Release 1.6.0 of Aqsis available for download

[Paul Gregory]

Release 1.6.0 of Aqsis has finally been released.

This is primarily a performance optimisation release, but there are
some key feature enhancements as well, some that were driven by the
Widow project and MOSAIC.

See http://www.aqsis.org for release details and downloads.

[Anthony Rosbottom]

Woo Hoo! Cheers Paul, I'm off to download now.

[>WHiTeRaBBiT<]

Congratulations Paul!!

I know this has been a huge amount of work for everyone involved but
in my opinion Aqsis is really beginning to stand up to the other
RenderMan solutions out their! I know you guys still intend on
improving SDS and adding threading but already in many test cases I'm
seeing Aqsis perform competitively even with just one thread! I really
look forward to pushing Aqsis even further with testing and believe
we're very close to getting a pipeline that approaches professional
quality :)
To everyone using or thinking of using Aqsis I strongly encourage all
to use this release as it represents MASSIVE improvements to speed,
stability and functionality!

I wanted to thank everyone by name but I think the following helps do
that better. To anyone who doesn't follow Aqsis's code or mailing
lists here's a copy from the mailing lists showing just some of the
people and their work involved in this release (to give a better
picture of the scope of work and involvement)...



Chris Foster (34):
Bugfix for bound adjustment with transformation motion.
Bugfix 2827244: Large numbers of RiPoints incorrectly bound
Remove some deprecated methods from points handling.
Bugfix 2811280: Incorrect incident ray length in orthogonal projection
Improved storage mechanism for array primvars.
Minor optimizations + bugfix for CqPoints::NaturalDice to allow array
primvars.
Fix some debug mode compile warnings regarding comparing signed &
unsigned ints
Fix bugs and compile errors in alert message box for piqsl.
Bugfix 2731390: RiBlobby const opcode not implemented
Consolidate code for sampling of point-like micropolygons.
Bugfix 2474067: Depth of field doesn't work for RiPoints.
Bugfix: The default ShadingInterpolation attribute had the incorrect
type.
Fix minor oversight in recent commit bbe506a27
Bugfix 2812953: shadow("blur") filter artifacts with large values
Bugfix: Correct dependency handling for shader compiler build.
Bugfix 2846751: Camera motion blur not working with points
Bugfix 2563908: RiExposure has no effect on empty buckets
Make aqsisrc search paths contain the current directory first.
Change core CMakeLists.txt back to use unix line ending characters.
Bugfix 2853241: min() not working properly with varying
Merge to avoid a newline change which messed with the repo history.
Bugfix 2853236: No AOV for volume shaders
Convert all files ending with CRLF to LF endings.
Make sure the CqParameter* argument to CqParameterTyped::SetValue is
const.
Bugfix 2133952: smooth shading interpolation artefacts
Use a relative tolerance for detecting when N comes out too small.
Bugfix 1929706: SDS never split to patches when using facevertex
Fix compiler warnings due to signed vs unsigned integer comparison
Bugfix for cropped image zooming in piqsl.
Make sure the piqsl "No Image" text is drawn in the middle of the
pane.
Bugfix 2838827: crop command causes artifacts
Supplimentary cleanups for bugfix 2813534
Remove reference to deprecated ChangeLog.txt which was breaking the
build system.
Remove a bunch of compiler warnings.

Leon Atkinson (13):
Minor update for Linux desktop integration.
Added new example content and updated broken render script.
Updated piqsl to include 'About' information and hide 'Book'
functionality. Also made small update to 'Image' menu for better cross-
platform HIG compliance.
Added missing file suffix to example content.
Changed aqsltell behaviour to better match PRMan/3Delight.
Added new tool Neqsus, the Aqsis export plugin.
Missed some file from previous 'Neqsus' commit
Workaround: Switched to non-System menus on OS X (FLTK).
Fix broken shader path(s) within eqsl under OS X.
Fix oversight/typo in previous commit.
Updated AUTHOR information and release notes.
Fix oversight in Windows installer.
Minor update to AUTHORS list.

Paul Gregory (26):
Fix for bug #2425031.
Fix for bug #2270656.
Fix for bug #2803564.
Use the Aqsis max template function in place of STL's
Add some boost checks in the appropriate places.
Fix for bug #2138993.
Futher fix for bug #2731390 on Windows.
Fix bug #2730585.
Fix bug #2730585.
Fix bug #2853239.
Fix invalid redelcaration of IqParameter.
Change the fix for #2847147.
Fix for #2853239.
Minor changes to the SO_attribute fix, and apply same to SO_option.
Further fix for #2853239.
Fix #1696939.
Fix bug #2738390.
Fix for #2843067.
Fix #2023668 - .aqsisrc on Windows platform.
Fix for #2319297.
Refactor the header file deliverables ahdead of the 1.6.0 release.
Add release notes for 1.6.0
Fix accidental binary codes in the 1.6 release note
Update some general files in prep for release.
Update version to 1.6.0
Hopefully (fingers crossed) fix the line endings.

Ricardo Mayor (3):
Fix for #2846526 - Bad render for image's first row and column.
Bugfix 2813534: Escaped strings in RSL not working
Bugfix 2872663: large number of pixel samples causes crash

Tobias Sauerwein (2):
Small patch to correspond to the relocation of the boost/pfto.hpp
header file. This should work for all boost versions from 1.37 on. In
boost 1.40 the header file was finally remove from its old position.
Fix to create bundles with dependencies in uncommon places.

Trevor Lovett (3):
Quadrics Refactor
Changes to quadrics.cpp recommended by Chris' code review of 8/22/09
Commiting again--perhaps there was a problem? This fixes double->float
truncation in sinCosGrid



Many, many thanks guys and congratulations to all :D
Eric Back (WHiTeRaBBiT)

On Oct 11, 9:48 am, Anthony Rosbottom <anthony.rosbot...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Woo Hoo! Cheers Paul, I'm off to download now.
>

[Chris Foster]

On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 5:45 AM, >WHiTeRaBBiT<
<white...@dreamscapearts.com> wrote:
> I wanted to thank everyone by name but I think the following helps do
> that better. To anyone who doesn't follow Aqsis's code or mailing
> lists here's a copy from the mailing lists showing just some of the
> people and their work involved in this release (to give a better
> picture of the scope of work and involvement)...

Thanks for the enthusiasm Eric! On a whole I'm quite happy with the speed
increases too, as shown by the timings at http://beaker.aqsis.org/ (my machine
is the one called cuboctahedron). Of course, there's nearly always scope to
improve, and we plan to keep doing that.

I just wanted to point out that the list of changes you just posted are a
summary of the commits since the release phase 2 was started. They're
certainly *not* the entire set of changes to go into 1.6, which is much much
longer ;-)

~Chris.