--- ray/doc/notes/ReleaseNotes 2005/07/27 05:34:17 1.89 +++ ray/doc/notes/ReleaseNotes 2005/09/21 17:17:24 1.103 @@ -1491,3 +1491,41 @@ behavior so I documented it rather than changing it. ===================== Version 3.8 +Fixed Russian roulette ray termination, which was doing the opposite of +what it should have been doing, resulting in overestimated values below +minimum ray sampling weight (serious). + +Changed mksource to use 98th percentile (rather than 99th) for threshold. + +(Above changes included in 3.7.1 patch release.) + +Eliminated writing of EXPOSURE= line in ra_tiff -r when source TIFF +does not have STONITS set. + +Fixed bug in ambient calculation that caused black values for multiple +bounces in some scenes. Thanks to Mark Stock for creating and sharing +the sophisticated test scene that demonstrated this problem. + +Fixed bug in antimatter using Russian Roulette sampling. + +(Above changes included in 3.7.2 patch release 22 Aug 2005.) + +Created fieldcomb script to combine alternate fields in a rendering +sequence. (Development generously sponsored by Iebele Abel.) + +Added missing preload of mesh objects for more efficient memory use +during parallel rendering -- this was a serious oversight. + +Created ran2tiff program to automate exposure setting of animation +sequences using a moving histogram in combination with pcond, and +converting frames to TIFF. + +Eliminated SPEED macro from makeall and source tree. + +Added -pj option to vwrays to allow jittering of sample locations. + +Fixed bug in rtcontrib where it occasionally missed writing the +final bin file. (Pretty serious, actually.) + +Added -Dfseeko=fseek to MACH= line for linux, as fseeko(3) seems to be +broken in current versions of Linux. (Need to remove this later.)