--- ray/doc/notes/ReleaseNotes 2005/06/14 04:04:51 1.85 +++ ray/doc/notes/ReleaseNotes 2005/08/19 02:31:32 1.93 @@ -1382,7 +1382,7 @@ care to support officially due to its machine-dependen Fixed bug that caused incorrect reporting of non-surface in set when mixing meshes and instances. (Thanks to Jack de Valpine for discovery.) -Fixed innacuracy in calculation of diffuse transmission in the presence +Fixed inaccuracy in calculation of diffuse transmission in the presence of pure specular (Fresnel reflection) using "trans" material. Thanks to Christoph Reinhart for pointing out the error. @@ -1478,3 +1478,26 @@ Changed -t option of rlam to accept strings as well as Fixed bug in rcalc with -l option where it would sometimes go into an infinite loop. + +Fixed truly ancient bug in bounding box computation for cones, which +could (and did) cause missing segments. + +Added -z option to normtiff to output LZW-compressed files. + +Last change to total causes it to produce results when it sees an empty +line on the input. This was not intentional, but I decided I like this +behavior so I documented it rather than changing it. + +===================== +Version 3.8 + +Fixed Russian roulette ray termination, which was doing the opposite of +what it should have been doing, resulting in overestimated values below +minimum ray sampling weight (serious). + +Changed mksource to use 98th percentile (rather than 99th) for threshold. + +(Above changes included in 3.7.1 patch release.) + +Eliminated writing of EXPOSURE= line in ra_tiff -r when source TIFF +does not have STONITS set.