PoseRay Version History

v3.12.2 (Build 456)

• Fixed batch not exporting separate files
• Fixed overwrite setting not working
• Removed export of lines as sphere sweeps. They were unreliable in some cases. Tubes can be used instead and are visible on most systems.
• Converting lines to tubes now works on visible parts only
• Fixed a bug with where the POV-Ray file would not parse if POV-Ray was used in a non US locale.
• If several models are read at once PoseRay now asks for a common name for the scene.
• Added two missing images in the package that were needed to create the POV-Ray library thumbnails
• Added back the common POV-Ray declarations section to the materials tab. This data is now saved with the scene.
• Added a way to extract lines from the face edges

v3.12.0 (Build 452)

• New POV-Ray material library
• Command line options added for file conversion
• Overhauled the batch convert mode
• Fixed Moray compatibility
• PoseRay scenes can now be imported directly into Bishop3D
• Poser scenes are now, by default, scaled by 100 to prevent shadow gap artifacts
• Moved uv_mapping keyword to materials for better control and compatibility with other programs that read POV-Ray code
• Ground texture can now have full POV-Ray code instead of a single color
• Sky is now controlled with POV-Ray code (presets available as before)
• Added POV-ray code to placeholders - including material
• Added a control to rotate all the lights in the scene around the y axis
• Added a new type of placeholder: Anchor
• Added convertion of lines in OBJ files into UV tube meshes
• Separated all the UV functions into separate buttons
• Faster redraw and 3D manipulation
• PoseRay now uses the Maya exporter from DAZ Studio intead of Bryce
• Added an icon on the lists to rename materials and groups
• Added a way to insert RGB color into any POV-Ray code in PoseRay.
• Added a way to insert an image map into any POV-Ray code in PoseRay.
• Changed the groups tab menus. Now each command has its own button for easier application.
• Made the menu system a little more consistent from tab to tab
• Light dome completely changed. Now it uses LightMapGen to create accurate light domes.
• Removed the filename options. Now just enter a common prefix at time of export and PoseRay adds the rest
• Area lites were shown twice as big
• Fixed pen color in uv mapping preview crashing
• Fixed merging button not working after loading a poser scene
• Made node import from a Poser scene optional
• Added an exit confirmation dialog. I lost many scenes after closing PoseRay by mistake.
• Fixed a thumbnail display toggle bug in the materials room
• Poser camera not automatically saved when read
• Added a Test Render quality to the POV-Ray output for faster debug renders. This makes all area lights point lights and disables transparency.
• Lines are transformed now
• Fixed some poor deallocation procedures for OpenGL lists.
• Lines in geometry are now always separate groups from faces. This avoids problems when deleting groups with lines.
• Poser keyword staticvalue is now recognized. This fixes some problems while reading cameras or lights from Poser scene files.
• Changed how a custom POV-Ray material is saved into the mtl file. Now it is more readable and not limited in size.
• Added metallic to finish besides metallic reflection.
• Metallic and ambient joined if cartoon material selected
• Added bump_size to the normal map library entry
• Fixed uv scaling and translation if uv=0 for all the geometry
• Default to 4 lights per area light for light domes.
• Fixed error pasting large text strings into the POV-Ray material text box
• Fixed some errors when copying/pasting material properties
• Dome lites from a probe are now centered around geometry
• Removed the lighting on control
• Fixed rotating all the lights not affecting the preview
• Double quotes on map names in MTL files resulted in unloaded files
• Negative fade distance now disables fade distance. Default light is linear
• Added media template to interior library
• Added finish template to interior library
• Toggling items on materials and group lists did not select the item
• PoseRay now completely disables opengl redrawing while loading a new model to avoid list errors.
• Dull / specular labels not automatically setting if an mtl material is loaded with a specular map
• Made cutoff 0.5 as default for transparency. More consistent
• Fixed poseraytemp.pz3 not being deleted when PoseRay closes
• Fixed apply all does not apply instantly to preview
• Fixed removing bump that is the same as diffuse removing all maps
• Display normals for visible groups only
• Added a bump multiplier to the materials tab
• Camera does not reset anymore after group changes
• Fixed a thumbnail display toggle bug in the materials room
• Font size on help window can be changed now
• Can search for material by name
• Fixed bug with lock ratio sizing in placeholders
• Preview stay-on top as default
• Default point light does not have a fade_distance
• Copy/paste placeholder properties
• Removed global include window in POV-Ray tab - each material can have includes and macros
• Highlight selected placeholders
• Highlight selected material
• Highlight selected group
• PoseRay tested in Vista

v3.11.0 (Build 436)

• Added basic support for Poser 5+ material nodes. See this section for the nodes supported.
• Added specular mapping to the materials tab.
• Bump strength is now scaled when it is imported from Poser 5+ files.
• Texture-Color blending from Poser scenes is now scaled according to the color to avoid renders with washed out textures.
• Added specular mapping support for LightWave materials.
• Fixed some of the highlight problems with DAZ Studio scenes.
• Fixed specular size calculation from LightWave materials.
• Fixed batch export to POV
• Fixed displacement in meshes with scaled UV mapping
• Moved shadow flag to materials
• Moved UV mapping to materials tab
• Switched to POV-Ray specular and roughness model for hightlights.
• Added a global declarations or macros area for the custom POV-Ray materials.
• Updated the POV-Ray material finish with conserve_energy so that transparency and reflection work better.
• Added some modifier presets to the POV-Ray materials tab.
• Fixed extraction of material properties from Poser 7 PZZ files.
• If a Poser material is transparent and reflective then its color is darken accordingly to match the Poser preview.
• Added option to delete redundant highlight map entries that Poser creates by default.
• Fixed vertex weld and normal recalculation not done when cleanup geometry option was used when importing a Poser scene.
• Fixed UV coordinate corruption when using cleanup geometry option in the Poser import.
• Fixed UV transformation tool not working.
• Near clipping in the preview is dynamically calculated according to scene size and viewer position
• Fixed using the wrong extension for exported OBJ files with resized and converted maps.
• Fixed material presets from MTL files not setting the maps properly sometimes.
• Added split_union off to the end of the POV-Ray geometry union to avoid union artifacts.
• Rearranging materials and groups has now an effect on lines.
• Lines are only exported if they are visible on the preview window.
• Scene name is appended to the name of saved camera, material and light settings.
• Added an option to show in the preview window the current light only. Useful with dense light setups.
• Added an option to change the interpolation of the image maps used.
• Compressed Poser PZZ files can now be loaded from directories with names as long as 255 characters.
• Configuration is not reset when a new version of PoseRay is installed unless its format has changed considerably.
• Group list is now more responsive to flag changes.
• Increased the size of the default area light for better shadows
• Removed the revision number from render files and added an optional time stamp

v3.10.3 (Build 412)

• Fixed a problem with materials not loading properly from Poser 5/6 files.
• Increased the light on the POV-Ray texture preview.
• Bump is removed when material is made invisible
• Fixed a dialog on the Light Dome tab that was disabling the cursor under some circumstances.

v3.10.2 (Build 411)

• Creation of POV-Ray files is now as fast as in PoseRay 3.8 if geometry is broken into materials only in the POV-Ray output options.
• Added support for Poser 5 and 6 PZ3 files with material nodes containing image bump mapping.
• If an OBJ file created by PoseRay is reloaded the lights will be reset to what is on the file and not added to the current ones.
• Materials and groups names that are too similar under some circumstances are made unique before exporting to POV-Ray.
• Bump amount is now copied from the basic material.
• Eliminated some extra spacing that was being added to the custom POV-Ray materials list every time PoseRay was closed.
• Made the shadow/no shadow icon more visible.

v3.10.0 (Build 403)

• Fixed a problem with light artifacts at mesh intersections on POV-Ray renders by adding an interior to each mesh.
• Fixed several problems with the POV-Ray library syntax.
• Added an enhanced antialiasing setting.
• Fixed preview clipping planes not working on some close up scenes.
• Fixed UV transform bug in the materials tab that was transforming a material with relation to the entire UV domain.
• Removed the bounding boxes option from the Moray export.
• Preview window is now separate from the main PoseRay window.
• Added instructions on how to run PoseRay in Linux using Wine or VMware server.
• Rearranged the Preview tab.

v3.9.0 (Build 398)

• PoseRay now uses full POV-Ray materials instead of textures. Setting interior properties is now possible.
• Added a list of material and interior presets to the POV-Ray materials tab.
• DAZ Studio 1.3.1.0 compatibility added. Camera is still experimental.
• Added support for Poser 6 point light. Not tested with Poser 5.
• Groups of lights can now be saved and restored.
• Added new radiosity presets.
• Moved UV mapping into the materials tab.
• PoseRay can now read Poser and OBJ files larger than 400MB.
• POV-Ray and Moray meshes are broken by group and material.
• POV-Ray meshes are separated from the materials. A union{} with mesh and materials is used at the end of the geometry file.
• Shadows can be enabled/disabled separately for each group.
• Moray UDO file export greatly improved. Mesh broken as in POV-Ray now with better material options. Preview colors added.
• Ground does not cast a shadow in POV-Ray renders.
• Parsing of OBJ files now accepts double quotes for mtllib calls.
• Area lights now use adaptive 1 and circular modifiers.
• Empty groups and unused materials are no longer loaded.
• Much faster loading of OBJ files saved from PoseRay that contain many lights.
• The default crease angle for Poser files is 80 degrees now.
• Area lights default to no jitter and 36 lights.
• Fixed the bad sizing of the select directory dialog in some versions of Windows XP.
• Fixed a bad placeholder position and size control.
• New preview of POV-Ray materials using UV mapped models.
• Line visibility can now be toggled from the preview tab.
• Lines are shown using solid colors only.
• Added vertex welding to Fix Geometry option in Poser's import dialog.
• Metallic reflection is the default.
• Baked material is now properly displayed on a UV range from 0 to 1.
• Added scale to the pigment patterns in the POV-Ray preset list.
• If maps are copied to the destination directory when exporting to OBJ, Moray or POV-Ray then their name is changed to have the mesh name as a prefix.
• Fixed preview not updating some changed maps
• Fixed some materials not saving into mtl files.
• Transparency in POV-Ray uses the clear preset color in transparent regions.
• Camera can now be exported as a mesh in OBJ files.
• Removed some clutter from the menus.
• Less memory used when reading and writing OBJ files.
• Less memory used when exporting to POV-Ray or Moray.
• Fixed bad POV-Ray presets in the materials tab
• TGA is now the default for background maps from HDRI probes.
• TGA is now the default for preview saves.
• Added checker to pigments
• Fixed the copy and paste formatting of the POV-Ray materials sub-tab.
• Lights form HDRI probes now come in parallel or area types only.
• Added a HDRI smooth shadow option I left out from the previous version. Smooth shadows from HDRI maps are placed to minimize graininess on the render.

v3.8.18 (Build 390)

• Simplified the basic material interface. All the properties are shown in a single location.
• Completely rewrote the POV-Ray texture editor. New settings, easier to use and more powerful.
• The material blending approach was removed and replaced by simple transparency. If you want fancy POV-Ray texture blending you can still use the improved custom POV-Ray material tab.
• Added transparency as a set of POV-Ray presets.
• PoseRay can now copy the basic material properties into the POV-Ray tab text.
• Some POV-Ray material presets had errors.
• Missing POV-Ray texture text will default PoseRay to export the basic material
• PoseRay now strips any formatting from text pasted into the POV-Ray text box.
• Simplified HDRI simulation tab. Less numeric entries and better defaults.
• HDRI simulation lights can be rotated as they are extracted from the HDRI probe.
• Render image cannot be overwritten by PoseRay anymore. If the filename is already used then _RevX will be automatically added to the name where X is the revision number. The revision number auto increments.
• Cartoon mode moved to the materials tab. This mode can now be applied to a single material if desired.
• Zoom from DAZ Studio camera files has been improved but it is still experimental.
• Exported POV-Ray material files require less memory allocated when using transparency mapping.
• Less video memory allocated while previewing Poser / DAZ Studio scenes.
• Background skies from HDRI tab are now saved as TGA files by default to avoid JPEG artifacts on the images.
• Map conversion defaults to TGA format by default to avoid JPEG artifacts.
• DAZ Studio scene import does not automatically recalculate the normals by default.
• Background sky can now be rotated around the y axis.
• Saving material files now leave the names unchanged.

v3.8.15 (Build 382)

• File export was using the wrong decimal delimiter for non-US Windows users under some circumstances. PoseRay should now export always using periods as the decimal separator.
• Users can now enter numbers into text boxes using commas or periods as the decimal separator.
• HDRI lights were not placed properly if the sky was rotated and the lights were not parallel.

v3.8.14 (Build 380)

• The window resizing routine was drawing and painting almost simultaneously with different parameters leading to random crashes using NVIDIA 77.72 drivers.
• Fixed a bug where resizing the window was not updating the internal FOV value. This leaded to the zoom changing unexpectedly if the window was resized and another main tab was selected.
• Polygon triangulation is now done by the OpenGL ® API tessellation functions if possible. This is a better triangulation with better aspect-ratios. It also subdivides better.
• Preview reflection fixed
• PoseRay checks the version of OpenGL and GLU at the start.
• Lights sub-tab was redone to avoid some redrawing issues.
• Part of the display list was being erased using the wrong index
• All display lists are now checked to exist before being filled
• Preview is using glfinish instead of glflush to force redraw
• Fixed memory leaks left by not deallocating memory properly
• Added OpenGL ® API errors to the warnings
• Material settings can be saved from the material editor.
• Poser and MTL material import has been consolidated into a single button for simplicity.
• Fixed some missing material properties loaded from MTL files created by PoseRay
• In the DAZ Studio import dialog if the camera or lights entries are empty PoseRay will ignore them
• Hourglass cursor is now present when saving POV files.
• Group boxes were drawn with the wrongly scaled normals
• Minimum resolution is now 1024x768. Too cramped with the old size.

v3.8.11 (Build 374)

• Critical Fix Release
• Background map rotation vector was using one undefined component leading to an unrecoverable crash in Windows XP. This behavior was found using the NVIDIA 77.72 display drivers. Earlier driver versions were tolerant of this undefined number. I did not notice this problem until the new drivers were used.
• Background map was being deallocated even if its texture id was zero leading to allocation errors.

v3.8.10 (Build 372)

• Fixed an integer overflow error while reading models in binary format (3DS, LWO) with a file size of 20 MB or larger.
• Updated support for DAZ Studio lights and camera import using plain text scripts. Now camera and lighting from DAZ Studio 0.9.25.2 or later can be imported. PoseRay is no longer compatible with camera or light scripts from earlier versions of DAZ Studio
• VRML IndexedLineSet support added
• Line sizing for POV-Ray export now automatically scales with the loaded geometry
• Fixed the cursor changing from hourglass sometimes while loading a model
• Added more progress indicators while rebuilding very large models
• Fade distance is enabled when a point or area light is active
• Default tolerance for vertex welding increased by 10

v3.8.9 (Build 369)

• Added a dedicated Poser and DAZ Studio import dialogs for simpler operation
• Added import of DAZ Studio Lights
• Added experimental import of DAZ Studio Cameras
• HDRI illumination now distributes the lights evenly instead of random. It has better coverage and more consistent results.
• Added HDRI simulation option to prevent shadows from lights below ground
• Decreased the default shadow threshold intensity for the HDRI simulation
• The lights that produce shadows are marked differently in the HDRI preview
• Fixed a bug in the subdivision where it would crash with models with partial UV mapping.
• Can now add a POV-Ray material using 3D mapping or UV mapping.
• Fixed the panning control at high zoom settings
• Smoother field of view control at high zoom settings
• Images with LZW compression or interlaced are detected automatically
• Added option for re-smoothing meshes from Poser or DAZ Studio.
• Point and area lights now have fade distance control
• Light positions in the preview are not clipped anymore.
• PoseRay can now use the exported maps from DAZ Studio
• In the preview specular effects are scaled by the intensity
• Fixed a bug where PoseRay would miss some Poser materials in multi-figure scenes
• Added control of POV-Ray render quality for preliminary renders
• Fixed some problems with the implementation of preview highlights
• Better organized information in the message box
• Added a [+] button to the status text to open the full message window
• Saving anti-aliased preview is available again
• Naming flag for materials and group names in OBJ files was not working
• Default 1-pass mosaic preview instead of 2-pass
• Fixed a dialog startup bug that will not refresh the cursor if the file was not found
• Fixed the text of the color boxes. Sometimes it would disappear
• Area lights default to a smaller size.
• Batch processing now disables map and group name fixing automatically
• Added an outline preview mode
• Color can be changed for hidden line, point and outline preview modes.
• Fixed a problem with capitalization of some exported filenames
• Export dialog has less clutter now
• Preview normal size is now related to face area average for better scaling
• Disabled mesh{} export because of vertex ordering problem
• Increased the minimum size of the application to ease the clutter

v3.8.7 (Build 358)

• Rewrote the subdivision storage routines using sparse matrix storage thus speeding up the process significantly
• Subdivision does not weld the vertices automatically anymore.
• Added POV-Ray mesh and mesh2 import from POV and INC files.
• Dropped UDO import (export is still there) because of addition of POV-Ray import
• Added very basic VRML 1 and 2 import.
• Fixed material import of DAZ Studio bump size parameter (it changed with DS 0.9.18.6)
• Added if a material has a map_refl entry in it PoseRay will make the material reflective
• Fixed if two colors were blended by a map changing the color was not refreshing the preview sometimes.
• Changed the input dialog to standard Windows components.
• Fixed font size issues with some forms
• Added back anti-aliasing of saved previews
• Made outdoor scene a default in the HDRI simulation tab
• PoseRay will ask for camera and light information from PZZ or PZ3 files only.
• Open file dialogs will remember the file names if they correspond to the type being opened.

v3.8.5 (Build 351)

• Fixed material import of DAZ Studio bump size parameter (it changed with DS 0.9.15.4)
• Keep aspect ratio of resized maps at render time
• Background was not resizing with preview map size
• Fixed warnings not working in case a map was other than TIFF or GIF and resize maps was checked

v3.8.4 (Build 349)

• Map search is now done for all DAZ Studio models instead of using the textures in /Maps and /ConvertedMaps. DAZ Studio exports transparency and bump maps that cannot be efficiently used in POV-Ray so the original textures must be used instead. This fixed the problem with POV-Ray taking too much memory to render a DAZ Studio model with bump maps
• Maps and groups are not renamed internally anymore. They are fixed at export time
• Name capitalization now differentiates materials and groups
• PoseRay now does not allow repeated names while renaming materials
• Normal and UV out-of-bounds checking was wrong
• Fine tuned the Poser->PoseRay camera conversion
• Added resize maps on export
• Automatic loading of camera or lights after loading Poser materials
• Loading a Poser camera now sets the window size to match the Poser window size
• Camera presets now save the window size
• Decreased the default size and number of sources for area lights
• Fixed a bug where subdivision would fail if too many faces were sharing a vertex
• Out of index errors could crash PoseRay with some UDO files
• POV-Ray material tab now allows layered textures and better text support
• Custom POV-Ray textures can be saved and recalled
• Lights from an HDRI image are now aligned using an uniform random distribution to avoid clustering and saturation at the poles of the HDRI dome
• Added HDRI outdoor scene setting
• HDRI maps were scaled wrong for light positioning
• Intensity of pixels in HDRI maps fixed
• Lights from HDRI simulation can use a threshold for light type and shadowing
• HDRI file information is now shown
• Fixed glossiness from DAZ Studio models
• Bump size and direction were imported wrong from DAZ Studio models
• Bump size from Poser scenes was decreased
• Added an optional cutoff method to display transparency
• Preview of maps mixing with base color is now shown properly
• Added drop to y=0 and center functions to placeholder section
• UV mapping can be removed from the model before exporting it to POV-Ray
• Decreased the ambient shown in the preview
• Fixed a bug with area lights not updating the number of sources they used
• Fixed import of Poser LEFT, RIGHT, TOP, BACK and FRONT cameras
• Fixed a bug where the preview lost lighting after deleting a single spot light
• Edges of UV coordinates are not smoothed by default during subdivision
• Object name in POV files is now named after the original model instead of using a generic name
• Fixed some cases where a map could be loaded unnecessarily into memory
• Added mosaic preview option
• Message window now provides more information
• Default camera has less perspective
• Updated the manual with tested emulators that can run PoseRay
• Moray UDO files have unique names for the included objects
• Updated Moray setup information

v3.8.2 (Build 327)

• Fixed a bug where models with very large UV coordinates will crash the UV preview.
• Ambient color was not being applied if the material used a map
• If the OpenGL ® API is version 1.2 or higher then specular highlights on materials with maps are now visible.
• Added a way to clip the UV coordinates from 0 to 1.

v3.8.1 (Build 325)

• Fixed a bug that was making PoseRay, under some circumstances, consume 90%+ CPU time and not respond when started. The OpenGL extension checker was crashing with some drivers and was going into an infinite loop.
• Fixed a problem where 4-sided polygons were not being triangulated right under some circumstances leaving holes in the mesh.
• Fixed Show/Hide maps not working if the preview was re-enabled.
• Bump maps were not being rendered in POV-Ray if there was a color map on the material also.
• Fixed cartoon rendering problems with materials using maps.

v3.8.0 (Build 321)

• Added support for LightWave 5 and 6+ format files
• Added Smooth (Loop's algorithm) and flat subdivision
• Added import for RAW triangle files
• Added import for UDO Moray files
• Added support for models exported from DAZ Studio
• Added a simple HDRI simulation.
• Added sky maps in the preview
• Improved the Batch mode to 2 modes: Using a BAT file or a POV file with clock/frame_number
• Added basic generation of UV coordinates (planar, cylindrical, spherical and cubic) with preview.
• Weld vertices procedure was completely rewritten for speed.
• Normal calculation was rewritten. Normals are now calculated using a crease angle.
• Faces can be split using the normals
• Added ear-cutting triangulation of concave and convex polygons with more than 3 vertices.
• The preview can now show transparency, color and map blending.
• Enhanced the Poser material parser for better matching of material properties
• Internal Poser naming of maps is now recognized
• Fixed a massive memory leak when unloading large models.
• Fixed a bug where a malformed OBJ model could crash PoseRay.
• Improved loading speed of preview textures
• Fixed a bug where preview textures were not reliably allocated in NT systems (Win2000 and XP)
• Removed the broken REVERT function and decreased memory allocation for geometry by 45%.
• Fixed import of spot light from Poser files. Tightness was scaled wrong.
• Normals found in OBJ files are resized to unit length automatically.
• Any model without normals is smoothed automatically.
• Modified many internal operations to avoid some floating point exceptions.
• Trapped some OpenGL allocation errors in the implementation.
• Added reflection effects for the preview
• Removed the sluggishness when changing tabs when a large model was loaded.
• Geometry updates can now be made on a group or material basis
• Added preview using bounding boxes.
• Fixed the light intensity matching between imported and exported scenes.
• Fixed some layering errors when reading DXF files
• Added export to POV-Ray using bounding boxes. Useful for preview renders.
• Placed a -90 degree rotation on the exported UDO file to avoid confusion when importing it into Moray.
• Faster general transformation of geometry.
• Flipping two axis in a transformation will automatically change the normal orientation.
• Changed to double precision internally
• Changed the status line display.
• POV-Ray geometry can be exported alone so that it can be placed in a custom POV file.
• Fixed layout problems when Windows is set to not use small fonts.
• Fixed the problem that if PoseRay was run on a computer with no networking it will crash.
• Changed PoseRay's UI font to true type for better scaling.
• Model texture maps are now by default not blended with the surface color unless the materials are loaded from a Poser file.
• Added an optional rotation for 3DS and DXF files so that they show in the preview right by default.
• If a Poser file is read for materials and uses a BUM reference then PoseRay will look for an map with the same name but compatible format.
• Fixed inverted bump size from Poser files
• Better glossiness match between Poser and PoseRay
• Added options to not export UV or normal information to modified OBJ files.
• Fixed some items that the warnings routine was not listing.
• Master scale is now read from 3DS files.
• PoseRay now cleans up the POV-Ray code created for POV-Ray texture preview.
• Optional line import from OBJ files.
• Rewrote the texture manager
• Added checking for invalid float values in binary model files (3DS and LWO)
• Added glass textures and pigments to the POV-Ray material section
• Fixed some spelling errors in the POV-Ray texture list
• Added a flag to optionally use the alpha channel of an image for blending and bump mapping
• Fixed map search function where it would use the wrong starting directory
• Help can now be seen from any tab as a separate window.
• Message and warning text is now in its own window.
• Moved all the camera items to the preview tab.
• Moved all the light items to the preview tab.
• Added multiple load of models into the same session.
• Changed the input tab layout and options
• Added support for non-standard 3 point 3DFACE in DXF files.
• Simplified some of the UI elements
• When a Poser camera is read it now is automatically added to the camera presets
• Output directory is now saved from the previous session
• Map blending fixed in POV-Ray output to match preview
• PoseRay now recognizes tr as transparency in MTL files besides d for opacity.
• PoseRay now uses percent glossiness instead of specular exponent.
• Limited the lower value for glossiness to avoid saturated highlights.
• Fixed the buggy parallel light preview
• Intensity of default camera light can now be modified
• Fixed a DXF import bug that would not load any geometry if the file had an unknown $ACADVER entry.
• With POV-Ray 3.6 rotation of TIFF images is no longer the default.
• Gray scale calculation was fixed for displacement mapping

v3.0.2 (Build 272)

• Fixed a bug that even if no materials were selected for Moray output it was still putting a link to the file.
• Fixed a bug with line entities from Wavefront files not being processed properly.

v3.0.1

• Added support for 3DS and DXF formats.
• Added interactive light positioning to the preview tab. Makes it easier to see what the lights are doing in the scene.
• Added preview of light shapes and locations to help on light positioning.
• Added blend mapping. This was transparency before but now materials can smoothly change full appearance from one material definition to another according to an image_map pigment.
• Added a way to type in or select a POV-Ray 3.5 texture for each material.
• Added POV-Ray placeholders to help on the location of custom POV-Ray geometry.
• Added named camera presets. I got tired of losing a good camera setup every time I needed to view the scene from another angle.
• Added a built in viewer for the HTML help file so that a browser is no longer needed
• Added negative image tool to the bump and blending mapping.
• Added name to lights to help on identification.
• Added a preview of the focus region in the preview.
• Added option to disable materials with Moray UDO output so that Moray can be used to set the materials instead.
• Added ini file options
• Added material import from other MTL files.
• Added a warnings text box separate from the main status text.
• Added a warnings indicator in the status bar
• Added a simple floor preview
• Added an overlaid grid over the preview to help align the scene.
• Added an automatic sizing of area lights according to scene size.
• Added an automatic sizing of focal area and focus point according to scene size.
• Added an intensity multiplier for all the lights.
• Added custom render settings.
• Added continue flag to render settings.
• Fixed the Poser camera import.
• Fixed a bug where the lights did not update properly in the preview window.
• Fixed the light intensity of imported Poser lights to match better the PoseRay preview.
• Fixed the light intensity match between PoseRay and POV-Ray.
• Fixed some bugs and speed issues with the OpenGL map manager where some maps would get loaded in the wrong material or not at all.
• Fixed a bug where the scene would not automatically render if the files were saved in a directory with spaces in its name.
• Fixed a bug that POV-Ray renders did not use transparency unless it was with a JPEG image. Now it can use any of the compatible types.
• Fixed a bug where POV-Ray could not render if the original obj file name started with a number.
• Fixed a naming bug where a material or group name with extended characters will not render in POV-Ray.
• Fixed the focal blur. It was not being transformed with the camera and the preview displays it as focal planes.
• Fixed the export names such as all the definitions in POV-Ray and Moray have their 1st character capitalized to avoid conflicts with reserved words in POV-Ray.
• Improved the way polygons with more than 3 vertices are triangulated to prevent concave polygons folding on themselves.
• Decreased the amount of memory used by about 30%.
• With the release of MegaPOV 1.0 support for MegaPOV 0.7 was dropped. MegaPOV 0.7 did not support map transparency very well anyway.
• PoseRay now creates POV files without version information.
• Separated and simplified the POV-Ray, Moray and OBJ export options
• Removed several options that added too much clutter and had no useful function.
• Changed the radius of the spotlights to tightness. It fits better between the preview tab and POV-Ray.
• Moved the preview tools to the left of the OpenGL preview window. It provides better room and keeps the preview from becoming too wide.
• Fixed the Spot light falloff. It was wrongly applied to the scene by twice the angle amount.
• Fixed a lingering bug that mangled the light properties when changing them in the lights tab.
• Changed the mouse control. As it was it was impossible for a 2-button mouse user to do some operations. Now the left button operation can be changed in the preview tab. The right and middle button (if present) are fixed in their operation. This fix also removed a lag in control that was present before.
• Improved Moray setup documentation and support.
• Improved the layout and format of the manual.

v2.6.6

• Camera and all the light settings are automatically saved into the comment block of the exported OBJ file.
• A bug with the light editor was fixed. When adding/deleting a light the properties shown where wrong.
• The maps used by a scene can be copied to the directory where the main POV file is saved. This also applies to the export of OBJ files.
• Changed the way the OpenGL map size was edited to avoid confusion.
• PoseRay creates an ini file for POV-Ray with all the render settings.
• Rearranged the export options tab. It was getting ridiculously full of options.

v2.6.5

• Fixed a zoom setting that was not being transferred to the camera setting.
• Added a way for PoseRay to automatically open and/or render the main POV file in POV-Ray. It uses a POV-Ray ini file to set the options.
• Added a POV-Ray output resolution entry
• Added a selector for POV-Ray output image format
• Added an entry for the output render filename
• Added options for anti-aliasing
• Added a flag for producing renders with alpha transparency using the background
• Added a way to change material names
• Added a way to set all the materials as the current material
• Made metallic as the default for all reflections. I believe it gives better results.
• Added point lights
• Line thickness value is now saved when PoseRay closes
• Group names that start with a number will have an underscore appended.
• Dropped support for POV-Ray 3.1g. MegaPOV is still supported.

v2.6.4

• Fixed a material handling bug that associated the wrong maps and materials. Sometimes it would read a material list properly but sometimes it would mess up all the paths and names. It should be fixed now.
• Added support for line entities in the OBJ files.
• Added an option to save the type of camera aspect ratio that is always used. I was getting tired of resetting it every time I changed the POV file.
• PoseRay will set the material reflectivity if it finds a reflection map in a pz3 or pzz file.
• Added an automatic rename of materials that start with numeric characters. If a material is called 1wood then it will be renamed _1wood
• Added some settings that were left out to the save settings on exit option
• Added "drop to y=0" and "center geometry" to geometry tab transformations
• Added the geometry statistics to the top of the exported POV-Ray geometry include file.
• Improved the cursor handling during operations. Sometimes the cursor was not changing to an hourglass.
• Fixed some of the formatting in the manual

v2.6.3

• Changed the transparency handling from images with alpha transparency to separate image maps in the materials. This means that PoseRay will not need to create new TGA textures for materials using alpha transparency. PoseRay will arrange the POV-Ray material file such as it will use the original transparency image.
• Changed the way maps are loaded/displayed. They are now in a tabbed control with a tab for texture, transparency and bump mapping separately. This makes the interface less cluttered.
• Materials can now be imported from a Poser scene file. This speeds up the conversion process and avoids the user to search for missing maps.
• Added Global search for all maps. It will find the correct path for all the maps needed.
• Highlights can now be applied to materials with a transparency map.
• Minor update to the way the OpenGL renderer loads materials with transparency. Still not perfect but better.
• PoseRay no longer rebuilds the display list every time you move out of the materials tab. It will only update if the material has been changed.
• Updated manual for new materials handling and added a tips/tutorial section

v2.6.1

• Rearranged the exported POV-Ray material file to minimize the amount of allocated memory for POV-Ray. Thanks to Ive for his suggestion.
• Fixed the orthographic camera entry. The resulting distance from the viewer was wrong in POV-Ray.
• Added a feature to disable the OpenGL preview so that extremely large models could be loaded without taking up so much memory.
• Fixed the damaged links in the manual.
• Added some more troubleshooting items to the manual.

v2.6.0

• Added OpenGL preview tab with support for materials, textures, camera and lights. OpenGL 1.1 needed with no extensions.
• Camera is now automatically setup to show exactly in POV-Ray what is presented in the preview tab. No more guesswork with camera values and axis flips.
• Added the alpha transparency command to create TGA files with alpha masking for POV-Ray/MegaPOV. No more need to use an external program for this.
• Added an image converter for textures and bumpmap's. Converts from most common formats to TGA, jpeg or bmp.
• Added displacement mapping deformation
• Added Wavefront output
• Added support for reading/writing material transparency in Wavefront files.
• Added preview of textures and bumpmap's. in the materials tab
• Added support for compressed Poser scene files (.PZZ) that are created by the Poser Pro Pack.
• Added the option to select the groups that the user wants to export
• Added weld vertices command with tolerance control (slow but works)
• Added create normals (smooth)
• Focal blur is now calculated using the desired focal depth. No more aperture guesswork.
• Simplified the settings in the camera tab.
• Removed rotations from lights tab. Lights are now set up by position and point at location.
• Conversions among different types of lights works properly now
• Added control on the vertical position of the optional infinite floor in POV-Ray.
• Added POV-Ray 3.1g support using mesh{} only.
• Added more information to the top of the pov files.
• Improved the user interface by removing some redundant options and reorganizing some settings (too many changes to list)
• Status messages are now visible from all tabs
• Transformations can be performed on the current state of the model or the original model
• Fixed the error that PoseRay did not recognize material filenames with spaces.
• Changed the material highlight level to a highlight color and exponent.
• Help and tips merged in manual. Removed the alpha transparency tutorial since it is not needed anymore.
• Added more troubleshooting items to the manual.

v2.0.1

• Fixed the focal distance calculation. Does not crash anymore and it calculates the distance right.
• Changed the highlight from specular to Phong since it converts better from the OBJ specification.
• Fixed the missing help text on the geometry tab
• Changed material transparency handling
• Default to no texture filtering unless the color of the material is not white. Prevents washed out appearance of textures.

v2.0.0

• Added some support for general OBJ files so it can be used easily with programs other than Poser.
• Geometry can be exported using Mesh2{} or Mesh{} definitions.
• Geometry can be rotated and the axis flipped (X<->Y X<->Z Y<->Z)
• Much smaller memory requirements.
• Speed up of read and conversion process
• Speed up of camera and light import process from a Poser file (not lighting fast yet but much faster than in version 1.x)
• Added an option of changing the image map's type for all materials without having to change it for every material.
• Removed limit on the number of lights
• Lights can now be deleted
• Light intensity can be spread evenly over the lights
• Added UV invert, transpose and scale options
• Options can now be automatically saved
• Added more camera transformations.
• Optional camera focus was added
• Added default camera that will show all the geometry
• Added normal flip and size options
• Fixed runtime error that occurred sometimes when adding lights
• Organized the messages in the status window
• Added a statistics section in the messages after the preprocess of the OBJ file.
• The same OBJ model can be reprocessed without having to reload the file.
• Added Bumpmap TIFF rotation
• User can check for new version from within PoseRay.
• Reorganized some of the GUI elements
• Created an icon for PoseRay.

v1.3.0

• Upgrade of the parsing function. Sometimes the geometry, camera or light information was being read wrong.
• Added check for degenerate triangles
• Added warning for degenerate normals
• Added a way to replace infinite lights with area lights and get soft shadows.
• Automatic removal of meshes that contain only degenerate triangles.

v1.2.4

• Textures with transparencies were being filtered wrong. Added an option to choose the type of texture loaded.

v1.2.3

• Fixed an error with the message window getting too full in some Windows versions.

v1.2.2

• Added compensation for TIFF rotation that is present in POV-Ray.
• Added colored background
• Added colored floor. (Not just white)
• Changed the way files are loaded by the program.
• Added Unix and Mac file compatibility to the material file (.mtl)

v1.2.1

• Added support for Poser Pro Pack scene files
• Added support for files using Mac and Unix end of line characters

v1.2.0

• Import Camera from PZ3 files
• Import Lights from PZ3 files
• Material editor including color, surface finish, texture and bumpmap
• Blending of textures and color in the same material
• Support for POV-Ray 3.5

v1.0

• Original release