Thanks to a help and hard work of our community Aqsis 1.4.2 has now been released!

This is mainly a bugfix release, resolving the following issues:

• Incorrect fixed-size integer types in ndspy.h on some platforms.
• Missing 8-bit character encoding.
• Uniform user parameters not working for SDS.
• Correct the array length count as passed by the RIB parser into RiColorSamples.
• Fix texture(..., "lerp", 1) which incorrectly used mipmap level 1 when magnifying a texture.
• Intermittent aqsl segfault when typechecking functions, especially external DSOs.
• Fix the installation details for OS X to ensure visibility on the PATH.... read more

Thanks to a lot of hard work by many developers around the world, and a focus on more frequent updates, Aqsis 1.4.1 has been released!

This is mainly a bugfix release, resolving the following issues:

• Texture wrapping incorrect when texture isn't multiple of tile size.
• Fix a serious memory leak involving string arguments to DSO shadops.
• Added missing 'ndspy.h' include to Windows installer (NSIS).
• aqsistex segfaults when opening 2-channel greyscale TIFFs.
• aqsistex failed to set TIFFTAG_EXTRASAMPLES to identify alpha channel types.
• Fix a minor memory leak in CqDisplayRequest.
• Fix a minor memory leak in RiProcDynamicLoad plugin handling code.... read more

Its been a while, and a lot of hard work by many developers around the world, but Aqsis 1.4.0 has finally been released!

Some of the new features include:

• All-new look!
• Various speed improvements
• Additional graphical tools
• Texture library
• Smooth shading interpolation
• Massive support
• OS X application bundle
• Linux desktop integration
• Cross-platform build system (CMake)

... and more.

As usual, thanks goes out to all involved who've helped during this release.

Enjoy,

Aqsis Team

http://www.aqsis.org

Thanks to the hard work of the team and other contributors Aqsis is now available via Fedora Extras, as of the 1.2.0 release...

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras

This covers FC5, FC6 and the latest development branch (FC7), for all supported architectures (i386, x86_64 and ppc).

To install, just open a console/terminal window and type 'yum install aqsis' and away you go!

Enjoy,

Aqsis Team

www.aqsis.org

After a few delays, and a lot of hard work by many developers around the world, Aqsis 1.2.0 has finally been released.

Some of the new features include:

• Various speed improvements
• AutoShadow support
• HDRI support (OpenEXR)
• Implicit surface support (Blobby)
• Layered shaders
• RIB processing tool (miqser)
• Cross-platform build system (SCons)

... plus much, much more.

As usual, thanks goes out to all involved who've helped during this release - Arguably the BIGGEST yet!... read more

We are not updating the 'news' section of the SF site anymore, all Aqsis news is available on the project web site at http://www.aqsis.org.

The reason for this is to avoid duplication of effort. Please refer to the web site for all up to date information about Aqsis.

Source and Win32 packages, RPM's to follow.

This is mainly a bug fix release, lots of bugs eliminated. Some optimisations and changes in functionality, see the changelog for details.

This should be, fingers crossed, the last release before 1.0. I hope to clean up the last of the bugs before 1.0, but if time proves to be against us, it may get released with a couple of known minor bugs.

The source, Windows installers, and RPM's for release 0.9.2 are finally available for download. This is quite a major change from 0.9.1 (even I didn't realise just how much has changed until I came to do the release note). See the changelog, linked off the home page, for details of changes.

Thanks to everyone who contributed to this mammoth release.

Work will now continue towards 0.9.3 to give include a MacOSX release, and to clean up outstanding bugs and get the test suite passing. Once 0.9.3 is released, it will be left in the wild for a while to check stability before 1.0.... read more

Jonathan Merritt has submitted a very significant new gallery entry. You can find it under the May-Jun 2004 section. It is the first animated results from the Blender integration that he has been working so hard on over the last couple of weeks.

This animation now takes the crown of the best animation produced yet with Aqsis (out of interest, the prvious owner of the crown was also Jonathan, for his "Pintime" animation, in the "Competition" section of the gallery.

Thanks to Dave (Vargol).

This completes the 0.9.1 release, the most comprehensive release of Aqsis ever.

Win32 Installer/Win32 Developer Libs
Fedora 1 RPM
Source Archive
MacOSX
Gentoo eBuild

Thanks to all who have helped throughout.

Paul Gregory