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Materials

• Added 3Delight Car Paint and Random Material.
• Added Random Color utility node.
• Added Flake 3D texture node.

• Further improvements on ray intersection bias. This solves #7179 and #7216.
• Fixed potential crash bug at the end of a 3Delight Cloud render.
• 3Delight Display now has a nicer About dialogue that shows the proper version and copyright strings.

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• Added a Facing Ratio utility shader.
• Added a Worley Noise and a Flake 3D Textures

• Added a progress indicator in 3Delight Display for 3Delight Cloud scene synchronization.
• Improve accuracy of ray intersection so to remove various "bias"  problems.
• Fixes various issues with 3Delight Display lens tool.
• Removed various legacy include files from package.
• Fix rendering of OpenVDB volumes on 3Delight Cloud

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• Fixed support for maya's built-in UDIM tiling on file node.
• Improved VDB rendering speed in viewport.
• Add support Maya's Light Editor. This includes ability to output a light group as a multi-light layer.
• Add Color Blend utility node. This node has a similar functionality to they Layer Shader.
• Better support of Light Linking. Light links to sets and shading groups are now supported.
• Fixed a problem with instanced objects when each instance has a different shader.
• Support Maya's built-in UDIM tag.
• Improved UI for all materials and shaders.

3Delight for Katana

• Instantaneous opening of VDB files, even large ones.
• Fixed a crash with some VDB files.
• Draw lights behind the selection too instead of in front (usability suggestion by Matthew Bennett).
• Multi-Threaded scene export and scene export optimization.
• Find OSL shaders without Katana Resources.
• Various fixes to XGen loading.
• Do not link with Katana's Python libraries anymore. Those are not needed.
• Implement automatic conversion of textures into TDLs (mip mapped tiff files).