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Revision 1.167 by greg, Tue Mar 16 04:44:22 2010 UTC vs.
Revision 1.194 by greg, Tue Mar 20 02:56:08 2012 UTC

# Line 1720 | Line 1720 | Added -n option to rtrace for executing on multiple co
1720   using new rayfifo calls.
1721  
1722   =====================
1723 < Version 4.1
1723 > Version 4.1 (Released 11/04/2011)
1724  
1725   Changed ranimate behavior so remote login under a different user
1726   doesn't necessarily require the presence of the originating user's
1727   home directory.
1728 +
1729 + Changed standard transmission function normalization back to what
1730 + it was in version 3.5, following recommendation of David Geisler-Moroder,
1731 + who pointed out that the revised BTDF increased too much at grazing.
1732 +
1733 + Changed rad behavior with -N >1 on single view to call rpiece.
1734 +
1735 + Updated SCons build system for MINGW compilation, thanks to Christian
1736 + Kohler.
1737 +
1738 + Added -u option to rlam for unbuffered output.
1739 +
1740 + Modified dctimestep to accept sky vector and daylight coefficient matrix
1741 + or list of images to sum together, as suggested by Andy McNeil.
1742 +
1743 + Created genBSDF script to generate BSDF in Windows XML format.
1744 +
1745 + Modified mkillum to accept detailed geometry from BSDF XML files.
1746 +
1747 + Altered obj2rad to ignore zero normals (thanks to Jack de Valpine for
1748 + suggestions and help).
1749 +
1750 + Fixed bug in genklemsamp that caused non-uniform sampling over surfaces.
1751 +
1752 + Fixed bugs in rhoptimize and rhcopy for 64-bit compilation.
1753 +
1754 + Made a change to avoid problem using gcc --fast-math compile option.
1755 +
1756 + ****** COMPATIBILITY CHANGE ********
1757 + Changed behavior of rtrace and rtcontrib so that every scanline is
1758 + not flushed when both -x and -y are set.  This avoids flush delays
1759 + in rtcontrib for large numbers of output files and delays while
1760 + rendering images using rtrace with the -n option.
1761 +
1762 + Added ability for rsensor to output ray origins and directions
1763 + rather than actually loading octree and computing sensor value.
1764 +
1765 + Fixed old bug in obj2rad where it would stop processing and
1766 + report a syntax error if the "void" type is used in the map file.
1767 +
1768 + Updated reflection model according to EGSR 2010 paper by David
1769 + Geisler-Moroder and Arne Duer.
1770 +
1771 + Replaced C-shell version of falsecolor with Perl script written
1772 + by Axel Jacobs.
1773 +
1774 + ****** COMPATIBILITY CHANGE ********
1775 + Changed -sj (specular jitter) option to something called specular
1776 + sampling (-ss), which if set less than 1 has the same behavior as
1777 + the old -sj, but when set greater than 1, spawns multiple ray
1778 + samples from semi-specular surfaces.
1779 +
1780 + Fixed bug noticed by Randolph Fritz that caused ambient sync errors.
1781 +
1782 + Fixed bug in findglare for reading picture files under Windows.
1783 +
1784 + Added options to pvalue to note other color spaces on reverse conversion.
1785 + Thanks to Erich Philips for the feature request.
1786 +
1787 + Added BSDF data-driven material type with full sampling support.
1788 +
1789 + Added BRDF calculations to genBSDF.
1790 +
1791 + Bug fixes in rsensor thanks to help from David Geisler-Moroder.
1792 +
1793 + Added variable-resolution BSDF support in renderers and genBSDF.
1794 +
1795 + Created pkgBSDF program to extract BSDF geometry and put it
1796 + together with surface description suitable for inclusion in
1797 + a Radiance scene.
1798 +
1799 + Muted warning for "no light sources found" when there is at least
1800 + one glow object and interreflections are on (-ab > 0).
1801 +
1802 + Fixed long-standing bug that caused underestimation of reflection
1803 + when specular component was below -st threshold in non-metals.
1804 +
1805 + Checked in cross-platform cmake build system created by Bill Hoffman
1806 + of KitWare and sponsored by NREL.  This includes a qt-based
1807 + driver for rvu, which is built in the new subdirectory src/qtrvu.
1808 +
1809 + =====================
1810 + Version 4.2
1811 +
1812 + Axel Jacobs added -cp and -palettes options to falsecolor.
1813 +
1814 + Fixed bug in matrix output of genBSDF introduced shortly before 4.1 release.
1815 +
1816 + Made rvu more responsive in multi-processing mode when changing parameters.
1817 + Explicit "new" command not needed to show changes, because it goes back
1818 + to "immediate mode" once something is changed.  Processing will be slow
1819 + but response time quick until next "new" command.

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