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- Added a progress indicator for 3Delight Cloud scene synchronization.
- 3Delight Display has a new application icon and an updated and nicer About dialogue.
- Fixed various issues with the lens loupe tool.
- The sign in condition is remembered upon exit and reentry of 3Delight Display.
- Improved responsiveness for the 3Delight Cloud tab (sign in and activities). This is achieved by running all related operations in a separate thread.
- Added Sign In tab in 3Delight Display's sidebar. This will work only for users registered for beta testing 3Delight Cloud.
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- 5% to 15% faster rendering, depending on the scene.
- Fixed a problem with refractions (GGX BRDF) causing noticeable darkening.
- Fixed an error on linux when using 3Delight from python.
- Update of the first passes of a live render are now much faster (up to x2 times faster).
- Faster time to first pixel for scenes with large emissive meshes. Scenes with millions of light sources could start as much as x10 times faster.
- Added support for rendering VDB velocity from three float grids instead of a vector grid.
- Fixed some live render crashes related to instances.
- Fixed VDB emission.
- Added new python binding to NSI.
- Fixed changes to camera shutter in live render.
- Improve performance of sky shader.
- Fix performance of displacement after a change in live render.
- 3Delight Display as a new Sidebar with the Mixer UI and a new Loupe tool.
3Delight for Maya
- Improved VDB rendering speed in viewport.
- Add support for Maya's Light Editor. This includes ability to output a light group as a multi-light layer.
- Add Color Blend utility node. This node has a similar functionality to the Layer Shader.
- Better support of Light Linking. Light links to sets and shading groups are now supported.
- Fixed a problem with instanced objects when each instance has a different shader.
- Support Maya's built-in UDIM tag, including support for UDIM tiling on file node.
- Improved UI for all materials and shaders.
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