0.2.0.0
This release brings significant optimisations, further additions to the SceneInspector, and the usual collection of miscellaneous enhancements and bug fixes.
Core
Optimised Context::substitute(). This gives a 73% reduction in runtime for a substitutions benchmark.
Added ‘’ as an escape character in Context::substitute() (#997).
Boxes may now be enabled/disabled and define pass-through behaviours (#1015).
Significant optimisations to the computation engine.
Added TaskList node for grouping the dispatch of several input requirements.
Image
Fixed Display node for bucket sizes larger than the native tile size.
Fixed problems when running embedded in Maya.
Scene
Added code to clear caches after full procedural expansion in batch renders.
Added scene pass-through to the InteractiveRender node. This allows it to be seen in the Viewer, SceneHierarchy, SceneInspector etc.
Significant optimisations. A benchmark scene can now be generated in 3% of its previous runtime.
RenderMan
Added “command” plug to RenderManRender. This allows the user to customise the command used to render the RIB (#1017).
UI
SceneInspector improvements
MenuButton improvements
Fixed OpDialogue bug which caused it to return to the parameters pane when it should have been displaying an error.
Dispatcher improvements
Added PlaybackRange to the frames mode menu (#1007).
Renamed ScriptRange to FullRange.
API
Added custom Diff support to SceneInspector.
Fixed crashes when passing None to PathMatcher python methods.
Added accessors for the buttons on VectorDataWidget (#1003).
Fixed broken SceneInspector.Row.getAlternate() method.
Added SceneProcedural::allRenderedSignal().
Added Context::remove() method.
Incompatible changes
SceneInspector API changes.
Box rederived from DependencyNode.
Dispatcher ScriptRange renamed to FullRange.
Build
Improved Travis continuous integration setup
Added running of unit tests
Added GafferRenderMan support
Fixed installation to paths starting with “./”
Fixed RenderManShader compilation in Clang 3.4
GafferOSL compatibility for OSL version 1.5