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@andrewkaufman andrewkaufman released this 15 Dec 20:05
· 14616 commits to main since this release
0.20.0.0
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Apps

  • Added support for choosing the debugger used via a new GAFFER_DEBUGGER
    environment variable.

Core

  • Improved ContextProcessor performance. This shaved 10% off the startup
    time for a complex render (#1573).
  • Added framesPerSecond plug to ScriptNode. This provides user-level
    control over the frame rate for each script (#1576).
  • Fixed hang triggered by deletion of a plug during computation
    (#1576, #1580).

Dispatch

  • Moved all dispatch functionality from Gaffer module into a new
    GafferDispatch module. Backwards compatibility is provided by
    config files, but it is recommended that code be updated to use
    GafferDispatch directly (#1577).
  • Renamed "requirements" plug to "preTasks" and "requirement" plug
    to "task". Again, backwards compatibility is provided by a config
    file, but it is recommended that code be updated to use the new
    names (#1577).
  • Added "postTasks". These are nodes that are executed following another
    node, even if they are not explicitly included in the list of nodes
    to dispatch (#1577).
  • Added "dispatcher.immediate" plug to all executable nodes. This
    causes the node to be executed immediately in the current process
    when dispatched (#1577).
  • Removed "dispatcher.local.executeInForeground" plug - use the new
    "dispatcher.immediate" plug instead (#1577).
  • Added sequence support to PythonCommand node. This causes the command
    to be called once for all frames, instead of once per frame (#1578).
  • Fixed bug which could cause all frames downstream of pass-through
    nodes (like TaskList and TaskContextVariables) to depend on all
    upstream frames (#1577).
  • Fixed detection of direct dependency cycles (#1577).

Image

  • Crop
    • Added option to crop to a specific format, optionally centered (#1570).
  • Fixed crashes triggered by images with empty data windows (#1575).
  • Improved ImageWriter to write out images progressively as the input
    image is generated (#1517). This improved speed by 65% and memory usage
    by 60% when generating a 10K image.

Scene

  • Lights are now represented as attributes at a location rather than as
    objects. This allows lights for multiple different renderers to exist
    at the same location, allows the creation of area lights, and provides
    the necessary support for using shader networks within lights in the
    future (#1590).
  • Shader nodes now support the loading of light shaders (#1590).
  • Added metadata support for specifying the orientation of lights
    in the renderer (#1590).

RenderMan

  • Fixed crash when reloading coshader arrays.

UI

  • Improved viewport visualisation of lights (#1590, #11).
  • Added workaround for PySide bug which prevented stylesheets from
    working as expected (#1574).
  • Improved error reporting for failed dispatches (#1593).
  • Fixed graphical glitch in OpDialogue error icon (#1593).

API

  • ImageAlgo
    • Added parallelProcessTiles and parallelGather tiles functions
      to facilitate easy parallel processing of images (#1517).
  • BufferAlgo
    • Moved image window methods from ImageAlgo (#1517).
  • Format
    • Fixed space conversions for empty boxes (#1575).
  • TestCase
    • Improved output for assertTypeNamesArePrefixed() failures.
  • Dispatch
    • Renamed requirements -> preTasks
    • Added LoggingExecutableNode to GafferDispatchTest. This
      facilitates easier testing of dispatchers.
  • SceneUI
    • Added ObjectVisualiser and AttributeVisualiser base classes
      to support custom representations of objects and attributes
      within the viewport (#1590).
  • Metadata
    • Added methods for adding and querying non-node values (#1590).

Build

  • Added CXXSTD argument to SConstruct. Pass CXXSTD=c++11 to build
    with C++11 support (#1586).
  • Added testing with GCC 4.8 and C++11 to Travis test setup (#1586).
  • Updated Cortex version to 9.5.0 (minimum requirement is 9.3.0).

Incompatibilities

  • Removed "dispatcher.local.executeInForeground" plug - use the new
    "dispatcher.immediate" plug instead.
  • Moved image window methods from ImageAlgo.h into BufferAlgo.h.
  • Lights are now represented as attributes rather than as objects (#1590).
  • The Parameters node no longer works for lights (#1590).
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