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Release build (2.33-dev)

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Mandelbulber 2.33-dev - win64

2.33-dev2

Merge remote-tracking branch 'refs/remotes/origin/master' into win64qt

Mandelbulber v2 2.32

New in 2.32

• Added new fractal formulas
  transfDIFSSupershape
  transfBoxFold4dInfy
  transfJuliabox
  transfJuliaboxV2
  transfSphericalInvV4

• modified fractal formulas
  aboxModKali, added aux.color
  aboxMod1, add R power iter controls
  aboxMod13, add missing xyz plane checkbox
  amazingSurfMulti, fix enable aux.color
  benesiPineTree, rework code
  benesiT1PineTree, remove post offset iter controls (no code)
  josKleinian, added more aux.color
  mandelboxMenger, z.z scale now works with rotation of separate planes
  mandelboxVaryScale4d, add missing parab checkbox
  menger4d, added aux.color
  menger4dMod1, added aux.color
  menger4dMod2, added aux.color
  pseudoKleinian, fix code and add aux.color
  pseudoKleinianMod1, fix code and add aux.color
  pseudoKleinianMod1, add iter controls to sphere inversion
  pseudoKleinianMod2, fix code and correct UI
  pseudoKleinianStdDE, fix code and add aux.color
  transfDELinearCube, add mix option
  transfQuaternionFold, add customDE option
  transfScaleVaryV212, fix DE
  transfSphericalInv, fix modes
  transfSphericalFoldParab, fixed reverse offset, update aux.color, add mode 2
  transfSphericalFoldXYZBias, correct and update aux.color
  transfSurfBoxFold, fix and update aux.color
  transfSurfFoldMulti, fix and update aux.color
  transfHybridColor2, fix parameter and add color tiling

• Shaders: Added Perlin noise texture mapping for:

  • color
  • luminosity
  • transparency opacity
  • transparency color
  • reflectance
  • displacement
  • subsurface scattering

• Shaders: Added illumination of fog by MC GI

• Shadera: Added option for relative center position for orbit trap lights

• Shaders: Added option for three different colors of orbit trap lights

• UI: Added more control for precission of sliders

• UI: Added selection for mouse dragging modes

• UI: Added option for precise mouse dragging

• OpenCL: Added custom OpenCL cache

• Animatiion: Added slider for animation browsing

• Primitives: Fixed bug in bonding of primitives and shapes of volumetric effects. There could be out of index error.

• Files: Added touch() when thumbnails are loaded. It avoids deletion of thumbnails which are frequently used

• Compilation: Windows version updated to Qt 6.7

Mandelbulber v2 2.31-1

New in 2.31-1

• Scripts: Added Delete Script button
• Scripts: Added possibility to omit script evaluation by adding # character as a first letter of the script
• Scripts: Fixed bug in scripts evaluation. Commas were replaced by dots in a whole script. Now it is replaced only in a value field.
• Scripts: Added missing recalculation of camera rotation after processing scripts
• Scripts: Added missing refreshing of parameters values in gPar when Script editor is opened and Test used
• OpenCL: Program crashed when Pixel Level Optimization was off
• UI: Fixed problem with missing error messages at program startup
• Files: Fixed problem with wrong default directories on Linux

Mandelbulber v2 2.31

New in version 2.31

• Added new fractal formulas
  aboxDonut4d
  aboxDonut4dV2
  mengerV7
  sphereClusterV2
  sphereClusterV3
  spheretreeV4
  spheretreeV5
  transfSphericalInvV3

• modified fractal formulas
  msltoeSym3Mod5 add boxfold
  sphereCluster update DE calc, add void mode
  transfSphericalInvV2, add DE tweak
  transfSphericalInvC, add prev2.17 code

• Scripts: added possibility to attach Java Script one-line scripts to the fractal parameters

• Effects: primitive objects can be used to define shape of volumetric effects like basic fog or clouds

• Effects: basic fog can cast / receive shadows

• Effects: added Rayleigh scattering to volumetric effects which cast / receive shadows

• Fractals: fixed problem with calculation of negative power bulbs

• Shaders: Improved quality of volumetric effects in MC mode

• Shaders: Added transparency (alpha) texture mapping for surface transparency and subsurface scattering

• Shaders: Added transparency color texture mapping for subsurface scattering

• UI: Added dialog with allows to substitute missing textures by selecting file, searching or using default one.

• UI: Fixed bug causing UI glitches when auto-refresh is enabled and one of parameters from custom formula is edited

• UI: Added "Copy parameter name" action in context menu for any parameter

• UI: Fixed bug leading to stack overflow when user rotated mouse wheel very fast and long.

• Performance: added parallel processing of already rendered tiles which improves speed of MC rendering.

• Performance: Removed option for reserving GPU time for the system (it caused significant CPU load on Windows and slowed down rendering)

• OpenCL: Fixed illegal memory access in cOpenClEngine::Build()

• NetRender: Corrected sending settings to NetRender client (e.g. there was missing OpenCL mode)

• Files: Added deletion of history files older than one year

• Files: Corrected default path for textures

• Installation: corrected icon name in mandelbulber2.desktop

• Compilation: corrected script for building MacOs version

Mandelbulber v2 2.30

Version 2.30 introduces new user interface for loading settings file. The Thumbnail Browser allows to browse files with the previews and short descriptions (used fractals, effects).
This versions fixes program stability issues caused by bugs in OpenCL MC algorithm.
As always there is nice set of new fractal formulas and transforms.

New in 2.30:

• Added new fractal formulas:
  jos_kleinian_v4
  mandelbulbPupuku
  mengerV6
  sphereCluster
  xenodreambuieV2
  xenodreambuieV3
  transfAbsAddConstantV2
  transfDotFold

• modified fractal formulas:
  mengerV3, update abs(z) enabled default, and other things
  transfDIFSBox add auxColor
  transfDIFSBoxFrame add auxColor
  transfDIFSGrid add auxColor
  transfDIFSHextgrid2 add auxColor
  transfDIFSHexprism add auxColor
  transfDIFSPrism add auxColor
  transfDIFSTriGrid add auxColor
  transfDIFSTorus add auxColor
  transfDIFSTorusGrid add auxColor

• UI: Added Thumbnail Browser for easy browsing of settings

• UI: Replaced standard file browser for examples with new Thumbnail Browser

• UI: Thumbnaiils on the toolbar which do not have MC effects are rendered with CPU

• UI: Thumbnails will be no longer re-rendered with program version change

• OpenCL: fixed bug causing crash of OpenCL rendering when pixel sequence had zero length

• OpenCL: fixed bug causing dark pixels in MC mode

• Preferences: Added option to enable/disable console output

• Preferences: fixed bug causing crash when Preferendes window was opened during OpenCL computation

• Performance: fixed bug causing slower rendering of MC effects

Mandelbulber v2 2.29

In the version 2.29 there was focus on performance improvements of MC rendering and anti-aliasing. Now rendering takes about 50-70% of time in compare with previous versions.
Next big change is new primitive object manager. New UI for them is now similar to this for light sources.
As always you will find many new fractal formulas and transforms.
Of course there is a lot of more smaller improvements which are listed below.

New in 2.29

• Added new fractal formulas
  mandelbarV2
  mandelbulbPow2V1
  mandelbulbSinCosV4;
  mandelnestFull
  mengerPyramid
  mengerSmoothChebyshev
  msltoeToroidalV2
  transfBoxTilingV3
  transfDIFSCayley2
  transfDIFSChessboard
  transfDIFSClipCustom
  transfDIFSHelixV2
  transfDIFSHelixMenger
  transfDIFSTorusMenger
  transfSincosHelix
  transfSinYM3d

• modified fractal formulas
  mandelbulbTails, update
  mandelbulbTailsV2, update
  mengerSponge3, add aux.color
  mengerPolyFold, add aux.color
  mengerChebyshev, add aux.color
  transfAbsAddConstant, add boxtiling addCpixel
  transfAddSphericalInvert, update
  transfBoxTiling4d, add boxtiling addCpixel, remove diminish test
  transfBoxTilingV2, add boxtiling addCpixel
  transfBoxWrap4d, add boxwrap addCpixel, remove diminish test
  transfCayley2V1, update
  transfMengerFoldV2, update
  transfRotateAboutVec3, optimise and add mode2

• Fractals: Added maxiter control for each formula in boolean mode

• Fractals: Added smooth DE combine

• Performance: optimized performance of anti-aliasing and MC effects (masking of pixel within tiles, improved pixel sequence)

• Shaders: added soft shadows mode for sub surface scattering in MC mode

• Shaders: Added parameter to control amount of emitted light by luminosity effect

• Shaders: Fixed bug in ambient occlusion effect and iteration fog

• Shaders: Fixed problem with global positioning of primitives and textures

• Primitives: Modified UI for managing primitive objects (to be like for light sources)

• Primitives: Added button for duplicating of primitives

• Primitives: Added wire-frame previews for primitives

• Primitives: Added possibility to drag primitives using mouse pointer

• Primitives: Added buttons: Enable all, Disable all, Only selected in the primitive manager

• Primitives: Added option to rename primitives (context menu on tab)

• Primitives: Added primitive prism

• Primitives: Added bounding boxes for individual primitives

• Primitives: Reworked icons for primitives

• UI: Added warning message when attempt to stop render when rendering took already 10 minutes

• UI: fixed bug in calculation of clipping plane for wire-frame objects

• UI: Added switch to change precision of pop-up sliders

• UI: Added option to rename light sources (context menu on tab)

• UI: Improved visibility of the cross-hair

• Files: corrected saving of multichannel EXR images

• Compilation: msvc updated to version 2019 and Qt 5.15

• Compilation: code updated for Qt6 compatibility

Release build (2.28)

New in 2.28:

• Added new fractal formulas
  mandelbulbSinCosV2
  mandelbulbSinCosV3
  mandelbulbTails
  mandelbulbTailsV2
  newtonPow3
  pseudoKleinianMod6
  transfCayley2V1
  transfDIFSPiriform
  transfLowResMode
  transfMengerFoldV2
  transfAddSphericalInvert
  transfSincosV2
  transfSphericalFoldSmooth

• modified fractal formulas
  mengerSponge, add aux.color
  transfAbsAddConditional, fix scale yz
  transfMengerFold, add aux.color
  transfDIFSBox added rounding
  transfDIFSBoxV3 fixed rounding
  transfSphericalPwrFold fix openCL pow
  transfBenesiT5b fix openCL pow
  benesiMagTransforms fix openCL pow

• UI: Added support for high DPI displays

• UI: Improved sliders for integer values (issue #481)

• UI: Fixed issue #911. Zero button didn't reset SpinBoxes

• Files: Added auto-save of settings to mandelbulber/history folder

• Files: Added option to save fractal setting together with the image

• Files: Added option to remember default settings

• Files: Added options to save additional image channels:

  • shadows
  • global illumination
  • not denoised image

• Lights: Added option to set light cone direction defined by target point

• Lights: Added option for rendering light beams

• Lights: Issue #398. Implemented more color control for random lights

• Rendering: Improved initial conditions for anti-aliasing (implemented simple edge detection)

• Shaders: Added gamma correction option for background textures (important for HDRi textures)

• Shaders: Added cloud speed animation parameter and envolving of clouds shape in animation

• Shaders: Added "Shartp edges" mode to clouds algorithm which make them more realistic.

• Shaders: Added "Cast shadows" option to the Fog based on distance

• Fractals: Fixed problem with wrong shape calculation when used DIFS fractals (without bailout) and limits enabled

• Rendering: Fixed bug causing incorrect rendering of stereoscopic images on NetRender client

• Navigator: Fixed bug #909. Disabled error messages in the Navigator

• OpenCL: Fixed problem with hanging OpenCL kernels when used transparency. There was the possibility of infinite loop.

• OpenCL: Added rendering of separate image channels to the rendering kernels

• Mac: Fixed error causing OpenCL kernel error on Apple Silicon

• Performance: Rewritten rendering of volumetric effects. Now all effects will be calculated in a one loop for light sources.

Mandelbulber v2 2.27

New in 2.27

• Added new fractal formulas

  aboxSmooth
  mandelbulbIqPow8
  mandelbulbIqV2
  mandelbulbSinCos
  mandelnest4d
  menger3M3d
  mengerV4
  mengerV5
  msltoeSym4Mod1
  transfDIFSBoxFrame
  transfDIFSClipPlane
  transfDIFSHeart
  transfDIFSHelix
  transfDIFSSphereGrid
  transfDIFSSphereGridV2
  transfDIFSSphereGridV3
  transfDIFSTorusTwist
  transfPolyFoldXYV1
  transfSincos
  transfSphericalFoldV3

• modified fractal formulas
  amazingSurfM3d, fix cylindrical fold, rot now matrix
  benesi, added checkbox to disable one condition
  mandelbulbPow2V3, fix bailout
  transfRotationM3d, now matrix

• Navigator: Added Navigator tool which allows to change view and parameters with instant preview

• Navigator: Upgraded rendering engine to provide progressive rendering in OpenCL mode

• Navigator: Possible to edit camera, fractal formula, effects and material parameters

• Shaders: Added subsurface scattering in Material editor (option for transparency)

• UI: improved behavior of sliders for edit fields

• UI: added sliders for rotation parameters

• UI: added shortcut editor in Preferences

• UI: Now it is possible to use mouse click and dragging starting from the point
  located on the background.

• UI: Changed mouse wheel function to run without Ctrl key

• UI: undo is saved with small delay to avoid creating undo levels during mouse

• UI: Added x2 /2 buttons for Fog based on distance

• UI: Fixed problems with application hanging when wireframe light preview is enormous

• UI: Corrected duplicating of light sources (added parameter synchronization before duplicating)

• UI: Fixed problem with keyboard auto-repeat. It worked only for about 1s.

• UI: Updated functions for automatic optimal DE calculation

• UI: Fixed bug: Keyframes disappeared when Queue was rendered

• Fractals: Corrected logDE calculation (objects were hollow because of calculation errors)

• Shaders: improved Random() function in OpenCL kernel

• Shaders: improved estimation of noise level in Monte Carlo mode

• Shaders: Fixed bug causing artifacts in chromatic aberration post effect

• Denoiser: added Extreme level to the Denoiser

• Performance: Added memory cache for textures to speed up loading of them.
  Maximum Cache size can be defined in Preferences

• Performance: Much improved performance of texture loading

• Performance: automatic calculation of optimal image refresh rate

• Performance: Optimized creating of OpenCL contexts for bug number of used GPUs

• Performance: Much improved performance of Navigator in CPU mode

• Animation: fixed bug: program crashed when there was less than 4 frames per keyframe

• Animation: Added automatic deletion of parameters from animation table when primitives are deleted

• Primitives: fixed problem with incomplete deleting of primitive objects

• Files: fixed bug: auto-recovery didn't save animation

• Compilation: Code upgraded to be compatible with Qt 6

• Compilation: Upgrade build files for linking with OpenEXR 3