| 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). |