pbrt-v4 early access release
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Matt Pharr
Aug 19, 2020, 3:30:29 PM8/19/20
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We're happy to announce that an early version of the source code to pbrt-v4, the version of pbrt that will accompany the forthcoming fourth edition of Physically Based Rendering, is now publicly available at https://github.com/mmp/pbrt-v4. (Happy SIGGRAPH week!)
This version represents a substantial revision of pbrt, with major new features that include:
pbrt-v4 will eventually be thoroughly documented via the book, but in the meantime, we hope that the system will be generally understandable to people familiar with pbrt-v3. There is also a video walkthrough of the code that gives an overview of changes to the system's organization.
== How can you help? ==
We think that pbrt-v4 will be immediately useful in its own right, but part of why we're releasing it now is to make it possible to find bugs and make improvements to the system before book publication. While the major features of pbrt-v4 are set, we would particularly appreciate:
Matt, Wenzel, and Greg
This version represents a substantial revision of pbrt, with major new features that include:
- Spectral rendering
- State-of-the-art volumetric scattering
- Support for GPU rendering
- All new BxDFs and Material models, including scattering layered materials
- Many other improvements and additions: many-light sampling with a light BVH, a bilinear patch shape, new Samplers, a g-buffer Film that saves additional information at each pixel, and much more...
pbrt-v4 will eventually be thoroughly documented via the book, but in the meantime, we hope that the system will be generally understandable to people familiar with pbrt-v3. There is also a video walkthrough of the code that gives an overview of changes to the system's organization.
== How can you help? ==
We think that pbrt-v4 will be immediately useful in its own right, but part of why we're releasing it now is to make it possible to find bugs and make improvements to the system before book publication. While the major features of pbrt-v4 are set, we would particularly appreciate:
- Bug reports: ranging from crashes to errors in pbrt's implementation, we'd like to hear about them. (Please use the github issue tracker.)
- Bug fixes: even better than a bug report is a PR with a bug fix, be it for a bug that you found or one from the issue tracker. In the printed book, we'll happily acknowledge everyone who submits bug fixes that we use.
- Implementation improvements: as mentioned above, we're not adding major new features at this point. However, if you see a better way to implement something (e.g., "if you rewrote this calculation like this, it would be more numerically stable," etc.), we'd love to hear about it.
- Improving pbrt's portability by getting it to build on additional systems is always appreciated.
- Example scenes: we'd like to update the example scenes with additional interesting scenes to render; having a variety of them is quite useful, both for pbrt users and also for us as we make figures for the book. Furthermore, we need something amazing to use for the cover image for the fourth edition...
Matt, Wenzel, and Greg
Jan Walter
Aug 20, 2020, 5:58:47 AM8/20/20
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Thanks a lot. Rendering and watching the images refine with *tev* is really fun!
Cheers,
Jan
On 8/19/20, Matt Pharr <matt....@gmail.com> wrote:
> We're happy to announce that an early version of the source code to
> pbrt-v4, the version of pbrt that will accompany the forthcoming
> fourth edition of *Physically Based Rendering*, is now publicly available
> - State-of-the-art volumetric scattering
> - Support for GPU rendering
> - All new BxDFs and Material models, including scattering layered
> materials
> - Many other improvements and additions: many-light sampling with a
> - Bug fixes: even better than a bug report is a PR with a bug fix, be it
> systems is always appreciated.
> - Example scenes: we'd like to update the example scenes with additional
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Cheers,
Jan
On 8/19/20, Matt Pharr <matt....@gmail.com> wrote:
> We're happy to announce that an early version of the source code to
> pbrt-v4, the version of pbrt that will accompany the forthcoming
> at https://github.com/mmp/pbrt-v4. (Happy SIGGRAPH week!)
>
> This version represents a substantial revision of pbrt, with major new
> features that include:
>
> - Spectral rendering
>
> This version represents a substantial revision of pbrt, with major new
> features that include:
>
> - State-of-the-art volumetric scattering
> - Support for GPU rendering
> - All new BxDFs and Material models, including scattering layered
> materials
> - Many other improvements and additions: many-light sampling with a
> light BVH, a bilinear patch shape, new Samplers, a g-buffer Film that
> saves
> additional information at each pixel, and much more...
>
> See the README <https://github.com/mmp/pbrt-v4/blob/master/README.md> file
> saves
> additional information at each pixel, and much more...
>
> for a full list of changes and for information about how to build the
> system and where to download example scenes.
>
> pbrt-v4 will eventually be thoroughly documented via the book, but in the
> meantime, we hope that the system will be generally understandable to
> people familiar with pbrt-v3. There is also a video walkthrough of the
> code
> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXuk7bmhZ2g> that gives an overview of
> system and where to download example scenes.
>
> pbrt-v4 will eventually be thoroughly documented via the book, but in the
> meantime, we hope that the system will be generally understandable to
> people familiar with pbrt-v3. There is also a video walkthrough of the
> code
> changes to the system's organization.
>
> == How can you help? ==
>
> We think that pbrt-v4 will be immediately useful in its own right, but part
> of why we're releasing it now is to make it possible to find bugs and make
> improvements to the system before book publication. While the major
> features of pbrt-v4 are set, we would particularly appreciate:
>
> - Bug reports: ranging from crashes to errors in pbrt's implementation,
>
> == How can you help? ==
>
> We think that pbrt-v4 will be immediately useful in its own right, but part
> of why we're releasing it now is to make it possible to find bugs and make
> improvements to the system before book publication. While the major
> features of pbrt-v4 are set, we would particularly appreciate:
>
> we'd like to hear about them. (Please use the github issue tracker
> <https://github.com/mmp/pbrt-v4/issues>.)
> - Bug fixes: even better than a bug report is a PR with a bug fix, be it
> for a bug that you found or one from the issue tracker. In the printed
> book, we'll happily acknowledge everyone who submits bug fixes that we
> use.
> - Implementation improvements: as mentioned above, we're not adding
> book, we'll happily acknowledge everyone who submits bug fixes that we
> use.
> major new features at this point. However, if you see a better way to
> implement something (e.g., "if you rewrote this calculation like this,
> it
> would be more numerically stable," etc.), we'd love to hear about it.
> - Improving pbrt's portability by getting it to build on additional
> implement something (e.g., "if you rewrote this calculation like this,
> it
> would be more numerically stable," etc.), we'd love to hear about it.
> systems is always appreciated.
> - Example scenes: we'd like to update the example scenes with additional
> interesting scenes to render; having a variety of them is quite useful,
> both for pbrt users and also for us as we make figures for the book.
> Furthermore, we need something amazing to use for the cover image for
> the
> fourth edition...
>
> Happy ray tracing!
>
> Matt, Wenzel, and Greg
>
> --
> both for pbrt users and also for us as we make figures for the book.
> Furthermore, we need something amazing to use for the cover image for
> the
> fourth edition...
>
> Happy ray tracing!
>
> Matt, Wenzel, and Greg
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Marshall Ross
Aug 21, 2020, 1:40:00 AM8/21/20
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Anyone having trouble using the --upgrade command in version 4 on a .pbrt file? I might be set up wrong, but it doesn't seem to recognize the ">" argument in the command line. I'm a bit of a hack when it comes to programming, but I got the project to build in Xcode, and it'll parse the first file, but get hung up the > token. If I strip out the >, so something like this: pbrt --upgrade old.pbrt new.pbrt, it just parses the first file and can't find the second unless I stub in a second file to begin with, and then it'll just parse both, and exit without doing any conversion.
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Enrico Zschemisch
Aug 21, 2020, 3:51:45 AM8/21/20
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That part works fine here (macOS Big Sur and Catalina).
Built pbrt-v4 from the command line/Terminal though and am using it from there.
What doesn't work with the --upgrade option is certain materials, e.g.
"fourier" from v3 doesn't get replaced with something valid.
Enrico
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Built pbrt-v4 from the command line/Terminal though and am using it from there.
What doesn't work with the --upgrade option is certain materials, e.g.
"fourier" from v3 doesn't get replaced with something valid.
Enrico
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Marshall Ross
Aug 21, 2020, 4:51:50 AM8/21/20
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Hmm...I'm using Xcode editor with the command line arguments passed through the scheme window in debug mode. Maybe I'll try a regular build.
That part works fine here (macOS Big Sur and Catalina).
Built pbrt-v4 from the command line/Terminal though and am using it from there.
What doesn't work with the --upgrade option is certain materials, e.g.
"fourier" from v3 doesn't get replaced with something valid.
Enrico
Built pbrt-v4 from the command line/Terminal though and am using it from there.
What doesn't work with the --upgrade option is certain materials, e.g.
"fourier" from v3 doesn't get replaced with something valid.
Enrico
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Jim Price
Aug 29, 2020, 7:54:47 PM8/29/20
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Howdy all,
For those of you that maintain either public or private exporters for pbrt I've put together a list of scene description changes between pbrt-v3 and pbrt-v4. Hopefully this will aid in the transition. You can find the list here -
Since pbrt-v4 is still changing expect for the list to lag slightly behind, but if you see anything wrong feel free to let me know via email or github issue.
Thanks Matt for pointing out some of the changes that I missed on my first pass of the list!
Happy exporting. :)
jim
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