5.4.0

SItoA 5.4.0

New features

Arnold Core version is shown after each feature so that you can reference the Arnold release notes for more details.

Core

• Arnold GPU (5.3.0 and 5.4.0)
• Operators (5.3.0)
• New better Progressive and Adaptive AA (5.3.0 and 5.4.0)
• Visible area lights (5.3.0)
• Autobump visibility (5.3.0)
• Smart opaque (5.3.0)

New Shaders

• clip_geo (5.4.0)
• aov_read_* shader family (5.4.0)
• uv_projection (5.3.0)
• matrix_interpolate (5.3.0)

Updated shaders

• standard_surface
  • Microfacet multiple scattering (5.3.0)
  • randomwalk_v2 SSS mode (5.3.0)
  • Coat anisotropy (5.3.0)
  • Transmission Extra Roughness can have negative values (5.3.0)
  • transmission_depth is now linkable (5.3.0)
• camera_projection
  • New coord_space parameter

Other

• Ignore Motion and Instantaneous Shutter options (5.3.0)
• New denois_albedo AOV used for denoising. (5.3.0)

SItoA enhancements

• normal ports made not inspectable on bump and lambert shaders.
• closure dummy shader is no longer exported so .ass-files should be renderable in other DCCs now.
• Optional Enlarge buckets in progressive IPR option to get better bucket updates when rendering, especially handy with GPU rendering.
• New scene defaults
  • Replaces Phong with standard_surface on Scene_Material
  • Set distant_light intensity to 4 and angle to 0.53 (sun default)
• Ability to Export Nref
• Arnold lights have more expressions to the Softimage Gizmo for better viewport support.

Bugfixes

• Build system patches AdLM to make it compatible with Softimage old AdLM. (#74)
• Strands with wrong number of attributes rendered incorrectly. (#70)
• Shaders defined in ArnoldShaderDef.js couldn't be rendered with xsibatch (#77)

5.2.0

SItoA 5.2.0

New features

Arnold core version is shown after each feature so that you can reference the Arnold release notes for more details.

Core

• Upgrade to 5.2.2.1
• Arnold denoiser (noice) (5.1.0)
• Nvidia OptiX denoiser (5.1.0)
• Adaptive sampling (5.1.0)
• Progressive rendering (5.1.0)
• AOV shaders (5.0.1)
• Cryptomatte (5.2.0)
• Color managers (5.0.0)
  • OCIO (5.0.0)
• NPR - Non-physical rendering mode (5.1.0)
• Stats and profiling (5.1.0)

New shaders

• car_paint (5.0.2)
• cell_noise (5.2.0)
• AOV shaders aov_write_rgba (5.1.0)
• Layer shaders layer_float, layer_rgba, layer_shader (5.1.0)
• toon with AOVs (5.1.0)
• matrix_multiply_vector and matrix_transform (5.2.0)
• round_corners (5.2.1)

Updated shaders

• standard_surface
  • New randomwalk SSS with anisotropy (5.0.2)
  • Transmit AOVs (5.0.2)
  • Sheen (5.2.0)
  • ID AOVs (5.1.0)
• standard_hair
  • Extra samples parameter added (5.1.0)
  • ID AOVs (5.1.0)
  • Azimuthal rougness (5.2.2)
• shadow_matte
  • Backgrounds replaced by new system (5.0.2)
  • Some AOVs removed (5.0.2)
  • Specular IOR added (5.0.2)
  • AOV Groups added (5.1.0)
• noise
  • pref_name added (5.1.0)
• triplanar
  • cell parameter added (5.0.2)
  • pref_name added and P removed (5.1.0)
• flakes
  • IOR added (5.0.2)
  • size replaced by density (5.0.2)
  • pref_name added (5.1.0)
• ambient_occlusion
  • Support for trace sets (5.1.0)
• color_jitter
  • face_mode added (5.1.0)
• passthrough
  • normal added (5.1.0)
• clamp
  • Switch between scalar or RGB mode (5.2.0)
• range
  • Contrast, bias and gain parameters (5.2.0)

Other

• New AOVs volume_Z, AA_inv_density (5.2.0)

Bugfixes

• Camera projection window and rotoscope zoom/pan is now working again
• Various UI enhancements (better shader min/max ranges, etc.)
• Various build fixes and enhancements