In questa sezione viene riportata una lista di tutte le modifiche apportate a Thea Render.
Ricordiamo tutti gli utenti che questa lista è la lista ufficiale rilasciata da Solid Iris Technologies.

• Creating now Layouts data folder for MacOSX / Linux. (MacOSX/Linux)
• Some fixes for OSX 64-bit compilation (64-bit build is ~15% faster). (MacOSX 64-bit)
• Small improvement with black surfaces shown in OpenGL view due to left handed transformation. (UI)
• Various improvements / additions for Thea SDK. (SDK)
• Weighted texture supports now negative weights as well (applicable through plugins). (Textures)
• Added ability to switch engine altogether in interactive rendering. (Core)
• Added "Adaptive (AMC)" progressive engine, an adaptive "biased analog" variation of TR2. (Core)
• Major source of noise for bump mapping has been fixed. (Unbiased TR1/TR2)
• Ability to set the priority to Lower now from the studio interface. (UI)
• Corrected material rendering with alpha mapping and/or medium but empty bsdf. (All Engines)
• Small correction for bumped thin film material sampling. (All Engines)
• Firefly fix for glossy materials with extremely low non-zero roughness. (All Engines)
• Fixed y-orientation for bitmap bump/normal mapping when using cubic mapping. (Textures)
• Small fix for zero roughness bumped glossy and coating materials. (All Engines)
• Sampling improvement for bumped glossy and coating materials. (All Engines)
• Added Colimo supersampling and copying textures options in studio preferences. (UI)
• Interactive render environment can be utilized now for faster selection in large scenes. (UI)
• Some small logging tweaks in TR1/TR2/Progressive. (UI)
• Multithreading fix for linux 32-bit builds. (Linux)
• Minor memory footprint improvement for packaged models. (All Engines)
• Shift lens works now with OpenGL viewport. (UI)
• Some parameterization of IR refreshing in preferences. (UI)
• Added new tools for navigation and drawing in Viewport theme. (UI)
• Added functionality for handling of "missing bitmaps". (Core/UI)
• Minor fix adding scene that is being "Saved As" to recent list. (UI)
• Pinning of Viewport tools is now saved/restored. (UI)
• Texture names appear now in the Textures panel instead of full bitmap paths. (UI)
• Minor fix about scrollbar update for browser controls when resizing panels. (UI)
• Faster interactive render refreshing through various optimizations. (UI)
• Drag and drop material is now undoable, as well as when applying material to one or multiple selected models. (UI)
• Major noise fix for noise coming from peculiar lighting conditions. (Unbiased TR1/TR2)
• Thea starts correctly now from command line with a single argument by opening the related file. (I/O)
• Windows installer registers now thea format to Thea application. (Windows-I/O)
• Creation, loading and extraction of libraries, using a new format ".lib.thea". (I/O)
• Example scenes are now installed at data folder as well. (Data)

• Better refresh mechanism for TR1/TR2/PBD in studio darkroom. (UI)
• Added editing of position coordinates for selection in the main interface. (UI)
• Added editing of UV Coordinates properties for selection in the main interface. (UI)
• Implemented workaround for OpenGL selection when dealing with meshes with junk vertices. (UI)
• Added Displacement global switch to render settings. (UI)
• Added samples per pixel stopping criterion for unbiased/progressive render methods. (Unbiased/Progressive engines)
• Added more consistency checks (for normals and uv) for meshes. (I/O)
• Improved formula for bumped glossy and coating (leading to better shadow definition and reduced noise). (All engines)
• Added undo when changing texture UV coordinates. (UI)
• Fix for "overzealous" missing bitmap dialog (popping up empty). (UI)
• Added command line opening in matlab and darkroom mode when opening mat.thea and img.thea files. (Shell)
• Fix when dropping a displaced material on a non-displaced (and vice versa) during interactive render. (IR)
• Fixed micto-bump for displaced models. (All engines)
• Pressing the exit big button in matlab and client user interface mode exits immediately without asking. (UI)
• Fixed viewing now in darkroom hdr/rgb float bitmaps (when double clicking on textures panel). (UI)
• Added support for IR engines inside normal (darkroom) render settings. (UI)
• Bump and normal mapping are now independent of scaling (when using bitmaps). (All engines)
• Added custom installation folder for libraries. (Installation)
• Fix for bump/normal mapping when rotation is applied. (All engines)
• When changing now texture for a grouped point light, child lights get the new texture. (UI)
• Grayscale images can be read now and stored more efficiently internally. (I/O)
• Added more flags in the context menu of models and point lights. (UI)
• Corrected motion setup copy-paste and added "Paste Follow". (Motion)
• Scene merging is now applied recursively on model and light groups. (I/O)
• Improved clean up after merging scene with model conflicts. (I/O)
• Added complex motion and menu context options for defining multiple-track motion. (Motion)
• Fixed funny mouse behaviour when draggin sun on hemisphere gizmo on 64-bit systems. (UI)
• Fixed bump/normal/anisotropy mapping on certain triangular meshes. (All engines)
• Fixed UV bump/normal mapping dealing now correctly with left handed frames. (All engines)
• Fixed Cubic/Cylindrical/Spherical mapping when used with bump/normal mapping. (All engines)
• When user is at a camera, a tooltip appears and when it is mounted, the tooltip and focus rectangle go red. (UI)
• Refreshing now list controls with added bitmaps after drag and dropping materials. (UI)
• Added support for solid texture mode without lighting in Viewport (toggled with key 'L'). (UI)
• Added support for texture tonemap complement on specific bands (red/green/blue or combinations) - to be used with DirectX or other variants of normal maps. (UI)
• Added committing position to models (this is skipped for animated and shared meshes). (UI-I/O)
• Added support for extended name-bitmap tooltips that are shown (centered) when alt+clicking on list icon (shift-click on linux). (UI)

• Navigation/selection modifier keys (Shift, Ctrl, Alt) are not processed now when cursor is outside Viewport (solving problem with Alt+Click previewing thumbnail tooltips). (UI)
• Synchronized UV coordinates editing between Viewport, Properties and Material Editor. (UI)
• Changing UV coordinates updates dirt map as well now. (UI)

• An important fix for environment accelerator. (all engines)
• Crash fix when saving Alpha channel with Repaint on. (I/O)
• Relight images are also saved now during animation. (I/O)
• Reversed parametric sphere texture coordinates so that texture has proper orientation in renders. (all engines)
• Fixed setting interactive render threads before starting render. (IR)
• Automatically correcting now cubic, cylindrical and spherical coordinates for swapped Y-Z models. (all engines)
• Reversed cylindrical and spherical mapping so that bitmaps are not shown upside down. (all engines)
• Flags are now set also for model proxies (from right click scene context menu). (UI)
• Bug fix when computing mesh orientation
• correcting uv mapping issues. (all engines)
• Added global texture projection coordinates on Model level. (Scene Description)
• Added merging options for materials. (I/O)
• Fix when applying vignetting during interactive render. (IR)
• Small stability fix when loading objects from xml and scn.thea files. (I/O)
• Crash fix when setting glare radius to 0%. (UI)
• Improved antialiasing for depth channel. (all engines)
• A fix for TR1 evaluation (especially evident with soft clip mapping). (Unbiased TR1)
• Common channels (normal/depth/id) are computed now taking into account transparency. (Unbiased/Progressive engines)
• Fixed computation of primary channels (Normal/Depth/ObjectId/MaterialId) in Adaptive BSD engine. (Adaptive BSD)
• Added projection frame for overriding texture coordinates, on per-model basis. (Scene Description)
• Ability to swap now YZ for a model, but avoid setting the corresponding projection mapping flag. (I/O)
• Added file association for thea files on macosx.
• Added Flat, Front and Shrink Wrap texture projection modes. Note that OpenGL viewport and anisotropy computation (bump mapping) based on these projection modes are still missing. (Scene Description)
• Crash fix in intersection core when there is a IR update with material/light change. (IR)
• Sun pool caustics can now be rendered using TR1 for zero roughness water interface! (Unbiased TR1)
• Fixed wrong gamma correction applied when calculating texture displacement with tone mapping. (all engines)
• When opening file with missing bitmaps, a non modal warning is displayed instead of the missing bitmaps dialog. (UI)
• Fixed pivoting for surface instance (parameter was not being saved/loaded in previous versions). (I/O)
• Added support for camera mapping. (Scene Description)
• Copying now thea.po file with installation. (Installers)
• Ability to add now mod.thea files as links in the XML input files. (I/O)
• Added missing translation for descriptions in various UI controls. (Internationalization)
• Potential fix for blocking in missing bitmaps dialog (caused by non UTF8 filenames). (UI)
• Registry is updated for 32-bit application as well when installing 64-bit binary. (Windows Installer)
• Improved network utilization. (Network Rendering)
• If temporary pack file for network cannot be removed and created, a different name can be used now to overcome the problem. (Network Rendering)
• Added various switches for render farm automation. (Network Rendering)
• Auto refresh and save during rendering are now configurable. (UI)
• Improved finding server from clients. (Network Rendering)
• Camera insertion copies current view or intended mounted camera. (UI)
• Fix when saving depth channel to exr or hdr file, clamping now correctly to zero. (I/O)
• Default render camera in darkroom is now current view or intended mounted camera. (UI)
• Cameras are now created with auto-focus by default. (UI)
• Fix applying now gamma correction on color calculation for grayscale bitmaps. (all engines)
• A fix for peculiar bug (rendering orthogonal back view) missing intersections. (all engines)
• Added context menu options for cameras going to current position and view. (UI)
• Major enhancement for OpenGL Viewport in solid+textured mode. (UI)
• Layer duplication is now possible in material lab (Ctrl+click on move layer up/down, or drag & drop layer). (UI)
• Fix for ambient occlusion not being added now to object/material id channels. (Adaptive BSD).
• Improved handling when image allocation fails. (all engines)