Ocean versions¶
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Ocean 2015¶
Release 11 (3.4.1)¶
Windows® Vista/7/8 64-bit installer : Ocean 2015 R11 Installer
Release date : 01/06/2016
Bug fixes¶
- Updated framework
- New 3dsmax plugin which does not conflict with next major Ocean releases
Release 10 (3.4.0)¶
Windows® Vista/7/8 64-bit installer : Ocean 2015 R10 Installer
Release date : 27/09/2016
Bug fixes¶
- Fixed wrong results with rough transparent material
Release 9 (3.2.10)¶
Windows® Vista/7/8 64-bit installer : Ocean 2015 R9 Installer
Release date : 11/07/2016
Bug fixes¶
- Flipped V coordinate in Light Map instrument results
- Fixed broken network rendering
Release 8 (3.2.9)¶
Windows® Vista/7/8 64-bit installer : Ocean 2015 R8 Installer
Release date : 06/07/2016
Improvements¶
- Shows incident angles in non conservative BSDF warnings
- Takes SketchUp back material if no front material is defined
- Added compatibility with Ocean 2016 dongles
Bug fixes¶
- Various bug fixes
Release 7 (3.2.8)¶
Windows® Vista/7/8 64-bit installer : Ocean 2015 R7 Installer
Release date : 10/05/2016
Bug fixes¶
- Various bug fixes
Release 6 (3.2.7)¶
Windows® Vista/7/8 64-bit installer : Ocean 2015 R6 Installer
Release date : 25/04/2016
Bug fixes¶
- Various bug fixes
Release 5 (3.2.6)¶
Windows® Vista/7/8 64-bit installer : Ocean 2015 R5 Installer
Release date : 18/12/2015
New features¶
- New photometric and energetic emitter normalization features (metrics), much more clearer
- Radiometric quantities added to the spherical camera
Bug fixes¶
- Updated About box
- Fixed a crash when rendering older scene files
Exporters¶
- Fixed a crash of the 3dsmax exporter
Release 4 (3.2.5)¶
Windows® Vista/7/8 64-bit installer : Ocean 2015 R4 Installer
Release date : 09/12/2015
New features¶
- New photometric and energetic emitter normalization features (metrics), much more clearer
- Radiometric quantities added to the spherical camera
Bug fixes¶
- Fixed a few GUI bugs
- Fixed a display error in xyz A/B color values in the colorimetry tool
- Fixed opening scenes with relative paths to the working directory in command line mode
- Fixed dark veil artifacts with alpha channel based transparent materials
- Fixed coupled post-processing parameters when duplicating instruments
- Fixed loading SketchUp files with regional (non ASCII) characters in path
- Fixed application crash on non AVX CPUs
- Fixed file association conflict with Ocean 2014 (requires prior upgrade to 2014 R11)
- Fixed an error in tangent space generation causing faceting artifacts with some materials
Improvements¶
- Highlighted apply and cancel buttons when an object has been edited
- Removed Raw quantities in instruments where they are useless, and set Y/E channels by default in Channel and Table view modes
- Added a SensorExposure quantity
- User is asked to apply all changes on edited objects when starting a render or saving scene
- Parameters in GUI are updated when their format depends on other parameters
- Units displayed in table view
Exporters¶
- Fixed 3dsmax normal orientation errors when exporting an object with no smoothing groups
- Added support for SketchUp 2016
- Added support for 3dsmax 2016
Release 3 (3.2.3)¶
Windows® Vista/7/8 64-bit installer : Ocean 2015 R3 Installer
Release date : 17/11/2015
Bug fixes¶
- Improved readability of colorimetric diagram A/B markers
- Fixed BRDF rendering on triangles with degenerated UV space
- Fixed a network server crash when render is stopped on client during startup
- Fixed potential crashes when stopping during initialization of very large scenes
Release 2 (3.2.1)¶
Windows® Vista/7/8 64-bit installer : Ocean 2015 R2 Installer
Release date : 01/11/2015
Improvements¶
- Pretty type names displayed in the postprocessing toolbox
- Made tab focus functional in node parameters
Bug fixes¶
- Fixed scene save progress dialog disappearing and allowing to quit before the scene is saved
- Fixed an important memory leak happening on some meshes
- Limited the log size in the log toolbox for avoiding infinite growth
- Fixed a network server crash
- Fixed app crash when wildcards characters are passed to the command line
- Fixed a black line appearing on the left of images rendered with smart clamp and a non mod4 image width
Release 1 (3.2.0)¶
Windows® Vista/7/8 64-bit installer : Ocean 2015 R1 Installer
Release date : 25//2015
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
Bug fixes¶
- 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
Ocean 2013¶
Release 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)¶
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