5.2.0

SItoA 5.2.0

New features

Arnold core version is shown after each feature so that you can reference the Arnold release notes for more details.

Core

• Upgrade to 5.2.2.1
• Arnold denoiser (noice) (5.1.0)
• Nvidia OptiX denoiser (5.1.0)
• Adaptive sampling (5.1.0)
• Progressive rendering (5.1.0)
• AOV shaders (5.0.1)
• Cryptomatte (5.2.0)
• Color managers (5.0.0)
  • OCIO (5.0.0)
• NPR - Non-physical rendering mode (5.1.0)
• Stats and profiling (5.1.0)

New shaders

• car_paint (5.0.2)
• cell_noise (5.2.0)
• AOV shaders aov_write_rgba (5.1.0)
• Layer shaders layer_float, layer_rgba, layer_shader (5.1.0)
• toon with AOVs (5.1.0)
• matrix_multiply_vector and matrix_transform (5.2.0)
• round_corners (5.2.1)

Updated shaders

• standard_surface
  • New randomwalk SSS with anisotropy (5.0.2)
  • Transmit AOVs (5.0.2)
  • Sheen (5.2.0)
  • ID AOVs (5.1.0)
• standard_hair
  • Extra samples parameter added (5.1.0)
  • ID AOVs (5.1.0)
  • Azimuthal rougness (5.2.2)
• shadow_matte
  • Backgrounds replaced by new system (5.0.2)
  • Some AOVs removed (5.0.2)
  • Specular IOR added (5.0.2)
  • AOV Groups added (5.1.0)
• noise
  • pref_name added (5.1.0)
• triplanar
  • cell parameter added (5.0.2)
  • pref_name added and P removed (5.1.0)
• flakes
  • IOR added (5.0.2)
  • size replaced by density (5.0.2)
  • pref_name added (5.1.0)
• ambient_occlusion
  • Support for trace sets (5.1.0)
• color_jitter
  • face_mode added (5.1.0)
• passthrough
  • normal added (5.1.0)
• clamp
  • Switch between scalar or RGB mode (5.2.0)
• range
  • Contrast, bias and gain parameters (5.2.0)

Other

• New AOVs volume_Z, AA_inv_density (5.2.0)

Bugfixes

• Camera projection window and rotoscope zoom/pan is now working again
• Various UI enhancements (better shader min/max ranges, etc.)
• Various build fixes and enhancements