Catharsys 3.2.29

The latest version with many bug fixes and additional features. Here is a list of the main changes:

• ISON Language

  • Bug fix: the function $rand.generator{} now generates consistent seeds from string and float values.
  • The node names in the __platform__ blocks, now allow for wildcards, i.e. '*' for any number of characters
    and '?' for a single character.
  • The parsing speed has been improved by avoiding some deep copies in the code. For example, local variables are now pushed to a stack when entering nested dictionaries, instead of doing a deep copy.

• Configuration Generation

  • Bug fix: The variable ${path-trg} and ${rel-path-trg} are now generated correctly also for configurations that at a lower manifest loop level.
  • The configuration generation has been sped up by improving the parsing speed itself, as well as the processing of manifest based configuration setups.

• Ground Truth

  • Optical flow ground truth estimation has been improved.
  • Optical flow output is now black in background areas for LUT cameras and standard Blender cameras.
  • When generating ground truth label with a LUT camera, the LUT file is now stored at the top level production
    folder and not with the image file. This reduces the amount of storage space needed.
  • User defined label shader are now adapted automatically to using an emission or diffusion shader depending on the camera used. For example, a LUT camera must use emission shaders, while Blender native cameras can use a diffusion shader.

• Render Actions

  • adds support for EEVEE settings via configuration file. You can choose the render engine via the render settings config. In the new EEVEE settings config, the render quality etc. can be set.

• Post-Processing Actions

  • New focus blur action, that uses the depth ground truth to generate a depth-of-field effect.
  • New motion blur action, that uses the flow ground truth to generate a motion blur effect.

• Modifiers

  • Modifier blender/generate/collection/import/folder-type-hierarchy:1
    • can now also import .fbx, .glb and .gltf files,
    • has new option bJoinObjectGroups to optionally join all objects imported from a file into a single object,
    • has new option lIncludeFileSuffix to optionally set a list of file types to import. Default is all file types.

• System

  • the command cathy code init now also sets the flag git.alwaysSignOff to always add a signed-off-by text to the commit message.
  • the command cathy repos release now adds the 'signed-off-by' text in addition to GPG signing commits.
  • the set of paths used to search for the conda-hook.ps1 script on windows systems is extended to include the local app data path, and Miniconda3 as well as Anaconda3 installs. If nothing works, you can set the path to the Anaconda install with the new environment variable CATHARSYS_CONDA_PATH. If this environment variable is set, it is the
    only path the system looks for the conda hook script.