Plugins and Scripts V-Ray 2.0 for 3ds Max is a complete rendering solution, which combines the power of the distinguished V-Ray rendering engine with the flexibility and unprecedented speed of the interactive rendering system V-Ray RT, now running on GPUs. Major features • V-Ray RT and V-Ray RT GPU interactive renderers are included as part of the V-Ray installation; • Directionality parameter for rectangle V-Ray lights to turn them into (textured) spot lights; Render Elements • VRayLightSelect render element to extract the contribution of individual lights; • VRayDRBucket render element to show which machine rendered a given bucket in DR mode; • VRayLensEffects render effect for producing glow and glare with support for obstacle images and diffraction; • VRayExposureControl plugin for proper exposure of regular viewport and camera views; Optimizations • VRayStereoRig controller for easy stereoscopic setup; • Shade maps for faster rendering of stereo images, DOF and motion blur through the VRayStereoscopic helper; • Retrace threshold for the light cache • Dynamic loading of tiled OpenEXR textures through the VRayHDRI texture; • Integration of the various V-Ray components in the 3ds Max “Create” menu; • Tools for calculating and rendering accurate camera distortion through .lens files; • Faster rendering of VRayProxy objects; • Support for proper motion blur of Thinking Particles; • Proper blending of gizmos for VRayEnvironmentFog; • Improved raytracing precision in certain cases; • Render history for the V-Ray VFB; • Better representation of V-Ray lights in the new hardware viewport for 3ds Max 2010 and later; • Support for bidirectional path tracing for accurate unbiased lighting solutions;