--- ray/doc/notes/ReleaseNotes 2014/01/25 18:27:39 1.230 +++ ray/doc/notes/ReleaseNotes 2015/02/24 19:39:26 1.254 @@ -1807,7 +1807,7 @@ of KitWare and sponsored by NREL. This includes a qt- driver for rvu, which is built in the new subdirectory src/qtrvu. ===================== -Version 4.2 +Version 4.2 (Release date 7/31/2014) Axel Jacobs added -cp and -palettes options to falsecolor. @@ -1921,3 +1921,94 @@ transparent and translucent materials (except dielectr This makes the option useful in cases where adjacent trans surfaces are placed next to each other by a modeler that only understands volumetric objects. + +Changed dctimestep so that output matrices (-n > 1) are preceded by a +header, and added support for float and double output formats with -o[fd]. + +Introduced eplus_adduvf program to compute user view factors for EnergyPlus. + +Changed image-plane sampling in rpict to use Hilbert curve, which gives +less of a brushed/striped appearance to output pixels with -u- (default). + +Added ltview and ltpict Perl scripts contributed by Axel Jacobs, inspired +by Rob Guglielmetti. + +Added header variables for NROWS, NCOLS and NCOMP to help standardize +matrix files. This functionality has been incorporated into +rcollate, gendaymtx, and dctimestep. + +Created rmtxop utility to operate on multi-component matrices. This +facilitates some daylight matrix calculations, and provides a general +tool for manipulating matrix data. + +****** COMPATIBILITY CHANGE ******** +Introduced new Hessian-based error control in irradiance caching (ambient) +calculation. Since the format of the stored ambient values is different, +the old files will be rejected with an error message and must be removed. +The programs may be compiled with the -DOLDAMB option if this is a problem. + +Added -p option to rcontrib to set function file parameters on a per-modifier +basis to simplify bin evaluation. + +Created rfluxmtx program to compute flux transfer matrices from a sender +surface to one or more receiver surfaces. (Renamed the file klems_int.cal +to klems_full.cal in the process.) + +Added "-c" option to getinfo to execute command on data segment. + +===================== +Version 4.3 + +Changed rmtxop so it writes out same type as lesser of inputs unless +direction otherwise using -f? option. + +Changed order of oconv arguments in rfluxmtx so user can specify input +octree using -i option at the end instead of (or in addition to) a +list of scene files. + +Added support for argument expansion to rfluxmtx and bug fixes. + +Fixed bug in indirect hemisphere sampling for some corner cases. + +Added default specular lobe to BSDF interpolation. + +Set minimum number of shadow checks before direct optimization (4). + +(Above changes included in 4.2.1 patch release.) + +****** COMPATIBILITY CHANGE ******** +Made header input and output the default behavior for dctimestep and +genskyvec. + +****** COMPATIBILITY CHANGE ******** +Changed pabopto2bsdf default behavior to add 90-degree rotation +to bring pgII's definition of "up" in line with Klems axis +conventions. Introduced a new header variable "upphi" to +control this added rotation. Using "#upphi 90" in each +BSDF input file gets back the original behavior, where it +assumes that the up direction is 90-degrees from the X-axis. +The default value of 0 corresponds to PAB's definition of +the X-axis as being "up". + +Fixed bug in rsensor related to having many rows (altitude) and +few columns (azimuth) in sensitivity file. + +Fixed floating point round-off error in new Hessian calculation +for some sytems (Windows, primarily). + +Fixed bug in tensor tree BSDF code that caused bus error on +some systems, and may have been source of other errors as well. + +(Above changes included in 4.2.2 patch release.) + +Improved ambient extrapolation to avoid zero values. Actual +threshold set to 5% of recorded value. + +Changed anisotropic Gaussian and Ashikhmin models so that +illegal orientation vectors are dealt with more gracefully. + +Created wrapBSDF tool and incorporated into genBSDF along +with new rfluxmtx computation. + +Initial check-in of Roland Schregle's photon map integration. +New 5.0a version designation as suggested by Andy McNeil.