Gaffer 1.3.10.0

[johnhaddon]

Features

• LightPositionTool : Added tool to the scene viewer to place shadows. With a light selected, holding Shift + V and clicking on geometry will set the pivot point used for casting a shadow. Holding V and clicking sets the point to receive the shadow. The light is repositioned to be the same distance from the pivot, along the pivot-shadow point line, and oriented to face the shadow point.

Improvements

• ArnoldShader, ArnoldColorManager, CyclesShader : Improved browsers for file parameters (Feature request: bookmarks in all file browser windows #5592, Add bookmarks menu to CyclesShaderUI.py #5602) :
  • Added filtering by extension.
  • Added bookmarks.
• USDLight : Added file browser for shaping:ies:file parameter.
• OpenColorIOContext : Added file browser for config plug.
• Layouts : Added the ability to load layouts containing editors that aren't currently available. This allows layouts containing new editors introduced in Gaffer 1.4 to be loaded in Gaffer 1.3.
• TranslateTool, RotateTool : Added tooltip to the upper left corner of the Viewer explaining how to use the target modes.
• LightTool : Changed the color of the non-highlighted handles to orange and the highlighted handles to cyan for consistency with other highlight colors.
• Outputs : Variable substitutions are now applied to gaffer:context:* image metadata values. This is needed when the value of a context variable contains references to other variables, with the default value for project:rootDirectory being one example.

Fixes

• Arnold : Fixed translation of USD uchar attributes and shader parameters.
• Orientation/Instancer : Now normalizes unnormalized quaternion inputs - this allows correctly processing files with primvars that contain unnormalized quaternions ( which it is possible to write from Houdini ).

API

• EditScopeAlgo : Added support for editing options for a specific render pass.
• ArnoldShaderUI : Added support for Gaffer filebrowser metadata in Arnold .mtd files. The following fields are supported, and correspond directly to the metadata documented on the PathPlugValueWidget and FileSystemPathPlugValueWidget :
  • path:leaf
  • path:valid
  • path:bookmarks
  • fileSystemPath:extensions
  • fileSystemPath:extensionsLabel

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This discussion was created from the release Gaffer 1.3.10.0.