Mitsuba Development Blog

Builds for a new version of Mitsuba are now available for download. Highlights of this release are:

• Numerous bugfixes
• Significantly improved COLLADA importer: it should now be able to handle most scenes from Maya, 3ds max, Blender and SketchUp
• Basic graphical user interface for running the importer
• Initial documentation, including some on the import process (available on the documentation page)
• Support for environment sources in the realtime preview
• When pressing the stop button while rendering, the partially rendered scene now remains on the screen. Pressing the stop button a second time switches back to the realtime preview
• The user interface now has a fallback mode when the graphics card is lacking some required OpenGL features.
• Create default cameras/lightsources if none are specified in a scene
• Support for file drag & drop onto the user interface
• The Mitsuba user interface now also doubles as an EXR viewer / tonemapper. Drag an EXR file onto the UI or open it using the File menu, and the image opens in a new tab. Afterwards, it is possible to export the image as a tonemapped 8-bit PNG image.
• The realtime preview now has a ‘force diffuse’ feature to improve convergence in scenes with lots of glossy materials.
• Two different navigation modes can now be chosen in the program settings
• New material types: composite, difftrans, transparent, mask.
• ldrtexture: support for loading uncompressed BMP and TGA images.
• Switch to Xerces-C++ 3

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