Welcome to RenderMan 22.1. This release introduces improvements to the previous RenderMan.
Please dive right into the release notes below for more detailed information on the latest version of your favorite renderer!
Interactive Denoising using NVIDIA's AI Denoiser
RenderMan 22.1 brings further refinement to the RenderMan 22 world.
Enabling the NVIDIA Denoiser on an example scene.
Nvidia's AI Denoiser — "it" now includes the Nvidia's Artificial Intelligence Denoising solution for previews of beauty renders. Get cleaner previews with the interactive denoise feature while making changes and refining your scene choices. (Note that this greatly increases the download size.)
Non-Commercial RenderMan Released — NCR RenderMan is now available at no cost for users wanting to explore high quality rendering.
New Wireframe Pattern — A new pattern, PxrWireframe, for rendering wireframes in any integrator is now included.
Improved Light Learning Scheme — We introduce a new light selection scheme that takes advantage of machine learning to improve lighting results on scenes with many lights and lights that may be occluded/shadowed. Enabled as a rendering option: Option "lighting" "int selectionlearningscheme" [1]
C and C++ deeptexture APIs and utilities have been restored but these are deprecated and will be removed in a future release
Fixed sample count is not supported by the renderer for mesh lights, the control is removed
A bug leading to incorrect normals on points with radius larger than 1 has been fixed
Issues with facevarying data on RiPoints have been addressed
A slowdown for non-pretessellated objects with deformation motion blur and overly large displacement bounds has been fixed
A bug where the renderer failed to fall back to uncached presence and opacity when caching was requested on RiPoints has been fixed
Fixed a bug causing potential for render hangs when using coincident or nearly-coincident lights
Fixed a bug causing a small chance of hangs when using more than 32 lights
Deformation motion blurred volumes don't currently work with densityFloatPrimVar or densityColorPrimVar. You will need to use a PxrPrimVar node connected to densityFloat and densityColor instead.
The Centos KDE style "Oxygen" installs a version of Qt and sets the user's environment variable QT_PLUGIN_PATH forcing "it" and LocalQueue to attempt to load an incompatible Qt library. Either avoid installing the Oxygen theme or unset QT_PLUGIN_PATH before running "it" or LocalQueue. Other KDE styles may also install this theme. |