Mandelbulber 1.16

Mandelbulber 1.16

Open source program (GNU GPL) for rendering photo-realistic 3D fractals
Free download (executables and source): sourceforge.net/projects/mande…
Website:       www.mandelbulber.com/
User manual: wiki.mandelbulber.com/index.ph…

New features in version 1.16:

- all shaders and rendering engine rewritten from the beginning
- light sources are rendered as a volumetric objects (now looks properly also with fish-eye projection and fog effects)
- introduced soft shadows
- raytracing works with all shaders and is much more accurate
- glow and all fog shaders now are volumetric effects and can be used simultanously
- possible to set different reflection factor for each primitive object
- zoom by click works much more accurate and rotates the camera towards to selected point
- added option for using constant step length for zoom by click (useful for animations)
- added contrast adjustment for image
- user interface reorganized
- internal image buffer is now floating point type (much better HDR effects)
- fixed bug: crashed when animation keyframe thumbnail was refreshed during image rendering
- fixed bug: NetRender client saved partially rendered images
- fixed bug: animated water wasn't rendered properly with NetRender
- remark: some shaders settings are not compatible with older setting files (fog and DOF distance, reflection factor). Sometimes is needed to re-tune some shaders parameters, especially fog visibility distance

SVN repository: mandelbulber.googlecode.com/sv…
This repository is available from Google Code: code.google.com/p/mandelbulber…