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

The order of feature releases can change!

• Older releases 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

  • [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

  • [DONE] Image Tiling (for huge resolutions useful)
  • [DONE] Ray Pipeline Rework
  • [DONE] Stochastic Progressive Photon Mapping (parallel)
  • [DONE] Python API

• Version 0.12

  • [DONE] RayView Rework
  • [DONE] Sobel Sequence Sampling
  • [DONE] Plugin System
  • [DONE] Better Attribute System
  • [DONE] Profiler

• Version 0.13

  • [DONE] OpenSubdiv (replaced by Embree internal for now)
  • [DONE] Curves

• Version 0.14 (Current)

  • [DONE] Spectral Rendering (Hero)
  • [DONE] Output Devices
  • [DONE] New Shading Evaluation System

• Version 0.15 (Next)

  • Archives / Lazy Loading
  • Path Guiding

• Version 0.16

  • [DONE] Reintroduce Bi-Direct Integrator
  • Displacement Mapping

• Version 0.17

  • AnyDSL Shading System

• Version 0.18

  • OSL Shader (+ AnyDSL converter)

• Version 0.19

  • Pause/Resume Feature
  • Physical Validation

• Version 0.20

  • Volume
  • Scientific Analysis Tools
  • [DONE] Resource Caching

• Version 0.21

  • AnyDSL based intersection tests

• Version 1.0

  • Animation
  • Motion Blur

• Version 1.1

  • [DONE] VCM
  • B-Splines / NURBS

• Version 1.2

  • udimm support
  • [DONE] pTex support