--- ray/doc/notes/ReleaseNotes 2005/06/05 19:52:00 1.80 +++ ray/doc/notes/ReleaseNotes 2005/09/17 05:14:14 1.99 @@ -1382,7 +1382,7 @@ care to support officially due to its machine-dependen Fixed bug that caused incorrect reporting of non-surface in set when mixing meshes and instances. (Thanks to Jack de Valpine for discovery.) -Fixed innacuracy in calculation of diffuse transmission in the presence +Fixed inaccuracy in calculation of diffuse transmission in the presence of pure specular (Fresnel reflection) using "trans" material. Thanks to Christoph Reinhart for pointing out the error. @@ -1468,3 +1468,54 @@ Added -if and -of options to total for binary i/o (fol Switched default options in rtrace to use Russian roulette. (Rpict and rvu still use biased ray termination.) + +Added rtcontrib -r option to recover partial output. + +Added -u rendering option for pure Monte Carlo sampling. +(Got rid of -DMC compile option, which this makes superfluous.) + +Changed -t option of rlam to accept strings as well as single characters. + +Fixed bug in rcalc with -l option where it would sometimes go into an +infinite loop. + +Fixed truly ancient bug in bounding box computation for cones, which +could (and did) cause missing segments. + +Added -z option to normtiff to output LZW-compressed files. + +Last change to total causes it to produce results when it sees an empty +line on the input. This was not intentional, but I decided I like this +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.