Gaffer 1.3.2.0

Features

• LightTool : Added manipulator for quad lights.
• Collect : Added a utility node for collecting the values of arbitrary inputs across a range of contexts.

Improvements

• Viewer :
  • Added visualisation of light filters for USD lights.
  • Added support for USD lights and shaders in the floating inspector panel.
  • Improved support for looking through USD spot lights.
• ShaderTweaks/ShaderQuery : Added presets for USD light and surface shaders.
• Test app :
  • The -category argument now accepts a space-separated list of categories, optionally containing wildcards.
  • Added -excludedCategories and -showCategories arguments.
  • Added information about performance test timings to the output stream.
• LightToCamera : Added support for USD spot lights.

Fixes

• Viewer :
  • Fixed crash when visualising lights with a light filter intended for a different renderer.
  • Fixed visualisation of Cycles point light size.
  • Fixed visualisation of Arnold light gobo textures with scaled UV coordinates.
• Arnold :
  • Fixed screen window export for Lentil cameras.
  • Fixed writing of image metadata for empty strings and strings containing spaces. This fixes the malformed line "string 'gaffer:context:ocio:config'" warning.
• Application : Fixed the -threads argument to clamp the number of threads to the number of available hardware cores (#5403).
• CompareFloat, CompareColor, CompareVector : Worked around crashes in OSL's batched shading system (#5430).
• PlugValueWidget : Fixed search for auxiliary plugs of output plugs. In this case, the inputs are now searched instead of the outputs.
• GafferUI : Fixed TableView bug causing the horizontal scrollbar to potentially overlap the last row (#5328).
• Dispatch App : Fixed bug that prevented setting specific dispatcher plug values from the command line (#5434).

API

• ThreadMonitor : Added new class for tracking the threads used to perform processes.
• PlugAlgo : Added findSource() method.
• TestRunner :
  • Added CategorisedTestMethod decorator used to assign categories to test methods.
  • Added categories() static method to return the list of available categories in a test suite.
  • Added filterCategories() static method to skip tests according to included and excluded categories.

Documentation

• Removed release notes for versions prior to 1.0.0.0.