[ARCHIVE] Pre 1.0 Daily builds changelog

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Fixed bug causing excessive RAM usage in large scenes with many objects

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Added the number of light groups to stats panel in VFB. For best performance, keep this number under 250

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Added tooltips to important settings in both render parameters and corona objects/texmaps/materials, that will replace http://corona-renderer.com/doc/. Just hover over a UI control to display them. I would appreciate any feedback about unclear/missing explanations, spelling mistakes, etc.

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POST-A6

• Shell material supported
• Added support for retargeting for proxy and light assets
• proxy and light assets no longer displayed in asset tracker when not used
• added textured coronalights
• added texmap support for fractal objects

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• Fixed scatters randomly changing from frame to frame
• Fixed noise pattern sometimes changing from frame to frame even though random seed was nonzero

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• Proxy internals reworked, testing is needed
• Added spherical and cylindrical camera support (via CoronaCameraMod)
• Fixed progressive renderer not picking pixels randomly in ultra-high resolutions (e.g. 10k)
• Improved HD cache accuracy in animations with textured scenes: https://forum.corona-renderer.com/index.php?topic=1207

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Added string options, can be used for rendering passes only on farm, etc.:  https://corona-renderer.com/wiki/maxscript + https://corona-renderer.com/wiki/string_options

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Again added ability of CProxy to read cbin files, but not write. Use cmesh format for exporting. It is possible that some scripts that have hardcoded .cbin extension will fail and will need to be updated

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• I did some internal cleaning of corona scatter, please test if translation/rotation/scale works as expected, and if old scenes load correctly
• Fixed bug that made reflective objects too bright when using portals

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fixed bug with bokeh image randomly not working.

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albedo element no longer displays glass red

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• Fixed more bugs causing unstable sampling pattern in animations
• Fixed proxy asset retargeting problem

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All subsequent builds from now to the first commercial version are time-locked. Currently they are programmed to disable themselves after 31.12.2014. There will be either an extension or commercial build available before that date, with enough extra time to upgrade your machines.

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• added support for particle flow, and simple particle systems
• added a texture slot to WireTex
• Default displacement value is now 1, not 100

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2 new functions https://corona-renderer.com/wiki/maxscript