Development Timeline

• Socket IPC ( 2021.1 )

  • Support Tev in SORT
  • Blender talks to SORT through sockets, not shared memory anymore.

• Volumetric Rendering ( 2020.2 - 2020.3 )

• Transparent Material ( 2020.1 )

• Refreshed Website ( 2019.12 )

• Subsurface Scattering ( 2019.7 - 2019.11 )

• Blender 2.8 ( 2019.7 )

  • Basic support of blender 2.8
  • Enhanced material system with grouped node supported
  • Exposed parameters in materials
  • Polished the implementation of Blender 2.7x plugin

• DreamWork Fabric BRDF ( 2019.6 )

• Distribution Based BRDF ( 2019.5 )

• 2015 Disney BRDF ( 2019.4 )

  • Add transmittance in the BRDF
  • Subsurface scattering not done yet

• Open Shading Language Support ( 2019.3 - 2019.4 )

  • Basic support for OSL
  • Refactoring the whole material system
  • Way better support for network material system
  • Ease the workflow to add a new node, no need to compile renderer anymore
  • Quite a lot of flexibility in my material system
  • Deleted old material system implementation
  • Way more complex UI design
  • A lot more nodes than before
  • Support advanced nodes like re-route, group

• Refactoring several components of the renderer ( 2018.12 - 2019.2 )

  • More primitive type, not just triangle
  • Task scheduler system
  • Entity system
  • Hair shading
  • Physically based hair shading model used in PBRT