New Features

• Added the support for periodic PhotonGI caustic cache update (aka SPPM without radius reduction)
• PathTracer class now support eye and light path tracing. LIGHTCPU now uses PathTracer class too.
• Added Hybrid Back/Forward path tracing support
• Added the support for glossy caustics rendering to Hybrid Back/Forward
• Reworked the support for new visibility map cache for infinitelight, constantinfinite and sky2 light sources
• Transparent light sources are now rendered with the correct intensity
• New env. visibility map cache now supports persistent cache on file

Fixed Bugs

• Fixed a problem in the random number generator of PhotonGI
• Fixed wrong theta being saved in ToProperties() of distant light
• Fixed a compilation error in RoughMatte OpenCL code (issue#218)
• Fixed a problem with Disney material specular tint
• Fixed a TILEPATH bug causing black renderings
• Fixed BIDIRCPU and LIGHTCPU camera motion blur
• Fixed a bug related to initial camera volume in PATHOCL
• Fixed light tracing camera motion blur and arbitrary clipping plane support
• Fixed a bug in the OpenCL code of the splitfloat3 texture
• Fixed normal mapping
• Fixed a problem when saving ALBEDO AOV
• Fixed RoughGlass event types returned by material evaluation
• Evaluated best radius in PhotonGI, ELVC and DLSC is not affected any more by border rendering
• Fixed a crash when resuming scene rendering without PhotonGI enabled
• Fixed a NaNs problem when using area lights with zero area
• Fixed the export of material emission.directlightsampling.type property

Checkhttps://wiki.luxcorerender.org/LuxCoreRender_Release_Notes for the full list
of release notes.

Note for Windows users: you have to install theMicrosoft Visual C++ Redistributable
for Visual Studio 2017.