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Revision 1.32 by greg, Fri Mar 26 03:11:50 2004 UTC vs.
Revision 1.46 by greg, Sun Sep 19 08:42:22 2004 UTC

# Line 1172 | Line 1172 | Added -N option to rad to start multiple rendering pro
1172   parallel.
1173  
1174   Fixed bug where mesh instances were not being freed, so subsequent calls
1175 < in programs like ranimate would refer to bogus data.
1175 > in programs like ranimove would refer to bogus data.
1176  
1177   Added support in normtiff for floating-point and 16-bit/sample TIFF input
1178   files.
# Line 1263 | Line 1263 | Made it so pcompos will read everything from a stream
1263   need it, so input commands will not receive a hangup signal.
1264  
1265   Wrote ra_bmp program to convert to and from Windows BMP files (finally).
1266 < It's a nasty format in so many ways -- I don't yet support conversion
1267 < from compressed 8-bit or 4-bit modes, but may in the near future.
1266 > It's the most horrible image format I've ever seen, and I've seen a lot.
1267 >
1268 > Increased -aa default value for all renderers (and also -ad and -as in
1269 > rview) at Schorsch's suggestion.  I think this undid my earlier decrease
1270 > of -aa last time, which I guess was ill-considered.
1271 >
1272 > Modified oconv to keep subdividing the octree if there are too many
1273 > objects in a voxel even when the -r resolution limit has been
1274 > reached.  This was not done before due to problems with recursion,
1275 > and still, it will only continue to 256 times the original -r limit.
1276 > If that isn't enough, then there's probably no hope, anyway.
1277 >
1278 > Added -l option to obj2mesh to search for material files in library
1279 > locations.
1280 >
1281 > Increased polygon vertex limit to 512 in obj2mesh and obj2rad and added
1282 > warning if this limit is exceeded.
1283 >
1284 > Added tone-mapping and monitor primary options to ra_bmp.  This gives
1285 > new functionality similar to normtiff and ximage.  It would be nice to
1286 > add this feature to the other ra_* programs as well...  someday.
1287 >
1288 > Fixed long-standing bug in reported pixel ordering out of certain
1289 > protate commands.
1290 >
1291 > Added -p option to rcalc for "passive mode" that transmits
1292 > unrecognized input -- useful for substituting data in the
1293 > middle of a stream.
1294 >
1295 > Fixed a very obscure bug in rpict that caused a dark horizontal
1296 > line in certain cylindrical projections due to improper drawing
1297 > of the sky dome source in rt/srcdraw.c.
1298 >
1299 > Fixed problems with effective ray lenths computed for dielectric
1300 > and BRTDfunc materials.  This was most evident in breakup of holodeck
1301 > views when VDISTANCE=True.
1302 >
1303 > Fixed rad so that 'scene' variable may consist only of inline commands.
1304 >
1305 > Fixed bug introduced in shadow caching routines where sources in the
1306 > middle of spheres were not illuminating properly.  Thanks to Guilio
1307 > Antonutto for spotting this problem.
1308 >
1309 > Modified gensky behavior so if time is given with standard time zone
1310 > designation, any -m option is ignored.
1311 >
1312 > Added -n option to mkillum for (shared memory) parallel processing.
1313 >
1314 > Fixed long-standing bug in parallel processing code that only seemed
1315 > to manifest with the new mkillum -n option, where rtrace would
1316 > deadlock upon termination.

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