Render Farm Software updates roundup - April to July 2025

Hi everyone! We’re halfway through the year and here’s what we updated for the months of April to July 2025!

• Added support for 3ds Max 2026 & V-Ray 7+

• Added scene reload when plugin is stopped during scene preparation to avoid modifications to the scene
• Added a warning prompt when a scene has frames with negative numbers (they are not supported)
• Improved support for assets in Video Sequencer

• Fixed plugin startup issues

• Fixed handling reference scenes
• Added warning prompt for disabled “Temporal Consistency” option in ChaosScatter objects
• Fixed handling of objects used as camera view
• Fixed support for negative frame number caches with PhoenixFD
• Resolved an issue where the plugin correctly set the Image Search Path override for Yeti nodes, but did not create and copy the corresponding texture folder
• The folder is now properly created and copied with textures

• Added format validation for the EU VAT number field
• Fixed inconsistencies in VAT value processing
• Improved auto-invoicing when VAT number status is uncertain (UK customers)

• Fixed issues with timeouts that were too short for certain API requests

Dropped support for the following versions:

• Autodesk 3ds Max 2013, 2014, 2015
• Autodesk Maya 2014

All jobs previously using these versions have been automatically updated to 3ds Max 2016 & Maya 2015

• Plugin UI has been moved to renderBeamer along with features like mode selection, asset tracker and expanded render settings
• This version requires V-Ray standalone plugin v14 to run

• Added support for exported Sketchup scenes (along with dedicated Sketchup plugin)
• Other minor fixes & improvements (fields checking/UI improvements)

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