Realistic Image Synthesis Engine

File Release Notes and Changelog

Release Name: 0.9.2 build 66

Notes:


Changes:
- Path tracing shader now has the option to branch which is set to true by default.
- Photon tracers how permit branching as an option
- Got the TranslucentBRDF and translucent materials to work
- Minor shader optimizations
- The spectral integrating rasterizer now has an option to determine how many wavelengths it integrates over
- Added caustic photon mapping lookups for the spectral integrating shader
- Added the Iridescent painter which interpolates between two other painters depending on the viewing angle
- Added Irradiance caching
- Added ability to load and save photon maps
- Simplified parameters for photon tracing.  All you specify is how many photons to capture
- The amount of photons that can be captured from each light is now proportional to the power of the light
- Path tracing shader and distribution shader use the caustic photon maps
- Refined dielectrics and refractors to return multiple rays to account for Fresnel rather than rely on randomness
- Fixed the photon mapping code (again)
- Added a new RAW mesh format so that meshes from SunFlow scenes can be easily imported
- The adaptive sampling rasterizer now uses the PixelBasedRasterizerHelper class
- Abstracted the areas of the screen that are rendered and their order in the IRasterizeSequence interface.
- Added a Win32 window rasterizer output which displays progess as we go along
- Added Fisheye camera and Orthographic camera
- Made DRISE compile after the last year of changes
- Improved breakdown of predicted time and time for rasterization
- Fixed flipped around changes from basis to canonical
- Rasterizers get their resolution from the active camera
- We now check to make sure that reflected rays can't go under the surface