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)