Gaffer 1.7.0.0 alpha 3

[johnhaddon]

Features

• FlamencoDispatcher : Added a new node for sending tasks to Blender's Flamenco render farm manager.
• PrimitiveQuery : Added a new node for querying a primitive's type and variable sizes.
• FileList : Added node for listing matching files.
• DeleteFiles : Added node for deleting files.
• CopyFiles : Added node for copying files.
• RenameFiles : Added node for renaming files.

Fixes

• SceneInspector : Fixed Interpolation field for primitive variables that don't exist. Previously it said "Invalid", and now it shows nothing.
• Renderer API : Added missing Renderer.inl header file.
• NodeGadget : Fixed usage of instanceCreatedSignal() with NodeGadgets implemented in Python ¹.

API

• Image : Added updateImage() method.

Build

• Cortex : Updated to version 10.7.0.0a11.

Breaking Changes

• SceneReader : Removed ./ prefix from relative prototype paths loaded from USD files.
• Instancer : Defaulted GAFFERSCENE_INSTANCER_EXPLICIT_ABSOLUTE_PATHS to 1, as required by SceneReader's updated handling of relative USD prototypes. The environment variable may be removed in future.

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This discussion was created from the release Gaffer 1.7.0.0 alpha 3.

Footnotes

1. Fix for bug introduced in 1.7.0.0a1, so should be omitted from final 1.7.0.0 release notes. ↩