appleseed 1.3.0-beta Released

We are proud to announce the immediate availability of appleseed 1.3.0-beta, the third release of our beta program (and the 26th release overall). Check out the release notes for the full list of changes.

The major new feature of this release is a state-of-the-art implementation of raytraced subsurface scattering, as well as a number of diffusion profiles (the subsurface scattering equivalent of a BRDF):

• A simple Gaussian profile
• The Standard and “Better” Dipoles (for the “gummy” look common in animation)
• The newly published Directional Dipole
• And Pixar’s new Normalized Diffusion profile for highly accurate subsurface scattering

Another important news is the return of appleseed on OS X (10.10 Yosemite and later), and the availability of appleseed in the FreeBSD Ports Collection.

Finally, this release also fixes a number of bugs and adds a few other minor features.

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