Our friends at Chaos Group have just announced the release of the new Service Pack 5 for V-Ray for 3ds Max.

The new build adds compatibility with 3ds Max 2011 and 3ds Max Design 2011 and includes modified and improved features as well as two new features for you to get stuck into:

- Added VRaySamplerInfoTex texture and VRaySamplerInfo render element;

- Added VRayObjectSelect render element which allows to extract objects with specific IDs into a separate element;

There are also loads of modified features for VrayPhysicalCamera, 3D displacement, and more than 20 other modifications and bug fixes.  If you're a user of V-Ray for 3ds Max you can download your version of  SP5 for free,  or you can check out the full list of improvements and bug fixes here.

Enjoy.