Gaffer 1.4.0.0b5

[johnhaddon]

Improvements

• LightPositionTool : The tool is now only visible for members of the __lights set, instead of all objects.
• Catalogue : Added imageNames output plug, containing the names of all images in the Catalogue. Among other things this can be used to drive a Wedge or ContactSheet node and a CatalogueSelect.
• Render, InteractiveRender : Added resolvedRenderer plug, which outputs the name of the renderer that will be used, taking into account the influence of the render:defaultRenderer option ¹.

Fixes

• PlugAlgo : Updated canSetValueFromData(), setValueFromData() and getValueAsData() with support for missing types.
• LightPositionTool : Fixed lingering shadow pivot point after placing a shadow pivot, switching to highlight mode and switching back to shadow mode ¹.
• Catalogue :
  • Fixed undo for image reordering via drag & drop.
  • Fixed bugs caused by reordering images using GraphComponent::reorderChildren().
• InteractiveRender : Fixed context used to evaluate scene globals when renderer is set to "Default" ¹.
• Instancer : Fixed handling of unindexed primvars in RootPerVertex mode ¹.
• ImageGadget :
  • Fixed loading of 2 channel images ¹.
  • Fixed error message to include filename ¹.
• Expression : setExpression() now respects configs that provide backwards compatibility for old plug names.
• Shuffle : Fixed default name for plugs constructed via the legacy ChannelPlug( out, in ) constructor ¹.
• ImageReader :
  • Fixed loading of OpenEXR images with 32 bit float data and DWA compression ¹.
  • Fixed loading of secondary layers in OpenEXR images with DWA compression ¹.
• GUI : Fixed potential crashes during shutdown ¹.
• ScriptNode : Fixed execution of multi-line if : statements in .gfr files ¹.
• ArnoldShader : Fixed startup errors caused by unknown values in widget metadata ¹.

API

• TypedObjectPlug : Added Python bindings for the default values of the defaultValue constructor argument.
• Box2fVectorDataPlug : Added new plug type for storing arrays of Box2f.
• Catalogue : Deprecated image:index metadata.

Breaking Changes

• StandardLightVisualiser : Added attributeName argument to surfaceTexture() virtual method.

Build

• OpenEXR : Applied patches from the following pull requests :
  • Fix issue with decompressing fp32 dwa files AcademySoftwareFoundation/openexr#1591
  • Fix typo causing prefix len to be wrong AcademySoftwareFoundation/openexr#1684

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This discussion was created from the release Gaffer 1.4.0.0b5.

Footnotes

1. To be omitted from final release notes for 1.4.0.0. ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸ ↩⁹ ↩¹⁰ ↩¹¹ ↩¹²