Our Blender plugin exposes this feature other plugins will implement similar workflows in future releases.Įsteban also switched appleseed to use Filter Importance Sampling instead of filtered sample splatting. This unlocks the possibility for users to write some OSL code in their DCC application of choice and see the results in the render immediately, without to manually compile the OSL shader with the command line compiler. Thanks to Esteban Tovagliari, appleseed is now able to compile OpenShadingLanguage (OSL) shaders on the fly. Example workflows using this feature are detailed in the release notes. Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2018 student and GSoC 2019 mentor Kevin Masson implemented render checkpointing, a mechanism to resume multi-pass renders after they were interrupted and to add rendering passes to a finished render. Sergo Pogosyan added full support for Cryptomatte in the form of a new set of AOVs.

The core rendering engine received a number of important new features in this release: Let’s go over some highlights of this release. Of course, the core engine, appleseed.studio and the suite of command line tools have all received their share of attention with more than a hundred new features and bug fixes.

Once again, our focus in this release has been on improving our native plugins for Autodesk® 3ds Max®, Autodesk® Maya® and Blender. We sure have been quiet during the past ten months, but as you’ll see it wasn’t for a lack of activity! The team has been hard at work and everyone is proud of what we accomplished since the last release. Make sure to read the core engine release notes for the full illustrated story! This release is the fruit of relentless design, development, testing and coordination efforts by the appleseed team, an international group of volunteers dedicated to building state-of-the-art open source rendering technology.

We are proud to announce the release of appleseed 2.1.0-beta, the twelveth (or twelfth?) release of our beta program and the 35th public release since the first alpha in July 2010.

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