VPT 1.0.2 Alpha
Pre-release
Pre-release
v1.0.2 Alpha Release Notes
VPT has come a long way since I've started writing it two and a half years ago and it is still growing strong. This release brings lots of new features that grew a lot in number so that it deserves a release. You can find the whole list of new features below
New features
- New ebruneton style sky
- Realistic planetary rendering with new sky system
- Now supporting point lights
- Volume emission is now supported
- Depth of field with new camera class
- Volume instancing
- Ability to render thousands of instances
- Instances share common volume textures
- Correct transforms rotations and scales
- New Houdini plug-in for exporting instance files
- Octree and BVH structures for fast ray traversal
- Cost calculation for ray traversal
- Blue noise pixel sampling
- Image Denoising with Intel Open Image Denoiser
- Color transfer functions for albedo and emission
- New energy injection for multiple scattering approximation
- New vdb assets
- Upgraded to Imgui 1.72
- Upgraded to OpenVDB 6.2
Bug fixes and UI improvements
- Fixed a bug in file saver where VPT crashed if file is saved after window size change
- Separated atmosphere parameters to a new gui
- Removed obsolete parameters from main gui