Gaffer 1.5.13.0

[murraystevenson]

Features

• ArnoldProcedural : Added a new node for making Arnold .ass procedural placeholders.
• AttributeEditor, LightEditor, RenderPassEditor : Added copy and paste editing. Values from one or more cells can be copied to the clipboard with Ctrl + C and pasted with Ctrl + V to create or update edits. Values copied from these editors can also be pasted into Spreadsheet cells, and vice versa.

Improvements

• ImageReader : Automatically set "filePath" metadata when reading images, making it easier to determine the path an image was loaded from.
• Cryptomatte : Improved automatic finding of manifests. Now, if the image's metadata references a sidecar manifest file, but no explicit manifestDirectory is specified, it will look in the directory the image was loaded from (as determined by the "filePath" metadata). This makes it more likely that cryptomatte files will work automatically.
• Spreadsheet :
  • A wider range of types are converted when copy/pasting values between cells, such as BoolData to IntData, FloatData to IntData, etc.
  • Added support for converting StringData values when pasted or dropped onto a StringVectorData cell. The string array value is formed by splitting the string on spaces.
• AttributeEditor, LightEditor, RenderPassEditor, Spreadsheet : The current text is selected automatically when editing popup multi-line text fields.

Fixes

• Cycles : Fixed light linking in batch renders.
• RenderMan :
  • Fixed light linking in batch renders.
  • Fixed handling of render:{name} attributes, such as the render:displayColor attribute created by StandardAttributes, and primvar:{name} attributes loaded from USD files. These can now be accessed by PxrAttribute shaders as either user:{name} or just {name}.
• Cryptomatte : Fixed hypothetical inconsistencies if the C++ language locale affects the parsing of JSON files (probably not an issue in practice, since the JSON in question should just be hexadecimal integers, and no known locale should affect the parsing of integers).
• Alembic : Fixed crashes caused by invalid UVs.

Build

• Cortex : Updated to version 10.5.14.0.

API

• PlugAlgo :
  • Added support in setValueFromData() for setting StringPlug values from StringVectorData and StringVectorDataPlugValues from StringData.
  • Added setValueOrInsertKeyFromData().
• PathListingWidget : Added visualOrder().

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This discussion was created from the release Gaffer 1.5.13.0.