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@sergeneren sergeneren released this 13 Dec 08:48
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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