--- ray/doc/notes/ReleaseNotes 2020/04/06 21:13:33 1.367 +++ ray/doc/notes/ReleaseNotes 2020/06/04 15:15:07 1.372 @@ -2314,8 +2314,7 @@ column vector. Also added ability to apply trailing u Added new depth, normal, and ID file types to radcompare. Added BigEndian= header line for automatic byte-swapping in rmtxop -and radcompare. Doesn't work quite as automatically as it should -for pvalue -r, currently. +and radcompare. Added new "turbo" palette to falsecolor (thanks to Taoning). @@ -2329,7 +2328,7 @@ Added support for loading RGBE images into matrices in Added -y option to gensky and gendaylit to support more accurate Michalsky solar position calculation. -Changed rsplit so specifying a space as the separator parses words +Changed rsplit, so specifying a space as the separator parses words between whitespace. Added ability of vwrays, pinterp, and pmblur2 to read encoded depth files. @@ -2340,7 +2339,9 @@ Made it so number of segments in genworm, genrev, and given as expressions of previously defined variables, etc. Added -D and -n option to gendaymtx to output sun description and skip -matrix output on request. +matrix output on request. A -M option was also added to output solar +modifiers for rcontrib. Support also added for leap days in WEA input. +Enhancements sponsored by Ladybug Tools. Updated eplus_uvf to work with IDF version 9.x, checking version number. @@ -2349,7 +2350,7 @@ Fix to glarendx issues with dgi calculation. Made it so rmtxop and dctimestep undo any exposure applied to Radiance pictures they may load. -Added objutil utility to manipulate Wavefront .OBJ files. +Added robjutil utility to manipulate Wavefront .OBJ files. Fixed a crash related to rtrace -om or -oM with mesh instances containing materials. @@ -2359,3 +2360,19 @@ deadlock on controlling process. Eliminated unnecessary start-up procedures for rtrace when only ray-casting is needed (i.e., no tracing or value output). + +Improved isotropic sampling method in bsdf2ttree using "zipper" approach +applied in genBSDF. + +Added limit to memory used by high-resolution tensor tree BSDFs for +cumulative cache during MC sampling (rendering). Limit set to 250MBytes +per BSDF for standard architectures. + +Added -n and -s options to bsdf2ttree to provide some user control +over super-sampling. + +Improved surface normal codec used by ambient file to store orthonormal +directions exactly. + +Improved peak extraction method, which was undervaluing transmission +in many cases.