Aqsis Renderer for Windows full changelog

· Define empty RiDeformationV for third-party applications that link to our ri2rib library.
· Minor tweaks to building on Win32.

· Move to BSD licensing for all new code. - Partially complete; ri2rib functionality is now BSD.
· Point-based global illumination
· Point-based ambient occlusion via occlusion() shadeop
· Point-based color bleeding via indirectdiffuse() shadeop
· ptview GUI for point clouds
· bake3d() and texture3d() shadeop support
· Attribute for non raster-oriented dicing
· Attribute quot;cullquot; quot;int backfacingquot; quot;int hiddenquot;
· Point cloud IO using PartIO from Disney * RIB and API enhancements (Chris Foster)
· New and fast RIB parser, with precise syntax error reporting
· BSD licensed libri2rib
· miqser archive interpolation and RI validation
· Produce valid RIB stream of commands seen by the renderer using -echoapi, including procedural expansions.
· Extensive RI validation, including lengths of all arrays
· Reinstate support for command line frame selection (-frames, -framelist) ArchiveBegin / ArchiveEnd for in-memory caching of RIB archives

· Enhancements
· Add a compatibility interface to Pixar's sloarg shader argument library.
· Improve piqsldisplay standard compliance to work with 3delight
· Optimization to texture filtering code: precomputed integer image channel normalization.
· Revised Windows installer, removing unnecessary features and improved logging.
· Add GeometricApproximation quot;focusfactorquot; approximation for faster depth of field rendering. Off by default.

· Bugfixes
· Fix incorrect fixed-size integer types in ndspy.h on some platforms.
· Fix bug #2128051: quot;8-bit character encoding missingquot;
· Fix printing of parameter lists which was missing the token names when using -echoapi
· Remove the AQSIS_USE_PLUGINS option from the build system to avoid confusion and broken builds.
· Fix bug #2167498: quot;uniform user parameters not working for SDSquot;
· Correct the array length count as passed by the RIB parser into RiColorSamples.