Download Pixie 1.6.2

Pixie is an open source application for creating photo-realistic renders. The development team hopes that Pixie can eventually be used in graphics studies and by people who can’t afford commercial rendering packages. Support for programmable shading, motion blur, depth of field, ray tracing, scan-line rendering, area-light sources and occlusion culling is included. If you are curious about some results after rendering, you can click this page take a look. Version 1.6.2 was released by the developers a few days ago with the following changes:

Version 1.6.2:

• Improved speed for larger pixel filter sizes
• Multiprocessor support is available via rndr -P:n
• Netrender and multiprocessor temporary file management is much improved
  • full path-prefixed files will work correctly
  • stale temporary files should not influence new renders
• Netrender and multiprocessor renders support TSM output and baking of irradiance caches
• integer display parameters are supported
• trace() supports “label” and “bias” as additional arguments
• shadow map preparation (MakeShadow) environment and texture preparation is supported for netrender and multiprocessor renders.
• the raytrace hider supports AOVs
• netrender network performance is improved
• arrays may be output as AOVs
• RiDisplayChannel is supported
• fixed an issue where multiple RiReadArchive / DelayedReadArchive which had long argument lists in them could crash
• AOVs which are being output, but are not used in a shader will be computed correctly (eg st where s and t are not referenced in the shader)
• the photometric interpretation of single-channel tiffs matches that for multi-channel tiffs
• significant improvement of texture sampling at the border of textures
  • previously color may have bled slightly over the border
  • shadow maps which exhibited thin lines at the edge should now be significantly higher quality
• sdrc searches the contents of the INCLUDE environment variable for headers
• netrenders which used RiBasis will no longer emit a false error message from the client
• the quality of motion blur and DOF has been improved
• there are small increases to speed for DOF
• a potential crash with non-square filters or pixelSamples is fixed
• the filterstep() SL function now works correctly