Gaffer 1.2.1.0

[murraystevenson]

Features

• SetEditor : Added a new editor UI for inspecting sets. This can be found in the tab next to the SceneInspector in the Standard layouts. Sets are displayed hierarchically using ":" characters in set names as separators.
• ImageToPoints : Added a new node for converting images to points primitives.
• MeshSplit : Added node for splitting a mesh into multiple meshes based on the values of a primitive variable. May be combined with the recently added MeshSegments to split meshes into connected parts.

Improvements

• USD : Added translation of UsdUVTexture's scale, bias and fallback parameters to Arnold.
• StringPlugValueWidget : Added support for converting StringVectorData values pasted or dropped onto the widget. The string value is formed by joining the string array using spaces.
• Spreadsheet : Improved support for converting StringVectorData to StringData when dropping values on cells. The string value is formed by joining the string array using spaces.
• CompoundPathFilter : Canceller is now passed to member filters.
• PathListingWidget : Improved performance when sorting items based on the name column.
• Scene : Improved performance computing the bounding box for a primitive.
• aiQuadLight : Added width and height parameters.

Fixes

• Locale :
  • Reintroduced LC_NUMERIC=C environment variable assignment to wrapper. This was removed in 1.2.0.0 but is still necessary due to a bug in Cortex.
  • Fixed serialisation of .gfr files in locales with non-default numeric formatting (No (3D)Viewer in 1.2.0.0+ #5158).
• Tweak nodes : Fixed bugs which prevented the creation of new tweaks when an existing tweak had an input connection.
• Preferences : Fixed bug which caused UI metadata to be serialised unnecessarily into ~/gaffer/startup/gui/preferences.py.
• OpenGL Texture shader : Fixed bug which allowed transparent regions to obscure objects behind them.
• Viewer :
  • Fixed visualisation of Arnold image nodes with non-default UV Coordinates settings.
  • Fixed Arnold selection bugs caused by the ai:fis_filter option.
• SceneReader : Invalid primitive variables in USD files are now skipped during loading, with a warning being emitted instead.
• DeleteFaces : Fixed sudivision crease handling bug.
• USD RectLight : Fixed the orientation of textures applied to the light to be oriented with the top-left of the image at the top-left of the quad light when viewed from an object receiving illumination.

Documentation

• Added more Python examples to the Scripting Reference "Common Operations" article.
• Added instructions for installing and configuring Gaffer on Windows to the "Getting Started" guide.

API

• RGBAChannelsPlugValueWidget : Added support for rgbaChannelsPlugValueWidget:allowNone metadata.

Build

• Cortex : Updated to version 10.4.6.0.
• Added support for Inkscape versions greater than 1.0.

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This discussion was created from the release Gaffer 1.2.1.0.