Gaffer 1.5.4.0

[johnhaddon]

Features

• HierarchyView : Added ability to store and recall the Visible Set in named bookmarks that are saved with the script.
• TensorToMesh : Added new ML node for converting a suitable tensor into a 3d mesh.

Improvements

• AttributeEditor : Added "Select Affected Objects" menu item to the "Linked Lights" and Arnold "Shadow Group" columns.
• AttributeEditor, LightEditor, RenderPassEditor : Added Ctrl + Enter shortcut to edit the selected cells, enabling the edit if necessary.
• ScriptNode : Added support for serialising metadata registered on a ScriptNode.

Fixes

• AttributeEditor : Fixed display of fallback value for linkedLights attribute.
• AttributeEditor, LightEditor, RenderPassEditor :
  • Fixed bugs which prevented edits being made in "Source" scope when there was a downstream edit in an EditScope (Allow EditScopes to Contain Created Lights #6172).
  • Fixed warning messages when attempting to disable a non-existent edit.
  • Fixed warning message which referred to "None" rather than the "Source" scope.
• PythonEditor : Fixed bug preventing values from being inserted when dragging most VectorData types into the PythonEditor.

API

• RenderPassEditor : Added optional index argument to registerOption() and registerColumn(). This can be used to specify the column's position in the UI.
• Metadata : Added targetsWithMetadata() function, returning all the string targets which match a pattern and have a specific metadata key.
• VisibleSetData : Implemented save() and load().
• ScriptNodeAlgo : Added functions for managing VisibleSet bookmarks.

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This discussion was created from the release Gaffer 1.5.4.0.