appleseed 1.1.0 alpha-9 Release Notes

These are the release notes for appleseed 1.1.0 alpha-9. This release also includes Blenderseed 1.1.2.

You can check the full list of changes and the full list of known issues on GitHub.

What's new in this release

appleseed

• Added preliminary support for the new Alembic geometry interchange file format developed by Sony Picture Imageworks and ILM.
• Added support for point lights.
• The thin-lens camera model now supports polygonal apertures (image).
• Added a parameter to enable/disable computing and printing luminance statistics during progressive rendering (now disabled by default).
• Added a parameter to control the number of BSDF samples for direct lighting estimation in the Distributed Ray Tracing engine.

Blenderseed

• Added support for point lights.

What's fixed in this release

appleseed

• Bug: light sources that were visible through reflection on glossy surfaces (e.g. surfaces using the Ashikhmin-Shirley BRDF) would appear too bright.
• Bug: nested BSDF mixtures (using a BSDF mixture as an input to another BSDF mixture) would produce incorrect results.