--- ray/doc/notes/ReleaseNotes 2010/10/05 00:59:38 1.178 +++ ray/doc/notes/ReleaseNotes 2011/10/26 16:48:01 1.191 @@ -1749,9 +1749,9 @@ suggestions and help). Fixed bug in genklemsamp that caused non-uniform sampling over surfaces. -Fied bugs in rhoptimize and rhcopy for 64-bit compilation. +Fixed bugs in rhoptimize and rhcopy for 64-bit compilation. -Made change to avoid problem using gcc --fast-math compile option. +Made a change to avoid problem using gcc --fast-math compile option. ****** COMPATIBILITY CHANGE ******** Changed behavior of rtrace and rtcontrib so that every scanline is @@ -1770,3 +1770,38 @@ Geisler-Moroder and Arne Duer. Replaced C-shell version of falsecolor with Perl script written by Axel Jacobs. + +****** COMPATIBILITY CHANGE ******** +Changed -sj (specular jitter) option to something called specular +sampling (-ss), which if set less than 1 has the same behavior as +the old -sj, but when set greater than 1, spawns multiple ray +samples from semi-specular surfaces. + +Fixed bug noticed by Randolph Fritz that caused ambient sync errors. + +Fixed bug in findglare for reading picture files under Windows. + +Added options to pvalue to note other color spaces on reverse conversion. +Thanks to Erich Philips for the feature request. + +Added BSDF data-driven material type with full sampling support. + +Added BRDF calculations to genBSDF. + +Bug fixes in rsensor thanks to help from David Geisler-Moroder. + +Added variable-resolution BSDF support in renderers and genBSDF. + +Created pkgBSDF program to extract BSDF geometry and put it +together with surface description suitable for inclusion in +a Radiance scene. + +Muted warning for "no light sources found" when there is at least +one glow object and interreflections are on (-ab > 0). + +Fixed long-standing bug that caused underestimation of reflection +when specular component was below -st threshold in non-metals. + +Checked in cross-platform cmake build system created by Bill Hoffman +of KitWare and sponsored by NREL. This includes a qt-based +driver for rvu, which is built in the new subdirectory src/qtrvu.