Everyone,
If you were interested in Altus,
we just pushed out a beta release of 1.5.
Altus 1.5 has a huge number of changes, so much so that we’re calling 1.5.0 a “beta”. If you’re doing production work we encourage you to stay with 1.4.3. We’ve done a fair amount of internal testing but rather than have you wait for us to finish, we want you to enjoy all the improvements as soon as possible. A later 1.5 point release (e.g. 1.5.x) will be considered “release” and will be available for in August. 1.5.2 is still considered a beta.
Altus finally has both multilayer EXR support as well as stereo (i.e. side-by-side) render support! Using multilayer support is a bit tricky, but with stereo you'll reduce the number of files per frame from as much as 12 or more down to 1.
We now support filtering of any number of AOVs—you are no longer limited to normals, caustics, etc. You are now required to specify both the beauty and position AOVs, otherwise Altus will not run. The command line for using Altus has completely changed to accommodate this, and now makes much more sense and is easier to use. These changes will break existing configurations, scripts, and workflows, so please make these changes before upgrading to the 1.5 release.
On Maxwell user, we now better handle shadow passes.
Our debuted a new GUI back in an Altus 1.4 point release. The new GUI is easier to use and now also supports stereo and multilayer EXRs as well as arbitrary AOVs.
With the release version of 1.5, we’ll be moving CUDA out of beta. As such it is now bundled with our OpenCL binary in the same download on Windows. If you’re using the GUI, it will select the best binary (CUDA or OpenCL) for you.
On Linux, we’ve a universal binary that should run on any CentOS 6.x+/Ubuntu 12.x system.
If you've any feedback, please reply to this thread or e-mail us at
support@innobright.com.
Thanks!