| 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 innacuracy in calculation of diffuse transmission in the presence |
| 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 |
|
|
| 1471 |
|
|
| 1472 |
|
Added rtcontrib -r option to recover partial output. |
| 1473 |
|
|
| 1474 |
< |
Added -R rendering option for pure Monte Carlo sampling. |
| 1475 |
< |
(Got rid of -DMC compile option, whicht his makes superfluous.) |
| 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 |
> |
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| 1491 |
> |
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| 1492 |
> |
Version 3.8 |
| 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. |
