MDL SDK 2021.0.1 (344800.4174): 17 Aug 2021

ABI compatible with the MDL SDK 2021.0.1 (344800.4174) binary release
(see https://developer.nvidia.com/mdl-sdk)

Added and Changed Features

• General

  • Reduced memory usage for DDS textures with subformat BC7.
  • Added a new execution context option "warning" to silence compiler warnings or to promote
    them to errors. See IMdl_execution_context for details.
  • Disabled warnings for deprecated MDL materials and functions by default.

• MDL Compiler and Backends

  • Reduced compilation times.
  • Updated nvidia::core_definitions with new functionality.

• MDL SDK examples

  • Example Code Generation
    • Added an option to set number of texture result slots.

Fixed Bugs

• MDL Compiler and Backends

  • Fixed handling of nvidia::baking annotations.
  • Fixed lambda results handling in single-init mode for non-HLSL.
  • Fixed uncomputed cosine in sheen_bsdf's multiscatter (was broken for a
    transmitting multiscatter component, libbsdf).
  • Improved numerical stability in base::coordinate_projection.
  • Fixed missing color_weighted_layer() inside the transmission analysis.
  • Fixed thin film factor implementation (libbsdf).