20.0 Redshift LOP
• [Hydra] Fixed the order of the rendervars in the Redshift LOP to have "rgba" always first in the list
• [Hydra] Fixed bug that could cause the rendering of Z-flipped RS Proxy primitives in the instancers
• [Hydra] Fixed default enabled state of the "Smooth UV Boundaries" tessellation parameter
• [Hydra] Fixed bug in the Scene Import LOP scripts affecting the RS cameras drop-down parameters
• [Blender] Added support for the new RS EZ render settings.
• [Metal] Fixed long-standing bug that could cause dark render blocks when ICP GI is enabled
• [RT] Fixed multiple sampling bugs
• [RT] Improved firefly rejection
• [RT] Fixed a crash with Asynchronous Asset Streaming (previously known as IPR Preview Rendering)
• [All] Fixed long-standing bug which would cause nested point cloud proxies to render the instanced proxy template by mistake
• [All] Fixed a bug in MaxonNoise shader which led to inconsistent scaling in different Redshift versions when used with TriPlanar node; MaxonNoise shader only uses TriPlanar coordinates when set to UV space
• [All] Fixed a bug where the bumpmap shader would produce different results on different devices
• [All] Fixed a bug where the ramp shader with step interpolation still created a gradient at color edges
• [All] Fixed a bug where the scalar ramp shader does not propagate bump sampling info for nodes connected to the Alt Input
• [Alembic Procedural] Added support for cryptomatte node name IDs from the abc object path name
• [Alembic Procedural] Fixed bug that could affect the alembic assets xforms motion blur

3.5.23 (2023.01)

Release Notes

• [C4D] Fixed bug where certain sequences of scene edits could lead to a crash primarily during IPR
• [C4D] Fixed regression in the 2024 plugin that prevented assets in node materials from working
• [Maya] Fixed bug that prevented the RS MatteShadow node from connecting to other shaders during scene translation
• [Houdini] Added support for Houdini 20.0.547 and dropped support for 19.5.752
• [Houdini] Improved stability after fixing several issues in the Viewport and RenderView IPR rendering code
• [Houdini] Fixed bug that could cause a crash on exit from the RenderView on H20.0
• [Hydra] Added support for Solaris 20.0.547 and dropped support for 19.5.752
• [Blender] Fixed a Blender limitation trying to open the latest .log file.
• [Blender] Added support for the new RS Ramp node inputs

3.5.22 (2023.12)

Release Notes

• [C4D] Improved the scene extraction and material update performance.
• [C4D] Fixed bug where a material with procedural projections did not render correctly with RT
• [C4D] Fixed bug where changing Post-Effect parameters in the native RS Camera would trigger IPR refreshes
• [C4D] Fixed bug where changing the viewport used during Viewport IPR, would lead to inconsistent Post-Effect settings being applied
• [C4D] Fixed bug where the Viewport IPR would refresh constantly in certain scenes with procedural splines, tracers, or the symmetry object
• [Max] Fixed bug in 3ds Max Color Correction shader that produced incorrect saturation adjustments
• [Max] Added new render option: System > Legacy > 3ds Max Color Correction Saturation Behavior
• [Max] Added support for RS Color Correct shader
• [Houdini] Added support for Houdini 19.5.773 and 20.0.506 and dropped support for 17.5.460 and 19.5.682
• [Houdini] Added support for UV maps with two components only
• [Houdini] Addressed the IPR updating of the default headlight position after any camera transformation
• [Houdini] Fixed bug that could cause a cameras flickering problem in the RenderView while working in the "Any Camera Viewport" update mode
• [Houdini] Fixed bug that could cause Warning messages while instancing OpenVDB files using the instancefile workflow
• [Houdini] Improved IPR fps performance when the "Export View Continuously" option is enabled
• [Houdini] Improved GUI and IPR performance in the HDA and subnets exposed material parameters
• [Houdini] Improved Viewport IPR GUI
• [Hydra] Added support for Solaris 19.5.773 and 20.0.506 and dropped support for 19.5.682
• [Hydra] Trace depth options exposed in the Solaris viewport settings
• [Hydra] Addressed the missing options in the AOVs secondary ray visibility parameter
• [Hydra] Addressed a problem with several render settings, like BlockSize or SubsurfaceScatteringRate
• [Hydra] Addressed a problem in the Solaris Edit Material LOP while importing RS OSL nodes
• [Hydra] Fixed bug that could cause a problem in the instances velocity motion blur if multiple prototypes are selected
• [Hydra] Fixed bug that could cause a problem with the "Affected By Refraction" light param default value
• [Hydra] Fixed bug that could cause black viewport render in Solaris 20.0
• [Hydra] Fixed bug in the Solaris 20.0 default light intensity
• [USD Procedural] Added support for USD 23.08
• [Katana] Added support for Katana 7.0v1 and dropped support for Katana 4.0
• [Katana] Added support for instance arrays pointing to "instance" type locations
• [Katana] Added support for "usd point instancer" locations
• [Katana] Fixed bug that could cause a problem with the RT renderer in live mode
• [HIP] Fixed a bug where the curvature node would produce incorrect results on HIP devices
• [HIP] Fixed a bug where subsurface scattering would produce incorrect brightness on HIP devices
• [CPU] Fixed a bug causing mouse lag using multiple instances of Maya
• [CPU] Fixed a bug where Cinema 4D UI was blocking when running Maya 2024
• [CPU] Fixed a bug causing 100% CPU usage on the main thread
• [RT] Added DLSS and exposed several performance options
• [RT] Added preview rendering, decreases RT startup time by rendering with simpler materials while shaders are compiled
• [RT] Added texture compression and streaming, allowing RT to render VRAM heavy scenes
• [All] Fixed a bug that would cause a horizontal artefact in volumes when volume trace depth is greater than 1
• [All] Fixed a bug that would cause banding in refraction with a ramp on refraction color
• [All] Fixed a bug where using hardware accelerated ray-tracing caused different tessellation results when using camera space rendering
• [All] Fixed a recently introduced material pre-processing inefficiency, which would hamper scenes with many like materials
• [All] Fixed a bug where sphere meshes with a diffuse material would show artifacts when used in combination with area lights
• [All] Fixed a bug where using brick shader caused artefacts in Irradiance Cache mode

 

3.5.21 (2023.10)

Release Notes

• [C4D] Fixed bug introduced in 3.5.20 that could cause the "Something has gone wrong with shader ref counting!" rendering scenes with Tri-Planar nodes
• [Max] Render View and Feedback Display are automatically disabled when 3ds Max runs in Network Render Server mode
• [Max] Fixed issue where camera exported in a Redshift Proxy had incorrect color management settings
• [Max] Fixed issue where Physical Sky shader does not update sun position during IPR
• [Max] Fixed issue where Light Group names were not collected from XRef objects
• [Max] Fixed issue where Export Connectivity Data setting was silently enabled during proxy export, resulting in large files
• [Houdini] Added support for Houdini 19.5.773 and dropped support for 19.5.682
• [Hydra] Added support for Solaris 19.5.773 and dropped support for 19.5.682
• [macOS/Metal] Fixed parameter binding issue that could result in frame corruption/dark buckets/undefined behavior
• [macOS/Metal] Fixed a bug with async kernel compilation that could result in frame corruption
• [CPU] Fixed a bug that could cause excessive CPU usage for 1 specific core and result in sluggish behavior in other CPU

3.5.20 (2023.10)

Release Notes

• [Maya] Fixed broken RS render globals on Maya 2024/macOS for NON Apple Silicon hardware
• [C4D] Added viewport preview support for MatCap scale, rotate and coordinate space parameters
• [C4D] Addressed issue on Linux where the plugin would expect the core's shared libraries to be in /usr/redshift/bin now various relative paths will be searched first
• [C4D] Addressed issue where assigning an noise an RSVolume material to an environment object would lead to a fatal assertion in the core
• [C4D] Addressed issue where some Nodes material presets did not have a start/default node set up
• [C4D] Addressed an issue leading to an IPR refresh/loop
• [C4D] Addressed an assertion issue when emitters were added to a cloner in Render-Instance or Multi-Instance mode
• [C4D] Addressed a rare crash when rendering previews for materials with a specific configuration of the TriPlanar node
• [C4D] Addressed issue where certain light types with inverted scaling would produce rendering artifacts
• [C4D] Addressed issue which lead to ShaderGraph ports having duplicate names
• [Houdini] Added support for Houdini 19.5.752 and dropped support for 19.5.640
• [Houdini] Addressed the packed geo instancing rotation motion blur from the "w" attribute
• [Houdini] Addressed the native Houdini environment light texture rotation to match mantra/viewports
• [Houdini] Fixed an IPR crash while editing materials in scenes with native Houdini environment lights
• [Houdini] Fixed a minor issue in RenderView that prevented the current camera view from updating when camera lock was enabled
• [Houdini] Fixed a rare IPR crash while updating the camera view in the viewport
• [Houdini] Improved events filtering to try to prevent a rare crash due to the Houdini events queue saturation
• [Hydra] Added support for Solaris 19.5.752 and dropped support for 19.5.640
• [Hydra] Added support for the acceleration attribute while rendering motion blur from velocities
• [Hydra] Added support for angular velocity motion blur in the instances from the Houdini "w" attribute if imported as "primvar:w"
• [Hydra] Fixed a crash while rendering imported scenes with deformations motion blur
• [Hydra] Fixed a crash while rendering scenes with multiple RS proxy assets
• [Blender] Fixed issue when using latest version of Blender 3.3.11 LTS due to incorrect range comparison
• [Blender] Fix issue updating object visibility flags on IPR mode
• [All] Fixed bug where device ordinals were not correctly parsed
• [RT] Improved pixel based displacement mapping performance for high density meshes and close ups
• [RT] Fixed block artefacts for pixel based displacement mapping
• [RT] Fixed a bug with light selection probabilities, which makes RT converge faster and also increases the quality of the converged result.
• [RT] Added support for undersampling for RT
• [All] Fixed old bug that could cause unpredictable behavior when using ray switch nodes
• [All] Fixed issue that could result in a crash when using invalid light materials
• [All] Fixed bug when using Maxon Noise shader for bump-mapping, with texture/procedural nodes connected to its coordinate scales input
• [All] Fixed bug where EXR dwaa compression had no effect
• [All] Warn when users attempt invalid node connections from surface shaders

3.5.18 (2023.09)

Release Notes

• [Maya] Fixed support for Maya 2024/macOS on Apple Silicon hardware
• [Max] Added support for global optical camera parameters
• [Max] Fixed incorrect tone mapping defaults in optical camera parameters
• [C4D] Added localization for Japanese and Simplified Chinese (in all supported versions of C4D)
• [C4D] Fixed bug that would cause procedural projections to get lost after rendering shaderballs
• [C4D] Added experimental support for automatically converting cloners with instances/multi-instances of meshes or proxies to point-clouds, improving performance and interactivity for scenes with a large number of clones
• [C4D] Changed the default export units; new scenes will now default to centimeters and the Legacy Units option will be disabled
• [C4D] Addressed issue that prevented the batch conversion of C4D Standard materials to Redshift materials
• [C4D] Addressed issue where switching between Basic and Advanced render options would trigger an IPR restart
• [C4D] Addressed issue where a camera-map procedural projection would produce incorrect results if the linked camera had a film offset
• [C4D] Addressed a crash when extracting Pyro volumes with a very large number of voxels
• [C4D] Addressed a rare deadlock when opening a scene with proxies with their geometry previews enabled
• [Houdini] Added support for Houdini 19.5.682 and dropped support for 19.5.569
• [Houdini] Added support for the resolution override options while batch rendering using hrender.py
• [Houdini] Added support for rendering Packed Alembic primitives as Redshift Alembic procedurals
• [Houdini] New option in the RS ROP node to configure the Alembic procedural working mode (Alembic SOP or Packed Alembics)
• [Houdini] Support of the "time" and "fps" primitive attributes to configure the RS Alembic procedural time and fps parameteres
• [Houdini] Addressed the default light position updating in scenes with animated cameras
• [Houdini] Fixed a problem in the RenderView color picker
• [Hydra] Added support for Solaris 19.5.682 and dropped support for 19.5.569
• [Hydra] Added support for assets picking in the Solaris viewport
• [Hydra] Added support for color temperature as a multiplier to the textured lights
• [Hydra] Added new params to the RS SunSky light to override some of the sky environment settings
• [Hydra] Addressed the default value of the optical camera saturation parameter
• [Hydra] Fixed several issues in the Scene Import LOP scripts affecting the RS lights
• [Hydra] Fixed a problem in the camera map node while using a projection camera
• [Katana] Added support for light instancing using instance sources or instance arrays
• [Katana] New option in the RedshiftObjectSettings node to configure the light instances shader type
• [Katana] Added support for lights instancing "light_color", "light_temperature" and "light_intensity" arbitrary attributes
• [Blender] Fixed RS Ramp node update changes issue in IPR mode
• [Blender] Added support for User Data Attributes
• [Blender] Added basic support for Jitter node (only 'ObjectID' mode is working for now)
• [Alembic Procedural] Fixed a crash if the abc file is not ready for reading
• [Alembic Procedural] Added support for the replacement of the alembic assets local transformations
• [All] Added system requirement for CPU with AVX2 support
• [All] Updated version of Intel Embree to 4.1.0
• [All] Added support for nested projection nodes; existing scenes can look different if multiple projection nodes were used in the same material
• [All] Distorter shader: Added support for world and object space distortion; existing scenes can look different, if distorter input was in world or object space
• [All] Extended MatCap shader with scale, rotation and coordinate space parameters
• [All] Fixed bug introduced in version 3.5.16 that would prevent proxies from being compatible between Linux/MacOS and Windows platforms
• [All] Fixed brick shader not using the alternative color on Vega GPUs
• [All] Fixed OSL bug that could cause a compile error when using the trace() function
• [All] Fixed old bug that could cause instanced point cloud sphere primitives to have incorrect normals

3.5.17 (2023.07)

Release Notes

• [Maya] Added support for Maya 2024 (macOS and Linux)
• [Max] Fixed incorrect focal length calculation that broke Bokeh depth-of-field in Optical camera mode
• [Max] Fixed issue where upgrading scene to Optical camera mode does not apply exposure compensation
• [Max] Fixed issue where upgrading scene to Optical camera mode converts global Bokeh and Lens Distortion instead of overrides
• [Max] Fixed issue where Post FX configuration could be overwritten from the wrong source when creating or adjusting camera modifiers
• [Max] Fixed issue where global backplate is reset when rendering
• [Max] Fixed issue where switching between OSL shaders in the material editor did not update the UI and/or crashed 3ds Max
• [Max] Fixed issue where vertex-based deformation blur was not applied to a non-animated mesh
• [Max] Fixed issue where stale Post FX configuration could be pushed to Render View during IPR update
• [C4D] Added experimental support for multi-threaded expansion for cloners
• [C4D] Addressed a few issues leading to reduced interactivity when procedural projections were used
• [C4D] Addressed an assertion error when linking an environment shader to a portal light
• [C4D] Addressed a rare crash during C4D shutdown
• [C4D] Addressed an issue in material previews leading to node disconnections to render as if the connections were still active
• [C4D] Changed the batch conversion of C4D materials which now creates to create graphs based on RSStandard instead of RSMaterial
• [Houdini] Added support for the "width" point attribute to configure the RS Strands, along with "pscale" and "strand_scale"
• [Houdini] Added the "Redshift_RVCopyRenderRegion" hscript command to copy the RV render region to the current camera crop parameters
• [Houdini] Add new "Improved Merge-based Export Workflow" option to the RS Proxy Export SOP that can help while exporting nested subnet nodes
• [Houdini] Fixed the LUT parameters in the RS PostFX COP node
• [Houdini] Fixed a bug in the procedurals instancing code
• [Houdini] Fixed a crash while rendering curves with no points
• [Houdini] Fixed a problem in the VOP node params GUI when linked to another node
• [Houdini] Fixed a problem in the portal lights transparency parameter
• [Houdini] Fixed a crash while rendering scenes with not valid crop values in the camera node
• [Houdini] Fixed a rounding issue in the rendering region calculation that resulted in a missing border pixel line
• [Houdini] Minor update in the RS Material Builder to remove the KineFX tab
• [Hydra] Added support for ngons tessellation and displacement
• [Hydra] Added the missing transparency parameter to the portal lights
• [Hydra] Addressed the support of the asset resolvers in the string user attributes holding asset paths
• [Hydra] Fixed the lack of custom AOVs default shaders using the new "Used as Hydra Custom AOV Default Shader" param to the USD material builder and output VOP nodes
• [Hydra] Fixed a problem with the displacement autobump parameter
• [Hydra] Fixed a problem with the ngons normals computation when they are not available
• [Hydra] Fixed an issue in the Linux builds that affected some Linux distributions
• [Hydra] Fixed a viewport rendering problem while updating some shader nodes connections
• [Hydra] Fixed a crash while rendering deep files from the Redshift LOP
• [Hydra] NGons triangulation code updated to support polygons up to 16k vertices
• [Hydra] Minor update in the RS Proxy and USDProc LOPs to fix the primpath for guide component
• [Katana] Added support for ngons tessellation and displacement
• [Katana] Fixed a bug in the Sun Lights introduced in RS 3.5.15
• [Katana] Fixed a problem in the portal lights transparency parameter
• [Katana] Fixed a live rendering problem while updating some shader nodes connections
• [Blender] Fixed issue that occurred when the name of the linked Light for the Physical Sky and the name of the object's container did not match
• [Blender] Allow the user to set values "‹"‹greater than 1 for Light & Ray Contribution & Scales
• [Blender] Fixed Blender scene unit scale values, applied to 'Spherical Aberration' for the camera DoF parameters
• [Blender] Fixed issue updating Environment image changes in IPR mode
• [USD Procedural] Fixed a problem with the displacement autobump effect
• [USD and Alembic Procedurals] Fixed a crash while rendering proxy objects that include the procedural with different motion blur settings
• [USD and Alembic Procedurals] Added support for the procedural instancing stored inside proxy objects or scenes
• [USD and Alembic Procedurals] Fixed several problems while rendering proxy scenes including the procedural
• [RenderView] Support logarithmic sliders for f-stop and shutter time ratio
• [RenderView] Improved display of values in edit boxes associated with slider controls
• [RenderView] Fixed issue where editing Post FX can result in value-snapping of unrelated float parameters, causing unintentional edits in the scene
• [RenderView] Fixed issue where slider handles do not track correctly with the mouse pointer when dragging
• [RenderView] Fixed issue where sliders with expanding ranges never contract again
• [RT] Fixed a memory corruption error which would lead to strong visual artifacts and freezes
• [RT] Significantly improved SSS convergence speed
• [All] Added new Jitter shader node to all supported DCC host applications except Blender
• [All] Added new MatCap shader node to all supported DCC host applications
• [All] Fixed VRAM memory leak issue that could happen with scene loads when hardware acceelerated ray tracing was enabled
• [All] Fixed SSS count assert bug introduced in 3.5.16 that could occur under certain combinations of point-based GI and point-based SSS and ray-traced SSS
• [All] Fixed matte-shadow corruption bug introduced in 3.5.16 that could occur when point-based GI is enabled
• [All] Fixed bug that could cause a crash after disconnected RSUserData shader nodes from a material

3.5.16 (2023.06)

Release Notes

• [Max] Redshift Camera Attributes modifier now supports camera effects and backplate
• [Max] Redshift globals in Environment & Effects provides scene upgrade utility for converting to new camera options
• [Max] Reduced bogus IPR restarts when modifying camera settings
• [Max] Deprecated Redshift Bokeh and Redshift Lens Distortion global effects
• [Max] Deprecated Redshift Camera Effects modifier
• [Max] Fixed a bug in 3ds Max 2024 plugin where alpha channel cannot be edited in Redshift Color Picker
• [Max] Fixed unwanted material name prefixes when exporting proxies
• [Max] Fixed issue selecting rectangular/disc area lights in viewport when clicking on the directional indicator
• [Maya] Added support for Maya 2024 (Windows only, macOS and Linux will follow in 3.5.17)
• [Maya] Allow Fisheye FOV beyond 180deg (up to 360deg)
• [C4D] Addressed an issue leading to fatal assertion/crash when rendering material previews under certain conditions
• [C4D] Addressed an issue leading to reduced interactivty in IPR when procedural projections were used
• [C4D] Addressed a rare crash when closing a scene while viewport previews were being prepared
• [C4D] Addressed an issue leading to certain MoGraph objects triggering unnecessary IPR refreshes
• [C4D] Addressed an issue leading to slow extraction when a cloner is used in the in/exclusion list of an RSLight
• [C4D] Improved the material preview scheduling which now gives IPR more time to start rendering before servicing previews
• [C4D] Added material preset for Principled Hair
• [Houdini] Added support for Houdini 19.5.640 and dropped support for 19.5.534
• [Houdini] Added support for the regular Houdini pattern syntax to the RS Proxies exclussion lists
• [Houdini] Added support for op: and opdef: textures in the background image parameter
• [Houdini] Added new option to disable the Redshift Procedurals to the OBJ nodes RS parameters
• [Houdini] New console warning message if the Houdini and plugin versions don't match
• [Houdini] Exposed some missing utility nodes inside the Redshift USD MaterialBuilder tab menu
• [Houdini] IPR pre and post render/frame scripts enabled by default
• [Houdini] Camera color correction curves data params exposed to allow edit or copy/paste the values
• [Houdini] Addressed the IPR update of the custom light shaders if they are not inside subnets
• [Houdini] Addressed the Redshift VOP nodes input lists to show the pretty and internal input names
• [Houdini] Fixed a problem with the Alembic procedural time offsets
• [Houdini] Fixed an RenderView crash while rendering scenes that include old camera nodes without the new backplate parameters
• [Houdini] Fixed a rare problem with the DOF in the RenderView while updating some other parameters
• [Houdini] Fixed a problem with the first frame motion blur while rendering packed geo instances
• [Hydra] Added support for Solaris 19.5.640 and dropped support for 19.5.534
• [Hydra] Added new Redshift RenderVars LOP node
• [Hydra] Added support to display the cryptomatte colors on the Solaris Viewport
• [Hydra] Added a new "Particles" tab to the RS render geometry settings, which includes options to control the scale of particles
• [Hydra] Added new option to the Redshift and RenderVars LOPs to configure the bits per channel of the main beauty AOV
• [Hydra] Added support of op: and opdef: references in the texture params of the area and dome lights nodes
• [Hydra] Improved support for opdef: referenced assets for husk batch rendering
• [Hydra] Updeted viewport render options to include the buckets sampling and the enable volume scattering options
• [Hydra] Fixed a problem in the Linux builds introduced in the previous version
• [Hydra] Fixed several issues in the Scene Import LOP scripts related to the new optical camera params
• [Hydra] Fixed a crash while rendering render maps including multiple objects
• [Blender] Fixed issue with Physical Sky linked Sunlight
• [Blender] Added support for Deformation Blur
• [Alembic Procedural] Fixed a crash while rendering objects with less deformation samples than the scene motion blur steps
• [Alembic Procedural] Fixed a problem with the displacement auto bumpmap
• [Alembic Procedural] Added support for tangents based shading effects
• [RT] Improved temporal convergence, resulting in less noise on camera movement
• [RT] Fixed a bug that could cause ghosting on large camera movements
• [RT] Fixed a bug that could cause slow convergence on camera movement
• [RT] Fixed a bug where the denoiser would blur too much after a projection change
• [RT] Antialiasing is sharper and very close to production in terms of quality
• [RT] Antialiasing responds to the user values in RenderSettings/Sampling/Filter
• [All] Ramp shaders that request UV inputs to drive the ramp will now automatically get uv attributes assigned to them
• [All] Improved random walk SSS precision for objects that are far away from the origin
• [All] Fixed bug where switching hardware accelerated ray tracing on or off could sometimes not properly tessellate meshes
• [All] Disabling VRAM workaround introduced in 3.5.15 for systems that have NVLink over SLI (and not TCC) enabled as the workaround doesn't work well with SLI
• [All] Fixed a bug in RedshiftCmdLine which prevented AOVs from being denoised when OIDN was used
• [All] Fixed bug where REDSHIFT_GPUDEVICES was not working properly
• [All] Fixed bug that would cause portal lights to break when the new backplate feature is enabled
• [All] Fixed bug that broke Altus dual-pass on 3.5.15

3.5.15 (2023.05)

Release Notes

• [Maya] Added support for RS Flakes and RS Pavement shaders
• [Max] Added support for 3ds Max 2024
• [Max] Dropped support for 3ds Max 2015, 2016 and 2017
• [Max] Fixed a bug where sun light update could cause a crash with sky model
• [C4D] Improved performance and interactivity of material previews in Nodes
• [C4D] Improved memory usage and processing overhead in scenes with large number of instances
• [C4D] Addressed an issue where procedural projections, under certain conditions, would produce blank or incorrect output when animated or when deformation blur is used
• [C4D] Addressed an issue where textures referenced directly as assets would be missing in renders over TeamRender
• [C4D] Addressed an issue in the "Fast" resampling mode for curves
• [C4D] Added native Distorter shader; Cinema 4D legacy Distorter shader is auto-translated to native shader
• [Houdini] Added support for Houdini 19.5.569 and dropped support for 19.5.435
• [Houdini] RenderView camera refresh mode set to "Current ROP camera" by default
• [Houdini] Added support for the "Debug" flag to the VOP subnets
• [Houdini] Added new option to the RS ROP node to configure the Houdini networks to be extracted, by default "obj", "out" and "tasks"
• [Houdini] Added support for the "accel" attribute to the mesh and hair objects to render velocity based curved motion blur
• [Houdini] New asynchronous IPR camera events system for improved smooth camera IPR updates
• [Houdini] Added support for per-camera background/backplate settings, which replace the dome lights backplate options. Existing scenes will continue to work as before using the hidden legacy params
• [Houdini] Material ID parameter exposed in the USD Material Builder HDA
• [Houdini] Improved support for the IPR updates of the visibility, matte and traceset options in the particle objects
• [Houdini] Improved IPR transformations events system to prevent unnecessary updates, especially useful while working in "on mouse up" mode
• [Houdini] Fixed a problem in the RenderView optical parameters updates
• [Houdini] Fixed a crash on exit while working with the viewport IPR
• [Houdini] Fixed a problem with the proxy instances and instancefiles and the tracesets feature
• [Houdini] Addressed a problem with unwanted events in the undo history while rendering packed geo instances
• [Houdini] Fixed a problem with the Feedback Display system top menubar on MacOS
• [Katana] Added support for camera background/backplate render settings, which replace the dome lights backplate workflow. Existing scenes will continue to work as before using the dome lights legacy params
• [Hydra] Added support for Solaris 19.5.569 and dropped support for 19.5.435
• [Hydra] Added support for per-camera background/backplate settings, which replace the dome lights backplate options; existing scenes will continue to work as before using the legacy params
• [Hydra] Added support for the viewport orthogonal views rendering
• [Hydra] Added support for HdInterpolationUniform normals. Fixed a crash while rendering scenes including primitive level normals
• [Hydra] Added support for exporting sequences of proxy scenes from a single process
• [Hydra] Addressed the area lights visible flag disabled default
• [Hydra] Addressed the lack of the LUTs in the viewport rendering
• [Hydra] Addressed the creation of the intermediate directories while exporting proxy scene files
• [Hydra] "Use CPU Memory" parameter exposed in the Solaris display options to deal with the NVidia drivers bug when there is no render settings node
• [Hydra] Fixed the Bits per Channel option in the Redshift LOP
• [Hydra] Instantaneous Shutter render option exposed in the Redshift LOP
• [Hydra] Primitive paths parameter exposed in the Redshift Proxy, USD and Alembic LOPs
• [Hydra] Fixed the visualization of the lines/points of the Redshift proxies in the Solaris OpenGL viewport
• [Hydra] Fixed a problem with the curves and strands width attribute while rendering objects with non constant topology
• [Hydra] Fixed several issues in the Camera LOP new optical parameters
• [Hydra] Fixed an IPR crash related to changing the state of the motion blur options, like the Solaris "Disable Camera Effects" option
• [Hydra] Fixed a crash while denoising AOVs using OIDN
• [Hydra] Fixed the issues in the Redshift LOP that were making it time-dependent
• [Hydra] Fixed a problem in the Redshift LOP with the cryptomatte and deep AOVs file names while exporting proxy scenes
• [Hydra] Fixed a problem in the RS native EXR export functions while rendering sequences
• [Hydra] Fixed a problem with the new optical camera parameters in the object-based DOF distance mode
• [Blender] Fixed a bug in the image sequence code caused by an incorrect function call name
• [Blender] Added support for the new Redshift Optical Camera
• [Blender] Added support for the new Camera Background
• [Blender] Added support for PostFX effects
• [Blender] Added support for the new Flakes and Pavement shaders
• [Blender] Added a patch to allow the use of the recently released Blender 3.5.0
• [Blender] Removed support for Blender 2.83 LTS because it is now declared EOL; the minimum supported version is now 2.93.0 LTS
• [Blender] Added a scene version control feature. Any scene saved with a version older than 3.5.15 is now set to 'old'
• [Blender] Fixed bug in IPR mode when the object uses a texture with image sequence assigned and the image file is not updated when the scene frame is changed
• [RenderView] Fixed issue where the Bokeh Image Normalization mode was not synced correctly to the DCC
• [RenderView] Fixed crash issue when loading post-effect settings from a snapshot
• [USD Procedural] Fixed a problem in the instances transformations from the parent object
• [RT] Improved firefly handling
• [RT] Fixed a bug where illumination could be wrong, because the normal was wrong
• [RT] Fixed an instability bug, where the renderer would not converge
• [RT] Fixed a ghosting bug
• [RT] Fixed RT potentially crashing after installing a newer or an older version of Redshift due to the shader cache
• [RT] Fixed a rare bug where the denoiser could introduce color bleeding
• [RT] Antialiasing is now variance based, it is applied only where the renderer does not converge
• [RT] Fixed a bug that could cause outlines on objects
• [RT] Fixed a color bleeding bug
• [RT] Denoiser improvements for camera movements
• [RT] Denoiser : fixed a bug where moving the camera could produce ghosting
• [RT] Denoiser : fixed a bug where edges were not converging
• [RT] Added support for "Mixed Rendering" in the Cinema4D and Houdini viewports
• [RT] Added support for "Pre-Composite" and "Post-Composite" background render modes
• [RT] Improve texture caching
• [RT] Fix a crash, when deleting all materials
• [HIP] HIP support (Beta) now included in public release builds
• [All] Added lopping support to the Maxon Noise shader
• [All] Clamped the "Horizon Height" parameter in Sky shader where it causes a bug
• [All] Added an option to Sky and Sun shaders to apply saturation after color adjustments
• [All] Added Pavement and Flakes shaders to all supported DCC host applications
• [All] Fixed bug that could cause a crash when scenes contain point clouds of proxies
• [All] Fixed bug that created circular artefact in volumes when area light spread is lower than 1

3.5.14 (2023.03)

Release Notes

• [Max] Fixed issue that can crash 3ds Max when rendering shaderballs with a no active Redshift license
• [Max] Fixed issues that caused difficulty selecting Redshift lights in the viewport
• [Max] Fixed bounding boxes for Redshift lights, to improve Viewport "Orbit Selected" tool
• [Max] Fixed issue that caused duplicate Maps UI rollouts to appear in some materials/maps
• [Max] Directional light no longer shows light "cone" in viewport
• [C4D] Added support for per-camera and global background/backplate settings including new options to apply the backplate in-render or during post-effects.
• [C4D] Added a command to the RS Dome Light to allow the transfer of legacy backplate settings to the active camera or the global post-effects
• [C4D] Added Flakes shader
• [Houdini] Added support for Houdini 19.5.534 and dropped support for 19.5.403
• [Houdini] Added support for Houdini 19.5.534 Apple Silicon
• [Houdini] Added support for the new Redshift Optical Camera, which replaces the old Camera nodes; Existing scenes will continue to work as before as the old camera nodes won't be updated
• [Houdini] Added the <rop> tag to the RenderView render info format
• [Houdini] OCIO color correction options exposed in the Redshift Proxy Output SOP to let the proxy objects match the master scene workflow
• [Houdini] Fixed a bug introduced in RS 3.5.12 related to the instancefile and packed proxies light mesh associations
• [Houdini] Fixed a problem in the camera node OCIO views parameter when processing views that include special characters
• [Houdini] Fixed the time dependency of the "Redshift Packed Proxy" SOP node, a side effect of a RS 3.5.13 bug fix
• [Katana] Added support for the new Redshift Optical Camera parameters; Existing scenes will continue to work as before enabling the "Use Legacy Camera Params" param
• [Hydra] Added support for Solaris 19.5.534 and dropped support for 19.5.403
• [Hydra] Added support for Solaris 19.5.534 Apple Silicon
• [Hydra] Added support for the new Redshift Optical Camera parameters; Existing scenes will continue to work as before as the old Redshift camera parameters won't be updated
• [Hydra] Fixed a problem with the visibility primvars in the point instancers
• [Hydra] Fixed a problem with the "Show Samples" and "Random Noise Pattern" params in the Redshift LOP
• [Hydra] Fixed a crash related to objects with non-constant normals count inside the frame time samples
• [Hydra] Fixed several issues with the camera parameters in the viewport rendering camera navigation
• [Hydra] Fixed a problem in the denoisers internal AOVs, related to flickering in the sequences or crashes in OIDN
• [Hydra] Fixed a crash on exit in the MacOS plugin builds
• [Hydra] Fixed the "Per AOV Multilayered EXR File" mode in the Redshift LOP
• [Hydra] Fixed the Redshift LOP primitive path promotion
• [Hydra] Fixed the default enable state of the Hardware Ray-Tracing option in the Redshift LOP
• [Hydra] Fixed the Redshift LOP to show the "Basic" render settings mode by default and added the Redshift logo to the LOP
• [Hydra] Delegate restart options promoted to the Redshift LOP GUI
• [Hydra] EXR metadata options removed from the Redshift LOP; this feature is only supported using the standard Solaris metadata workflow
• [Blender] Added support for Clear Sky
• [Blender] Added support for RS Tiles and RS Brick utility shaders
• [Blender] Fix a bug that resets OSL node values "‹"‹to default when opening a saved scene containing OSL nodes
• [RenderView] Fixed issue where the shutter angle parameter in optical mode was behaving incorrectly
• [All] Material shaders now clamp negative values in progressive as well as bucket mode
• [All] Added support for new sky model "PRG Clear Sky"
• [RT] Fixed a bug where reprojection created line-like artifacts
• [RT] Fixed a bug that could cause transmission to break object shading
• [RT] Denoiser : fixed a bug where hot pixels would light leak at the edges of the screen
• [RT] Denoiser : fixed a bug where the denoiser would introduce hard aliased edges
• [RT] Denoiser : fixed a bug where the variance was incorrect
• [RT] Denoiser : fixed a bug where indirect shadows were getting inpainted
• [RT] Denoiser speed and quality improvements
• [RT] Temporal reprojection is smoother and less error prone.
• [RT] Temporal reprojection : fix a bug where hot pixels propagate to large parts of the viewport
• [RT] Bugfix for dark edges around objects
• [RT] Better handling of hot pixels
• [RT] Fixed bug that could cause a crash when rendering scenes with projected UVs
• [CPU] CPU devices are identified with the correct CPU name

3.5.09 (2022.10)

Release Notes

• [Maya] RedshiftSprite image sequence options are display in the Attribute Editor
• [Maya] Precise subframe deformation blur is now supported for XGen
• [Maya] The postRenderMel command is now also called when a render is cancelled/aborted
• [Maya] Stricter checking of Maya connections is being performed so some older scenes may render with warnings
• [Maya] Fixed issue where interactively deleting or creating a texture reference object for a mesh wasn't updating in the render
• [Max] Render View now honors pixel aspect
• [Max] Fixed issue where Export Connectivity Data setting was ignored by proxy exporter
• [C4D] Addressed an issue in C4D 2023 where renders with the Color Control post-effects enabled, would produce different results in the PictureViewer compared to the RenderView
• [C4D] Addressed an issue where some materials stacks would be treated as invalid if only some materials provided a displacement output
• [C4D] Addressed an issue when using Redshift's OCIO color management where some renders with Team-Render started from the RenderQueue would produce inconsistent colors in 8-bit Multi-Pass images
• [C4D] Addressed an issue where the HairPosition shader would always output a grayscale value irrespective OutputU/V/W parameters; the fix includes a minor scene upgrade to preserve the original look in renders
• [Houdini] Added support for Houdini 19.0.720 and 19.5.368 and dropped support for 19.0.589
• [Houdini] New RenderView "Redshift_RVRefresh" and "Redshift_RVBucketRendering" hscript commands
• [Houdini] Procedurals code updated to export the materials inside the proxy scenes
• [Houdini] Added support for material overrides to the user procedurals
• [Houdini] Fixed a problem with the motion blur in the animated instancers
• [Houdini] Fixed an IPR crash while working with materials overrides and packed geo instancing
• [Houdini] Fixed a limitation when exporting proxy files inside nested OBJ/TOP nodes
• [Katana] Fixed a shutter sync issue between transformations and deformations while rendering the motion vectors AOV
• [Katana] Fixed the rendering of the motion blur from the velocity attribute in the sphere particles point clouds
• [Katana] Added support for material overrides to the user procedurals
• [Katana] New set of options in the RedshiftObjectSettings node to configure several object-level motion blur options
• [Hydra] Added support for Solaris 19.0.720 and 19.5.368 and dropped Solaris for 19.0.589
• [Hydra] Redshift LOP updated to include the alpha channel in the main "color" beauty AOV
• [Hydra] Fixed an exception raised from the Hydra plugin when an RS render option is not available
• [Hydra] Added support for the USDPreviewSurface Texture Reader UV map channel configured from the Primvar Reader node
• [Hydra] Added the missing "Softness Affects Gobo" light parameter
• [Hydra] Added support for rest/rnml attributes from vertex level data
• [Hydra] Fixed a problem with the tangents orientation on some mesh objects
• [Hydra] Fixed a crash related to UV maps defined at the instance level
• [Hydra] Added support for the Redshift USD and Alembic procedurals available as new custom USD primitives
• [Hydra] Added the "Redshift USD Procedural" and "Redshift Alembic Procedural" LOP HDAs to help in the configuration of the new procedural primitives
• [Hydra] Added support for rendering RS proxy files using a new custom USD primitive; the old workaround to render proxy files is still available as a legacy feature
• [Hydra] Added the "Redshift Proxy" LOP HDA to help in the configuration of the RS proxy primitives
• [Hydra] Fixed the Cryptomatte AOV and the AOVs Light Group options in the Redshift LOP
• [Hydra] Fixed a critical issue related to the corruption of the render settings while switching LOPs or selecting the display settings
• [Hydra] "ACEScg" is now the default rendering color space if this render option is not set
• [Blender] Added basic support for Blender's new 'Curves' object; this feature requires Blender version 3.3.0
• [RenderView] Fixed broken Render Region tool when view is rotated or flipped
• [RenderView] Fixed broken A/B slider when view is rotated or flipped
• [RenderView] Fixed broken pixel sampling / color picking when view is rotated or flipped
• [RenderView] Fixed issue where using a hotkey for Rotate (0 degrees) did not correctly update the view rotation state
• [RenderView] Fixed performance issue when panning and zooming
• [RenderView] Fixed incorrect frame sizing when using IPR fit/fill mode for anamorphic renders
• [RenderView] Fixed issue where pixel sampler region is not shown until toggling the option off/on
• [RenderView] Fixed issue where pixel sampler region is not hidden when the Pixel tab is not active
• [RenderView] A/B slider's position and orientation is now pinned to the image
• [RenderView] Extended maximum zoom to 1600% and tweaked wheel-zoom steps
• [RenderView] Changes to zoom via Alt + Right-Mouse or the Zoom edit/spinner control are now relative to the view center
• [RenderView] Click-to-focus CoC adjustment now behaves consistently at different image sizes and zoom levels
• [RenderView] Improved visibility of bucket indicators
• [All] Fixed bug introduced in 3.5.05 that would force refractive RS Materials with SSS to appear opaque
• [All] Fixed a bug where blurry reflections would cause wrong volume GI
• [All] Fixed a bug where anisotropy would cause artifacts in volume GI
• [All] Fixed a bug where blackbody emission would cause flickering in volume sequences
• [All] Fixed bug that could cause a crash when OSL shaders are used for the global environment
• [All] Fixed random crash on some systems that can occur during the renderer initialization stage
• [All] Fixed issue where OptiX denoising could produce black or wrong pixels if the progressive number of passes was set to 1
• [All] Fixed bug that would cause rough or diffuse reflections of dome lights to use the incorrect texture color space if not sRGB or raw
• [All] Fixed bug introduced in 3.5.08 that could result in broken alpha values for semi-transparent materials
• [All] Fixed bug introduced in 3.5.08 that would result in incorrect sheen lighting with a roughness of 0
• [All] Improved the precision of diffusion ray-traced SSS for objects far away from the origin
• [All] Fixed regression causing a crash at shutdown / CPU dll unload
• [RT] Fixed precision issues with hair imported with large scale factors
• [RT] Fixed a crash that could occur with hair scenes imported from non-C4D plugins
• [RT] Fixed several issues with hair rendering
• [RT] Fixed several issues with dome lights
• [RT] Fixed artifacts caused by a bug on node connections across a variety of materials
• [RT] Implemented progress reporting when preparing for RT rendering, including HLSL compilation
• [RT] Optimized shader compilation times by about a factor of 10
• [RT] Rendering can now be restarted after encountering out of memory issues in large scenes

3.5.08 (2022.09)

Release Notes

• [Maya] Fixed issue where shader networks that had connections to components of colors, UVs etc weren't rendering correctly
• [Maya] Motion Vector AOVs are now calculated correctly
• [Maya] Fixed issue where extensions weren't being sampled at the correct time when the frame rate was not 24fps
• [C4D] Added support for Cinema 4D 2023
• [C4D] Added support for the native OCIO color management in Cinema 4D 2023
• [C4D] Added support for material stacking and the procedural texture projections in the Texture/Material tag, to all versions of the plugin; existing scenes will maintain their original look automatically via new compatibility options in the render settings
• [C4D] Improved the Magic Bullet Looks integration, so now when opening from the RenderView the last beauty AOV will be forwarded to MBL for previewing
• [C4D] Addressed an issue where opening some Redshift assets from the Asset Browser would cause the Feedback Display to appear with scene upgrade warnings
• [C4D] Addressed an issue where the Geometry Only viewport filter would not affect Redshift lights
• [Blender] Added support for Puzzle Matte multi-passes
• [Blender] Fixed a few small issues in EXR layered names for ObjectPosition
• [Blender] Added support for Custom AOVs
• [All] Re-enabled the Background and Emission AOVs for matte surfaces that show the environment (disabled since 3.0.20 due to a limitation)
• [All] New Standard Material refraction alpha and refraction puzzle-matte now correct and consistent between IPR and bucket mode
• [All] Fixed crash that could occur during the texture upload stage, after updating only geometry
• [All] Fixed bug introduced in 3.5.07 that would knock out diffuse back face lighting when the front face diffuse color is black
• [All] Fixed bug introduced in 3.5.05 that could cause bucket vs progressive differences for RS Material and RS Skin using multi-layered SSS
• [All] Fixed bug introduced in 3.5.00 that would cause refractions to be very dim or black when the roughness value is very close to 0

3.5.07 (2022.08)

Release Notes

• [Max] Fixed issue where Scene States did not apply On/Off state for Redshift lights
• [Blender] Fixed error in Volume shader created from 'Add Volume & Shader' operator.
• [RenderView] Fixed various issues related to zoom
• [All] Fixed bug that could cause a crash when processing single channel textures with an sRGB color space assigned
• [All] Fixed crash during initialization when an unsupported CUDA device is detected in the system
• [All] Fixed bug introduced in 3.5.05 that broke transmission single scattering colors
• [All] Fixed bug introduced in 3.5.06 that could cause overly blurry textures under certain circumstances
• [Metal] Improved stability to work around asserts like "The SSS sample count computed in these kernels..." and corrupted lighting
• [RT] Fixed issues with normal map blurriness

3.5.06 (2022.08)

Release Notes

• [Maya] Fixed issue where connecting a shader into an AOV's "defaultShader" attribute erroneously issued a warning
• [Maya] The deviceAspect is now correctly calculated during batch rendering
• [Maya] Due to a bug in Maya 2022 and later, batch renders don't exit so now forcing Maya to exit
• [Maya] Camera's "focalLength", "filmOffsetX", and "filmOffsetY" and other attributes can now be motion blurred
• [Maya] Multiple MASH objects with changing input hierarchy now update correctly
• [Max] Fixed issue that applies incorrect view scaling when re-opening a maximized Render View window
• [Max] Fixed side-effect introduced in 3.5.01 where having Redshift plugin loaded can break vertex welding in the Symmetry Modifier (since Max 2022)
• [Blender] Fixed missing enumerator entry in Standard Material 'ms_mode'
• [Blender] Fixed error in Standard Material node interface showing & hidden 'Anisotropic' parameter
• [Blender] Fixed MaterialBlender node interface issue with material input sockets
• [RT] Reverted some code to fix random crash when NVidia drivers newer than 512.92 are installed
• [All] Fixed bug that could cause incorrect bump mapping if tri-planar projection nodes are used for bump mapping textures and parameters such as rotation or scale are also textured
• [All] Fixed bug that could make random walk SSS hang if anisotropy was set to 1
• [All] Fixed bug that could produce bump-mapping artifacts when seen through very curved surfaces, or subtly poor bump fidelity when seen through reflective or refractive surfaces
• [All] Fixed issue introduced in 3.5.05 that enabled certain aspects of the SSS GI fixes even with the legacy mode enabled

3.5.05 (2022.07)

Release Notes

• [Maya] When the Rendering Engine is changed in the Globals tab the Hardware Ray-Tracing checkbox is now enabled/disabled correctly
• [Maya] New scenes will use the new full subsurface scattering GI by default
• [Maya] Random Walk is now the default SSS mode for new RedshiftStandardMaterials
• [Maya] Added a warning when a Maya connection is made to a 'closure' attribute
• [Maya] Fixed bug that resulted in GI trace depth 1 not disabling GI
• [Maya] Maya joints now have their visibility tracked
• [Maya] Visible particle systems with a hidden instancer are now rendered as spheres
• [Maya] A node's LOD Visibility attribute is now taken into account when determining overall visibility
• [Maya] Particle shapes with arbitrary parent transforms are now supported
• [Maya] Transformation blur for particles now respects individual nodes' motionBlur attribute
• [Maya] The updating of AOV output filenames now includes tracking changes to defaultRenderGlobals.imageFilePrefix
• [Max] RS Standard Material compact UI layout can now be disabled (Advanced Render Setup > System > Local Plugin Options)
• [Max] When the Rendering Engine is changed in the Globals tab the Hardware Ray-Tracing checkbox is now enabled/disabled correctly
• [Max] Fixed issue where Redshift Object Properties might fail to read float values correctly if saved by a machine with different regional settings
• [Max] Fixed issue where core preferences do not immediately save when toggling Hybrid Rendering
• [C4D] Addressed issue where aborting a bake in progess was not possible
• [C4D] Addressed an issue where curves produced by some third-party generators would not be extracted
• [C4D] Addressed an issue in the RenderView where some settings were reset when the window reopened
• [C4D] Addressed an issue with RSFile parameters in R26 where a long filename would overflow the attribute manager
• [C4D] Addressed an issue in Nodes, where constant Value connections to file or ramp parameters would be ignored
• [Houdini] Added support for Houdini 19.5.303
• [Houdini] Added support for Houdini 19.0.657 and dropped support for 19.0.561
• [Houdini] Added support for overriding multiple materials to the "instancefile" proxy instancing workflow
• [Houdini] New 'int rsproxymatlist(string proxyPath, string[] materialsList)' custom VEX function
• [Houdini] New "Redshift_getProxyMaterialsList" hscript command to get the materials list of any proxy node or file
• [Houdini] Added support for materials override list to the RS Packed Proxy SOP
• [Houdini] Minor fixes in the RS USD Material Builder HDA
• [Houdini] Fixed a problem while rendering high resoltion images (above 12k) to MPlay
• [Houdini] Fixed a problem related to rendering objects that should continue hidden (due to the display flag or the ROP lists) if edited while the IPR is running
• [Houdini] Added support for the optional "instancexform" parameter to the Instance OBJ node
• [Houdini] New options in the RS ROP node, Post Effects tab, to control the Color/PhotographicExposure/PostFX settings of the Viewport IPR rendering
• [Houdini] Fixed a rare crash while working with the RenderView and Viewport IPRs at the same time
• [Houdini] Fixed a crash while rendering scenes with camera crop values outside the allowed 0..1 range
• [Houdini] Automatic update of the RenderView cameras list after adding or renaming camera nodes
• [Houdini] Fixed a problem with the integer attributes mesh data introduced in the previous build
• [Houdini] Fixed a problem while instancing procedurals
• [Houdini] Added full support for the Alembic procedural "objectPath", "objectExclude" and "objectPattern" parameters
• [Houdini] Added support for instancing the Alembic procedural objects, including support for user data
• [Houdini] Added support for material mapping to the Alembic procedural from the "path" and "shop_materialpath" primitive attributes.
• [Houdini] Added support for facesets material mapping to the Alembic procedural, using the Alembic SOP's (or the parent OBJ's) "Remap Attributtes" multiparm
• [Houdini] Added support for tracesets to the Alembic procedural
• [Hydra] Added support for Solaris 19.5.303
• [Hydra] Added support for Solaris 19.0.657 and dropped support for 19.0.561
• [Hydra] Automatic updating of the animated Houdini vdb primitives in the viewport
• [Hydra] New render geometry settings LOP "Animated Volume" option to disable the viewport auto update of the static Houdini vdb objects, improving the scene extraction time
• [Hydra] Fixed a couple of issues in the Redshift LOP
• [Hydra] Added the "Render All Frames With a Single Process" option to the Redshift LOP
• [Katana] Improved Katana management of failed renders due to license fails or other issues
• [Blender] Fixed 'NoneType' error checking the changed lights in IPR mode
• [Blender] Fixed crash with 'Deep output' render because a bad cleanup on a previous 'Cryptomatte' pass buffer
• [Blender] Fixed matrix update issue with Dome Light in IPR mode
• [Blender] Fixed error in hair UV coordinates when 'child' particles type is set to 'interpolated'
• [RT] Added a switch to disable secondary ray denoising in Redshift RT
• [RT] Fixed several crashes related to Hair.
• [RT] Added support for redshiftCmdLine rendering
• [RT] Fixed tremendously long shader compilation times for some materials based on Maxon noises. Further improvements are work in progress.
• [RT] Fixed a crash running an animation in RV
• [RT] Potentially fixed a bug that caused materials to mix up randomly.
• [All] IMPORTANT: Removed support for Kepler-generation NVidia GPUs; more info here: https://redshift.maxon.net/topic/36933/heads-up-ending-support-for-kepler-gpus-nvidia-600-and-700-series-soon
• [All] Added support for anisotropic phase for volumes; global fog now uses an improved phase function which can be disabled via a new legacy option
• [All] Added support for random walk SSS; more info here: https://redshift.maxon.net/topic/42978/heads-up-random-walk-sss-sneak-peek/19
• [All] Improved energy compensation for new Standard Material dielectric materials
• [All] Enabled SSS GI, which can be disabled via a new legacy option
• [All] Fixed ancient bug that would cause ray-traced SSS indirect/GI back-lighting to be missing; more info here: https://redshift.maxon.net/topic/42997/heads-up-fixing-bug-with-indirect-lighting-sss-behind-objects-for-3-5-05
• [All] Fixed ancient bug that could cause point-based SSS to crash in bizarre ways during the SSS point gathering stage
• [All] Fixed bug that would cause thin-walled back-lighting to be missing when using Lambertian Spheres diffuse model
• [All] Fixed an issue where a compilation of point clouds and proxies could produce wrong results (objects rendering at the center of the scene or not rendering at all)
• [All] Fixed bug introduced in 3.5.00 that would cause point particles with refraction to render black
• [All] Fixed bug introduced in 3.5.00 that could cause sheen reflections to appear too bright
• [All] Fixed rare crash that could occur when rendering with ray-traced diffusion SSS
• [All] Fixed bug introduced with OCIO support that could produce garbage dome light sampling when the dome light texture is in sRGB color space

3.5.04 (2022.06)

Release Notes

• [Maya] Fixed issue where orphaned OSL shader node output attribute(s) weren't being deleted following a recompile
• [Maya] Warning is now issued when a Maya shader connection can't be represented by an RS shader connection due to an unsupported RS shader output
• [Maya] Motion vector units and scale are now supported for meshes
• [Maya] Fixed crash when motion vectors/velocity based motion blur is used
• [Maya] Extensions can now register to use any node types
• [Maya] Additional Beauty AOV is now output when Global AOV is set to Remainder and no lights groups are explicitly listed but some are in the scene
• [Maya] Fixed issue where if the redshiftOptions.imageFilePrefix attribute is locked an error was reported when opening Render Settings window
• [Max] Fixed a potential crash when logging missing scene resources at render time
• [C4D] Addressed issue where aborting a bake in progess was not possible
• [C4D] Addressed an issue where curves produced by some third-party generators would not be extracted
• [C4D] Addressed an issue in the RenderView where some settings were reset when the window reopened
• [C4D] Addressed an issue with RSFile parameters in R26 where a long filename would overflow the attribute manager
• [C4D] Addressed an issue in Nodes, where constant Value connections to file or ramp parameters would be ignored
• [Houdini] Fixed a problem with the OCIO 1.x configs color correction in the viewport IPR
• [Houdini] Fixed a problem in the strands while rendering Z axis lines including multiple points
• [Houdini] Fixed a problem with the custom AOVs and the RS State node
• [Houdini] Fixed a crash while trying to use string attributes as mesh vertex data
• [Houdini] Fixed a crash from VOP subnets/hdas with multiple outputs if linked directly to the Redshift output node
• [Houdini] Fixed a problem between the Proxy Output SOP and the Output SOP, which was overriding the selected proxy output
• [Houdini] Updated the GUI of all the RS VOP nodes to use collapsible tabs (H19.0 only)
• [Houdini] Updated the GUI of the OSL VOP node to include all the source parameters inside a collapsible tab
• [Houdini] Added the automatic switching to Redshift Instances if there are material overrides, not supported by the Redshift Point Clouds
• [Houdini] Added support for the Output SOP bypass flag, to disable the output from this node if it's enabled
• [Houdini] Updated top menu docs and forum links
• [Hydra] MPlay monitor option exposed in the Redshift LOP HDA
• [Hydra] Fixed a problem in the strands rendering
• [Hydra] Fixed a problem with the custom AOVs and the RS State node
• [Hydra] Added support for single values primvars
• [Hydra] Added support for double type primvars
• [Hydra] Added support for UV map names with the format "uv2", "uv3", "uv4", etc
• [Hydra] Fixed a global problem in the multi-step motion blur data sampling
• [Hydra] Added proper support for the instances multi-step rotation motion blur
• [Hydra] Added support for crop/overscan using the DataWindowNDC parameters
• [Hydra] Added support for tile rendering
• [Hydra] Redshift LOP HDAs updated to create the main "color" AOV automatically
• [Katana] Fixed a problem in the strands rendering
• [Katana] Fixed a problem with the custom AOVs and the RS State node
• [Blender] Solved issue in IPR mode caused when change selection in enumerators aren't detect as change
• [Blender] Fixed limitation in the AOV's structures with a long paths in file names (bug report)
• [Blender] Fixed error cleaning the dictionary that store the changed objects in IPR mode. This issue cause that all the objects are updated every time
• [Blender] Improve performance in IPR update when the object only have transformation changes, then, only the matrix is updated instead the entire object
• [Blender] Fixed a bug updating lights in IPR mode. Now is possible to determinate exactly which set of objects and data blocks needed to be updated
• [Blender] added an small 'Info' icon to the Color Management panel linked to the forum thread that explain how to configure OCIO environment
• [RT] Fixed various memory leaks
• [RT] Fixed hair bug that would cause random crashes
• [RT] Fixed GPU crashes in the curvature, AO and round corners shaders
• [RT] Fixed a bug where objects that had "Receive Shadows" OFF blocked dome light reflections
• [RT] Added bokeh to depth of field
• [RT] Fixed an issue where texture sampling was very coarse for secondary rays
• [All] Added blackbody emission option to the volume shader
• [All] Fixed an issue where installations that contained non latin characters in their path would prevent all compute devices from being detected
• [All] Fixed bug that could cause non-linear 8-bit OCIO color space textures to render too dark
• [All] Fixed a memory-leak issue in the OSL compiler
• [All] Fixed rare bug that could cause a shader memory assert between rendering shaderballs

3.5.03 (2022.05)

Release Notes

• [Maya] Added support for Maya 2023
• [Maya] Fixed "Hybrid Rendering" GUI issue
• [Maya] OSL shader parameters that used ":" and "-" in the "string page=" property description are now handled
• [Maya] Fixed issue where having Deformation Blur Steps > 2 causes mesh hair generation to crash
• [Max] Added support for rendering cached mesh with Fluid Loader object
• [Max] Potential fix for crash on shutdown after Redshift plugin has been unloaded
• [C4D] Improved image drag-and-drop in Nodes so that the new texture node inherits the name from the image file
• [C4D] Addressed issue where an already cached material preview would be re-rendered
• [Houdini] Added support for Houdini 19.0.622 and dropped support for 19.0.531
• [Houdini] (WIP) Fixed a crash/freeze on exit if Redshift is not initialized
• [Houdini] New "Redshift_RVStartStop" and "Redshift_RVRender" hscript commands
• [Hydra] Added support for Solaris 19.0.622 and dropped support for 19.0.531
• [Hydra] Fixed a problem with the velocity motion blur with varying point counts
• [Hydra] Fixed a problem while working with "vel.x", "vel.y" and "vel.z" velocity grids in Houdini vdb primitives
• [Katana] Added support of overscan and live rendering data to the custom display drivers
• [Blender] Added support for multiple UV maps, vertex colors and tangents data (feature request)
• [Blender] Fixed tiled texture error because UDIM tag in Blender image file path (bug report)
• [All] Enabled Round Corners feature for CPU rendering
• [All] Fixed a Redshift CPU crash on shutdown when not fully initialized
• [All] Fixed bug that could cause random crashes for certain materials, bug introduced in 3.0.67
• [All] Fixed new Standard Material bug that would prevent transmission from working in conjunction with SSS
• [All] New diffuse model 'Lambertian Spheres' now supports back-faced lighting

3.5.02 (2022.05)

Release Notes

• [Maya] A DLL is correctly qualified as an Extension if the new ExportNode() function is implemented and PreExport() and Export() functions aren't
• [Maya] Fixed issue where after recompiling an OSL shader the changes weren't reflected in the next render
• [Maya] Fixed issue where rendering XGen IGS caused a crash
• [Maya] Changes to the renderDensityMultiplier attribute on an IGS node are updated in IPR
• [C4D] Improved image drag-and-drop in Nodes so that the new texture node inherits the name from the image file
• [C4D] Addressed issue where an already cached material preview would be re-rendered
• [Houdini] Improved USD output VOP node that can also be used in the main plugin to let the user build materials compatible in both Houdini and Solaris without needing two outputs
• [Houdini] New "REDSHIFT_ENABLE_AUTORESETCOLORSPACE" env. variable to control the reset of the not available color spaces to "Auto" in the VOP nodes
• [Houdini] Default Redshift Standard Material created inside the material builder nodes
• [Houdini] Fixed several warnings reported while cooking nodes like the Filecache SOP
• [Houdini] Fixed a problem with the RenderView scale factor parameter while working with render maps
• [Hydra] Fixed a problem in the viewport camera updating introduced in the previous version
• [Hydra] Final fix for the crash when rendering and handle is visible related to the selection buffers
• [Hydra] Fixed a crash while rendering scenes in DebugVerbose log mode
• [Blender] Added support for the new 'Standard Material'
• [Blender] Added support for the new 'Material Layer' and 'IOR To Metal Tints' nodes
• [Blender] Fixed a error in animated camera when is rendered from Blender command line
• [All] Fixed a crash in OpenImageIO caused by PSD files with non-raster layers

3.5.01 (2022.04)

Release Notes

• [Max] 3ds Max plugins are now installed as packages in %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Autodesk\ApplicationPlugins
• [Max] Dropped support for 3ds Max 2014
• [Max] Scripts for deploying the 3ds Max plugin are found in Redshift\Plugins\3dsMax\tools
• [Max] Fixed issue where materials would render black in the viewport until adjusting the time slider
• [Max] Fully transparent materials no longer make the viewport object completely invisible
• [Max] Material diffuse color can now be edited via the color swatch in the Multi/Sub-Object Material UI
• [Max] Enum parameters in OSL shaders can no longer be animated
• [Max] RS Principled Hair now disables Trace Depth parameters in the UI when override is not enabled
• [Max] RS Principled Hair now provides the standard "Maps" tab in the UI
• [C4D] Addressed issue where DOF picking in the RenderView would produce incorrect values under certain conditions
• [C4D] Addressed issue in the Asset Manager where UDIM/UVTILE textures in Nodes would be treated as missing
• [Houdini] Added support for Houdini 19.0.589 and dropped support for 19.0.498
• [Houdini] Improved COP2 nodes IPR updating system to avoid delayed refresh events
• [Katana] Added support for string attributes
• [Hydra] Added support for Solaris 19.0.589 and dropped support for 19.0.498
• [Hydra] Added support for string attributes
• [Hydra] Fixed a crash when rendering and handle is visible related to the selection buffers
• [Blender] Fixed some corner cases for camera vertical fit

3.5.00 (2022.04)

Release Notes

• [C4D] Added support for Cinema 4D R26
• [C4D] Added improved viewport preview support for Nodes materials for R26
• [C4D] Added support for OSL in Nodes materials
• [C4D] Revamped the plugin icons, matching the Cinema 4D UI style
• [C4D] Improved the shader categories in Nodes, and icons
• [C4D] Removed data upgrade support for some very early scenes that were last saved during the alpha/beta phase of the Redshift C4D plugin; users can still upgrade these scenes with plugin from the 3.0.XX releases
• [All] Added support for CPU rendering
• [All] Added new Standard Surface Material