--- ray/doc/notes/ReleaseNotes 2010/03/12 19:14:24 1.166 +++ ray/doc/notes/ReleaseNotes 2011/10/26 16:48:01 1.191 @@ -1706,7 +1706,7 @@ be added to Radiance. Hopefully, others will follow. Added klems_int.cal file to compute Klems bins for windows. -Created gentregvec utility to sample a particular sky and +Created genskyvec utility to sample a particular sky and evaluate average radiance over the standard Tregenza sky patches. Created dctimestep program to compute a set of sensor values or @@ -1718,3 +1718,90 @@ multiprocessing by raypcalls.c. Added -n option to rtrace for executing on multiple cores using new rayfifo calls. + +===================== +Version 4.1 + +Changed ranimate behavior so remote login under a different user +doesn't necessarily require the presence of the originating user's +home directory. + +Changed standard transmission function normalization back to what +it was in version 3.5, following recommendation of David Geisler-Moroder, +who pointed out that the revised BTDF increased too much at grazing. + +Changed rad behavior with -N >1 on single view to call rpiece. + +Updated SCons build system for MINGW compilation, thanks to Christian +Kohler. + +Added -u option to rlam for unbuffered output. + +Modified dctimestep to accept sky vector and daylight coefficient matrix +or list of images to sum together, as suggested by Andy McNeil. + +Created genBSDF script to generate BSDF in Windows XML format. + +Modified mkillum to accept detailed geometry from BSDF XML files. + +Altered obj2rad to ignore zero normals (thanks to Jack de Valpine for +suggestions and help). + +Fixed bug in genklemsamp that caused non-uniform sampling over surfaces. + +Fixed bugs in rhoptimize and rhcopy for 64-bit compilation. + +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 +not flushed when both -x and -y are set. This avoids flush delays +in rtcontrib for large numbers of output files and delays while +rendering images using rtrace with the -n option. + +Added ability for rsensor to output ray origins and directions +rather than actually loading octree and computing sensor value. + +Fixed old bug in obj2rad where it would stop processing and +report a syntax error if the "void" type is used in the map file. + +Updated reflection model according to EGSR 2010 paper by David +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.