Changelog Batch Rendering Service

[2023-07-01]

Bug fixes:

• Undesired AVX2 dependency removed

Bug fixes:

• Missing lines

Bug fixes:

• Configure OSPRay to fix software threads to physical threads

o To avoid core parking on Windows

o To avoid Windows scheduler pushing render task only to Intel® E-Cores

Changes:

• Retry on Job discovery, 5 attempts before removing the job file (previously: no retry)

• Add OMats 2.2 material parameter introduced in pCon.Planner 8.12

• Add *.htm file next to *.url file (with the same function)

• OSPRay Library update

Skipped

[2024-05-13]

Changes:

• Added Feature email_url_prefix

[2023-09-30]

Changes:

• Update pCon.login library to 2.5.2

• License loss will not shut down the service, instead poll to acquire license

[2023-01-20]

Bug fixes:

• WebUI not loading properly (Support Tickets 90178, 90899)

• Missing Log file

• Issue with ‘#’ in Job Names

• Render jobs for image with transparent background might not show up in list of finished rendering jobs (Support Ticket 89422, Ticket 20236)

[2023-12-10]

Bug fixes:

• Download names still URI encoded

Changes:

• Update pCon.login library to 2.4

• Make logging for pCon.login a parameter in config file

[2023-10-27]

Bug fixes:

• Issue with characters outside of the system default code page (Ticket #20080)

• Download names still URI encoded

[2022-09-15]

Bug fixes:

• License logout issues on shutdown

• Failed to write Minidump and stuck in error state (Ticket #86480)

Changes:

• Update pCon.login library to 2.3.1

• Add support for new not backward compatible job format 2.0 (But maintain compatibility with Jobs

from pCon.planner 8.7)

Bug fixes:

• Crash on disabled Denoising

• Delete a single image from gallery did not work (Bug 19326)

• Could not delete a paused single remaining job in WebUI

Changes:

• Remove login window because embedded IE is deprecated. Using the system web browser for login

instead.

• Add option “email_maximum_links” to manually configure the amount of links per email

[2022-04-04]

Bug fixes:

• Issues with *.url file creation

• ZipDownload returned an empty container

• Inconsistent naming in TrayApp

Changes:

• Update pCon.login library to 2.2.1

• Support for showing invalid Jobs in WebUI

• Add integrity check for job files

[2020-11-14]

Changes:

• Update OSPRay to 2.7

• Update OpenImageDenoise to 1.4.1

• Update Visual C++ Runtime from 2015 to 2019

• Add Alpha Denoising

[2020-09-12]

Bug fixes:

• Remove a workaround where the BRS restarts itself with less privileges then admin rights, which caused

start issues in few cases

Changes:

• Adapt names to fit the license name

[2020-04-22]

Bug Fixes:

• Fixing spelling errors in the installer

Changes:

• Removing the automatic stop/restart function from the installer

[2020-04-22]

Bug Fixes:

• Issues with WebUI related to:

o Unwanted line breaks

o Progress bar resetting to 0% on starting a camera

o Delete command not working under certain conditions

• Issues with rendering glass

Changes:

• Support new Render-Setting LightSamples

• Support new abort criteria for denoised image

• Update pCon.login libraries

• Remaining time speculation modified to be more similar to the pCon.planner speculation

[2020-01-08]

Bug Fixes:

• Update issues in the installer

Changes:

• Add support for more light types

• Add support for internal “light samples” setting

[2020-01-02]

Bug fixes:

• Tiling artifacts (Bug 15520)

• Missing Images (Bug 16197)

• Minizip could not create ZIP files if the in- or output path contained non ASCII character

• OSPRay not using all cores (Bug 15981)

Changes:

• Update OSPRay to 2.4

• Update OpenImageDenoise to 1.2.3

• Added buffer for image and zip upload

• Added translations

[2019-05-06]

Changes:

• Management for config.txt:

o Use <ProgramData>\EasternGraphics\EGR-BRS\config.txt

o If the above file does not exist, EGR-BRS will copy its local config.txt to this position

• WebUI detects server failure, prompt message. Reloads itself in case the server can be reached again

• Thumbnails now serve as indicator for a finished rendering

• Update pCon.login library to version 1.0

Bug fixes:

• Start- and Stop-commands did not work in some cases

• (Per image) Memory leak in x3g_ospray_node.exe

Changes:

• Stopping a video job or a job with many cameras could take much time be processed, has improved

• Structure has been reworked to be used in installation:

o Expecting program folder to be in “Program Files”, only read on those

o Create persistent files to read and write in ProgramData\Easterngraphics\EGR-BRS

o Configuration file will be copied from program folder if it is not within the ProgramData folder

to enable users to make changes to the config (EGR-BRS will use the config file in ProgramData)

Changes:

• Update OSPRay from 1.8.5 to 2.0

• Update Poco Library to 1.10.1

• Enable SSL for email communication

• pCon.login via separate window instead of the default browser

• Allow logout from pCon.login service

Bug fixes:

• Fix memory leak on jobs with multiple cameras (One buffer was not properly deallocated)

Changes:

• Use separate pCon.login library to improve overall pCon.login related functionality

• Improve shutdown process in console

Bug fixes:

• EGR-BRS stopped working on update of Infinite Stopping Condition (Bug 14858)

• Issue with BatchRendering.exe where BRS mode did not activate

• Missing Registry path caused BatchRendering.exe to stop working (Bug 14842)

Changes:

• Add a special MessageBox in case the BR(S) fails to create its URL-file

• Add debugging output --etc_check to check if (dot)Net crawls the folder properly and finds files

• Add Explicit modes for BatchRendering.exe by using --br and --brs as start parameter

Bug fixes:

• Change working directory in BatchRendering.exe so relative paths work properly

• Fix problem with tiles not being rendered (in OSPRay) (Bug 14442)

• Having a ‘+’ (character for plus) in the Jobname made it impossible to receive the image via WebUI

Changes:

• Catch more potential exceptions

• Increase verbosity of some debug output

• Add a “shutdown might take a few seconds” message when x3g_ospray_master.exe receives shutdown interaction

• Add an Embedded Browser Window to log into pCon.login and request the token user would otherwise have to manually write into the config.txt

• Add x3g_br_core.dll to cover common ground between BatchRendering.exe and x3g_ospray_master.exe

Bug fixes:

• Shadow catcher now slightly below zero to prevent z-fighting with 2d-objects at zero (ticket #60074)

Changes:

• BatchRendering.exe changed to 64 Bit

• Update to OpenImageDenoise 1.0.0

• An email of 5 or more Cameras will no longer print a gigantic list of direct camara-urls; instead it will

lead to the jobs folder on the WebUI

• Attach media.info to downloads of video images

• Add the ability to navigate directly to a job folder on the WebUI

Bug fixes:

• Potential problem with broken heights in Collage

• Critical bug which lead to removing all files, on a user-level image remove request

• Downloading a folder of *.exr-files did instead download the thumbnails

• Multiselection problems on WebUI

• Push Error reporting (like Out Of Memory) from OSPRay to log files

• Missing thumbnails

Bugfixes:

• X3g_ospray_node.exe stuck

• EGR-BRS did not send welcome-mail, if the user was mentioned in the config.exe within parameter admin_email

Changes:

• More tolerance towards absolute paths and network paths, this reduces unjust error messages

• Catch more potential exceptions

• Make the “Internet Explorer not supported” hint

• Add HTTP Header Entry to avoid Browser caching the JSON lists