Gaffer 1.6.0.0 alpha 3

[murraystevenson]

Features

• DiskBlur : Added image node for doing fast variable-radius blur. Will be used as core of upcoming focal blur node.

Improvements

• RenderMan : Added dedicated viewport visualisers for RenderMan lights.
• SceneInspector :
  • Cells dragged from the "Name" column now return their name, rather than their full path ¹.
  • Nodes can be pinned for comparison by dropping them onto the green "B" side of the "Scene" comparison header ¹.
  • The current expansion is now preserved when enabling or disabling comparison mode ¹.
• Viewer : Added Add image comparison mode.
• LocaliseAttributes : Added support for localising global attributes, controlled by the new includeGlobalAttributes plug.
• AttributeTweaks, ShaderTweaks : Global attributes are now localised when localise is enabled and no matching attribute is found at the target location or any of its ancestors.
• AttributeQuery, ShaderQuery : Global attributes are now queried when inherit is enabled and no matching attribute is found at the target location or any of its ancestors.
• SphereLevelSet : Improved performance when evaluating the bounding box.
• RenderPassMenu : Added a search menu which displays only the render passes matching the search text. The search menu can be disabled by registering the following metadata in a startup file. Gaffer.Metadata.registerValue( Gaffer.ScriptNode, "variables.renderPass.value", "renderPassPlugValueWidget:searchable", False ).
• RenderPassEditor, AttributeEditor, LightEditor, SceneInspector : Improved presentation of VectorData types in the Inspect popup.
• CompoundDataPlugValueWidget : Removed unnecessary nesting from the menu for adding plugs.

Fixes

• ImageReader : Fixed color-space handling for secondary RGB layers. Previously color transformations were only being applied to the main RGB channels and not to someLayer.RGB (ImageReader ColorSpace Only Affects RGB Layer #6524).
• PathListingWidget : Columns set to automatically stretch now equally share available space when a PathListingWidget's columns are updated via setColumns().
• CyclesShader : Moved the principled_bsdf.diffuse_roughness parameter to a new "Diffuse" section in the Node Editor ¹.
• ContextQuery : Removed Create Context Query... menu item from plugs where it was not relevant.
• Menu : Executing a non-searchable menu item from a searchable menu no longer causes it to appear as the last used action in the menu's search field.

API

• ScenePlug : Added optional withGlobalAttributes arguments to fullAttributes() and fullAttributesHash().
• VectorDataWidget : Added optional maximumVisibleRows argument.

Breaking Changes

• StandardLightVisualiser : Removed protected methods for drawing visualiser elements. These are now part of GafferSceneUI::Private::LightVisualiserAlgo. This namespace can be used by light visualisers, but is currently Private while the API details are being resolved.
• AttributeTweaks : Tweaks with localise enabled and a mode of CreateIfMissing will now not create an attribute if it is missing from the scene hierarchy, but exists in the globals.
• AttributeQuery : Queries with inherit enabled will now return a result when querying an attribute that does not exist in the scene hierarchy, but does exist in the globals.

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This discussion was created from the release Gaffer 1.6.0.0 alpha 3.

Footnotes

1. To be omitted from the notes for the final 1.6.0.0 release. ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴