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:

• Fixed Blender crash that occured when rendering. {#43}
• Fixed overexposed Mars preset {#61}

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 the Sun. For more information check section Experimental Features

improvements:

• Now sun intensity stays consistent even when increasing sun radius.
• azimuth and elevation 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:

• Fixed an issue where disabling addon didn't reset the exposure to defaults {#8}
• Fixed an issue where when starting the render exposure was being reset {#11}