Changelog

13.0.7 - Upcoming

13.0.6 - 2017-08-28

• Fixed unwanted shadowing of environment by area lights.
• Improved updates during live rendering sessions.
• Added support for the following built-in AOVs: P, N, ID.scenepath, ID.geometry, ID.surface.
• Shading Samples was not functional  (locked) since 13.0.4, now fixed.
• Removed "specular" depth. Rays are now tagged as wither reflection or refraction depending on the direction they take when interacting with a specular BRDF. This leaves us with four different ray depths: reflection, refraction, diffuse and hair. This work also fixes refraction depth problems (was impossible to control because of a bug with the specular ray-type overriding it).
• Fixed problems when modifying displacements lives.

13.0.5 - 2017-08-17

• Implement NSIRenderControl's stop and start actions.   These actions allow the stopping and re-starting of any asynchroneous render without destroying the scene. One particular application is the modification of the output chain (e.g. resolution) while rendering.
• Fixed crashes in asynchrenous renders interruptions.
  
  

13.0.4 - 2017-08-15

• Re-organize Hair & Fur material parameters in a more user friendly manner.
  

13.0.3 - 2017-08-12

• Improved sampling of NSI directional lights. Some bright spots was appearing when both directional and area lights were in the same scene.
• Reduced coarseness of live renders.
• 3Delight for Katana:
  • Multi-Light AOVs are now correctly output to the Katana Monitor (#6428). 

13.0.2 - 2017-08-03

• Fix area light shadow casting bug. Area lights could cast shadows from environments even if not requested. Issues #6658 and #6693.
• Fix numerical instability that produced (albeit very rarely) bad noise from light sources.
• 3Delight for Katana
  • Fixed Mute and Solo controls for rigs which contain an Incandescence Light.
• renderdl : restore the "-t" and the "-catrib" command line option. The "-catrib" option has been renamed to "-cat".
• NSI:
  • NSIRenderControl() now accepts a "stoppercallback". The callback is called, along with user data, when a render is done. This allows for asynchronous renders to communicate completion to parent program.
  • NSIEvaluate() can now read NSI archives from stdin when "-" is passed as the filename.

13.0.1 - 2017-07-28

13.0.0 - 2017-07-26

• 3Delight for Katana
  • Mute and Solo controls now work with the Incandescence Light.
  • Fixed multi-light output of the new Incandescence Light.
  • The installer now sets the DEFAULT_RENDER variable to dl.