Release Notes
1.5.2 - released 01.07.2022¶
improvements:
- Improve experience while using Cloud scale property by giving more control over it.
fixed:
-
Fixed issue when moving azimuth or elevation values sometimes scene would not be redrawn. This issue also affected animations that animated azimuth and elevation properties. Now instead of using azimuth & elevation properties, sun horizontal and vertical rotation is used. The migration script should ensure swift version migration.
-
Fixed issue when preset from the Asset Browser was dropped into the scene, sun position were not updated.
1.5.1 - released 17.03.2022¶
improvements:
- Space out shader nodes when the addon is enabled.
- Space out shader nodes for existing 10 atmosphere assets.
- Reduced size of assets file.
fixed:
- Apply ACES modifier to applied assets.
- Removed reset buttons as they became obsolete after migrating presets to the asset browser.
- Fixed Nishita preset by removing green hue.
- Fixed fog to include physical value multiplier.
- Fixed
toolbar enabled
setting not functioning properly.
1.5.0 - released 03.03.2022¶
new:
- Now storing information in world data block instead of scene.
- Now using built in Blender Asset Browser instead of custom preset functionality.
- 5 new presets (assets) - earth2, earth3, overcast, tatooine, thick haze
- Implemented update script which allows without issues to transfer existing projects with older PSA versions to PSA v1.5.0.
improvements:
- Atmosphere is applied to the existing world, instead of creating a new world with a PSA atmosphere.
- Improved garbage collection for Node Groups.
fixed:
1.4.4-beta - released 14.12.2021¶
new:
- Added support for ACES color space
fixed:
- Fixed issue that after update to v1.4.x gave incorrect values when using 'Use real world physical values' feature
- Fixed issue that gave an TypeError when resetting clouds to defaults using reset button.
improvements:
- Binary Sun is now out of the experimental features
- Improved UI for preferences
1.4.3-beta - released 07.12.2021¶
improvements:
- Now clouds can be added to the presets.
fixed:
- Fixed blender 3.0 compatibility issues.
1.3.2 - released 07.12.2021¶
fixed:
- Fixed blender 3.0 compatibility issues.
1.4.2-beta - released 26.08.2021¶
new:
- New UI for Object Fog. Better control over when Object Fog should be applied and when removed.
improvements:
- Improved general addon performance.
- Reduced RAM used by Object Fog.
- Clouds UI moved to the Atmosphere tab.
- Added extra rotation and location parameters for the Clouds.
fixed:
- Fixed issue when rendering animation (hitting F12 key) gets a consistent crash. {#43}
- Fixed issue when using cloud feature were not enabled when using Cycles rendering engine by default. {#42}
- Fixed issue when animating sun via Sun Position addon resulted in incomplete animation. {#7}
- Alpha fix. {#45}
1.4.1-beta - released 20.06.2021¶
improvements:
- Increase shadow visibility from 200m to 2km.
- Set Experimental features enabled by default.
1.4.0-beta - released 17.06.2021¶
new:
- Procedural Cloud system.
improvements:
- Improve animation performance. Now the atmosphere will be redrawn only if UI parameter has changed.
- Now on
Blender > System > Reload Scripts
all addon scripts are properly reloading. - Whenever a blendfile is loaded it correctly loads preset defaults it is based on.
fixed:
- Fixed issues when installing a new addon version on top of the old one results in console errors. {#31}
- Fixed issue when addon was not working in multiple scenes. {#26}
- Fixed issue when Material Fog is active adding a new material caused to lose user made changes in the Shader editor. {#34}
1.3.1 - released 16.04.2021¶
fixed:
- Fixed issue that prevents dynamically creating classes in Blender v2.93 and breaks the preset functionality. {#38}
1.3.0 - released 13.11.2020¶
new:
- Added ability to add or remove Presets (snapshot of your customized atmosphere settings).
- Added 4 presets (Earth, Mars, Nishita and Retrowave) that comes default with the addon installation.
- Added
Binary Sun
(secondary sun) that can be rotated around theSun
. For more information check section Experimental Features
improvements:
- Now
sun intensity
stays consistent even when increasingsun radius
. azimuth
andelevation
slider sensitivity increased- Improve
ground color
accuracy. Now setting it to black will really mean it's black.
fixed:
- Fixed an issue when sun was located near horizon the sun color were washed out.
1.2.3 - released 20.08.2020¶
fixed:
- Fixed an issue where
Toggle Meterial Fog
button sometimes appears active when it isn't. - Fixed an issue where when disabling addon didn't delete all Sun data and left some garbage behind. {#1}
- Fixed an issue where when rotating sun using gimbal it did a random jump. {#6}
- Fixed an issue where when animating time using Sun Position addon gave the same frame in output. {#7}
1.2.2 - released 15.07.2020¶
new:
- Addon now has preferences to enable or disable real world physical values (by default disabled).
fixed: