DreamWorks Animation Launched MoonRay 2.40
This release enhances the new light path visualizer, improving render debugging.
The latest version of DreamWorks Animation's open-source, in-house production renderer improves the light path visualizer, adds a GUI prototype, and includes numerous fixes.
According to the GitHub release notes, MoonRay 2.40 adds light path visualizer support to arras_render and adds new controls and stability fixes to the light path visualizer in moonray_gui. The prototype of a new user interface says to feature "usability improvements, including pixel inspection, snapshots, status bar, and improved path visualizer drawing". It uses Dear ImGui instead of Qt and contains a number of new features.
Bug fixes:
- Fixed DiskLight bounding box calculation issue;
- Fixed a crash in importance light sampling caused by uncleared memory;
- Fixed importance light sampling crash related to inconsistent bounding box calculation;
- Fixed a light path visualizer crash caused by a display filter buffer overflow;
- Fixed bug in IntensityLightFilter behavior with volumes;
- Fixed reflection stretching at extreme grazing angles;
- Fixed Worley noise behavior when jitter is between 0 and 1 (preserves the look at the default jitter = 1);
- Fixed bug preventing some primvars from being read;
- Fixed missing normals from UsdGeomBasisCurves;
- Created a new LayerMap_v2 that fixes a bug with multiply mode;
- Fixed crash in CombineNormalMap related to delta updates;
- Fixed crash with hdMoonray caused by a change in Hydra behavior in 0.25.5.
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