LuxRender Windows CVS build of 26-12-2009

[Lord Crc]

Hi,

I'm about to head to bed but thought I'd get some fresh windows CVS builds uploaded in case someone has some time to kill before the new year

The main changes is the merging of the "rendering hints" branch. Another important change is that the mix material now has its parameters swapped. This means that if amount = 0, the first material is used. Thus if you got any scenes with mix the material you might have some surprising results unless you swap things around. Good time to explore the copy/paste functionality in LuxBlend

Changelog:

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37 hours   Jean-Philippe Grimaldi   Fix rendering hints issues:
37 hours   Jean-Philippe Grimaldi   Reduce holding time of the stats lock.
2 days   Asbjørn Heid   Added missing include statement in renderinhints.h
2 days   Jean-Philippe Grimaldi   Improvements to distant light bidirectional support and add a "float theta" parameter to allow non parallel lighting (like sun), only working with the bidirectional interfaces for now.
2 days   Jean-Philippe Grimaldi   Clean up rendering hints:
2 days   Jean-Philippe Grimaldi   Add the possibility to get the marginal offset when doing discrete sampling of 1D distributions.
3 days   Jean-Philippe Grimaldi   Fix spot light with bidirectional.
3 days   Jean-Philippe Grimaldi   Try to fix point lights with bidirectional (most noticeable with IES profiles).
3 days   Jean-Philippe Grimaldi   BEHAVIOUR CHANGE: modify mix material so that if amount=0 the first material is selected instead of the second.
3 days   Jean-Philippe Grimaldi   Small clean up to glossy.
3 days   Jean-Philippe Grimaldi   Fix a rare weighting error in bidirectional.
3 days   Jean-Philippe Grimaldi   Remove useless comments.
3 days   Jean-Philippe Grimaldi   Simplify SimpleBxDF::Sample_f
3 days   David Bucciarelli   Fixed the number of requested samples for ALL_UNIFORM light strategy
3 days   David Bucciarelli   Merged the main devel branch with the RenderingHints one
3 days   David Bucciarelli   Fixed BUG 684: SkyLight::Power() methods returns NaN
3 days   David Bucciarelli   Merge
3 days   David Bucciarelli   Fixed a problem with an unitialized new field in struct VisibilityTester
4 days   Jean-Philippe Grimaldi   Revert wrong name mixup between glossy and glossy2.
5 days   Jean-Philippe Grimaldi   Fix a pdf typo in the Schlick BRDF.


These were built in a fresh VM, which hopefully should be identical to the previous one, however there may be some hiccups. You're warned

[SATtva]

Good time to explore the copy/paste functionality in LuxBlend

Or better to implement that feature. I think I'll have some time before the New Year.

[psor]

Thank you my Lord! ;o))



take care
psor

[SATtva]

Good time to explore the copy/paste functionality in LuxBlend

Or better to implement that feature. I think I'll have some time before the New Year.

Done and is very handy.

[psychotron]

nice sattva!

[SATtva]

Took a little longer than I expected to figure out everything. I'm still not so fluent with LuxBlend internals, and comments in the code are virtually non-existent. :) Btw, psychotron, could you also test another request of yours?

[psychotron]

dunno how to apply patches to luxblend

[SATtva]

From Linux it's easy:

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patch original_Luxblend.py patchfile.patch

It should do all the magic automatically. :)

In case you don't have access to the Linux currently, here's LuxBlend with both patches applied:

[psychotron]

great thanks for info (will try it next time) and for patched luxblend
yes I'm back on my linux workstation now

I'll test and report asap

[SATtva]

psychotron, any success with patches? :)