Release v2.15.0.1

What's new

We've changed openmoonray's versioning scheme to align with how we version our internal repositories, which is typically a minor version bump with weekly internal releases and a major version bump when one of our productions locks off on a particular version, to ensure stability for the remainder of that production.

Features

• New developer regression suite (RATS). Includes release of ~400 tests, and automated canonical image generation.
• Added NUMA architecture support. Includes affinity controls for CPU / Memory to achieve better performance on NUMA architecture machines.
• New rdla_gui program that creates a GUI from rdla objects and parameters and updates a delta .rdla file for real time control when rendering with moonray_gui
• New per-BSDF lobe lightsets
• Added an FOV attribute to the FisheyeCamera
• New TwoSidedMap
• Allow ImageMap rotation to work with UDIM images, which will rotate from their center
• Support multiple BSSRDFs in a single material
• Added scene_rdl2 functions and improvements to support hdMoonray
• Added tmp directory management for signal-based checkpointing

Bug Fixes

• Fixed bug and optimized file output logic for signal-based checkpointing
• Fixed weight scaling of ToonBRDF in scalar
• Fixed OCIO not being built into moonray_gui
• Fixed SwitchNormalMap choice attribute evaluation in vector mode
• Fixed crash with DwaColorCorrectMaterial with a DwaSwitchMaterial
• Fixed OIIO libtiff link error
• Fixed look difference in SSS random walk caused by choice of local reference frame
• Fixed use_default_color for non-udim images
• Fixed build warning of SHA1 on Rocky9.4
• Fixed UsdGeometry acceleration motion blur
• UsdGeometry no longer submits unassigned meshes/parts
• Updated the sphere.usd scene to include the MaterialBindingAPI schema
• Fixed install location of the moonrayShaderDiscovery and moonrayShaderParser plugins ito plugin/pxr
• Allow RectLights and PortalLights to be used in the same scene

Other

• Removed deprecated path guiding implementation
• Added support for LPEs which capture indirect lighting on volumes
• Moved left-handed logic into RdlMeshGeometry procedural
• Automatically set resumable_output when resume render
• Skip the output file permissions check if moonray is running as a backend computation

Community Contributors

• James Horsley
  • Added missing std includes
  • Updated includes for OpenEXR v3.0+
  • Fixed includes order
  • Switch from tbb::mutex to std::mutex, lock_guard()
  • Switch the deprecated JsonCpp memberName() to name()
• Ryan Russell
  • Ashikhmin-Shirley code readability fixups