Ocean versions
Ocean 2014
Release 11 (2.8.10)
Windows® Vista/7/8 64-bit installer : Ocean 2014 R11 Installer
Release date : 09/12/2015
Bug fixes
- Fixed compatibility with Ocean 2015 installed together
Release 10 (2.8.9)
Windows® Vista/7/8 64-bit installer : Ocean 2014 R10 Installer
Release date : 01/07/2015
Bug fixes
- Fixed Display parameters not restored upon OCRAW file load
- Fixed aspect ratio error when loading some SketchUp cameras
- Better handling of hidden objects in SketchUp files
- Fixed an error in coated diffuse material (looked too dark)
Release 9 (2.8.8)
Windows® Vista/7/8 64-bit installer : Ocean 2014 R9 Installer
Release date : 22/05/2015
Bug fixes
- Fixed a math error in Beckmann distribution
- Fixed a bug with number input (rejects thousand separators)
- Allowed more characters in save scene dialog suffixes
- Fixed a bug : network server freezing the client
- Added command line option for parse friendly output & flushing
- Added support for parallel cams in Sketchup
- Fixed an error in Coated Diffuse Material causing high material brightness (a bug subsists and was fixed in R10)
- Fixed an error when overriding layer material when a geometry is split between multiple layers
- Fixed camera import from SketchUp with Advanced Camera Tool
- JPEG images now saved with high quality
Release 8 (2.8.6)
Windows® Vista/7/8 64-bit installer : Ocean 2014 R8 Installer
Release date : 16/03/2015
Bug fixes
- Fixed a corrupt uv transform bug
- Fixed a bug : render settings GUI not updated at scene load
- Fixed a bug causing the image pan mouse cursor to be locked when right clicking during a pan
Release 7 (2.8.5)
Windows® Vista/7/8 64-bit installer : Ocean 2014 R7 Installer
Release date : 16/02/2015
Features
- Added Import layer setup
Bug fixes and improvements
- Fixed : first IPv6 connection to network server fails
- Fixed a Rhino export problem with some Rhino installations
- Rhino python writes instances to the mesh ocbin file instead of main file
- Fixed disabled object tool buttons
Release 5 (2.8.3)
Windows® Vista/7/8 64-bit installer : Ocean 2014 R5 Installer
Release date : 13/01/2015
3D Modeller Support
Added support for SketchUp 2014 and 2015 files
Bug fixes
- Fixed a crash when closing a tab during postprocessing
- Optimized file reading
- Fixed bugs in LinkedMaterial and RoughTransparentMaterial
- Fixed a bug causing no colored medium absorption in some cases
Release 4 (2.8.0)
Windows® Vista/7/8 64-bit installer : Ocean 2014 R4 Installer
Release date : 06/11/2014
Interface Features
- Added drag&drop of materials in the layer tree
New simulation features
- Added a new instrument type : Material irradiance instrument
- Materials can now be defined per-instance in Ocean Scene Format
- Support for per-instance UV translation in Ocean Scene Format
- Added a convenience energy sensor
- Support for older 1995 IES
3D Modeller support
- Complex layer hierarchy supported (geometry belonging to several layers through its group ancestors)
- Support for international characters in Rhino exporter fixed
Miscellaneous changes
- Bug fixes concerning:
- Blackbody & Cauchy spectrum (wrong gain in some cases)
- Velvet material (bright dots appearing)
- Preetham skylight environment (slightly wrong sky luminances)
- Inaccurate pipeting
- Duplicate target materials removed in material irrad instrument
- Layers not removed when a scene is closed
- Various optimizations & bugfixes
Release 3 (2.6.0)
Windows® Vista/7/8 64-bit installer : Ocean 2014 R3 Installer
Release date : 15/07/2014
Interface Features
- Support for scene layers : per-layer geometry hiding and material override
- RAW files can now be loaded during simulation
- Display parameters are saved in RAW files
- Energy measurements added to Photometry toolbox
New simulation features
- Added a new instrument type : Material irradiance instrument
- Materials can now be defined per-instance in Ocean Scene Format
- Support for per-instance UV translation in Ocean Scene Format
- Added a convenience energy sensor
3D Modeller support
- Layer support for SketchUp, Rhinoceros 5.0 and 3ds Max 2015
- Compatibility with SketchUp 2014
- Support for textures in Rhinoceros
- New 3ds Max 2015 exporter (beta)
Miscellaneous changes
- Added support for nested blocks from Rhinoceros
- Simulation statistics saved in OpenDocument Spreadsheet (.ods)
- Data headers saved in OpenDocument Spreadsheet (.ods)
- Various bug fixes
Release 2 (2.4.0)
Windows® Vista/7/8 64-bit installer : Ocean 2014 R2 Installer
Release date : 19/03/2014
Interface Features
- New display toolbox for controlling result preview options
- Added a new table result preview mode
- Multiple results can be kept open in multiple tabs
- New Ocean RAW format for analyzing and post-processing results later
- Imports multiple cameras from SketchUp
- Added support for writing OpenDocument Spreadsheet (.ods) and CSV files
- Added zoom and panning to image previews
- Added a photometry toolbox for measuring radiometric quantities
- Added EXR, OCRAW, ODS and CSV to command line output formats
- GUI can be started with server/client options in command line
- Allowed wildcard output file name in command line
New simulation features
- Added user definable wavelength range for IR and UV (Advanced License)
- scale and offset parameters for texture images can now be set for each R,G,B channel
- Added quantity radiometric quantity calculations in instruments
- Light-map instrument now autoscales to geometry UV bounds instead of unit square
- Added a new environment : CIE standard skies types 1 to 15
- Made total reflections take into account circular polarization
- Implemented a new irradiance perspective view instrument
- Implemented a new irradiance orthographic view instrument
- Added an option(enabled by default) to compute mesh collisions with double precision
- Added a Schlicks scale to angle variable spectrum
- Added sensor types : CIE XYZ, custom, spectral box
Miscellaneous changes
- Improved speed of convergence for all modes
- Improved light source sampling for colored sources
- Instrument buffer now switches automatically to double precision mode
- Various bug fixes
Release 1 (2.0.5)
Windows® Vista/7/8 64-bit installer : Ocean 2014 R1 Installer
Release date : 17/12/2013
Changes
- Performance improvements
- Small issues fixed
- Added an "Import All" menu option
- Changed Planar IES Emitter orientation parameters
- New configurable scene saving system
- Saving scenes with relative file links
Beta 3 (2.0.2)
Windows® Vista/7/8 64-bit installer : Ocean 2014 beta3 Installer
Release date : 26/11/2013
Changes
- Added IES planar emitter
- Added IES spherical emitter
- Added photometry settings for emitting materials
- First support for Autodesk® Maya®
- Added a zenith orientation setting for the Skylight Environment
- Saving a large scene now displays a progress dialog
Beta 2 (2.0.1)
Windows® Vista/7/8 64-bit installer : Ocean 2014 beta2 Installer
Release date : 05/11/2013
Changes
- Fixed the "Cancel" button in node editing
- Improved editing of many object parameters in GUI
- Fixed bugs and improved active environment/instrument list boxes behavior
- Added a cone geometry (also able to model cylinders)
- Added an autofocus check option instead of negative focus values
- Added a light source normalization setting in material definition
- Added a disc environment
- Fixed an issue with mirror-transformed emitting objects (emitting side was flipped)
Ocean 2014
Beta 1 (2.0.0)
Windows® Vista/7/8 64-bit installer : Ocean 2014 beta1 Installer
Release date : 10/10/2013
Ocean 2013
Revision 4 (1.4.4)
Windows® Vista/7/8 64-bit installer : Ocean 2013 R4 Installer
Release date : 04/09/2013
Changes
- Allows overwriting a material with a material alias
- Bug fixes
Release 3 (1.4.3)
Windows® Vista/7/8 64-bit installer : Ocean 1.4.3 Installer
Release date : 18/07/2013
Changes
- Added a "diameterfactor" parameter to SkylightShader
- Some improvements in the graphical user interface (recent files)
- Added support for material names with spaces
- Rhino plugin : Fixed an issue with spaces and special characters in material names
- Fixed a potential bug causing the render to crash in some (rare) cases
- Fixed issues with the Evaluation version of Rhinoceros®
- Added the support for parallel projection in Rhino (experimental)
- Fine tuning of the Metropolis algorithm
Release 2 (1.4.2)
Windows® Vista/7/8 64-bit installer : Ocean 1.4.2 Installer
Release date : 26/06/2013
Changes
- Bugs fixed
- Rhino exporter plug-in added
Release 1 (1.4.0)
Windows® Vista/7/8 64-bit installer : Ocean 1.4.0 Installer
Release date : 29/05/2013
First released version