Cortex 10.4.1.0

Improvements

• IECoreGL::Shader : Added support for 1D and 2D textures in addUniformParameter() (#1282).
• USDScene : Added loading of treatAsPoint and treatAsLine attributes from UsdLux lights (#1283).
• AlembicScene : Added support for visibility attribute (#1288).

Fixes

• Windows : Fixed compilation with MSVC 2019 (#1281).
• USDScene : Fixed shader type for UsdLux lights. It is now light rather than surface (#1283).
• IECoreGL::Shader : Fixed unnecessary accumulation of memory when uniform values are changed (#1284).
• IECoreGL::Buffer : Fixed export of ScopedBinding class (#1287).
• Version : Fixed compilation error when including IECore/Version.h without having previously included IECore/Export.h.

Cortex 10.3.7.1

Fixes

• Version : Fixed compile error when including IECore/Version.h without having previously included IECore/Export.h.

Cortex 10.4.0.0

Improvements

• USDScene :
  • Added support for reading and writing purpose-based material bindings (#1273).
  • Added basic support for loading UsdLux lights (#1256).
• IECoreGL::Shader :
  • Added support for buffer samplers (#1264).
  • Added support for integer sampler parameters (#1261).
• Adopted stricter default compilation flags (#1266).
• IECoreUSD : Added support for version 22.03 (#1245).
• IECoreMaya : Added support for Maya 2022 and Python 3 (#1235).
• IECoreNuke : Added support for Python 3 (#1238).
• IECoreHoudini : Added support for Houdini 19 and Python 3 (#1242).
• Python : Added support for Python 3.9 in addition to 3.7 (#1229).

Fixes

• PointDistribution : Fixed inconsistent distributions between MacOS and Linux. The Linux distribution is now used on all platforms (#1269).
• Fixed compilation with C++17 (#1269, #1265).
• IECoreGL : Fixed build errors on MacOS (#1271).
• USDScene :
  • Fixed loading of asset paths containing <UDIM> tokens (#1274).
  • Fixed attributesHash() to consider UsdLuxLights (#1276).

Breaking Changes

• PerlinNoise/Turbulence : Removed. We recommend OpenShadingLanguage's liboslnoise instead (#1269).
• OpenImageIO : Updated required version to 2.3 (#1246, #1230).
• Alembic : Dropped support for Alembic versions prior to 1.6 (#1240).
• IECoreGL : Removed PerspectiveCamera.h header. The implementation was already removed in a Cortex 10.1.0.0 (#1241).
• StringAlgo : Removed join() (#1221).

Build

• Updated IE options file to support Nuke 13.x custom dependencies (#1263).

Cortex 10.3.7.0

Improvements

• IECoreGL :
  • Buffer : Added buffer() method, which returns the OpenGL buffer handle (#1272).
  • Primitive : Added getVertexBuffer() and getVertexCount() methods (#1272).

Fixes

• IECoreUSD :
  • SceneCacheFileFormat : Added support for IECore::Object references when determining primvar type (#1280).

Cortex 10.4.0.0a6

Improvements

• USDScene : Added support for reading and writing purpose-based material bindings (#1273).
• IECoreGL::Shader : Added support for buffer samplers (#1264).
• Adopted stricter default compilation flags (#1266).

Fixes

• PointDistribution : Fixed inconsistent distributions between MacOS and Linux. The Linux distribution is now used on all platforms (#1269).
• Fixed compilation with C++17 (#1269, #1265).
• IECoreGL : Fixed build errors on MacOS (#1271).

Breaking Changes

• PerlinNoise/Turbulence : Removed. We recommend OpenShadingLanguage's liboslnoise instead (#1269).

Cortex 10.4.0.0a5

Note : Changes marked with "(RB-10.3)" don't need to be mentioned in the release notes for the final release version of 10.4.0.0. They are all inherited from RB-10.3.

Build

• Update IE options file to support Nuke 13.x custom dependencies (#1263).

Cortex 10.4.0.0a4

Note : Changes marked with "(RB-10.3)" don't need to be mentioned in the release notes for the final release version of 10.4.0.0. They are all inherited from RB-10.3.

Fixes

• USDScene : Fixed read/write of Color4f parameters, including component connections (RB-10.3).
• ShaderNetworkAlgo : Added support for Color4f parameters in add|removeComponentConnectionAdapters() (RB-10.3).

Cortex 10.3.6.1

Fixes

• USDScene : Fixed read/write of Color4f parameters, including component connections.
• ShaderNetworkAlgo : Added support for Color4f parameters in add|removeComponentConnectionAdapters().

Cortex 10.4.0.0 alpha 3

Improvements

• USDScene :
  • Added basic support for loading UsdLux lights (#1256).
  • Registered .usdz file format.
  • USDScene : Added support for the doubleSided attribute.
• IECoreGL::Shader : Added support for integer sampler parameters (#1261).

Cortex 10.3.6.0

Improvements

• USDScene : Added support for the doubleSided attribute.