Version 9.1.0

IECoreAppleseed

• Support renderer type prefixes in Renderer::light().

IECoreArnold

• Support renderer type prefixes in Renderer::light().

IECoreRI

• Support renderer type prefixes in Renderer::light().

IECoreMaya

• Fixed crash when zooming in on coordinate systems in scene shapes

Build

• 3delight display drivers and procedurals now installed to compiler specific locations at IE

Version 9.0.0

Full change list for 9.0.0

IECore

• Renamed GeometricData::Interpretation::Numeric to GeometricData::Interpretation::None, so that it makes sense as a deafult for non-numeric types.
  • GeometricData::Interpretation::Numeric still exists for compatibility.
• Added DataAlgo.h with setDataInterpretation() and getDataInterpretation().
• Fixed shutdown crashes with ScopedGILLock (as seen in Gaffer 0.14.0.0)
• Added a new magic number for JPG compatibility
• Storing the bounding box in .cob headers if the object is a VisibleRenderable.
• TransformOp now takes a copy of the data before altering it.
• GCC 4.8 compatibility.
• Boost 1.55.0 compatibility.
• TBB 4.3 compatibility.
• Fixed thread safety bug in BlindDataHolder::blindData()
• Fixed PointsPrimitive::bound() to account the width or aspect ratio of the points.
• Made MurmurHash::append() an inline function
• Added IECore::ClippingPlane object
• Set __file__ when loading configs
• Emitting a debug message for each config file loaded
• Added implicit conversion from python datetime to DateTimeData.
• Linked scenes no longer return duplicate tags
• Removed SimpleSubsurface
• Removed Marschner code
• Removed HitMissTransform
• Removed TypeInfoCmp
• Removed UniformRandomPointDistributionOp
• Removed MappedRandomPointDistributionOp
• Removed AttributeCache
• Removed InterpolatedCache
• Removed spherical harmonics code
• Removed FileExampiners
• Improved MurmurHash performance
• Fixed GILReleasePtr crash.
• Adding the export macros for proper exporting of symbols.
• Optimised Object::memoryUsage()
• Fixed GIL bug in python Object creation
• Added implementation of tbb_hasher for boost::intrusive_ptr
• TIFFImageReader now checks if the tif is tagged as coming from tdlmake, and if so, sets the sourceColorSpace from the image description set by tdlmake.
• Reduced overhead of calling memoryUsage() on SimpleTypedData.
• Added pixelAspectRatio to list of standard camera parameters.
• Added InternedString( const char *, size_t length ) constructor.
• Multithreaded PointSmoothSkinningOp
• Added ExternalProcedural object type
• Added HasBaseType type trait
• Added boost::hash compatibility for MurmurHash
• LinkedScene::hash now takes extra children at links into account
• Bug fix in StreamIndexedIO that was causing sporadic crashes when loading SceneCaches during procedural expansion.
• Fixed some minor bounding box bugs in IECore.SceneCache
• Child bounds can now dilate bounds explicitly specified using IECore.SceneCache.writeBound()
• IECore.LinkedScene now supports extra children at link locations
• Fixed TransformOp double transform bug
• Added SceneInterface::hash() method.
• Improved ConfigLoader.
  • Now executes files within the same directory in alphabetical order.
  • Added subdirectory argument.
  • Env var accepted in place of search path.
• Made RefCounted bindings release the GIL during C++ destruction.
• Changed RefCounted base class binding to use GILReleasePtr too.
• Replaced IECore::IntrusivePtr with boost::intrusive_ptr.
• Removed staticPointerCast, constPointerCast and dynamicPointerCast.
• Fixed crash in MeshMergeOp.
• Fixed mutex acquisition in LRUCache::updateListPosition().
• PointSmoothSkinningOp handles faceVarying normals and added refIndices parameter
• Changed DespatchedTypedData DataPtr & argument to Data *
• Fixed LRUCache hangs.
• Simplified RefCounted bindings.
• Fixed LRUCache crashes where clear() was called concurrently with get().
• Added IECorePython::CastToIntrusivePtr.
• Added from-python conversion of RunTimeTypedClass to IECore::TypeId
• Removed implicit surface functionality
• Removed BGEO and BIN readers/writers.
• Removed IFFHairReader.
• Fixed EXRImageReader canRead to accept scanline images.
• Improved speed of InternedString( int64_t ).
• Tidied up LRUCache

IECoreMaya

• FromMayaCameraConverter now accounts for pixelAspectRatio.
• Maya 2016 compile fixes for gcc 4.8
• Fixed FromMayaCameraConverter to account for non-zero film offsets.
• ToMayaCameraConverter now supports setting the film offset using blindData on the Camera.
• Maya 2016 compatibility.
• SceneShapeUI::select now returns false when polygons aren't being displayed in the viewport.
• Added a mutex inside IECoreMaya::LiveScene::hasAttribute()
• Only allow selection using the bounding box if the box is visible
• Latest registered custom attribute reader now takes precedence in IECoreMaya.LiveScene
• On transform nodes, plugs with names prefixed by "ieAttr_" are now translated into "user:" attributes by the IECoreMaya.LiveScene
• String attributes called "ieTags" on transform nodes now interpreted as a space separated list of tags
• Fixed ieSceneShape component selection bug.
• Fixed crash when expanding ieSceneShapes containing coordinate systems.
• Fixed coordinate system->maya locator converter crash for coordinate system with no transform
• Fixed crash in SceneShape::hasSceneShapeObject for invalid scene
• Stopped IECoreMaya::LiveScene::readObject() returning null pointers.
• Stopped IECoreMaya::LiveScene::readAttribute() returning null pointers.
• Renamed IECoreMaya::MayaScene to IECoreMaya::LiveScene
• MayaScene bindings now catch boost python exceptions
• Fixed MayaScene for reading scene:visible and custom attributes at the root

IECoreHoudini

• Fixed issue exporting string attributes when Houdini reports an extra null string in the detail.
• Added support for converting quaternions to and from Houdini.
• Houdini 14 compatibility.
• SceneCacheNodes have a new "Full Path Name" parm which creates an attrib for the full path for each shape (default is off).
• Latest registered custom attribute reader now takes precedence in IECoreHoudini.LiveScene
• ToHoudiniGeometryConverter marks Pref and rest as non-transforming
• Preventing SceneCache Source from transforming rest/Pref
• Renamed IECoreHoudini::HoudiniScene to IECoreHoudini::LiveScene

IECoreAlembic

• Fixed bug where face sets were treated as children.
• Adding the export macros for proper exporting of symbols.
• Added support for the Ogawa backend into IECoreAlembic.

IECoreGL

• Fixed radius of spheres rendered by IECoreGL::PointsPrimitive.
• Wireframe shading uses Cs instead of vertexCs
• Added mip mapping to ColorTexture.
• Added ToGLSphereConverter.
• Adding the export macros for proper exporting of symbols.
• Added support for setting array uniforms in shader parameters
• Added State::ScopedBinding overload, allowing a binding to be ignored
• Changed IECoreGL::HitRecord::name field from InternedString to GLuint
• Added IECoreGL::Selector::loadName() overload to auto-generates names
• Removed TextureUnits.h
• Added python bindings for CurvesPrimitive
• Added python bindings for smoothing state components
• Added ToGLStateConverter for converting attributes to State objects
• Fixed crash in ShaderStateComponent::addParametersToShaderSetup()
• Switched glsl diffuse and specular functions to match 3delight's properly normalized BRDFS
• Removed deprecated IECoreGL::Selector::loadIDShader() method.
• Added IECoreGL::Selector::postProjectionMatrix() method.

IECoreRI

• Primitive variable types in RI now set from the prim var interpretation. Type hints now ignored.
• Changed SXExecutor parameter interpretation.
• SLOReader sets geometric interpretation on parameters.
• ParameterList makes use of geometric interpretation when available.
• Several IECoreRI::shader() optimizations
• Added clipping plane support to IECoreRI::Renderer
• Added IECoreRI support for DoubleData, V3dData and Color3dData attributes
• Adding the export macros for proper exporting of symbols.
• Automatic instancing now defaults to on
• Fixed precision issue with computing the projection matrix for dsm depth remapping, which was causing deep holdout problems.
• Fixed bug when editing cameras when dealing with multiple cameras.
• Added pixel aspect ratio support to IECoreRI::Renderer.
• Fixed argument passing for RiProcDynamicLoad.
• Added support for DynamicLoad and DelayedReadArchive procedurals
• Added support for RiFrame blocks in IECoreRI::Renderer.
• Added support for camera edits to IECoreRI::Renderer.
• Added support for motion blurred cameras to IECoreRI::Renderer.
• Added support for multiple cameras to IECoreRI::Renderer.
• Removed "transform" parameter from IECoreRI::Renderer::camera().
• Removed support for hider parameters in IECoreRI::Renderer::camera(). â�¦
• IECoreRI now built for all python versions
• added M44dData attribute support to IECoreRI::Renderer

IECoreArnold

• Adding the export macros for proper exporting of symbols.
• Added pixel aspect ratio support to IECoreArnold::Renderer.
• Added support for delayed load DSO and .ass procedurals

IECoreAppleseed

• Added support for shading overrides.
• Added mesh tangents and motion normals.
  • Mesh tangents (primitive variable uTangent) are now exported to appleseed meshes.
  • Time varying tangents and normals for primitives with deformation blur are now exported if appleseed supports them (since version 1.2.0).
• Fixed a warning message in ToAppleseedMeshConverter.
• Added support for interactive non-editable final rendering.
• Fixed appleseed error while binding inputs of object instances.
• Various options changes:
  • Set decorrelate_pixels automatically depending on render passes.
  • If the rendering_threads option is zero, use all CPU cores for rendering.
  • If the as:cfg:pt:max_ray_intensity is zero, disable max intensity clamping.
  • Disable max number of bounces for max_path_length options set to zero.
  • Check the type of the Data passed to setOption before accessing it.
• Camera, transformation, deformation motion blur support.
• Lights can now be turned on and off.
• Interactive rendering support.
• Added support for the photon target attribute.
• Added support for orthographic cameras.
• Added an appleseed log handler that uses MessageHandler to log messages.
• Refactored IECore primitive to appleseed ent...

Version 9.0.0-b9

IECore

• Fixed shutdown crashes with ScopedGILLock (as seen in Gaffer 0.14.0.0)

Version 9.0.0-b8

IECore

• Added a new magic number for JPG compatibility

IECoreMaya

• Maya 2016 compile fixes for gcc 4.8

IECoreAlembic

• Fixed bug where face sets were treated as children.

IECoreRI

• Changed SXExecutor parameter interpretation.

IECoreAppleseed

• Added support for interactive non-editable final rendering.

Version 9.0.0-b7

IECore

• Storing the bounding box in .cob headers if the object is a VisibleRenderable.
• TransformOp now takes a copy of the data before altering it.
• GCC 4.8 compatibility.
• Boost 1.55.0 compatibility.
• TBB 4.3 compatibility.

IECoreMaya

• Fixed FromMayaCameraConverter to account for non-zero film offsets.
• ToMayaCameraConverter now supports setting the film offset using blindData on the Camera.
• Maya 2016 compatibility.

IECoreHoudini

• Fixed issue exporting string attributes when Houdini reports an extra null string in the detail.
• Added support for converting quaternions to and from Houdini.
• Houdini 14 compatibility.

IECoreRI

• SLOReader sets geometric interpretation on parameters.
• ParameterList makes use of geometric interpretation when available.

IECoreAppleseed

• Fixed appleseed error while binding inputs of object instances.
• Various options changes:
  • Set decorrelate_pixels automatically depending on render passes.
  • If the rendering_threads option is zero, use all CPU cores for rendering.
  • If the as:cfg:pt:max_ray_intensity is zero, disable max intensity clamping.
  • Disable max number of bounces for max_path_length options set to zero.
  • Check the type of the Data passed to setOption before accessing it.

Version 9.0.0-b6

IECore

• Fixed thread safety bug in BlindDataHolder::blindData()

Version 9.0.0-b5

IECore

• Fixed PointsPrimitive::bound() to account the width or aspect ratio of the points.
• Made MurmurHash::append() an inline function

IECoreMaya

• SceneShapeUI::select now returns false when polygons aren't being displayed in the viewport.

IECoreHoudini

• SceneCacheNodes have a new "Full Path Name" parm which creates an attrib for the full path for each shape (default is off).

IECoreGL

• Fixed radius of spheres rendered by IECoreGL::PointsPrimitive.

IECoreAppleseed

• Camera, transformation, deformation motion blur support.
• Lights can now be turned on and off.
• Interactive rendering support.
• Added support for the photon target attribute.
• Added support for orthographic cameras.
• Added an appleseed log handler that uses MessageHandler to log messages.

Version 9.0.0-b4

IECore

• Added IECore::ClippingPlane object
• Set __file__ when loading configs
• Emitting a debug message for each config file loaded

IECoreMaya

• Added a mutex inside IECoreMaya::LiveScene::hasAttribute()

IECoreGL

• Wireframe shading uses Cs instead of vertexCs

IECoreRI

• Several IECoreRI::shader() optimizations
• Added clipping plane support to IECoreRI::Renderer

IECoreAppleseed

• Refactored IECore primitive to appleseed entities conversions code.
• Simplified IECoreAppleseed::RendererImplementation.
• Use appleseed object alpha maps instead of material alpha maps.
• Fixed a bug when trying to render a scene without cameras.
• Use the names set with setAttribute to name the appleseed entities in generated appleseed scene files.
• Highlight regions being rendered in the interactive display driver. Useful when doing multipass rendering.
• Small refactors in the display driver code.
• Removed some unused headers and other formatting changes.
• Camera and transformation motion blur support
• Added as:automatic_instancing option to enable / disable auto-instancing.
• Better error handling for as:mesh_file_format option
• Better error handling for searchpath option. Added automatic_instancing option
• Support for appleseed 1.1.2
• Fixed bug when connecting members of stuct parameters in OSL shaders.
• Added photon target attribute for objects
• PrimitiveConverter interface changes. Changed the way hashes are computed in IECoreAppleseed.
• Fixed assembly instance names when generating appleseed projects.

9.0.0-b3

IECore

• Added implicit conversion from python datetime to DateTimeData.
• Linked scenes no longer return duplicate tags

IECoreMaya

• Only allow selection using the bounding box if the box is visible
• Latest registered custom attribute reader now takes precedence in IECoreMaya.LiveScene
• On transform nodes, plugs with names prefixed by "ieAttr_" are now translated into "user:" attributes by the IECoreMaya.LiveScene
• String attributes called "ieTags" on transform nodes now interpreted as a space separated list of tags

IECoreHoudini

• Latest registered custom attribute reader now takes precedence in IECoreHoudini.LiveScene

IECoreRI

• added IECoreRI support for DoubleData, V3dData and Color3dData attributes

Version 9.0.0-b2

IECore

• Removed SimpleSubsurface
• Removed Marschner code
• Removed HitMissTransform
• Removed TypeInfoCmp
• Removed UniformRandomPointDistributionOp
• Removed MappedRandomPointDistributionOp
• Removed AttributeCache
• Removed InterpolatedCache
• Removed spherical harmonics code
• Removed FileExaminers
• Improved MurmurHash performance

IECoreGL

• Added mip mapping to ColorTexture.

IECoreAppleseed

• Added visibility attributes support.
• Fixed bug converting OSL int shader parameters.

Build

• Windows build fixes.
• Updated default build arguments to work with standard packages on Ubuntu 12.04.
• Configured Travis automated testing.