Gaffer 1.5.12.0

[murraystevenson]

Improvements

• RenderMan : Added light linking support.
• Cycles : Added light linking support.
• VisualiserTool : Added new visualisation for orientation (Quatf) data.
• PrimitiveInspector : Changed column order for quaternions to match Imath's conventions.
• AttributeEditor : Improved widgets used for editing linkedLights and filteredLights attributes.
• Viewer : Improved light linking performance.

Fixes

• RenderMan UI : Fixed various metadata-related problems :
  • PxrUnified, PxrBarnLightFilter, PxrCookieLightFilter, PxrRodLightFilter : Hid unwanted inputs in the GraphEditor.
  • PxrCookieLightFilter : Added button for reloading the map.
  • PxrSurface, PxrLayerSurface : Moved utilityPattern parameter to "Globals" section.
  • Fixed formatting of parameter tooltips, and Node Reference descriptions.
• RenderManShader :
  • Fixed export of struct connections to USD, including connections to PxrTexture.manifold.
  • Fixed loading of C++ pattern shaders such as aaOceanPrmanShader.
  • Fixed compatibility with ShaderTweakProxy.
• ShaderTweaks : Fixed error when selecting an array element to tweak, such as utilityPattern[0] in a PxrSurface shader (Allow ShaderTweaks to modify utilityPattern array for Renderman's PxrSurface #6383).
• CompoundVectorParameterValueWidget : Fixed being unable to edit certain parameters when there were too many, by adding a horizontal scroll bar.

API

• ShaderUI : Added support for automatically looking up metadata registered to {shaderType}:{shaderName}:{parameterName} metadata targets.
• USDLight : Added support for userDefault metadata registered to light:{lightName}:{parameterName}.

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This discussion was created from the release Gaffer 1.5.12.0.