Changes in this release

• Added RTX device support for additional extensions:
  • KHR_FRAME_CHANNEL_PRIMITIVE_ID
  • KHR_FRAME_CHANNEL_OBJECT_ID
  • KHR_FRAME_CHANNEL_INSTANCE_ID
  • KHR_DEVICE_SYNCHRONIZATION
  • KHR_FRAME_ACCUMULATION (already present, but extension query was missing)
• RTX device rendering/ANARI correctness fixes:
  • Fixed incorrect use of in/out sampler transforms
  • Fixed incorrect sphere shadows when instanced
  • Updated missing/incorrect parameters
  • Improved cylinder/cone intersectors
  • Fixed incorrect sampling position for structuredRegular fields
  • Fixed crash when no GPU is available to be used during initialization
• RTX device runtime robustness fixes:
  • Fixed crash in RTX device under certain conditions when ANARIGroup contents were changed
  • Multi-threaded OptiX module creation on Linux to speed up device initialization
  • Use new helium array implementation from ANARI-SDK in RTX device
• GL device improvements:
  • Updated queries to match latest SDK JSONs
  • Compile fixes for Windows
  • Add support for linear depth per-ANARI specification
  • Better GLES compatibility
• CMake fixes:
  • Invoke visrtxCompileShaders after installation to ensure the right version is precompiled
  • Misc robustness improvements
• Various minor viewer improvements

Accepted Pull Requests

• Normalize light dir by @aumuell in #57
• cmake: fix exporting with VISRTX_USE_SOVERSION by @mathstuf in #58
• Cmake fixes by @mathstuf in #59
• implement prim/obj/inst ID buffers in visrtx by @jeffamstutz in #65
• parallelize OptiX module creation by @jeffamstutz in #66

New Contributors

• @aumuell made their first contribution in #57

Full Changelog: v0.6.1...v0.7.0