--- ray/doc/notes/ReleaseNotes 2018/07/26 23:50:40 1.324 +++ ray/doc/notes/ReleaseNotes 2019/07/04 01:25:07 1.340 @@ -2157,7 +2157,7 @@ Added bsdfview tool analogous to objview but for BSDF which calls bsdf2rad then rad with a few useful default views. ========================= -Version 5.2 +Version 5.2 (Release October 8, 2018) Created psketch program to apply non-photorealistic rendering to selected objects, identified by modifier name(s). @@ -2232,3 +2232,42 @@ for comparing BSDFs. Fixed issue with pfilt -m option and uneven image size changes pointed out by Rob Shakespeare. + +Updates to evalglare and gendaylit from Jan Wienold, including new +colored sky option. + +========================= +Version 5.3 + +Created radcompare program to compare Radiance tool output to reference outputs +during unit-testing. + +Fixed issue reading very large files (> 2 GBytes) in rcollate. + +Made picking function in rvu ignore transparent and void surfaces. + +Added -orRxX options to rtrace to enable output of mirrored and unmirrored +contributions and distances to enable new types of reprojections. This also +cleaned up and unified handling of effective ray lengths throughout code. + +Bug fixes from Jan Wienold for evalglare. + +Changed indexed (numbered) output from dctimestep to start from 0 rather +than 1, to make it more consistent with expected input naming. + +Increased default sampling in bsdf2klems (-n option) to 1024. + +Fixed an issue noticed by David G-M that was causing genBSDF to bias +isotropic tensor tree samples resulting in subsequent failure of +peak extraction with "aBSDF" type. + +Introduced max() and min() functions to .cal library. + +Added random incident patch sampling to bsdf2klems to improve accuracy +with scattering interpolation representation input (e.g., from +pabopto2bsdf). The other input types already sampled incident patch area. + +Added gendaymtx -A option to compute average sky over all the input +time steps. + +Added ability to output color image from rtrace with any of -ovrx options.