Release Gaffer 1.3.2.0 · GafferHQ/gaffer

Features

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

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.

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).

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.