Cortex 10.4.0.0

Improvements

• USDScene :
  • Added support for reading and writing purpose-based material bindings (#1273).
  • Added basic support for loading UsdLux lights (#1256).
• IECoreGL::Shader :
  • Added support for buffer samplers (#1264).
  • Added support for integer sampler parameters (#1261).
• Adopted stricter default compilation flags (#1266).
• IECoreUSD : Added support for version 22.03 (#1245).
• IECoreMaya : Added support for Maya 2022 and Python 3 (#1235).
• IECoreNuke : Added support for Python 3 (#1238).
• IECoreHoudini : Added support for Houdini 19 and Python 3 (#1242).
• Python : Added support for Python 3.9 in addition to 3.7 (#1229).

Fixes

• PointDistribution : Fixed inconsistent distributions between MacOS and Linux. The Linux distribution is now used on all platforms (#1269).
• Fixed compilation with C++17 (#1269, #1265).
• IECoreGL : Fixed build errors on MacOS (#1271).
• USDScene :
  • Fixed loading of asset paths containing <UDIM> tokens (#1274).
  • Fixed attributesHash() to consider UsdLuxLights (#1276).

Breaking Changes

• PerlinNoise/Turbulence : Removed. We recommend OpenShadingLanguage's liboslnoise instead (#1269).
• OpenImageIO : Updated required version to 2.3 (#1246, #1230).
• Alembic : Dropped support for Alembic versions prior to 1.6 (#1240).
• IECoreGL : Removed PerspectiveCamera.h header. The implementation was already removed in a Cortex 10.1.0.0 (#1241).
• StringAlgo : Removed join() (#1221).

Build

• Updated IE options file to support Nuke 13.x custom dependencies (#1263).