Gaffer 1.6.0.0 alpha 2

[murraystevenson]

Note : This release addresses the known issues from 1.6.0.0a1 and is recommended for user testing.

Features

• SceneInspector :
  • Rewrote using the same framework as LightEditor, AttributeEditor and RenderPassEditor.
  • Added EditScope support, with in-place editing of attributes, options and shader parameters. Editing for other properties is planned for future versions.
  • Improved comparison abilities, including the added ability to compare two render passes.
  • Added subsections for options and attributes, splitting them by category.
  • Added column resizing, including automatic resizing to show long attribute names.
  • Added inspection of all shaders and parameters in shader networks.
  • Added more detailed inspection of meshes and curves.
  • Added more detailed inspection of primitive variables.

Improvements

• Arnold : Improved readability of shader node names as they appear in statistics and .ass files. They are now formatted as shader:{handle}:{uniqueId} where {handle} is the Gaffer node name of the assigned shader, or if loaded from USD, the prim name.
• PrimitiveInspector : Added location widget for selecting the location to be inspected.
• OptionalValuePlugValueWidget : The widget for the enabled plug can now be customised using plugValueWidget:type metadata.
• PathListingWidget : Improved formatting of TypedVectorData.

Fixes

• Arnold : Fixed crashes caused by conflicts with Arnold's internal memory allocator ¹.
• PathListingWidget :
  • Fixed ordering of selectionChangedSignal() emission from setColumns() call. It is now emitted when getColumns() returns the new columns, not the old ones.
  • Fixed unwanted vertical scrolling caused by setColumns().
• LightEditor, RenderPassEditor, AttributeEditor :
  • Fixed unwanted vertical scrolling when switching tabs.
  • Fixed flickering when switching tabs.
• Node menu : Fixed laggy search behaviour ¹.

API

• Path : Added contextProperty() method.

Breaking Changes

• Arnold : Changed the naming of shader nodes in the generated Arnold scene.
• Path : Removed inspectionContext() method. Use contextProperty( "inspector:context" ) instead.
• SceneInspector :
  • Removed setTargetPaths() and getTargetPaths() methods. Use the location and compare.location settings plugs instead.
  • Removed registerSection() method.
  • Removed Diff, SideBySideDiff, TextDiff, Row, Inspector, DiffRow, DiffColumn, Section, LocationSection, HistorySection and SetsSection classes.

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This discussion was created from the release Gaffer 1.6.0.0 alpha 2.

Footnotes

1. To be omitted from the notes for the final 1.6.0.0 release. ↩ ↩²