--- ray/doc/notes/ReleaseNotes 2025/04/04 18:06:48 1.481 +++ ray/doc/notes/ReleaseNotes 2025/07/24 18:25:46 1.494 @@ -2383,7 +2383,7 @@ Added -u option to gendaymtx to elide data columns (ti the sun is not visible above the horizon. ========================= -Version 5.4 +Version 5.4 (Released November 5, 2023) Added rcollate -c option to force operation to continue even if it seems unnecessary. Made tool more robust. @@ -2605,7 +2605,7 @@ Made reciprocity averaging default to "off" in bsdf2tt to create more problems than it solves. ==================== -Version 6.0 +Version 6.0 (Released July 23, 2025) Extensive changes to enable spectral rendering, which defaults to "off" to maintain backwards-compatibility with previous versions, with the @@ -2672,9 +2672,11 @@ put out as many color channels as specified in any -cs Added ability of mgf2rad to convert spectral data at least for light, glow, plastic, and metal primitive types. Need -to use new '-s' option to get new output. +to use new '-s' option to get new output. Added support for +new WGMDfunc type as well, which is considerably more flexible +at supporting different spectral components. -Added handling of spectral images to rcode2bmp script. +Added handling of spectral pictures (HSR) to rcode2bmp script. Minor change to rcollate to allow explicit byte records to be any specified length without checks against header input. @@ -2718,7 +2720,7 @@ Wrote rxpiece tool that will render pictures using til can handle different output formats and hyperspectral pictures. Only runs on a single machine, however -- no NFS locking on shared volumes. Mainly a demonstration tool for RpictSimulManager -C++ class, but may have its uses. +C++ class, but later added to standard Rmakefile targets. Fixed a bug in BSDF sampling of sources pointed out by David Geisler-Moroder, which tended to overestimate specular @@ -2740,7 +2742,7 @@ results are still reported in RGB. Added accurate conversion of hyperspectral pictures to ra_xyze. Added hyperspectral picture conversion to ra_tiff, with accurate -color when targeting 16-bit/comp., LogLuv, and float utput, +color when targeting 16-bit/comp., LogLuv, and float output, and the approximate method for 24-bit RGB. Taoning added genssky -L option to specify global and diffuse @@ -2789,3 +2791,46 @@ double, which uses less RAM and supports faster operat in general. Build with compiler flag: -DDTnativeDTrmx_native=DTdouble to get back higher precision representation. + +Taoning Wang updated genssky and gensdaymtx to provide illuminance +calibration and accept EPW files directly as input. + +Added -e expr and -f file.cal options to all rendering tools, not +just rcontrib/rxcontrib. Feature request from Peter A-B. + +Fixed slight bias in indirect calculation caused by ambient +collision detection, pointed out by Jon Sargent. New code +keeps track of rejected samples and sells them back to +later calls to get something closer to a true Poisson +sampling method. + +Altered rvu "origin" command to take shift amounts forward, +right, and up rather than taking an explicit origin, which +can be done easily enough with the "view" command. Peter A-B +requested (sort of). + +Added genglaze tool created by Taoning Wang to generate +spectral glazing materials based on CGDB data and models. + +Fixed bug that caused inf and nan errors with -cw setting +where longer wavelength was substantially less than limits +of specified spectra. + +Created bsdfpeaks utility to identify and report full-width, +half-maximum sizes of peaks in SIR and XML inputs. + +Changed default super-sampling in bsdf2ttree from 256 to 64, +since there doesn't seem to be much benefit to the higher +sampling rate for most BSDFs. + +Fixed problem with "mirror" primitive, which was not permitting +indirect rays to transmit through alternate material type. +Thanks to Jon Sargent for finding problem and help resolving it. + +Added experimental C++ based rxpiece tool to default installation +in makeall/Rmakefile. + +Added rcomb -mt option to transpose concatenation matrix. + +==================== +Version 6.1