19.1.0 - Maya 2019, Apollo improvements

[Jeremy Hill]

Bella 19.1.0 introduces support for Maya 2019. Changes are as follows:

core

– noise reduced in some surface self-connection cases.
– fix internal bug in apollo, reducing noise.
– fix bug in color convergence in apollo.
– improve performance of aperture diffraction.
– fix: aperture diffraction moved to lens:diaphragm.
– fix errors when switching lens type during IPR.
– fix lens shift for thick lens.
– tune OIIO for speedup in loading large textures.
– fix license data parsing issue.
– add support for alpha pass.
– move dielectric:IOR to surface where it belongs.
– fix crash with camera effects in some cases.
– change to use all threads in postprocess.
– move to [year].[bella].[plugin] versioning.
– fix aliasing issues with bloom.
– fix some issues with resume render.
– improve license failure reporting.`

maya

– add support for maya 2019.
– add more bella parameters to maya camera.
– add bella cam/sensor/lens overrides to maya camera.
– skip msvc dlls, install vcredist from installer.
– fix intermittent issue causing maya to hang at close.
– fix wrongly-generated enum labels for int/uint inputs.
– installers now create shortcuts to plugin’s bella_gui.

cli

– skip msvc dlls, install vcredist from installer.

gui

– for consistency, using ‘bella_gui’ (not ‘bella’).
– skip msvc dlls, install vcredist from installer.

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