Gaffer 1.4.3.0

Features

• 3Delight : Added "3Delight Cloud" renderer, for rendering using the 3Delight cloud.

Improvements

• Arnold : If it exists, an ai:volume attribute is preferred over an ai:surface attribute when resolving shaders for volumes.
• Cycles :
  • Updated the UI of Cycles shaders and lights for ease of use and to match Blender conventions.
  • Hide certain parameters based on UI selections.
  • Renamed and reordered parameters and created sections to match Blender.
  • Changed all the Cycles items in the Gaffer tab menu to title case.
• PythonCommand : Added standard popup menu to command widget in NodeEditor.

Fixes

• Arnold :
  • Fixed rendering of ai:volume shaders loaded from USD (#5830).
  • Renamed Arnold/Globals/Imager menu option to Arnold/Globals/Imagers so that the actual ArnoldImager node menu option wasn't overwritten.
• CodeWidget : Fixed errors handling highlights which spanned more than one line, such as triple-quoted strings in the PythonEditor.
• NodeEditor : Fixed broken layouts caused by computation errors in plugs used by section summaries.
• ColorChooserPlugValueWidget : Fixed bug that allowed the editing of locked plugs and nodes.

API

• SceneAlgo : Added mechanism for scoping render adaptors to specific clients and/or renderers.

Build

• Fixed issue where gaffer wrapper may not exist when calling usdGenSchema from a clean build.