Gaffer 1.6.3.0

[murraystevenson]

Features

• SystemCommand, PythonCommand : Added isolated plug. An isolated task is executed from a script containing only that node. This is a useful optimisation when the load time for the full script is high compared to the time taken to execute the task (SystemCommand that does not evaluate the scene #6541).

Improvements

• SceneInspector :
  • Added "Isolate Differences" option for comparison modes. This filters out all properties which have the same value in the A and B columns.
  • Improved filtering :
    • By default, filters now match any part of the hierarchy, allowing primitive variables to be matched.
    • Filters may optionally specify a full path, such as /Object/Primitive Variables/velocity to avoid matches elsewhere in the hierarchy.
    • The new behaviour matches the filters in the HierarchyView and AttributeEditor.
  • Removed redundant scene inspections when not in comparison mode.
• Arnold : Added support for M44f header:* output metadata.
• FocalBlur : Added presets for focalLengthWorldScale and placeholder text for cameraPath.

Fixes

• Arnold : Fixed options.frame value, which was previously always 0. This fixes the arnold/frame EXR metadata.
• SceneInspector :
  • Fixed potential crashes caused by a thread-safety bug. These were more likely in layouts with multiple SceneInspectors.
  • The Globals tab no longer shows the A/B columns when only locations are being compared.
• BoolWidget : Fixed label text styling when disabled.
• Scene Editors : Fixed cell background colour when a property is deleted by the current EditScope. It is now blue to indicate the edit, whereas before it had the default colour.
• GraphEditor : Fixed duplicate annotations that occurred when default annotation metadata was registered for a particular node type.
• Metadata : Removed duplicate items returned by registeredValues().
• PlugLayout : Fixed context used to evaluate layout:activator metadata.
• Catalogue : Fixed to support IPv4-only environments.
• NodeEditor : Fixed error colour for preset widgets.
• RenderPass menus : Fixed handling of renderPassPlugValueWidget:displayGrouped and renderPassPlugValueWidget:hideDisabled configuration metadata.
  • Fixed error handling. Previously if an error occurred when computing the available render passes, the menu would fail to build.
  • Fixed "Refresh" menu item, which is shown when the available render passes are still being computed.
  • Changes to the metadata after the menu is created are now reflected in the menu configuration.
  • The main menu configuration is saved in the .gfr file.

API

• Metadata : The registerNode() function now accepts dictionaries containing plug metadata. This should be preferred to the previous list-based values.
• SceneInspector : Added deregisterInspectors() method.
• PathPlugValueWidget : Added support for placeholder text, via pathPlugValueWidget:placeholderText metadata.
• TaskNode : Added "dispatcher:allowIsolation" metadata, which can be used to add the isolated plug to a TaskNode.

Build

• Cortex : Updated to 10.6.0.2.

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This discussion was created from the release Gaffer 1.6.3.0.