| 1140 |
|
the stack limit. |
| 1141 |
|
|
| 1142 |
|
============================== |
| 1143 |
< |
Version 3.6 |
| 1143 |
> |
Version 3.6 (Released 10/21/04) |
| 1144 |
|
|
| 1145 |
|
Modified 4-byte RGBE encoding routine to avoid problems |
| 1146 |
|
when one or two primary values is negative and the other(s) |
| 1172 |
|
parallel. |
| 1173 |
|
|
| 1174 |
|
Fixed bug where mesh instances were not being freed, so subsequent calls |
| 1175 |
< |
in programs like ranimate would refer to bogus data. |
| 1175 |
> |
in programs like ranimove would refer to bogus data. |
| 1176 |
|
|
| 1177 |
|
Added support in normtiff for floating-point and 16-bit/sample TIFF input |
| 1178 |
|
files. |
| 1256 |
|
Made similar change for virtual sources to allow modifiers and aliases |
| 1257 |
|
on the mirror and prism types to work properly. |
| 1258 |
|
|
| 1259 |
< |
Rob Guglielmetti dded -lw and -lh options to falsecolor to control the |
| 1259 |
> |
Rob Guglielmetti added -lw and -lh options to falsecolor to control the |
| 1260 |
|
legend dimensions. Made it so -lw 0 and/or -lh 0 turns legend off. |
| 1261 |
|
|
| 1262 |
|
Made it so pcompos will read everything from a stream even if it doesn't |
| 1263 |
|
need it, so input commands will not receive a hangup signal. |
| 1264 |
|
|
| 1265 |
|
Wrote ra_bmp program to convert to and from Windows BMP files (finally). |
| 1266 |
< |
It's a nasty format in so many ways -- I don't yet support conversion |
| 1267 |
< |
from compressed 8-bit or 4-bit modes, but may in the near future. |
| 1266 |
> |
It's the most horrible image format I've ever seen, and I've seen a lot. |
| 1267 |
> |
|
| 1268 |
> |
Increased -aa default value for all renderers (and also -ad and -as in |
| 1269 |
> |
rview) at Schorsch's suggestion. I think this undid my earlier decrease |
| 1270 |
> |
of -aa last time, which I guess was ill-considered. |
| 1271 |
> |
|
| 1272 |
> |
Modified oconv to keep subdividing the octree if there are too many |
| 1273 |
> |
objects in a voxel even when the -r resolution limit has been |
| 1274 |
> |
reached. This was not done before due to problems with recursion, |
| 1275 |
> |
and still, it will only continue to 256 times the original -r limit. |
| 1276 |
> |
If that isn't enough, then there's probably no hope, anyway. |
| 1277 |
> |
|
| 1278 |
> |
Added -l option to obj2mesh to search for material files in library |
| 1279 |
> |
locations. |
| 1280 |
> |
|
| 1281 |
> |
Increased polygon vertex limit to 512 in obj2mesh and obj2rad and added |
| 1282 |
> |
warning if this limit is exceeded. |
| 1283 |
> |
|
| 1284 |
> |
Added tone-mapping and monitor primary options to ra_bmp. This gives |
| 1285 |
> |
new functionality similar to normtiff and ximage. It would be nice to |
| 1286 |
> |
add this feature to the other ra_* programs as well... someday. |
| 1287 |
> |
|
| 1288 |
> |
Fixed long-standing bug in reported pixel ordering out of certain |
| 1289 |
> |
protate commands. |
| 1290 |
> |
|
| 1291 |
> |
Added -p option to rcalc for "passive mode" that transmits |
| 1292 |
> |
unrecognized input -- useful for substituting data in the |
| 1293 |
> |
middle of a stream. |
| 1294 |
> |
|
| 1295 |
> |
Fixed a very obscure bug in rpict that caused a dark horizontal |
| 1296 |
> |
line in certain cylindrical projections due to improper drawing |
| 1297 |
> |
of the sky dome source in rt/srcdraw.c. |
| 1298 |
> |
|
| 1299 |
> |
Fixed problems with effective ray lengths computed for dielectric |
| 1300 |
> |
and BRTDfunc materials. This was most evident in breakup of holodeck |
| 1301 |
> |
views when VDISTANCE=True. |
| 1302 |
> |
|
| 1303 |
> |
Fixed rad so that 'scene' variable may consist only of inline commands. |
| 1304 |
> |
|
| 1305 |
> |
Fixed bug introduced in shadow caching routines where sources in the |
| 1306 |
> |
middle of spheres were not illuminating properly. Thanks to Guilio |
| 1307 |
> |
Antonutto for spotting this problem. |
| 1308 |
> |
|
| 1309 |
> |
Modified gensky behavior so if time is given with standard time zone |
| 1310 |
> |
designation, any -m option is ignored. |
| 1311 |
> |
|
| 1312 |
> |
Added -n option to mkillum for (shared memory) parallel processing. |
| 1313 |
> |
|
| 1314 |
> |
Fixed a long-standing bug in parallel processing code that only |
| 1315 |
> |
seemed to manifest with the new mkillum -n option, where rtrace |
| 1316 |
> |
would deadlock upon termination. The reason it never showed up |
| 1317 |
> |
before is because I always closed processes in the reverse order |
| 1318 |
> |
of opening them in other programs. I went through and found similar |
| 1319 |
> |
(potential) bugs in the rview device subprocess code and util/netproc.c. |
| 1320 |
> |
|
| 1321 |
> |
Corrected the normalization of the Gaussian reflectance model. This will |
| 1322 |
> |
cause an increase in specularity for low-lying light sources. |
| 1323 |
> |
Thanks to Don Walters of Boeing and Arne Duer of the Univ. of Innsbruck |
| 1324 |
> |
for pointing out this error. The square root used for the two cosines |
| 1325 |
> |
in the denominator of the normalization factor should not be present. |
| 1326 |
> |
This was a serious mistake I made in the original model, which went |
| 1327 |
> |
undiscovered (at least to my knowledge) for over a decade. I think |
| 1328 |
> |
Bruce Walter of Cornell may have known about it, but I never heard |
| 1329 |
> |
the details of his discovery. |
| 1330 |
> |
|
| 1331 |
> |
Enabled the -p option for primary conversion without tone-mapping |
| 1332 |
> |
in ra_bmp. Also provides for XYZE input conversion to RGB. |
| 1333 |
> |
|
| 1334 |
> |
Fixed what I consider a bug in pvalue -o when taking XYZE files on input, |
| 1335 |
> |
where it was inappropriately undoing the exposure value so that it always |
| 1336 |
> |
reported radiance rather than XYZ values with Y in cd/m^2. |
| 1337 |
> |
|
| 1338 |
> |
Made it so ra_bmp only produces run-length encoded 8-bit output for |
| 1339 |
> |
grayscale images that are tone-mapped. This minimizes circumstances |
| 1340 |
> |
under which output scanline order is reversed. |
| 1341 |
> |
|
| 1342 |
> |
Fixed bug in rcalc where it sometimes wasn't parsing the input format |
| 1343 |
> |
correctly. |
| 1344 |
> |
|
| 1345 |
> |
===================== |
| 1346 |
> |
Version 3.7 (Released 7/25/05) |
| 1347 |
> |
|
| 1348 |
> |
Fixed bug in source occluder cache which caused consistency error |
| 1349 |
> |
for distant sources and mist materials. (Thanks to Mark Stock for |
| 1350 |
> |
finding the problem.) |
| 1351 |
> |
|
| 1352 |
> |
Fixed serious bug in source drawing routines for rpict, where the edges |
| 1353 |
> |
of light sources were appearing through obstructions. (Thanks to Veronica |
| 1354 |
> |
Sundstedt for pointing this out.) |
| 1355 |
> |
|
| 1356 |
> |
(The above were included in the 3.6.1 patch release.) |
| 1357 |
> |
|
| 1358 |
> |
Changed default temporary directory from /usr/tmp, which doesn't exist |
| 1359 |
> |
on a lot of systems these days, to /tmp. |
| 1360 |
> |
|
| 1361 |
> |
Eliminated many unused files and programs from the distribution, including |
| 1362 |
> |
the following programs that were being built but no longer used: |
| 1363 |
> |
oki20 - printer driver for OkiMate 20 printer (B&W) |
| 1364 |
> |
oki20c - printer driver for OkiMate 20 color printer |
| 1365 |
> |
pcwarp - intended as more general substitute for macbetcal, |
| 1366 |
> |
but never quite worked |
| 1367 |
> |
ra_avs - convert to & from AVS image format |
| 1368 |
> |
ra_bn - convert to & from Barneyscann format |
| 1369 |
> |
ra_pr - convert to & from 8-bit Sun rasterfile format |
| 1370 |
> |
ra_pr24 - convert to & from 24-bit Sun rasterfile format |
| 1371 |
> |
thf2rad - convert GDS "things file" to Radiance scene format |
| 1372 |
> |
If anyone is still wanting any of the above programs, let us know and we'll |
| 1373 |
> |
reinstate it. |
| 1374 |
> |
|
| 1375 |
> |
Fixed bug in pcond's acuity simulation for small view angles (less than |
| 1376 |
> |
4 degrees horizontally or vertically). Thanks to James Lee for figuring |
| 1377 |
> |
this out. |
| 1378 |
> |
|
| 1379 |
> |
Added script to convert to/from ICT's Poskanzer Float Map, which I don't |
| 1380 |
> |
care to support officially due to its machine-dependent byte order. |
| 1381 |
> |
|
| 1382 |
> |
Fixed bug that caused incorrect reporting of non-surface in set when |
| 1383 |
> |
mixing meshes and instances. (Thanks to Jack de Valpine for discovery.) |
| 1384 |
> |
|
| 1385 |
> |
Fixed inaccuracy in calculation of diffuse transmission in the presence |
| 1386 |
> |
of pure specular (Fresnel reflection) using "trans" material. Thanks |
| 1387 |
> |
to Christoph Reinhart for pointing out the error. |
| 1388 |
> |
|
| 1389 |
> |
Made internal change to tone-mapping library to use structure pointer |
| 1390 |
> |
rather than stack, making code re-entrant and more up to modern standards. |
| 1391 |
> |
|
| 1392 |
> |
Added -pd option to handle depth-of-field blur in rpict. This requires |
| 1393 |
> |
that the view directon (-vd option) include focal distance information, |
| 1394 |
> |
which is now preserved by the various view file routines, and reported |
| 1395 |
> |
by the vwright command. |
| 1396 |
> |
|
| 1397 |
> |
Added DBLUR variable to ranimate and pmdblur script to handle simultaneous |
| 1398 |
> |
motion and depth-of-field blurring. Thanks to Visarc for funding this work. |
| 1399 |
> |
|
| 1400 |
> |
Added setting of focus distance in rvu ("focus" command) and rholo |
| 1401 |
> |
('f'/"frame" command). |
| 1402 |
> |
|
| 1403 |
> |
Changed default remote shell in ranimate to "ssh" rather than "rsh", |
| 1404 |
> |
which has been abandoned on most Unix systems due to security issues. |
| 1405 |
> |
|
| 1406 |
> |
Fixed behavior of source primitive using illum with no alternate |
| 1407 |
> |
material. These now become transparent so one can see the sky or |
| 1408 |
> |
light-probe background for use in image-based lighting. Previously, |
| 1409 |
> |
the user needed to specify the background glow as the alternate |
| 1410 |
> |
material for a distant illum source to behave properly. (This still |
| 1411 |
> |
works.) |
| 1412 |
> |
|
| 1413 |
> |
Fixed some minor problems and inconsistencies with 16-bit/channel |
| 1414 |
> |
TIFF i/o in ra_tiff. |
| 1415 |
> |
|
| 1416 |
> |
Created mksource program to generate distant sources for improved |
| 1417 |
> |
image-based lighting with light probes. |
| 1418 |
> |
|
| 1419 |
> |
Changed ambient calculation so that -ad will not limit recursion |
| 1420 |
> |
depth, and a minimum of 27 samples will be sent out for each stored |
| 1421 |
> |
ambient value, or 3 samples if -aa is 0 (caching off). |
| 1422 |
> |
|
| 1423 |
> |
Added -oM option to rtrace to report material (rather than modifier) |
| 1424 |
> |
for cases where actual material is aliased or further up modifier chain. |
| 1425 |
> |
|
| 1426 |
> |
Rearranged the way ray contributions are computed so that it might be |
| 1427 |
> |
possible to use rtrace to derive daylight coefficients and optical |
| 1428 |
> |
transfer functions. The new -oTW option of rtrace produces color |
| 1429 |
> |
contribution weights for each ray, which combined with the -ti (or -tI) |
| 1430 |
> |
option permits the contribution of selected surfaces or sources to |
| 1431 |
> |
be determined. Using the -oTW option, one should also specify |
| 1432 |
> |
options "-dt 0 -aa 0 -as 0" for optimal results. In particular, |
| 1433 |
> |
one cannot expect reasonable tallies with -ab >= 1 and irradiance |
| 1434 |
> |
caching on (-aa > 0). |
| 1435 |
> |
|
| 1436 |
> |
The same code modifications included a change to the indirect computation |
| 1437 |
> |
with caching switched off (-aa 0). Whereas before, the number of secondary |
| 1438 |
> |
rays after the first bounce were half of the previous generation, they are |
| 1439 |
> |
now determined by the surface reflectance, making for a better and faster |
| 1440 |
> |
calculation. It should now be possible to compute many bounces with -aa 0, |
| 1441 |
> |
which used to be prohibitively expensive. |
| 1442 |
> |
|
| 1443 |
> |
Added -T option to xshowtrace to trace rays to light sources. |
| 1444 |
> |
|
| 1445 |
> |
Added meta2bmp program to produce BMP files from metafile graphics. |
| 1446 |
> |
|
| 1447 |
> |
Added cct_x(t) and cct_y(t) to src/cal/cal/blackbody.cal to interpolate |
| 1448 |
> |
CIE chromaticities for particular black-body temperatures. |
| 1449 |
> |
|
| 1450 |
> |
Increased maximum number of input pictures in pcomb and pcompos to 512. |
| 1451 |
> |
|
| 1452 |
> |
Created rtcontrib program for computing ray contribution coefficients. |
| 1453 |
> |
This tool may be used to do standard optical ray tracing or daylight |
| 1454 |
> |
coefficient calculations for annual simulations, among other uses. |
| 1455 |
> |
|
| 1456 |
> |
Added tilde ('~') output option as part of the -o* specification of |
| 1457 |
> |
rtrace. This permits ray trees to be parsed more easily in binary |
| 1458 |
> |
output mode, as needed by rtcontrib. |
| 1459 |
> |
|
| 1460 |
> |
Implemented Russian roulette ray termination with -lr <= 0. |
| 1461 |
> |
Made -lr -10 the default in rtcontrib. |
| 1462 |
> |
|
| 1463 |
> |
Made rtcontrib -f option search RAYPATH directories. |
| 1464 |
> |
|
| 1465 |
> |
Made it so -o option of rtcontrib can pipe -o output to a command. |
| 1466 |
> |
|
| 1467 |
> |
Added -if and -of options to total for binary i/o (following rcalc mold). |
| 1468 |
> |
|
| 1469 |
> |
Switched default options in rtrace to use Russian roulette. (Rpict and rvu |
| 1470 |
> |
still use biased ray termination.) |
| 1471 |
> |
|
| 1472 |
> |
Added rtcontrib -r option to recover partial output. |
| 1473 |
> |
|
| 1474 |
> |
Added -u rendering option for pure Monte Carlo sampling. |
| 1475 |
> |
(Got rid of -DMC compile option, which this makes superfluous.) |
| 1476 |
> |
|
| 1477 |
> |
Changed -t option of rlam to accept strings as well as single characters. |
| 1478 |
> |
|
| 1479 |
> |
Fixed bug in rcalc with -l option where it would sometimes go into an |
| 1480 |
> |
infinite loop. |
| 1481 |
> |
|
| 1482 |
> |
Fixed truly ancient bug in bounding box computation for cones, which |
| 1483 |
> |
could (and did) cause missing segments. |
| 1484 |
> |
|
| 1485 |
> |
Added -z option to normtiff to output LZW-compressed files. |
| 1486 |
> |
|
| 1487 |
> |
Last change to total causes it to produce results when it sees an empty |
| 1488 |
> |
line on the input. This was not intentional, but I decided I like this |
| 1489 |
> |
behavior so I documented it rather than changing it. |
| 1490 |
> |
|
| 1491 |
> |
===================== |
| 1492 |
> |
Version 3.8 (Released 10/17/06) |
| 1493 |
> |
|
| 1494 |
> |
Fixed Russian roulette ray termination, which was doing the opposite of |
| 1495 |
> |
what it should have been doing, resulting in overestimated values below |
| 1496 |
> |
minimum ray sampling weight (serious). |
| 1497 |
> |
|
| 1498 |
> |
Changed mksource to use 98th percentile (rather than 99th) for threshold. |
| 1499 |
> |
|
| 1500 |
> |
(Above changes included in 3.7.1 patch release.) |
| 1501 |
> |
|
| 1502 |
> |
Eliminated writing of EXPOSURE= line in ra_tiff -r when source TIFF |
| 1503 |
> |
does not have STONITS set. |
| 1504 |
> |
|
| 1505 |
> |
Fixed bug in ambient calculation that caused black values for multiple |
| 1506 |
> |
bounces in some scenes. Thanks to Mark Stock for creating and sharing |
| 1507 |
> |
the sophisticated test scene that demonstrated this problem. |
| 1508 |
> |
|
| 1509 |
> |
Fixed bug in antimatter using Russian Roulette sampling. |
| 1510 |
> |
|
| 1511 |
> |
(Above changes included in 3.7.2 patch release 22 Aug 2005.) |
| 1512 |
> |
|
| 1513 |
> |
Created fieldcomb script to combine alternate fields in a rendering |
| 1514 |
> |
sequence. (Development generously sponsored by Iebele Abel.) |
| 1515 |
> |
|
| 1516 |
> |
Added missing preload of mesh objects for more efficient memory use |
| 1517 |
> |
during parallel rendering -- this was a serious oversight. |
| 1518 |
> |
|
| 1519 |
> |
Created ran2tiff program to automate exposure setting of animation |
| 1520 |
> |
sequences using a moving histogram in combination with pcond, and |
| 1521 |
> |
converting frames to TIFF. |
| 1522 |
> |
|
| 1523 |
> |
Eliminated SPEED macro from makeall and source tree. |
| 1524 |
> |
|
| 1525 |
> |
Added -pj option to vwrays to allow jittering of sample locations. |
| 1526 |
> |
|
| 1527 |
> |
Fixed bug in rtcontrib where it occasionally missed writing the |
| 1528 |
> |
final bin file. (Pretty serious, actually.) |
| 1529 |
> |
|
| 1530 |
> |
Added -Dfseeko=fseek to MACH= line for linux, as fseeko(3) seems to be |
| 1531 |
> |
broken in current versions of Linux. (Need to remove this later.) |
| 1532 |
> |
|
| 1533 |
> |
Rearranged struct's for better efficiency on 64-bit architectures. |
| 1534 |
> |
|
| 1535 |
> |
Added -i option to rlam so it works with binary input formats. |
| 1536 |
> |
|
| 1537 |
> |
Added rtcontrib -bn option to specify number of bins and fixed bug |
| 1538 |
> |
in recovery of files containing multiple values per record. |
| 1539 |
> |
|
| 1540 |
> |
Added rtcontrib -fo option to write over existing files, which it now |
| 1541 |
> |
refuses to do without this option. |
| 1542 |
> |
|
| 1543 |
> |
Made rtcontrib flush output when handed a zero-length ray vector, |
| 1544 |
> |
to match behavior of rtrace. |
| 1545 |
> |
|
| 1546 |
> |
Improved color scale for falsecolor output. |
| 1547 |
> |
|
| 1548 |
> |
Added threshold test for Fresnel approximation to prevent its use |
| 1549 |
> |
on smooth surfaces with unrealistically low specularities (less than 1.8%). |
| 1550 |
> |
Water has a specular reflectance of 2.1% at room temperture. |
| 1551 |
> |
|
| 1552 |
> |
Removed NICE macro settings in rpict and rtrace, which was slowing down |
| 1553 |
> |
the processes under Mac OS X (10.4) by about 60% due to processor napping. |
| 1554 |
> |
|
| 1555 |
> |
Made xform, replmarks and rad2mgf handle quoted modifiers and names properly. |
| 1556 |
> |
|
| 1557 |
> |
Fixed problem in genblinds, where it was generating slats that were too |
| 1558 |
> |
wide with the +/-r option. (Thanks to Helena Buelow-Huebe for discovering |
| 1559 |
> |
this bug.) |
| 1560 |
> |
|
| 1561 |
> |
Fixed bug in ra_ppm for 16-bit/sample i/o, where it was getting the byte |
| 1562 |
> |
order wrong (apparently). |
| 1563 |
> |
|
| 1564 |
> |
Added -V option to rtcontrib to report actual contributions, rather than |
| 1565 |
> |
just ray coefficients. |
| 1566 |
> |
|
| 1567 |
> |
Fixed bug in ranimate that caused it to fail in continuation of renderings. |
| 1568 |
> |
|
| 1569 |
> |
Renamed librt.a to librtrad.a, to avoid conflict on Solaris. Almost |
| 1570 |
> |
everything now gets linked to -lrtrad instead of -lrt. |
| 1571 |
> |
|
| 1572 |
> |
Fixed problem with large sample sets, so -u+ option now is truly random. |
| 1573 |
> |
Thanks to Rick Mistrick and Younju Yoon for identifying this problem, |
| 1574 |
> |
which was related to a poorly designed hash function. |
| 1575 |
> |
|
| 1576 |
> |
Changed -u+ to be the default setting in rtrace (only). |
| 1577 |
> |
|
| 1578 |
> |
Fixed binary i/o for rlam and vwrays under Windows. |
| 1579 |
> |
|
| 1580 |
> |
Added tmCvLums() to tone-mapping routines using a 16-bit lookup table |
| 1581 |
> |
on IEEE floats, which is also used to improve speed of COLOR conversions, |
| 1582 |
> |
especially on machines with slow log() calls. The first call to |
| 1583 |
> |
tmCvLums(), tmCvGrays(), or tmCvColors() initializes the table. |
| 1584 |
> |
|
| 1585 |
> |
Created optics2rad.csh script to convert from Optics 5 material output |
| 1586 |
> |
to something correct for Radiance. Built on old glazing.cal function, |
| 1587 |
> |
which is actually incorrect so removed from the distribution. |
| 1588 |
> |
|
| 1589 |
> |
Fixed nuisance bug in ximage under some SGI machines that caused it to |
| 1590 |
> |
choose an inappropriate visual and display incorrect colors. (Thanks |
| 1591 |
> |
to Oskar Itzinger for debugging the problem.) |
| 1592 |
> |
|
| 1593 |
> |
Fixed long-standing inaccuracy of pcompos -t and +t thresholding options. |
| 1594 |
> |
|
| 1595 |
> |
Fixed bug in handling of views with tabs rather than spaces. |
| 1596 |
> |
|
| 1597 |
> |
Fixed bug related to alias of alias. |
| 1598 |
> |
|
| 1599 |
> |
****** COMPATIBILITY CHANGE ******** |
| 1600 |
> |
Changed default sky turbidity in gensky from the original default of |
| 1601 |
> |
2.75 to the CIE 110-1994 standard value of 2.45. Thanks to Marilyne |
| 1602 |
> |
Anderson of MIT for pointing out this discrepancy. |
| 1603 |
> |
|
| 1604 |
> |
Added -o option to ra_xyze to produce original pixel values. |
| 1605 |
> |
|
| 1606 |
> |
Fixed bug in tracing of virtual sources, where intervening glazing was |
| 1607 |
> |
not being accounted for properly. |
| 1608 |
> |
|
| 1609 |
> |
Added -h option to pcompos and pcomb to eliminate verbose headers. |
| 1610 |
> |
|
| 1611 |
> |
===================== |
| 1612 |
> |
Version 3.9 (Released 3/30/08) |
| 1613 |
> |
|
| 1614 |
> |
Added -spec option to falsecolor to restore original spectral color scale. |
| 1615 |
> |
Also added "-s auto" option to automatically set the maximum value. |
| 1616 |
> |
|
| 1617 |
> |
Added byte-swapping input and output to rcalc. |
| 1618 |
> |
|
| 1619 |
> |
Additional error-checking for source surfaces. |
| 1620 |
> |
|
| 1621 |
> |
Re-fixed bug in octree code that caused it to allocate 8 times as |
| 1622 |
> |
much memory as it actually used(!) -- this was pointed out way back |
| 1623 |
> |
in 1999 by Erik Reinhard and Erik Jansen, but the fix they gave me |
| 1624 |
> |
got lost in the slightly broken release process at the time. This |
| 1625 |
> |
should make a big difference in memory usage, especially for the |
| 1626 |
> |
new mesh primitive. (I measured 30% less memory usage.) |
| 1627 |
> |
|
| 1628 |
> |
Corrected ray weights for material mixtures. |
| 1629 |
> |
|
| 1630 |
> |
Reduced the default -n setting for obj2mesh to take better advantage |
| 1631 |
> |
of the smaller octree structure size. |
| 1632 |
> |
|
| 1633 |
> |
Fixed bug in shadow cache where it was adding surfaces with antimatter |
| 1634 |
> |
holes cut in them to the obstructor list. Thanks to John Mardaljevic |
| 1635 |
> |
for discovering and reporting the problem. |
| 1636 |
> |
|
| 1637 |
> |
Adding ability in mkillum to incorporate BSDF data in calculation. |
| 1638 |
> |
Internal interface (raypcalls) now used in place of rtrace process(es). |
| 1639 |
> |
|
| 1640 |
> |
Fixed pixel alignment in pcomb for size reduction and enlargement. |
| 1641 |
> |
|
| 1642 |
> |
Allow rtcontrib user to set -P and -PP options for persistent rendering. |
| 1643 |
> |
The only caveat is that -n setting > 1 requires -PP rather than -P. |
| 1644 |
> |
|
| 1645 |
> |
Added -c option to rtcontrib to facilitate cumulative calculations. |
| 1646 |
> |
|
| 1647 |
> |
****** COMPATIBILITY CHANGE ******** |
| 1648 |
> |
Fixed long-standing bug in source.cal, which caused it to produce |
| 1649 |
> |
reversed anisotropic photometric distributions due to the |
| 1650 |
> |
misorientation of the y-axis. Thanks to Zack Rogers for discovering |
| 1651 |
> |
and helping debug this problem. |
| 1652 |
> |
|
| 1653 |
> |
Fixed long-standing bug in replmarks, where triangles with X-side |
| 1654 |
> |
aligned with Z-axis would cause incorrect rotations. Thanks to |
| 1655 |
> |
Zack Rogers for finding this error. |
| 1656 |
> |
|
| 1657 |
> |
Added rsensor program to compute sensor signal for daylighting controls. |
| 1658 |
> |
Funding for this component was provided by the Architectural Energy |
| 1659 |
> |
Corporation in Boulder, CO, and directed by Zack Rogers. |
| 1660 |
> |
|
| 1661 |
> |
Added "planisphere" (stereographic) fisheye view type for traditional |
| 1662 |
> |
daylighting analysis. Feature requested & explained by Axel Jacobs. |
| 1663 |
> |
|
| 1664 |
> |
Modified -c option to rtcontrib so it can take a number of input |
| 1665 |
> |
rays to average over, rather than only produce a single accumulated |
| 1666 |
> |
record (which can now be done with -c 0). |
| 1667 |
> |
|
| 1668 |
> |
===================== |
| 1669 |
> |
Version 4.0 (Released 3/12/10) |
| 1670 |
> |
|
| 1671 |
> |
Added -n option to rvu to provide parallel rendering. |
| 1672 |
> |
|
| 1673 |
> |
****** COMPATIBILITY CHANGE ******** |
| 1674 |
> |
Changed ".pic" extension to ".hdr" in all sources and documentation |
| 1675 |
> |
to improve interoperability with other software, since this has become |
| 1676 |
> |
the de facto extension for Radiance RGBE and XYZE pictures. Since file |
| 1677 |
> |
extensions were never more than a convention in Radiance, this does not |
| 1678 |
> |
affect operation, but may require the update of scripts, etc. written |
| 1679 |
> |
by others that assume the ".pic" suffix for Radiance output. |
| 1680 |
> |
|
| 1681 |
> |
Added -N option to objview to support multiprocessing. |
| 1682 |
> |
|
| 1683 |
> |
Improved sampling of circular sources (source, sphere, ring types) with |
| 1684 |
> |
quite a bit of help from David Geisler-Moroder. |
| 1685 |
> |
|
| 1686 |
> |
Added "rpict" and "rvu" variables to rad, and made these as well as |
| 1687 |
> |
the "oconv", "mkillum" and "pfilt" variables accept an alternate |
| 1688 |
> |
command path in each case. Change suggested by Lars Grobe based |
| 1689 |
> |
on similar Radzilla (radz) facility by Carsten Bauer. |
| 1690 |
> |
|
| 1691 |
> |
Fixed rad -v N specification to use actual view name if one. |
| 1692 |
> |
|
| 1693 |
> |
Fixed error in mkillum calculation where it neglected indirect |
| 1694 |
> |
source contributions from BTDF illum's. |
| 1695 |
> |
|
| 1696 |
> |
Added GMT and LATLONG header lines for Greenwich Mean Time and |
| 1697 |
> |
degrees North Latitude / East Longitude. |
| 1698 |
> |
|
| 1699 |
> |
Added gendaylit to distribution (finally). |
| 1700 |
> |
|
| 1701 |
> |
Added ability in vwright(1) to get view from command line arguments. |
| 1702 |
> |
|
| 1703 |
> |
Created genklemsamp(1) utility to generate samples suitable for |
| 1704 |
> |
BSDF-based annual calculations. This is the first Perl script to |
| 1705 |
> |
be added to Radiance. Hopefully, others will follow. |
| 1706 |
> |
|
| 1707 |
> |
Added klems_int.cal file to compute Klems bins for windows. |
| 1708 |
> |
|
| 1709 |
> |
Created genskyvec utility to sample a particular sky and |
| 1710 |
> |
evaluate average radiance over the standard Tregenza sky patches. |
| 1711 |
> |
|
| 1712 |
> |
Created dctimestep program to compute a set of sensor values or |
| 1713 |
> |
a combined image for a particular time using the daylight |
| 1714 |
> |
coefficient method. |
| 1715 |
> |
|
| 1716 |
> |
Created src/rt/rayfifo.c for first-in/first-out handling of |
| 1717 |
> |
multiprocessing by raypcalls.c. |
| 1718 |
> |
|
| 1719 |
> |
Added -n option to rtrace for executing on multiple cores |
| 1720 |
> |
using new rayfifo calls. |
| 1721 |
> |
|
| 1722 |
> |
===================== |
| 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. |
| 1820 |
> |
|
| 1821 |
> |
Fixed major bug in transmitting proxy material sampling. |
| 1822 |
> |
|
| 1823 |
> |
Patched cmake build tools (changes by Zack Galbreath). |
| 1824 |
> |
|
| 1825 |
> |
Removed requirement for pflip -h to be given input file (can pipe from stdin). |
| 1826 |
> |
|
| 1827 |
> |
Added "Number of processes" slider to trad "Action" pane to control rad -N |
| 1828 |
> |
option for rvu and batch rendering. |
