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i-display has been inproved to provide users with a more complete image viewing software. In this release, it provides the following improvements:
- Thumbnails view.
- Sequence management (deleting and moving images).
- AOV viewing.
- Image bookmarking.
- Overhaul of the menu items and shortcuts to make i-display more consistent and easier to use and learn.
RenderMan Interface
- Implemented the Rtx Plug-in interface. Meaning that users can provide reading functionality for their own texture formats.
- Curves now accept ’
vertex’ width parameters (and not only ’varying’ as before).
Documentation
Online documentation has been improved and is now available through a new Wiki.
3Delight Studio Pro 10
August 2011
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- The shading interpreter (the "virtual machine" which is responsible of shader evaluation) is now using proprietary just-in-time compilation technology which translates RenderMan RSL 2.0 shaders into SSE2 machine code. This makes the shader interpretation up to three times faster and gives a 30% speed improvement on a typical beauty render.
- Ray-tracing of occlusion and transmission rays has been greatly improved. Speedups can go anywhere between 10% and 300%.
- Ray-tracing of displacements has been optimized, speedups of up to 300% are expected.
- Added automatic ray thresholding for improved performance on highly reflective/refractive surfaces (for example, glass).
- Improved performance of area lights when using the ‘illuminance’ sampling mode. Acceleration can reach an order of magnitude with high sample counts and deep ray levels.
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