[ARCHIVE] Pre 1.0 Daily builds changelog

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Also fixed blackbody emission

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Some recent improvements:

• Partially fixed the self intersect bugs
• VFB sidebar status (open/closed, active tab) saved into .max files
• Added buttons for save all channels/cancel render without saving (click and hold save/stop buttons to see them)
• error msgs now respects 3dsmax quiet mode, popup msgs are disabled in network/backburner/DR rendering
• Added "invisible in render elements masks" property to materials
• Proxy (2013+) and scatter (2015+) are now optimized for fast display in viewports
• Render dialog tabs open/close status is now saved per-scene, and defaults can be changed.
• Proxy now saves units info and automatically rescales to keep the same world-space size
• Made water level in displacement working
• Color temperature controls now always have a final color sample displayed
• HD cache save/load improvement - added ability to do incremental rendering/precomputation

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Added option to both DR master and slave to save transferred images to disk for debugging purposes.

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Because of performance reasons, Convert proxy to mesh now works only when full proxy mesh is displayed.

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•     Shadow catcher improvements: mappable parameters, bump, more glossy
•     fully realtime exposure even when using photographic exposure
•     Added checkbox "keep previous img in vfb"
•     Replaced color mapping channels balance with tint color
•     multithreaded displacement - massive speedup of preprocessing
•     better, intelligent progressbar, estimated time added
•     Ctrl +, Ctrl - will zoom in/zoom out in VFB
•     New support for blend mtl: faster, supports emission, displacement, bidir, nested blend mtls

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09/10 build:
GGX BRDF added, and is now (as a trial) selected as default BRDF. Old materials are still loaded with Ashikhmin-shirley BRDF. The BSDF can be changed in advanced material settings. Ward and phong are not working at the moment

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• Finished blend mtl support
• rounded corners radius is now mappable

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New build:

• Multithreaded scene parsing + parsing optimizations: up to 11 times faster parsing!
• New IOR texmaps handling: consistent with vray/mental ray
• Interactive response improvements + bugfixes

What to test:

• stability of interactive mode
• stability of parsing (complicated scenes, unusual objects/modifiers/...)
• stability of noise pattern (with PT+PT)

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• Added illuminator lights for shadowcatcher (see attachments)
• Some modes of CoronaMixTex now support bump mapping
• CoronaSolidTex now supports #RRGGBB notation and gamma/linear inputs

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New build to be released:

• Tabs open/close status will be preserved when selecting different renderer/GI solver
• Added 2 string options for material editor rendering, affecting lights size/intensity in previews:
  float mtlEditor.lightsSize = 1 (set from 0.01 to 1.5)
  float mtlEditor.lightsIntensity = 1 (set from 0.01 to 99)
  
  
• Pressing enter inside a spinner in Corona VFB will cause the text to get selected (just like in 3dsmax)

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• UHD parameters work as intended with interactive
• fixed mtleditor lights size + diffrerent material sample size
• shell mtl now works in override, with multi/sub obj
• UHD cache stops precomp if maximum number of records is reached/loaded
• improved light display in viewport, esp. with different light emission units

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Today: Distributed rendering focused build:

• fixed colormapping changes when using region render + native VFB
• DR now works with files > 2 GB
• DR now works with batch rendering
• DR: fixed computation of # of lines sent per iteration
• DR now works with region rendering properly
• New DR server build available

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Improved volumetric sampling for some materials - praise Jarda!

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Added button to add enviro into the CoronSun dialog. Happy new year!

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MASSIVE ui overhaul. Here are some of the highlights:

General trends:

• Replaced [---] for None in various texmap buttons to make it consistent with the rest of 3ds max
• “multiplier” renamed to “intensity” in few places
• added freezing of some additional control elements when they are not used
• made texmap buttons generally wider
• imrpoved preview of some of the texmap in map select dialog - CoronaNormal, CoronaAO, CoronaFrontBack, CoronaRayswitch
• reorganized, renamed, fixed spacing of some of UI dialogs

Materials and maps:

• separate corona mtl, texmap category in mtl/texmap selector
  
• CoronaSolid renamed to CoronaColor, fixed hex input, improved its preview in the UI dialog - displays output values
• coronaViz renamed to CoronaData
• CoronaWire: added checkbox for enabling/disabling the base map
• CoronaFractalTex removed
• CoronaMix: added texmap checkboxes to make the UI consistent with rest of maps
• CoronaSky: rawafake moved to separate rollout
• CoronaMtl: self illumination moved to Advanced options, hidden “SSS mode” and BSDF selector (now legacy mode ON = Ashikhmin, off = GGX), removed ability to create portals (use the separate mtl for that), map amounts changed to 0-100%
• volumemtl UI is now identical to coronaMtl volumetrics
• Corona normal no longer tries to fix incorrect gamma as it is not always possible, but will instead now warn if incorrect gamma was detected

Render settings

• Tab switching reworked: LMB now closes all other tabs, RMB works as before
• Major reorganization of main tab - merged with progressive, color mapping, actions tabs
• photographic exposure checkbox moved to camera settings
• removed image filter blurring, bokeh shape resolution
• autosave UI redesigned, simplified

Objects

• coronasun: added visual feedback to pressing the "add enviro button"
• CoronaProxy: buttons from scene, from file renamed to be more clear
• CoronaLight: keep sharp patterns: on by default
• camera mod reworked: its colormapping now stays until next render without camera mod, VFB color mapping tab is hidden when rendering with override. Added more options, added on/off switch to camera mod and removed the confusing override switch from render settings

Other:

• interactive VFB: added camera name to title
• DR server now shows its current working directory and can open it
• VFB: removed ISO settings

Build will be up shortly