Road Map

This page contains the currently planned features for each version milestone. Of course all milestones include bug fixing and code improvements aswell.

The order of feature releases can change!

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• Older release not documented.

• Version 0.8

  • [DONE] Direct integrator
  • [DONE] Bidirect integrator
  • [DONE] Wavefront importer
  • [DONE] GPU support

• Version 0.9

  • [DONE] Depth of Field
  • [DONE] Multiple Importance Sampling
  • [DONE] Multi Jittered Sampling
  • [DONE] Fast SAH-KD tree implementation

• Version 0.10 (Current)

  • [DONE] Command Line Interface (PearRay CLI)
  • [DONE] Halton Quasi-Monte-Carlo Sampling
  • [DONE] Progressive Photon Mapping
  • [DONE] Entity System - Rework
  • [DONE] Simple AOVs
  • [DONE] Spectral Working Tools

• Version 0.11 (Next)

  • [DONE] Image Tiling (for huge resolutions useful)
  • Ray Pipeline Rework
  • Better Attribute System
  • OSL Shader
  • Displacement Mapping

• Version 0.12

  • Python API
  • BVH
  • Resource Caching
  • GPU based intersection tests

• Version 1.0

  • Animation
  • Motion Blur

• Version 1.1

  • VCM
  • OpenSubDiv
  • B-Splines / NURBS

• Version 1.2

  • pTex support