After more work than I'd hoped, the 1.2.0 release has been advanced to release candidate 2. Much has changed, mostly in the area of project layout, in order to comply with Fedora compliance regulations.

This release candidate is going to be live for a few days at most, if no showstopping problems arise, it'll be promoted to final on Sunday 4th February.

The more people that can look at this prior to the final release the better.

Source
Windows Installer

Everyone likes gifts, especially this time of year, so we've teamed-up with Santa to bring you the first release candidate of Aqsis 1.2.0 - Our next major installment in the series...

Windows (EXE)

Linux (RPM)

Some of the new features include...

* AutoShadow support
* HDRI (OpenEXR) support
* Implicit surface (Blobby) support
* Layered shaders
* Miqser - A new RIB processing tool

... plus much more!!!

Please take this opportunity to help us make this the best Aqsis release yet by submitting feedback and reporting any issues on our forum, in-turn speeding-up the process involved in reaching 1.2.0 'Final'.

I've gathered the results of the survey and presented them in a Wiki page at http://wiki.aqsis.org/feedback/survey1_results.

The comments are copied verbatim, no editing has been done at all. The rank/vote type questions are gathered into a set of graphs presented as a PDF file.

You can now find daily bleeding-edge builds of Aqsis at our download site - http://download.aqsis.org

Just to inform anyone interested in providing valuable feedback to the Aqsis development team. The survey that's been running for a while now is going to close on Friday the 27th October.

This is everyone's chance to help in driving the development of Aqsis in the right direction, so if you've been meaning to submit, please take the time to do so before that date. It only takes a few minutes of your time, and the feedback is very useful, already the information gathered from the submissions to date have been enlightening.

Thanks


Paul Gregory