Gaffer 1.3.6.0

[johnhaddon]

Features

• LightTool :
  • Added manipulator for disk and point light radii.
  • Added manipulators for cylinder length and radius.
• Tools Menu : Added "Metadata/Clean Up" menu item to optimise file size by removing redundant metadata.

Improvements

• CollectScenes : Improved performance when computing sets, with a 3x speedup being seen in one particular benchmark.
• LightTool : Changed spot light and quad light edge tooltip locations so that they follow the cone and edge during drag.
• Arnold : Improved speed of translation of encapsulated scenes when using many threads.
• CollectImages : Added addLayerPrefix plug, to allow the layer prefix to be omitted in the case that the input images are already prefixed.
• OSL Expression : Added support for getting an element of an array context variable using contextElement( variableName, index ) or contextElement( variableName, index, defaultValue ). Negative indices can be used to get elements relative to the end of the array.

Fixes

• ValuePlug : Fixed hangs and poor performance caused by plugs depending on upstream plugs with an identical hash (Hang with chain of Parent nodes #4978).
• Filter : Fixed bug which allowed the scene:path context variable to "leak" upstream via the Filter.enabled plug. This caused unnecessary evaluations of the input, and also provided a loophole via which the filter result could be made inconsistent with respect to descendant and ancestor matches.
• Windows :
  • Fixed a bug preventing anything except strings from being copied and pasted.
  • Fixed likely cause of crash when resizing Spreadsheet column width (Gaffer Crashes When Resizing SpreadSheet Column Width #5296).
• Reference : Fixed rare reloading error.
• PlugLayout : Fixed lack of update when layout:customWidget:* metadata changes.
• Dispatch app : Removed unnecessary and misleading "Execute" button.
• SceneAlgo : Fixed history queries for ScenePlug.object in networks with nodes derived from ObjectProcessor. These include : CameraTweaks, ClosestPointSampler, CollectPrimitiveVariables, CopyPrimitiveVariables, CurveSampler, DeleteCurves, DeleteFaces, DeletePoints, MapOffset, MapProjection, MeshDistortion, MeshNormals, MeshSegments, MeshTangents, MeshToPoints, MeshType, Orientation, PointsType, PrimitiveSampler, PrimitiveVariables, ReverseWinding, ShufflePrimitiveVariables and UVSampler (Certain Nodes Blocks Edit Source Node of Selection (Alt + E) in viewer | SceneAlgo.history bug #5406).
• Metadata : Fixed redundant copying of metadata when promoting plugs.
• OpenColorIO : Fixed hang when opening a script which didn't yet have the openColorIO.config plug.
• Context : Fixed bug preventing the retrieval of V2iVectorData, V2fVectorData, V3iVectorData and V3fVectorData from a context.

API

• Process : Added acquireCollaborativeResult() method, providing an improved mechanism for multiple threads to collaborate on TBB tasks spawned by a single process they all depend on.
• ValuePlug : Added Default CachePolicy and deprecated Standard, TaskIsolation and Legacy policies.
• Metadata :
  • Added RegistrationTypes enum that allows the different types of registrations to be identified.
  • Added improved registeredValues() and value() overloads that provide finer-grained queries based on the type of registration.
  • Deprecated instanceOnly and persistentOnly arguments in favour of new registrationTypes arguments.
  • Prevented renameable and deletable metadata from being copied during plug promotion.
• MetadataAlgo : Added deregisterRedundantValues() method.

Build

• Cortex : Updated to version 10.5.3.0.

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This discussion was created from the release Gaffer 1.3.6.0.