Changelog

13.0.10 - Upcoming

3Delight for Katana

• • Removed useless specular depth control. 3Delight offers three simple depth controls: reflecton, refraction, hair and diffuse.

13.0.9 - 2017-09-11

3Delight for Katana

• Display an error message when a Katana license is not available for interactive renders.
• The DlCameraSettings now respect Katana'a attribute inheritance.

13.0.8 - 2017-09-02

3Delight for Katana

• The package now recognizes Katana's interactive license.
• Added a Sky Light shader.

NSI

• OSL errors are now reported through the NSI error handler

13.0.7 - 2017-09-01

3Delight for Katana

• Added Sky Light package. It uses the 3Delight Sky shader.
• The Environment Light package now uses the environment light shader by default. Existing Katana lights are not affected by this change.

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; it is 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 during live render.

3Delight for Katana

• The DlSetting's Multi-light selection is now applied on all image layers that are using a Shading Component AOV.
• The DlSetting's Multi-LIght section is now always displayed - previously, an image layer had to be selected for the Multi-Light to be shown.
• Existing DlSettings nodes will need to be re-created.

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 asynchronous renders interruptions

3Delight for Katana

• Mutli-light rendered layers now appear correctly in Katana Monitor.
• The Multi-light section now detects and warns about missing lights & rigs that were previously selected for multi-light output.
• The <light> token can now be used as a part of the Image Filename.

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 (issue #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.
• 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.

3Delight for Katana

• Fixed Mute and Solo controls for rigs which contain an Incandescence Light.

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 environment variable to dl.