Gaffer 1.6.12.0

[murraystevenson]

Improvements

• RenderManShader :
  • Defined pass-through behaviour for LamaAdd, LamaLayer and LamaMix. When disabled, these now pass through the material1 input (materialBase for LamaLayer). Note that this will change the rendered look of shading networks where such shaders were previously disabled.
  • Improved default visibility of shader parameters in the Graph Editor, showing only the most commonly used parameters for the most common shaders.
• SceneInspector : Added inspection of shader networks in options and global attributes. Examples include RenderMan display filters and Arnold background shaders.
• Menu : Added checks for reference cycles, emitting warnings if any are found.

Fixes

• RenderManDisplayFilter, RenderManSampleFilter :
  • Fixed handling of dedicated XPU filters implemented in OSL.
  • Fixed missing NPRnormals AOV required by PxrStylizedLines.
• PythonEditor : Fixed reference cycle in "Execute" menu item.

API

• Shader : Pass-throughs may now be defined by registering correspondingInput metadata against a {shaderType}:{shaderName}:{outputName} target.

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This discussion was created from the release Gaffer 1.6.12.0.