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Title: 1.7 Daily Builds Changelog
Post by: Ondra on 2017-04-24, 14:58:15

just placeholder now, but we are already hard at work ;)

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Title: Re: 1.7 Daily Builds Changelog
Post by: Ondra on 2017-05-15, 21:26:09

• Added legacy switch to Corona Rounded edges texmap, which switches the behavior back to 1.5
• Fixed crash caused by zooming in VFB with sharpening+blurring enabled
• Fixed drawing of Corona VFB render regions when also using 3ds Max render regions https://corona-renderer.com/bugs/view.php?id=2644 (https://corona-renderer.com/bugs/view.php?id=2644)
• Fixed NaNs produced by CoronaOutput texmap with extreme gamma settings
• Fixed offset between beauty and alpha channels when using sharpening (https://forum.corona-renderer.com/index.php/topic,15843.msg101074.html#msg101074 (https://forum.corona-renderer.com/index.php/topic,15843.msg101074.html#msg101074))

Scatter

• Fixed scatter UV pattern random offset moving all objects only in one direction. Now the objects are properly moved in random directions. Old scenes are preserved via legacy checkbox.
• Fixed a bug causing low CPU utilization when setting spline scatter random seed

DR

• Fixed incorrect status report that the remove side is not responding
• Fixed incorrect representation of non-ascii characters in camera name on slaves (https://corona-renderer.com/bugs/view.php?id=2669 (https://corona-renderer.com/bugs/view.php?id=2669))
• Fixed hang when closing DR server during render
• Better error reporting when slaves do not have a 3ds Max version capable of rendering received scene

Image Editor

• PNG files are now saved with proper alpha channel.

Title: Re: 1.7 Daily Builds Changelog
Post by: Ondra on 2017-05-23, 16:04:17

• Fixed Corona Proxy crashing in max 2018
• Martin Geupel’s (deadclown) coronaConverter script bundled in the installer updated to version 1.36
  • fixed: standard lights shadow conversion overwrote already existing CoronaShadows settings
  • fixed: Mental Ray Multi/Sub-Map slot order
  • added buttons to enable or disable legacy mode in CoronaRoundEdges map
• Fixed crash when exporting a scene to invalid location
• Fixed DR bug causing warning messages about failing to accumulate EXRs
• Fixed occasional crash in standalone and image editor when the license was not activated
• Fixed CoronaBitmap producing artifacts in some cases with HDR maps as light source
• Fixed spelling in tooltips, added translations of new tooltips
• Fixed significant slowdown from Corona VFB when using sharpening
• Image Editor
  • Fixed crash when opening curve editor when no image is loaded
  • Installer now issues a warning when .cxr and/or .cexr file extensions fail to be associated with image editor
  • Fixed zooming using mouse wheel not always respecting the cursor position
  • Added command line version usable for batch image processing - this variant is still experimental and may contain bugs

Title: Re: 1.7 Daily Builds Changelog
Post by: Ondra on 2017-05-30, 16:42:29

• Fixed converter and init scripts in installer
• FIxed NaNs caused by very small lights far from scene origin
• Image editor: Fixed vignetting giving different results from Corona VFB in some cases
• DR - Fixed slaves sometimes rendering with 3ds Max version different from the one used by master

---> Released as 1.6 hotfix1

Title: Re: 1.7 Daily Builds Changelog
Post by: Ondra on 2017-06-21, 23:18:21

Major new features

• Added support for hair, added HairMtl. Ornatrix, Hair Farm, and native Hair&Fur (max 2013+) are supported. There is also Corona Hair material. Currently still very WIP!
• Added bump convertor map, that converts any map to a bump map
• Added UVW randomizer map, that allows applying random offset/rotation/scale to different objects

• Massive speedup of interactive rendering in scenes with heavy instancing
• Layered mtl and rayswitch mtl no longer come with default CoronaMtl plugged into them
• Fixed crash when deleting Corona Display filter
• Fixed unnecessary IR restarts when navigating slate material editor (2016+)
• Updated to new embree (3% general speedup)
• Updated to new instancing system inside embree, yielding lowered memory consumption, and faster interactive updates
• Additional 2% general speedup
• Added texmap on/off checkboxes to Corona Triplanar Map
• Added snapping to CoronaLight, TODO: other objects
• More translations fixed
• FIxed: ortho view clipping thin objects: https://corona-renderer.com/bugs/view.php?id=2609 (https://corona-renderer.com/bugs/view.php?id=2609)
• Image Editor: Fixed rotation direction of the glare effect to match VFB.
• Image Editor: Fixed denoising of rendered regions
• Image Editor: Fixed sometimes loading different LUT than what was selected in VFB
• Added maxscript access to noise level: https://forum.corona-renderer.com/index.php?topic=16298.new#new (https://forum.corona-renderer.com/index.php?topic=16298.new#new)
• Faster adaptivity recomputation (speed up by factor 2-3) - this should prevent low CPU usage when rendering small regions
• Added blurring multiplier to multimap
• Improved listing of (un)supported maps and materials. Physical material is now correctly listed as supported, and Corona materials no longer incorrectly report as supported to vray.
• UHD cache and LUT is now asset-tracked, meaning it gets packed when archiving scene, can be retargeted, and there is warning when it is missing upon opening a scene
• DR: Fixed displaying of some non-ascii characters in DR tab
• DR: DR can now be turned on (or off) during render by checking (unchecking) the ‘Enable’ checkbox in DR rollout
• DR: Showing error message when DR slave is missing a texmap plugin
• Corona combo boxes (channel list and LUTs in VFB): Fixed scrolling when mouse cursor hovers over the combo box without clicking (worked previously correctly only on Win10), Fixed selected item not being properly highlighted when scrolling using the mouse wheel, The popup window with selection now properly scrolls to alway display the selected item, Items can now be scrolled just by holding the up/down keys instead of one push == one scroll
• Reduced flickering of Corona VFB during interactive rendering
• Fixed: scatter name in viewport not being correctly refreshed sometimes due to 3ds max bug
• Reordered estimated remaining time in VFB
• Added tooltips explaining various VFB statistics
• Removed non-working rawafake sky model parameters
• Updated VFB UHD Cache stats
• “Add region” button in VFB now enables regions if it is clicked while regions are disabled: https://corona-renderer.com/bugs/view.php?id=2731 (https://corona-renderer.com/bugs/view.php?id=2731)

Title: Re: 1.7 Daily Builds Changelog
Post by: Ryuu on 2017-06-22, 23:17:19

• Fixed crash when using hair&fur with multimap
• Fixed crash when zooming the VFB with blurring/sharpening enabled
• Fixed crash in multimap - https://corona-renderer.com/bugs/view.php?id=2754 (https://corona-renderer.com/bugs/view.php?id=2754)
• Image Editor - fixed whole system sometimes lagging during denoising

Title: Re: 1.7 Daily Builds Changelog
Post by: Ondra on 2017-06-29, 18:26:37

• Image Editor - Fixed wrong alpha handling while denoising and applying bloom and glare effects.
• Fixed crash when applying light material to hair/fractal objects
• Fixed crash when assigning material to a node which has material override exclude while in interactive mode
• Changed UHD cache default file to blank, to make asset tracker less annoying with Corona
• Fixed mouse wheel scrolling working incorrectly on older Windows versions
• Fixed hair sometimes rendering with wrong z-depth (behind objects)

Title: Re: 1.7 Daily Builds Changelog
Post by: Ondra on 2017-07-03, 22:21:26

• Fixed estimated time remaining not working when resuming render: https://corona-renderer.com/bugs/view.php?id=2652 (https://corona-renderer.com/bugs/view.php?id=2652)
• fixed fetching missing textures required by native 3ds Max lights on DR slaves
• Licensing request key is now displayed in system>about rollout
• Fixed crashes in hairmtl UI https://corona-renderer.com/bugs/view.php?id=2763 (https://corona-renderer.com/bugs/view.php?id=2763)
• CoronaBitmap no longer changes its classname
• Improved hair shading model (glints)
• Fixed too big step while zooming with Ctrl++ and Ctrl+- keyboard shortcuts.
• Multimap tex now has 25 slots, up from 15

Title: Re: 1.7 Daily Builds Changelog
Post by: Ondra on 2017-07-04, 21:46:30

• Fixed worldToCam and camToWorld matrices being switched (causing a problem with PSD manager)
• Corona EXR saving made compatible with 3ds max/Cinema4D (alpha premultiplication)
• Made hair render faster, tweaked shading model

Title: Re: 1.7 Daily Builds Changelog
Post by: Ondra on 2017-07-10, 23:40:08

• Fixed adaptivity unnecessarily focusing too much on render region edges
• Hair&Fur now reacts to IR changes, and works with mr shader slot (plug CoronaHairMtl there for best results)
• Fixed NaNs/fireflies in hair shading
• Improved hair shading (made highlights beter match reality) - experimental. Feedback would be appreciated
• Improved denoising on hair

Title: Re: 1.7 Daily Builds Changelog
Post by: Ondra on 2017-07-24, 17:47:09

• Removed old and unused image samplers
• Added new and improved image sampler, capable up to 100% speedups, on by default for all new and old scenes
• Changed rounded edges algorithm: new one is much faster, and produces no noise, but works on same object only
• Removed now obsolete parameters of rounded edges - samples and include/exclude mode
• Updated Spanish and Ukrainian tooltip translations based on user revisions
• Fixed shading in bump converter map: https://corona-renderer.com/bugs/view.php?id=2756 (https://corona-renderer.com/bugs/view.php?id=2756)
• UVW randomizer now has no upper/lower limits for parameters
• Unified “self-illumination” and “self illumination” labels
• All objects now properly snap in viewport/during creation
• Faster/better adaptivity calculation
• Render regions in VFB drawn with less clutter

hair

• Increased default hair tesselation rate to 8, as there is practically no performance penalty
• Made hair rendering faster
• Fixed crash when using hair&fur instance mode
• Significantly lowered memory leaking when using hair&fur (there still might be some)
• Made the length-based mapping work in HairFarm
• Improved hair shading when applied to non-hair geometry
• Added Corona Hair Mod to control hair geometry look per-object
• Hairfarm renderer atmospheric effect, that causes massive slowdowns, is now always ignored

Attached is the comparison of the speedup. In this scene, the new sampler clears the noise about twice as fast as the old one.

Title: Re: 1.7 Daily Builds Changelog
Post by: Ondra on 2017-08-01, 00:24:57

• Light preparation time is now correctly considered in VFB stats https://forum.corona-renderer.com/index.php/topic,16964.0.html (https://forum.corona-renderer.com/index.php/topic,16964.0.html)
• Maxscript cameras extended from the Physical camera now properly parse
• Another significant speedup due to better sampling: scenes with glossy surfaces clean up faster, hair renders much faster and no longer produces faint colored fireflies

Attaching before/after images - they are (+-5%) rendered in the same time - disregard renderstamp, as they were rendered on different machines

Title: Re: 1.7 Daily Builds Changelog
Post by: Ryuu on 2017-08-04, 20:57:10

• Fixed bad performance of thin glass (see images below)
• Added zoom buttons to VFB and CIE
• Fixed round edges working incorrectly when plugged into diffuse slot (or other slots than bump) on object with scale other than 100%
• Render element memory optimization - most elements will consume 25% less memory, while some element types (like the dot product element) will consume up to 75% less memory

Title: Re: 1.7 Daily Builds Changelog
Post by: Ryuu on 2017-08-08, 14:05:25

• Fixed unhandled exception/crash when enabling bloom & glare during the rendering
• Fixed occasional crash on 3ds Max startup
• Fixed crash when using LightMix during interactive rendering (introduced in previous daily)
• Fixed wrong VFB zooming in some situations

Title: Re: 1.7 Daily Builds Changelog
Post by: Ryuu on 2017-08-09, 23:27:31

• Optimized glass/water sampling
• Fixed crashes in IR
• Fixed gathered denoising data being unusable in CIE
• Fixed rare race condition adding more noise in small renders/regions
• Speeded up parsing of geometry with non-corona materials
• Fixed double displacement applied when using 3dsmax built-in materials.

Title: Re: 1.7 Daily Builds Changelog
Post by: Ryuu on 2017-08-14, 23:08:24

• Fixed denoising blurring the image too much
• Fixed CIE not loading denoised beauty saved from Corona
• Fixed elements without anti-aliasing (normals, etc.) sometimes producing incorrect results for small renders/regions
• CShading_SourceColor and CShading_Albedo render elements now use 33% less memory on CPUs supporting F16C instruction set (Ivy Bridge/Bulldozer and newer)
• Improved denoising of hair - requires gathering additional data not supported by CIE yet
• Added support for scripted light plugin rendering
• Added dispersion to CoronaMtl

Title: Re: 1.7 Daily Builds Changelog
Post by: Ondra on 2017-08-23, 00:01:00

• Fixed denoising not being applied with resume last rendering
• Added new command saveAllElements to the CoronaFp interface to allow saving all render elements at once, same as when using VFB button
• Color picker eye dropper now supports averaging colors of neighbouring pixels (up to 31x31 pixel patches)
• Camera Map per Pixel map is again listed in mtl editor when corona is active renderer
• Added improved hair denoising to CIE (introduced to Corona in previous daily)
• Fixed some bugs in dispersion shading (e.g. artifacts on grazing angles)
• Show VFB button/command now brings the corona VFB to front if hidden behind other windows
• Fixed crash when using some (giant) LUTs

Title: Re: 1.7 Daily Builds Changelog
Post by: Ondra on 2017-09-06, 23:41:59

• Improved algorithm generating thumbnails in render history
• Added support for .hdr maps with formally incorrect format (which are widespread and other applications support them)
• Default denoising value changed to 0.65
• Added Corona Camera
• Added CoronaSkinMtl, and SSS to Corona native material
• Fixed “Lock sampling pattern” checkbox not working. This was also backported into 1.6 hotfix3
• Fixed too much noise in images when using DR/renderfarms/resume rendering with the DMC sampler. This was also backported into 1.6 hotfix3

Title: Re: 1.7 Daily Builds Changelog
Post by: Ryuu on 2017-09-09, 00:19:52

• Fixed incorrect mapping in viewport of CoronaBitmap plugged into another map - https://corona-renderer.com/bugs/view.php?id=2797 (https://corona-renderer.com/bugs/view.php?id=2797)
• Fixed incorrect bokeh when CoronaBitmap was used https://forum.corona-renderer.com/index.php?topic=16841 (https://forum.corona-renderer.com/index.php?topic=16841)
• Text map, shapemap, vector map are now reported as supported by Corona (previously shown as incompatible)
• Fixed bump converter map not working with triplanar map
• Improved quality of material editor preview (to be identical with Corona 1.5) https://forum.corona-renderer.com/index.php?topic=17230 (https://forum.corona-renderer.com/index.php?topic=17230)
• Added Corona material library
• Launched through Corona->Material Library in main menu
• Materials can be simply dragged to scene object or to material editor
• Just few sample materials for now, but many more will be available in subsequent dailies
• Probably will not work in Max 2014 and older yet, we're still working on that

Title: Re: 1.7 Daily Builds Changelog
Post by: Ryuu on 2017-09-13, 00:23:36

• Fixed Corona triplanar and UVW randomizer not working with each other
• Fixed render freezing when using skin mtl
• Fixed Corona Bitmap spamming MAXScript Listener window - https://corona-renderer.com/bugs/view.php?id=2562 (https://corona-renderer.com/bugs/view.php?id=2562)
• CoronaMtl: anisotropy controls freezing when no anisotropy is used
• Material Library
• Asset path is now set automatically.
• Materials can be now sorted alphabetically or by overall usage count.
• Fixed some occasional problems with drag & drop
• Double clicking on material now displays a separate window with higher resolution preview

Title: Re: 1.7 Daily Builds Changelog
Post by: Ryuu on 2017-09-14, 01:14:21

• UVW randomization map mode is now by default by instances
• Skin material UI split into general/advanced rollout
• CoronaMtl UI for volumetrics/SSS reworked - there is now mode toggle between SSS and volumetrics, and some controls freeze when SSS is used
• Fixed bump converter UI (incorrect size)
• Removed SSS color from CoronaMtl - diffuse color is now used together with the SSS scatter color
• Corona bump convertor now works with CoronaAO
• Fixed crash in Corona Scatter in max 2014 - https://forum.corona-renderer.com/index.php?topic=16389.0 (https://forum.corona-renderer.com/index.php?topic=16389.0)
• Fixed maxscript naming of some Corona scatter parameters
• Camera
• Target distance is now modifiable even when the camera is not targetted
• Added a spinner controlling the size of the camera icon
• Added a spinner for image size in orthographic projection
• Fixed UI controls freezing when necessary
• Fixed drawing of camera in 3ds Max 2013 and 2014
• Changed tilt/shift to work as in physical camera
• Fixed UI refreshing when moving mouse in viewport
• Minor improvements of UI
• Renamed some camera parameters to be self-consistent (sharpenOverride -> overrideSharpening, etc.)
• Different drawing of ortho camera projection
• Made the camera easier to select in viewport
• The camera now works with interactive without unnecessary restarts

Title: Re: 1.7 Daily Builds Changelog
Post by: Ondra on 2017-09-14, 23:49:37

• CoronaCamera UI tweaks - some rollouts are collapsed by default, fixed tab order
• CoronaCamera exposure reworked
• CoronaScatter now requires a Corona license to work. This is in preparation for full API (to work with vray or other renderers)
• SSS: renamed bleed color to scatter color in UI and maxscript
• Fixed crash in CoronaBitmap when setting enviro rotation with autokey on
• New VFB zoom icons
• Fixed parsing of some IES profiles:https://corona-renderer.com/bugs/view.php?id=2747 (https://corona-renderer.com/bugs/view.php?id=2747)
• Any Corona menu entries are now properly removed from 3ds Max after Corona is uninstalled
• Material library is now optional component in the installer (selected for installation by default)
• Material library data is no longer present in the installer. The data is now downloaded on-demand during the installation
• Installer no longer reinstalls components that are already installed at the requested version. The main benefit of this is that the material data will not be reinstalled & redownloaded unless the data actually changes on the server.
• Full Corona Material Library is now released (326 materials). The materials are free to use in any Corona rendering
• Material library preview thumbnails are now resizable

Title: Re: 1.7 Daily Builds Changelog
Post by: Ondra on 2017-09-16, 00:11:52

Material library

• Added license clarifying allowed use (short version: any commercial or noncommercial use in Corona renderer is allowed. Redistributing and converting to other renderers is forbidden)
• Added right click menu to thumbnails with additional functions (selecting objects in scene with given material applied, etc.)
• Updated material pack (smaller size)

Misc

• Fixed: Hair&Fur not rendering in instance mode https://corona-renderer.com/bugs/view.php?id=2777 (https://corona-renderer.com/bugs/view.php?id=2777)
• Base object for hair&fur is now rendered
• Postprocessing Tint is now applied in sRGB color space, meaning the color you select in picker is exactly the same color shown in the postprocessed image
• Added inverse color picker into Corona color picker, allowing to perform white balance in Corona VFB via color tint
• Fixed bug where during uninstallation Corona Uninstaller did not uninstall Corona Uninstaller
• CoronaCamera now has object include/exclude option
• Fixed minor bugs in CoronaCamera drawing

Added adaptive direct light sampling

• In the latest build we introduce a new adaptive light sampling algorithm. It improves rendering times by learning which scene lights are important in particular scene location. Such lights then receive more rays than the others which results in a lower noise level. Up to 6 times speedup can be achieved. The algorithm is used automatically whenever there are at least two lights in the scene and it needs no parameters setting.
• The new algorithm is more complicated then the previous one, therefore the number of rays per second can decrease. Several percents drop is usual though also 20 % less rays per second can be encountered in some scenes. If you come across even lower rates, please let us know.
• Despite the lower number of rays per second, the same image quality should be reached in a shorter time than before. The speedup is scene dependent and ranges from tens to hundreds of percents. The algorithm works the best in scenes with a higher number of lights (100 and more), in scenes with lights with complex emission profiles or in scenes with high occlusion, i.e. where lot of emission from lights is blocked by obstacles. On the other hand, in scenes with just one light or in scenes where all lights shine everywhere no improvement is expected.
• In rare cases some artifacts may appear, typically in a form of blocks with different noise level around shadow boundaries. Again, if you notice some, please report them to us.

Title: Re: 1.7 Daily Builds Changelog
Post by: Ondra on 2017-09-19, 00:48:39

• Made color saturation effect stronger, allowing for more maximum saturation to be applied
• Fixed rendering freeze in some cases where glossy refraction was used
• Fixed camera drawing in legacy (non-nitrous) viewport
• Soft shadows are now working with 3dsmax directional light
• Increased AA quality when resuming render

Title: Re: 1.7 Daily Builds Changelog
Post by: Ryuu on 2017-09-20, 00:41:53

• [skin] SSS radius map is now evaluated as multiplier of the scalar value (which is in world units)
• Fixed 3dsmax directional lights shadow size
• Hair MTL UI rearranged, switched colorless highlight multipler from roughness to glossiness
• Spinners in VFB now respect global precision and snap value settings in 3ds Max.
• Improved spinning behavior of some spinners in VFB and CIE.
• All Corona UI is now displayed properly on high DPI monitors

Edit: Sorry, we've got a little screwup with the internal changelog. Some of the mentioned changes were not actually present in the daily.

Title: Re: 1.7 Daily Builds Changelog
Post by: Ryuu on 2017-09-21, 01:10:24

First release candidate for 1.7

• [skin] SSS radius map is now evaluated as multiplier of the scalar value (which is in world units)
• Fixed 3dsmax directional lights shadow size
• Hair MTL UI rearranged, switched colorless highlight multipler from roughness to glossiness
• Fixed: Installer freezes when cancelled during the additional pack download
• Improved new direct light sampling algorithm in scenes with glass/reflections
• Improved performance of new direct light sampling on machines with lot of threads (dual xeons)
• Disabled the new direct light sampler for scenes with global medium (as it was not producing good results there)
• Improved Corona scatter reporting of missing license
• Fixed low viewport framerate when creating Corona Camera in 3ds Max 2016
• Corona MatLib (formerly known as Corona Material Library)
• Renamed to Corona MatLib
• Updated wood materials
• Now automatically displays license when launched for the first time

Title: Re: 1.7 Daily Builds Changelog
Post by: Ryuu on 2017-09-25, 22:17:29

Second release candidate for 1.7

• Hair MTL UI reworked
• Fixed VFB lightmix tab layout being broken by too long light element names
• Fixed IR sometimes freezing in animations - https://forum.corona-renderer.com/index.php?topic=16331.0;topicseen (https://forum.corona-renderer.com/index.php?topic=16331.0;topicseen)
• Fixed denoised image sometimes “ghosting” in IR - https://corona-renderer.com/bugs/view.php?id=2626 (https://corona-renderer.com/bugs/view.php?id=2626)
• Reverted DR assets fetching back to 1.6 version. This fixes missing HDR assets, but projector maps in 3ds Max lights won't be auto-synchronized again.
• More optimizations of the new direct light sampling algorithm for CPUs with many cores (dual Xeons mostly)
• Updated CoronaConverter to v 1.37, adding support for SSS conversions
• Fixed CIE to handle images containing "non-denoisable" pixels.
• MatLib
• Improved error handling when pre-renderer previews are missing
• MatLib is now working on 3ds Max 2013 & 2014 (we’re still trying to make it working for 2012)
• Drag & drop of materials optimized a bit
• Camera
• Fixed camera selection in 3ds Max 2015
• Camera copies are now being properly updated after modifications
• Fixed auto vertical tilt not working automatically in viewport when camera is moved - https://forum.corona-renderer.com/index.php?topic=15843.msg109944#msg109944 (https://forum.corona-renderer.com/index.php?topic=15843.msg109944#msg109944)
• Clipping planes are now shown in viewport
• Hopefully fixed the error when installer sometimes used an older locally cached version of the downloaded MatLib file instead of downloading the updated version
• To prevent downloading MatLib on every render node, you can now manually download the file https://installer.corona-renderer.com/3dsmax/1.7 RC2/MaterialLibrary (https://installer.corona-renderer.com/3dsmax/1.7 RC2/MaterialLibrary) and place the downloaded file to the same directory as the installer .exe

Title: Re: 1.7 Daily Builds Changelog
Post by: Ryuu on 2017-09-26, 23:32:35

Third release candidate for 1.7

• CIE now displays single channel elements (like alpha or depth) from CXR
• Added search icon next to the name filter in MatLib.
• UI polishing - aligned controls in new dialogs
• CoronaMtl, SkinMtl: renamed SSS fraction to SSS amount (including maxscript names)
• Fixed tab order in all dialogs
• Fixed crash in hair & fur + interactive rendering - https://corona-renderer.com/bugs/view.php?id=2844 (https://corona-renderer.com/bugs/view.php?id=2844)
• Updated corona converter to v1.38
• Changed default sensor width in CameraMod to 36mm
• Camera
• Changed default clipping range to be consistent with CameraMod
• Fixed crash when moving camera with automatic vertical tilt
• Fixed key frames being added when changing animation time
• Moved exposure controls to photographic rollout

Title: Re: 1.7 Daily Builds Changelog
Post by: Ryuu on 2017-09-28, 23:23:28

Fourth release candidate for 1.7

• Added tooltip to CoronaMtl Abbe number for better explanation
• Small UI tweaks and fixes
• Some hair material maxscript names renamed to be consistent with UI
• Favorite star of a material in MatLib is now visible only if the material is marked as favorite, or the mouse cursor is above the material's preview.
• Fixed Corona UVW randomizer never using extreme value ("to") when using step option
• Fixed jumpy movement when orbiting Corona camera
• Fixed converter script refusing to launch due to bad build timestamp

Title: Re: 1.7 Daily Builds Changelog
Post by: Ryuu on 2017-10-03, 00:29:04

1.7 RC5

• Fixed slow interactive rendering response caused by the new direct light solver - we disable the adaptive learning when running IR
• Fixed occasional crashes in UHD cache generation - https://forum.corona-renderer.com/index.php?topic=17592.msg110442#msg110442 (https://forum.corona-renderer.com/index.php?topic=17592.msg110442#msg110442)
• Fixed occasional crashes when starting a second render - https://forum.corona-renderer.com/index.php?topic=15843.msg110682#msg110682 (https://forum.corona-renderer.com/index.php?topic=15843.msg110682#msg110682)
• Material Library
• In another “there and back again” moment, MatLib has been renamed to Material Library :)
• Fixed popups caused by calling MaxScript functions not respecting 3ds Max quiet mode
• showBrowserIfPossible function modified to comply with MaxScript return value conventions (zero value means success, non-zero means error)
• Previews are now scaled with a better quality
• Added button for opening material browser to Scene tab in Render Setup.
• Added error dialogs showed in case Material Library is not installed or supported (sorry, we gave up on 3ds Max 2012).
• Fixed material tooltips not hiding
• Fixed “mental ray attributes missing” error messages on drag & drop - https://corona-renderer.com/bugs/view.php?id=2806 (https://corona-renderer.com/bugs/view.php?id=2806)

Title: Re: 1.7 Daily Builds Changelog
Post by: Ondra on 2017-10-05, 00:44:37

1.7 RC6 is out!

• Material Library browser root category is now expanded when the window is launched for the first time
• Selected category in Material Library is now preserved while changing filters or marking materials as favorite or not favorite.
• Added Corona Camera tooltips
• Added option to clear node in Corona Camera focus node slot (right click menu)
• Fixed crash with Corona Bitmap, when empty bitmap was being displayed in viewport
• Optimized the new direct light sampler inter-thread communication - this should benefit mostly machines with high number of cores
• Fixed freezing of some controls in Corona Camera
• fixed crash when saving render element as cxr to invalid path
• Fixed camera cone sometimes not shown when camera itself is out of view
• Fixed loading OutputTex from Corona 1.6 with positive saturation (we had to compensate for saturation being 3 times stronger now than it was in 1.6)

Title: Re: 1.7 Daily Builds Changelog
Post by: Ondra on 2017-10-05, 22:32:36

RC7. At this moment we are just waiting for the rounded edges, and some last direct light solver fixes

• Corona 1.7 scenes can now be opened in 1.6
• Fixed crash with extremely uneven scene dimensions (100 000 x 100 000 x 1 meter)
• Set camera motion blur duration to 0.5 frames, previously was 1 frame
• Improved some tooltip wording, added tooltip to skin mtl SSS mode
• Fixed crash when scene load failed
• Corona Camera: some properties (targetted, include/exclude list) are no longer taken from last camera when creating new one
• Corona Camera is now drawn with different icons for panoramatic projections

Title: Re: 1.7 Daily Builds Changelog
Post by: Ryuu on 2017-10-10, 23:28:29

RC8

• Turned off flipping green in normal maps of some fabric and leather materials in Material Library (material data will be redownloaded).
• Fixed blurring/sharpening creating offset in masks - https://corona-renderer.com/bugs/view.php?id=2838 (https://corona-renderer.com/bugs/view.php?id=2838)
• Fixed warning about MSI being spammed in DR log
• Fixed interactive not updating when map is plugged/unplugged to another map. Note that this is revert of another bugfix from 1.7 dailies  - so navigating slate editor will now again cause random interactive restarts like in 1.6)
• Added old rounded edges mode (properly rounding across different meshes) back.

Title: Re: 1.7 Daily Builds Changelog
Post by: Ondra on 2017-10-18, 22:33:39

RC9 is out

• Fixed crash after few hours of rendering in some special cases when using the new direct light solver
• Fixed excessive memory usage and some cases of bad performance of the new direct light solver
• Fixed bias sometimes caused by the new direct light solver in media
• Made the new direct light solver optional and off by default (there is switch in performance settings) to prevent problems in scenes with nonphysical fakes and transparent lights that we cannot fix now. We will fix these problems for the 1.8 release, and the solver will be always enabled
• Fixed standalone exports of dispersion

Title: Re: 1.7 Daily Builds Changelog
Post by: Ondra on 2017-10-20, 20:50:22

RC10: I am hoping this is the last one ;)

• Improved naming of corona texture slots in slate editor
• Fixed excessive noise in some scenes
• Small UI Tweaks
• Fixed IR restarts and CPU usage when corona camera is selected in viewport

Title: Re: 1.7 Daily Builds Changelog
Post by: Ondra on 2017-10-24, 10:35:42

last bugfixes, to be released as 1.7 today

• Fixed CoronaCamera target moving along with the camera
• Fixed crash in Corona Scatter when clicking "Convert to max geometry"
• Minor UI tweaks (alignment)